2.It was an exciting week, what with all the snow and ice that fell. There are some awesome videos on YouTube of people "driving" and "using the breaks" and "avoiding parked cars." I'd like you to meet "everybody else", as in "I'm fine driving in the snow, it's just everybody else that I'm worried about.
I didn't crash my car, or anyone elses. I never slipped on the ice. And for those of you here for knitting reasons (Hi Elaine!), that hat is new, made of Cash Vero by Cascade yarns and...hmmm...some other yarn that was white and wound in a ball. It's a fir tree fair isle pattern, with snowflakes. And those tassels on top? That's all the yarn that was left. I tell you, I'm having real luck with the running out just after the end of the knitting part of a project. This is going to come back to bite me, and hard, sometime soon. Probably on the second sock.
3.Not at all related to knitting, but certainly related to other Domestic Arts, it was cool enough this weekend to make the Molnar Family's favorite Cock-a-Leekie Soup. This requires chopping a lot of onions, and then 10 huge leeks, and then cooking them for a few hours. Meanwhile, the house starts to take on the distinctive odor of very strong onions, as does my clothing, my hair, all the furniture, the cats. So, that's a lot of onions. So many, that John followed his friend Ari's method, and chopped wearing eye protection.
At the end, he declared that Ari's swim goggles work better. After time, the onion junk gets in the sides of the safety goggles, and then you end up crying IN the goggles. No good.
We have 16 quarts of potato leek soup. Who wants some?
4.My name has been suggested to be the M.C. at the university's Etiquette Dinner. I find this to be hilarious.
Should I tell them about the $5 prize?
5. More tomorrow on the Sock Saga.
3 comments:
You should tell the blogos[here that the reciipe for CLS is from a now defunct SF restaurant, The Coachman where the cable cards turn onto Hayes Street, that used to have a warm fire in the bar and also serverd Steak and Kidney Pie. I did NOT ask for that recipe!
I just ate the rest of the soup you gave us, and YUM (again). Apparently John's pain was my gain.
Definitley talk about the five dollar prize...lead with it. Maybe slip something in there about how you can't take cookies in anything other than a multiple of 3. And that when you meet someone for the first time that it's a moral imperative to use the work "diuretic."
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