Progress, Cracker Barrel and New Book

Hello!  How was your weekend?  Ours was low-key, yesterday we all went out for a late lunch, more on that later.  First up is I'm making progress on my Woodland blanket, I've joined in Lucy's CAL (Crochet A Long).  I'm way behind, I'd have to be crocheting full-time to keep up, but that's okay, I'm happy with how it's growing and loving how it's turning out.  I'm not following the color arrangement of Lucy's, preferring to do my own thing, but I'm using the same colors of yarn.

This is how I work.. with my beloved dog on my lap, he doesn't mind that I drape the blanket across him as I work.  :-)

Perhaps I should crochet him a sweater someday.

In the USA there is a chain of restaurants called Cracker Barrel.  They are ordinarily found across the Southern states - but they just built 2 of them here in the Portland area, so we all loaded up in my car and headed there for a late lunch yesterday.  I love how they decorate the place with vintage western artifacts on the walls.

The place was hopping!  We had to wait for a table, but only about 15 minutes and it was a great round table for 6 in a nice nook.

I thought I'd show you my low carb selection.  Grilled chicken tenderloins on a nice fresh salad.  My favorite part were the deviled eggs on top, I've never seen a restaurant serve these eggs and I don't know why as everyone loves them.  The Sunday special was fried chicken which 2 of our party had and they were happy with it, another had meatloaf, all the food on the menu are good old old-fashioned meals like grandma might make.  

I got a new book via Amazon.  My my!  

I am off to swim in a while.  I'm down 20 lbs. now.  :-) In 3 months, about 7 lbs. per month.  Gadzooks.. it's slow but at least I'm going in the right direction.  Have a super week!  ((hugs)), Teresa :-)