Posted in Cooking, Knitting on April 11, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Cold, blustery day = beans and cornbread
That’s cornbread in my grandmother’s cast iron skillet. It’s all gone now! My mom gave me the skillet because the bottom isn’t perfectly flat and therefore won’t work well on her ceramic cooktop. The skillet is a Griswold and it has a crack by the handle. My mom says [...]
Posted in Family, tagged Family, siblings on April 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Sorting through a stack of paper – the bane of my existence; stacks of paper – I found some notes penned by E. Mine’s pretty nice:
The brothers were damned by faint praise:
That’s “For a brother yoru (sic) ok.” And it’s addressed to both brothers.
Posted in Uncategorized on April 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
M. asked this morning on the way home from our rabbit pellet run to the coop, “Did God make us K-Staters or did we make ourselves K-Staters?” Hmm, the Lord does work in mysterious ways, it could well be divine intervention that makes our blood run purple.
Naturally, as K-Staters, there are some advantages. We [...]
Posted in Family, Knitting, tagged Family, kids, knitting for kids, Visiting on April 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We spent the afternoon at Grandma C’s yesterday for a belated Easter celebration. Grandma was feeling a bit under the weather on Easter Sunday, so we postponed our celebration until yesterday when L’s sister was there as well, visiting from the East Coast.
The kids found eggs, well-hidden by Aunt A., and the girls wore their [...]
Posted in Knitting, Uncategorized, tagged hats, Knitting, rough wool on April 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The pattern for the hat I’m knitting for my husband comes from an unlikely source – at least of patterns for grown men. It’s from the over-the-top-adorable Itty Bitty Hats. I checked it out from the library and I plan to make several of these ubercute hats for baby gifts. The hat I’m sizing up [...]
Posted in Cooking, tagged Add new tag, breadmaking, Cooking, yogurt on April 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Today I was the domestic goddess. M. and I made yogurt:
The little jar on the right is the starter for the next batch. It will be kept tightly shut in the refrigerator until we make yogurt again so it doesn’t pick up any yucky little beasties. Two of the other jars will be drained to [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on April 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Hey, I decided to give up on blog-city and give WordPress a try. Unfortunately, Blog-city has not responded to repeated emails about saving my old blog content so I’m afraid my previous content is gone forever, which makes me very sad.
But I’m still here and still knitting, and a fresh start can be a good [...]
