What does the Early Bird Get?

I made 1 pair of leggings entirely and most of two other pairs yesterday over my lunch break.  All fabric from my stash so three pairs for free!  I cut them out during my morning break and sewed them up over lunch.  Two pairs still need the elastic sewn in and the hems.

I wore the navy blue polyester pair to the caucus last night.  They might be a little short, but Robb didn't think so.  And neither did the 100 others at the meeting last night.  Not that they'd say anything out loud... or to me...  

Nor did they say, "Aren't those made with polyester?  That is SO 70s!!"

(and judging from the angle of this pic) Nor did they say out loud, "Don't give up on Zumba!"

It was a nice crowd.  We have a great community.

So this morning, I was still on the DIY kick.  

There is a whole gallon of yogurt incubating underneath that tied fleece blanket.  

That works perfectly!

Maybe someday I'll make a cover for the IP out of fleece just for this purpose.

But not today.

I made a batch of yogurt from whole milk, thawed whey, some vanilla and homemade sweetened condensed milk.  

Homemade Sweetened Condensed Milk recipe

1 can of regular condensed milk

1.5 cups of sugar

Cook on medium to low heat on the stove until the sugar dissolves.

Used in place of two cans of Sweetened Condensed Milk in my yogurt.

After tallying up the calories, this way is about 200 calories lower than two cans of the SCM.

Also, two batches of pizza dough, which will be portioned out into 16 pieces each, rolled out into mini pizza crusts, fried, then frozen.  I did that a week ago last weekend and they worked out awesomely for little personal pan pizzas this past weekend.

Realized that one of my bread machines, that while it makes the sounds of mixing the dough, isn't actually.  Shoot.  One more has bit the dust.  So I dumped the ingredients into my big counter mixer thingy and plugged in the dough hook and after mixing as long as the remaining bread machine mixed, it's resting and raising.

I'll have to watch the garage sales this summer and pick up another one for $5...

Actually - this will be the summer to watch for Instant Pots too!  I remember when bread machines were all the rage and I spent $250 on one.  That one eventually walked off the counter and the lid broke.

Since then, I don't pay more than $10 for a used one because so many people gave up on homemade bread and you can find them at any garage sale or the Goodwill/Salvation Army.

I've also got 4 heads of lettuce thawing a bit on the counter, waiting for me to take a break and cut them up.  The reason they got a teensy bit frozen is because my cheap garage fridge can only cool... During the winter months, the milk can sometimes freeze and anything else we put out there.  It was a nice weekend but is starting to chill off again.

I can store 4 heads of lettuce chopped up in 2 gallon sized bags in the fridge and my salads are ready for the week.  If I have time I'll chop up a baggy full of cucumbers too.  Maybe tomatoes too.  We'll see.  I made some poppyseed dressing on Sunday and I will lose at least a pound of two this week.  I just need to stay away from chips and dip.  As the pound of two that I lose this week was lost last week also.

If I get time over lunch today, I'll get the waist and hems done on those other two leggings.

Stretchy pants are the bomb!

Maybe I'm being extra productive today because I was awake at 4am.  

I'm sure I'll be crashing by mid afternoon.  Where's my pop?!