Knitting, cooking and other enthusiasms
Posted in Ten on Tuesday, Uncategorized on Feb 22nd, 2011
I knew when I saw this week’s topic — ten favorite cocktails/mocktails — that I’d never make it to ten. I drink the same thing over and over. I don’t think I’ve ever had a martini and the last time I had a Manhattan I was a 17-year-old exchange student in Ecuador. At the welcoming [...]
Posted in Ten on Tuesday on Jan 11th, 2011
This week’s Ten on Tuesday topic is Ten Ways to Be More Organized. If you’re looking for helpful suggestions, you’d be go see what Carole has to say, since while I think being organized is a goal to strive for, I belong more in the camp of Good Enough. If I can put my hands [...]
Posted in Life, Ten on Tuesday on Jan 9th, 2011
So it’s Sunday morning and the house is still sleeping, my favorite time of the day. I have the heater going under the desk, a cup of coffee on the warming plate and no place I have to be this morning. We got a dusting of snow last night so while it’s gloomy and overcast [...]
Posted in Ten on Tuesday on Dec 28th, 2010
Ready for New Year’s Eve Not resolutions, but ten goals for 2011. Don’t save all the good fiber until I’m a better spinner. Spin some of the good stuff now, the sheep are producing more every day. Spin and knit more from stash. It’s unrealistic for me to say I’m not going to buy yarn [...]
Posted in Ten on Tuesday on Dec 21st, 2010
If you’re a Christian, you’re focused like a cat hunting toes on this coming Saturday when we celebrate that holiday of excess and exuberance, Christmas. Lists have been made, numerous trips to the mall (physical or virtual) have taken place, the oven has produced multiple batches of fruitcake and cookies, the dining room is exploding [...]
Posted in Ten on Tuesday on Dec 15th, 2010
Clearly the #1 thing on 10 Things on my To-Do List is to stop procrastinating and post Ten on Tuesday when it’s actually Tuesday, not Wednesday. I wrote this Tuesday morning, and then started whacking away at the list instead of posting it so some of these things are done. Now tempus fugit people. (Loosely [...]
Posted in Ten on Tuesday on Nov 30th, 2010
With Black Friday and Cyber Monday just behind us, it’s no wonder that Carole came up with a Ten on Tuesday topic about our ten favorite online shopping sites. I actually use shopping sites more for info than for buying, preferring to shop locally when I can. Even if the price is a little more [...]
Posted in Ten on Tuesday, Uncategorized on Nov 23rd, 2010
Ten things to love about Thanksgiving. Getting together with family, even the annoying ones. It’s on a Thursday. Seriously. You get a holiday in the middle of the week and then you have the weekend to recover and eat leftovers. It’s much less commercialized than Christmas. Except for the food and the need to overeat, [...]
Posted in Ten on Tuesday on Sep 28th, 2010
It always comes back to food doesn’t it? Ten things in my refrigerator. Horseradish, can’t live without it. Fiori di Sicilia. This is a great citrusy flavor for cookies and light cakes. Chipotles in adobo sauce, I used it for making pulled pork about a month ago and now wonder what I’m going to do [...]
Posted in garden, politics, Spinning, Ten on Tuesday on Aug 31st, 2010
Ten ways to Lighten My Mood. Are you insinuating I’m cranky???!!!!? Plant sunflowers in your garden. Go out to lunch with a friend. Change the routine. We all need a little variety. So that would be peanut butter on the English muffin instead of jam. Spend time puttering in the garden. As long as there [...]
