I fell asleep REALLY early on the couch, and woke up WIDE awake around 2am-ish, so let me be the early worm this Easter morning. Yes, I have a cup of coffee already, and raising my mug to all my RCTY family! This past week has been sorta nutso in the Jameson household.... too much to write about. I'll be doing my 'usual' blog-surfing' later in the morning... then I'll be working on some websites and some new payment options for some of my older sites. Hugs, Noreen
I'm on my second cup of coffee, after blowing my nose for what felt like hours. It's been wet and gray here for several days and that's likely to continue for several more. Good weather to stay indoors and drink hot stuff. But my daffodils are finally starting to open!
I'm soooo tired of gray skies! I too am on my second cup of joe and have updated the pics in my Moon Garden blog. NOT pics of the sweater I'm knitting...pics of the seeds I'm growing. ;-) Where is the sun?! It's not suppose to show up here in southeastern PA until Tuesday...then again, I don't think I've seen it since last Tuesday! ARG! DD is home for the weekend and we're all going to dinner with my parents this afternoon....
I just helped find the last two eggs the Easter Bunny's helper hid so well she couldn't find them later when called upon for assistance :)
Before the egg hunt I closed the "top" of the liner for the second dubbelmussa in as many weeks. The first was from J&S jumper wool with a few of my own color charts. The second used up most of the Icelandic shawl leftovers and is almost exclusively my own charts laid over Meg's blueprint - Darwinfish, monkeys and little people ascending from the brim. No message there, uh? *g*
My (new) espresso machine had to go to the shop last week so I'm surviving on drip coffee until the espresso comes home. What a hardship.
I found a bug in my stash this morning. Horrors. I despise the stink of mothballs, so I'll have to quarantine the suspect tub with...something...to kill any presumed additional bugs. Probably mothballs, and unfortunately my qiviut and cashmere are in that bin. Ugh ugh ugh ugh!
I've got bread on for the final rise (sourdough sponges are great things, you can forget them for days...) and we're going out to the cousin's for lunch. There will be lots of over-sugared kids for mine to run around with.
I'm still in my pJ's and drinking coffee. Whenever the weather changes I get sinus headaches, but it isn't a bad one this time and according to the weather forecast the change is for the better.
I bought an off-white cotton-silk blend (Svale by Dalegarn) yesterday, and have been flipping through my magazines trying to identify likely projects. I have so many patterns I'm sure I can find something. I might have to go back for more yarn, but it would be good to identify a pattern first. I was thinking lace, v-neck, long sleeves? Hmm.
I'm meeting a friend for coffee and offloading some cheese cake on her today. Other than that a very quiet day.
We went to our NZ friends for Easter lunch. The Easter basket was for them and they appreciated it a lot. We had a lovely lunch and I was in care of the dessert. It=B4s a traditional Napolitan Easter pie and I would like to share the=20 recipe with you (I didn=B4t follow this one, but a very similar one):
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Yes, it's a gray overcast day here in upstate NY too, they are saying starting tonight we can expect at least two inches of rain. I went out and put the rain gauge back in the ground. LOL
We'll be having a quiet day, making a ham dinner for later.
Do I DARE? It was 79 degrees and sunny yesterday, 68 and overcast today..... Noreen it's TORNADO and WINDSHEAR season though, and we had quite the thunderboomer last night... prolly why I was UP @ 2am!
I bet none of you had an Easter dinner like I did. After lounging around most of the day, I felt better enough to go to the supermarket and video store, and picked up a duck to roast for dinner. It was a disaster. Never, never, NEVER roast a duck without a rack in your roasting pan! And enough of the veggies inside the duck fell into the boiling fat that the pan juices were too full of burned stuff to even think about using in a sauce; so much for my carefully poached apricots in pomegranate juice and sherry. I tried to skim some fat and add to the stock anyway, and the whole thing boiled up with a BANG! and I had to drop everything and run my arm under the cold tap. I finally told DH (who was spending the day polluting the air on the patio with carbon tetrachloride rebuilding the carburetor on the tiller) that the duck might taste good but there would be no sauce, and he was very nice and sympathetic. And he bravely carved away at the thing until the spike holding it to the cutting board sprang loose and the duck leaped onto the kitchen floor. Remember that old joke about "never mind, dear, just go into the kitchen and get the OTHER turkey"?
Oh well, at least with the exhaust fan on all through dinner (and a wonderful video, "Being Julia"), the house doesn't smell too bad. The rinsed-off duck tasted pretty good, and the apricots went with it beautifully.
But when you're working with something as greasy as duck, you canNOT knit during your breaks, not without scouring your hands til the cuticles crack. I'm just finishing rubbing lavendar lotion into my and DH's hands before we fall exhausted into bed. Cleaning the kitchen will just have to wait.
Hee Jenn , if you are looking for the sun ?? here she is BIGGGGGGG and all intend to give us one of the First Dry hot Hamsin [Hot desert like weather] days of this spring. i will feel in the pots of water i put in the garden for birds and street cats, As well as Feel the plastic bowl i have in the small front garden , where we daily see several pairs do the daily bath ....at least 3 Honeybirds and several others . Cat goes beserk when he sees it , but the birds come ... I have made a recording of morning singing birds , we seem to have hundreds of birds around here... i played it some of it to a aquaintance and she said it sounded very relaxing ,,, i can hear them through the closed windows !!! mirjam
Daffodills Tamar ??? wow imidaitely had an instant remembering that song we learned in High school English class ,,,, ???? Gee who was the poet ??? We dried our grass [ too much water] and grow many Geranoiums and herbs ,, My geraniuns are red , pink , white lilac. My herbs give a Heavenly aroma ,,, and can be nibbled into the Salads . mirjam
I do not cook any meats at all anymore , but if you do , put an aluminium sheet COVERED with SALT under your roasting ,,, Improoves the taste and takes in the fat ,,, mirjam
Wooly!1 Strangely enough i found that Open wools get less 'unwanted visitors" than closed in plastic stuff ,,, Between the open [ in wire drawers ] wool i have soaps lavender and dried Daphne leaves [ dried them from my own bush/tree ]. The wools i kept in closed bins under the stairs had some intruders and i am just now taking box after box for the "half yearly " inspection .... Put on some music and sat in Garden reroling wools ,,, Jeeks found one group of introuders on an old Indian camel bag adornment ,,,,, Had it for years Closed and sealed and only opened for inspection ,, the other parts i have on the wall as adornment 'Touch wood` they are ok ,,,, beinf alergic to moth ball smells ,, i faint when too exposed to it .. i have to explore alternatives ,, mirjam
Fun to read your posts and I spent the Easter day first at church in the wee hours of the morning because hubby would not go to the later church service because it would be full of people. Then got back and started cooking until we ate at 3pm which as you know takes 20 minutes after hours and hours of cooking ! I do enjoy cooking though even though we only had three at the table this year. After that I settled down and knit the rest of those darn burn 4 sleeves for the Chanel jackets. Yes finally you can all stop hearing about that ! I am putting them together this week which is the easy part and then no more of those ! I ran out of yarn so do not think the ties are in it's future. There is supposed to be a 26 inch 9stitch wide seed stitch tie. Little yarn left and not going to happen. I do not know what happened because usually I end up with yarn left from a pattern. We are way behind in our weather here in Williamsburg as well. We usually have a full Spring garden at the Governor's Palace by Easter and all those poor tourists who came for it saw nothing and it was dark and threatening to rain all day as well. We are waiting on heading up to DC for the cherry blossoms because they can not be ready as they start the festival . We must be two weeks late BUT I just remembered while typing this Easter is VERY early this year and perhaps that is why. It was April 11 last year--yes that is the ticket to the Easter weather query. Yes do believe I am happy to announce we had Smithfield ham and not duck. Oh life is one rollercoaster!!!Barbie
Oh, I wish! We are 4 to 6 weeks away from that yet! We did get some melting yesterday, but still have a lot of snow to get rid of, and the skies are grey here today (Monday). I don't often get a chance to have coffee with you all on Sundays, since DH is home and we always have so many chores to do.
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