Crochet Me Crazy

Jeff took the day off from doing site checks this morning. He's been doing them every single day for two weeks and he wanted to sleep-in for once. We slept until 8:30 this morning. Jeff went off to start another project but before he left he got my external hard drive accessible to me. The kids did their school work and I cooked potato soup for lunch. The kids worked on their tents and then it got VERY hot today so they've been swimming all afternoon.

I even made green sauce today...a favorite of ours that I haven't made since we've been in the RV because I had to pull out the food processor. I had time to look on my hard drive for some possible choices of crochet stitches to make my hammock with. Here is a picture of the old one that I am basically going to re-make.
It won't really look anything like this at all but I have the bars and hardware and the old one to look at how to put it together and how big to make it. I also decided to make a crochet towel topper for myself.


Here is the written instructions for the pattern:
Crochet Towel Topper
This is the method I used for mine.
What I like about this is that there is no sewing the topper on. You start out with doing a blanket type stitch over your towel and then you just start crocheting onto those stitches.
I just got back from the river to check on the kids and now I'm cooking supper. I am making Reuben Sandwiches. I have found a much easier way to make these. I used to cut the corned beef (canned) into slices and put it on buttered Rye bread, top with sauerkraut, and then Swiss cheese and then grill it in a pan like a grilled cheese sandwich until its all warm and melted. Now I've figured out that I can just heat the can of corned beef and a whole jar of sauerkraut in a skillet. I add 8 oz of shredded mozzarella cheese now instead of swiss cheese because its cheaper. We toast the bread and load them up with the mixture and YUM! Much easier!