Stock and Slacks

I added six quarts and a pint of chicken stock to the pantry yesterday:

I still have more chickens to cook down. These were laying hens that we butchered when they stopped producing. They don’t have a lot of meat on them, but I took what was on the bones and put it in the freezer.

After lunch, I sewed. I started a pair of Free Range Slacks from black Kona Crush in the narrow leg version. Kona Crush isn’t available anymore (😭) but I bought the end of this bolt—about four yards—at The Quilting Bee in Spokane in April. I also have yardage in a deep green, a cadet blue, and a pale pink. Yes. the fabric is supposed to look permanently wrinkled.

I didn’t rush through these, but I got more done than I expected. By the time the husband got home from drilling 46 holes into concrete on a job in Whitefish, I had finished both legs:

I’ll turn one leg inside out, slip the other leg into it, then sew the crotch seam. After that, all I have to do is attach the waistband and insert the elastic and hem them.

Mowing the yard is on the list of tasks for this afternoon. The grass usually goes dormant in July due to lack of rain, but the yard looks messy and all that rain we got on Friday will probably encourage the grass to grow again. (“Grass” is a loose term as the yard also has a lot of other stuff growing in it.) Some of the apples look ripe, too, and need to come off the trees.