Wednesday.

 The third day of my leave has been another very busy day. It started early, my first job was to prepare those zucchini and salt them. I left them covered all day long.

Next I made this.

And here's the recipe. 

Coconut Balls.

150 g dark chocolate 

60 ml cream

50 g desiccated coconut

15g coconut oil.

Break the chocolate into small pieces.

Pour the cream in to a pan and bring to almost boiling, add the chocolate and stir until it is melted, then stir in the coconut oil and finally the coconut.

Set in the fridge for about an hour then roll in to approximately 16 balls, roll them in a little extra coconut or crushed walnuts and return to the fridge.

Or do what I do and make double the recipe then pour it into a lined baking tin, lick the spatula and place the tin into the fridge for 2 hours then cut into bite size squares. The missing square?

Cooks perks. LOL

Once the chocolate was in the fridge I got on with quilting Windswept.

I was going great until I ran out of bobbin thread.

At least it wasn't in the middle of a row. But frustrating to be so close to finishing. I quickly filled a bobbin and returned to quilting. It didn't take long to complete the final two rows and very soon I had it on the floor trimming around the edges.

The back shows the quilting nicely.

With that job done it was time for a walk.

It was beautiful outside, finally we are getting a taste of Summer.

When I got back it wasn't lunchtime yet so I went back outside to complete some garden jobs. 

First I planted some more potatoes into one of the empty buckets.

I tidied up the zucchini, trimming lower leaves. Next I turned my attention to the broccoli, cutting the final three heads off and pulling out the roots, I mixed some fertiliser into the soil and pulled the butterfly net back over the bed.  I'll go shopping for replacement seedlings tomorrow.

Next I pulled some rhubarb. While I was doing that a Southerly wind blew in and cooled everything down. Time for lunch anyway so I retreated indoors. After a cooling and much needed shower I had some brocolli salad for lunch. 

After eating I chopped the rhubarb and stewed it for Tony, then made a chilli for tea, next I looked into the corner beside my armchair wondering what to work on for the afternoon.

What a mess. I pulled everything out and had a good sort out.

Three baskets of crochet became two.

Five boxes of EPP became  one and a thread box.

And two boxes containing my Christmas ornament and my cross stitch chart tucked in alongside my sewing chest.

Finally I got to sit and sew.

Out came my cross stitch.

Over Christmas we were visiting with friends and the lady of the house was going to throw this handy tin into the bin. Noooo!

I know it's not the prettiest of tins....

But it's the perfect size for holding all the threads needed for Winter fairy.

I do like a tin and couldn't see it going to landfil.

I seem to remember promising an update on Winter Fairy.

This is where I left her last year on 30th December.

And here you can see the progress I have made.

Not all todays progress, I have worked on it here and there over the last few weeks. 

This is where I left it at tea time this evening.

After tea I drained and rinsed the zucchini then made it into relish.

And there you have it, day three of my leave. Another very busy day.

I might do some crochet while I watch a little TV.

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I wonder what tomorrow will bring?