No Longer In The Pink.....

....which is a good thing when it means our house is no longer peachy pink. 

At last had come the long awaited day when the weather forecast was for a dry day at the same time as I wasn't busy with one of my regular commitments. It did give a 30% chance of a shower around 3.00 and of course that shower turned up when I had just a tiny amount left to paint.

 

But by the time I'd drunk a cup of coffee the shower was over and as if to apologise for interrupting my work the sun sent a lovely rainbow. The wall will need a second coat of paint but at least now I know I can reach highest bits with our concertina type ladder. (There's quite a slope to the path.) 

And afterwards because these had been my original plan for today I made koldunai, traditional Lithuanian giant ravioli. Labour intensive to make they would have been a way of stretching a small amount of filling (minced meat with onions, soft cheese or mushrooms) to make a filling meal suitable for healthy Lithuanian appetites.

I made one lot with mushrooms and onions spiced up with garlic and Cajun seasoning as part of our traditional non-meat Christmas Eve meal since Vytas and Sally will be with us. As I hardly ever make them it took a while to get the dough right and I think our wine glasses are bigger than the ones I used to use to cut out the circles. So the koldunai are quite generous this time. I also made some with mince and we'll have a few of those tonight before the rest go in the freezer. Traditionally eaten with melted butter they can be hard to digest if over indulged in. 

The moon this morning.