Dinner At Maximilian's Pub

We went, for the first time, to Maximilian's Pub on Decebal.  It was good, and we stayed for several hours.  There were about ten of us.  The food was excellent, and we had a wonderful time.  Lots of beer, lots of wine, and lots of talk.  So, for the wine... someone else and I split a Fautor cabernet sauvignon.  The wine had a "soft" feel to me, and a long finish.  I'm not good about the whole hints of thing, but I do know it was very little minerals, which was a good thing as far as I'm concerned. 

We split some appetizers.  The only one I got a picture of was half the plate of chicken wings.  I had zeama, and it seems the restaurants around here are deciding it's better to cook it using white meat only and having a good spice to it.  That's great news.  

I had duck breast with berry sauce.  It even came with a baked apple.  You know how duck can sometimes taste greasy and even a bit stringy?  Neither was the case here.  The duck was tender, flavorful, and beautifully presented.  Andreas had something called rabbit ragout.  Rabbit is on a -lot- of menus here.  It's something Andreas enjoys, and he said this was particularly good.

 Three of us split three desserts.  They were chocolate lava cake, peach pie, and apple puff - in reverse order of the pictures.  We agreed that the apple was best.  The peach pie only had peaches on top.  Inside was apples.  The chocolate cake was very, very dense and very, very right but not very, very chocolate.  Cappucino was good too!

All Green

I used three shades of green this session: some for the shutters, some for the tree.  Definitely am getting closer to the edge of the page on the chart, but still.  It's slow going.

Squaring Up

Putting the background on the diamond now.

More Sheepy-Baas

I think I have pieces of every sheep on the cloth now.  Maybe I'll be able to get it going more soon.

New Art

The annual Night of Art was April 5th, and we bought this tapestry there.  I'm normally not a fan of yellow and gray, but this piece reminded me of a peacock feather.  I still like it, and it was under $50.  Now to hang it up in the house.

As Far As I'm Going For Now

 I managed to get to stitch 38 or 39 before getting to the end of the fabric on my TAST sampler.  It's been a learning experience, including that I really need to baste edge lines before I start.  I've learned some new stitches and played with others.  I have no idea what I'm going to do with the finished product.

Temari Gone Bright

Ana and I started a rose garden temari during our regular session.  This is as far as we got.  I, again, went out of my comfort zone with the colors.  I've never worked with a chartreuse ball before, but I like the way it's turning out.