Baking and Patching

This is a consistently excellent tasting recipe for pumpkin bread. For substitutions, I used apple sauce instead of a cup of oil, adding only 1/4 cup oil. I also reduced the sugar to two cups(perfect sweetness). Pumpkin is an unusual choice the end of spring, but I have a stock pile of canned pumpkin from the holidays. I imagine any thickly pureed fruit would work as well.

For about a dollar, I got a grocery bag full of vintage ribbons and quilting squares at the thrift store this past week. These came in handy for patching a Papasan chair cushion with a large hole caused by a naughty child and scissors. My young daughter helped me with this one - both with making the hole and mending it. There is much more mending in the mending basket waiting for me this summer.