Am I in a random rut?
1. Am I in a random rut? Hmmmm. Is that even possible? (I love me a good oxymoron.)
2. Megan (DD) and I were watching PBS together last night, which is something we often do, and we heard a tag line that made us both almost do a spit take with the tea we were drinking. (Make sure you read this out loud as the ambiguity that drives the humor of the statement happens with the spoken word, not the written word.) "History detectives will return in just a moment...but first...." <Um, not a pretty image....at that point Megan and I totally cracked up.>
3. This is my menu board in the kitchen....Can't imagine why the Steblens were trepidatious about coming to dinner...
4. Aidan and I were wandering around in the garden this afternoon and came away with another yummy harvest....
Thanks Aidan!
5. Oh yeah, there has been knitting too. I started this sock for Erin (also a DD) out of Knit Picks newish Felici sock yarn. Felici is a 75% superwash merino and 25% nylon yarn and I am pleasantly surprised by its softness and its bounce. At $5.29 for a ball, that means an adult pair of socks can be knit for $10. 58 which is rather thrifty. (And, yes, I was a mathematics major in college, thank you. I doubled $5.29 without the use of a calculator. Woohoo.) And Erin's petite feet only take one ball which is a lot of entertainment for that price. Knit Picks' other basic sock yarn, Essential, is a bit more stringy but perfectly functional and plenty soft enough for next-to-the-skin wear.
Knitty details:
Yarn: Knit Picks Felici in Gelato
Needles: US size 1
Pattern: Chevron pattern from Sensational Knitted Socks by Charlene Schurch
The Chevron pattern isn't particularly stretchy so the cuff has to accommodate the widest part of the foot. Unfortunately due to the distinct un-stretchiness of the pattern, even on Erin's narrow foot, this sock isn't going to fit her for very long. I may knit the cuff on US size 2 needles for the second sock so we don't have to wiggle it onto her foot. Of course, then the socks won't match perfectly which may just bother my sense of order. Decisions. Decisions.
2. Megan (DD) and I were watching PBS together last night, which is something we often do, and we heard a tag line that made us both almost do a spit take with the tea we were drinking. (Make sure you read this out loud as the ambiguity that drives the humor of the statement happens with the spoken word, not the written word.) "History detectives will return in just a moment...but first...." <Um, not a pretty image....at that point Megan and I totally cracked up.>
3. This is my menu board in the kitchen....Can't imagine why the Steblens were trepidatious about coming to dinner...
4. Aidan and I were wandering around in the garden this afternoon and came away with another yummy harvest....
Thanks Aidan!
5. Oh yeah, there has been knitting too. I started this sock for Erin (also a DD) out of Knit Picks newish Felici sock yarn. Felici is a 75% superwash merino and 25% nylon yarn and I am pleasantly surprised by its softness and its bounce. At $5.29 for a ball, that means an adult pair of socks can be knit for $10. 58 which is rather thrifty. (And, yes, I was a mathematics major in college, thank you. I doubled $5.29 without the use of a calculator. Woohoo.) And Erin's petite feet only take one ball which is a lot of entertainment for that price. Knit Picks' other basic sock yarn, Essential, is a bit more stringy but perfectly functional and plenty soft enough for next-to-the-skin wear.
Knitty details:
Yarn: Knit Picks Felici in Gelato
Needles: US size 1
Pattern: Chevron pattern from Sensational Knitted Socks by Charlene Schurch
The Chevron pattern isn't particularly stretchy so the cuff has to accommodate the widest part of the foot. Unfortunately due to the distinct un-stretchiness of the pattern, even on Erin's narrow foot, this sock isn't going to fit her for very long. I may knit the cuff on US size 2 needles for the second sock so we don't have to wiggle it onto her foot. Of course, then the socks won't match perfectly which may just bother my sense of order. Decisions. Decisions.
1. RE: "...but first..."
Was that almost a poop joke there in line four? It certainly involved incorrect use of ellipses. How lowbrow of you. I would never have made such a guttersnipe-ish observation at her age. For shame.
2. I refuse to believe that you didn't realize the "Twilight Zone"-ish (isn't there a way to use bloody italics on your blog) implications of your weekly menu whilst penning it. You're more pun-savvy that that. Even after the Sirling era, we all saw that first "Simpsons'" Halloween--"How to Cook Forty Humans," indeed.
Instead, I choose to believe that you were testing your kids' sense of dry wit--as was a family on which I waited last night: they wouldn't allow any of their three kids to order dessert until each prefaced his or her order with the Pythonesque phrase, "Well, it is just a wafer-thin mint."
Perhaps those prenominate children are socially doomed in junior high and in dire need of help, but I'm sure not going to be the one to give it to them.
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