Sweet Saturday

Listening to: Whadya Know (however that's spelled) on NPR

Yum yum... we've been picking blackberries! Bigguns - the size of my thumb. And schweeeeeet! My lunch today was an omelet - a sweet-ish one. Does anybody else do this? Are all omelets savory? I've never seen any recipe for one that was sweet. One day I got a taste for egg custard, but didn't want to turn the oven on and heat up the house. What's egg custard? Eggs and milk/cream, sugar, maybe a little fruit... nutmeg. Sooo.... I beat a little sugar into the eggs, not much, less than a teaspoon for 2 eggs. Make the omelet as usual, but instead of peppers or cheese or mushrooms, I put in fresh fruit. Blackberries are especially good, but other fruit works fine. Dust them with cinnamon or nutmeg before folding, and voila! We certainly have the eggs to use up - the hens are laying 6 - 8 a day!

This has been a strange week, with the holiday on Tuesday. Monday on the drive home, I had a little accident - shook me up more than anything, and did $1100 damage to the front end of the car. A young man on a bicycle ran a red light at full speed, driving on the wrong side of the road to boot. The intersection where it happened has poor visibility from the direction he came - a building right at the corner, no sidewalk, the control box for the traffic signals, and a rather large concrete base on the light pole. The boy wasn't hurt much at all, but it scared the poo out of me. Thank goodness for witnesses, that's all I can say. No ticket for me, but the officer said that if the boy had been older, he'd have gotten a citation for running the light and being on the left side of the road. I'm just glad I was able to stop as quickly as I did.

Tuesday, Daniel and I went to the office, and I was letting him drive. He killed the car at the stopsign to turn onto the blacktop from our gravel road, and it would NOT restart. Eventually I was able to roll-start it by letting it roll down the hill (in reverse... wheeee). The accident may have knocked something loose, who knows. We had to roll start it again at the office, with Daniel pushing it around in the parking lot to find a decent incline for speed. Poor kid... what a trooper. :) When we got home, Ron cleaned the battery posts (after prying the hood open!), put it on a charger, and it's not had any problems since. However, the hood wouldn't stay closed safely enough, so it's got a tiedown on it. Yeesh.

So, what Daniel helped me with at the office... blocking out the Feather and Fan shawl on the floor of one of our classrooms. I had an old white sheet, and since there's a sink in my office, no problem with soaking the shawl. We used cotton string pinned in the center of the shawl to get the proper diameter, using it like a compass, sorta. I got in early Wednesday and unpinned it... gosh, it's just gorgeous, lays so nicely, and wraps around me great! And huge - we blocked it to about 76". I'm pleased with it.

The Rosy-Fingered Dawn shawl is coming along... only 3 more rounds til I can change to the next color of yarn. I love the way the pattern is written. It's very clear, the charts are a little larger than normal (good for my old eyes!) and the story that goes along with the different pattern stitches keeps it interesting.

Still working on the Neopolitan Ice Cream socks too, but I don't push getting them done. Socks are mainly for passing time without thinking about what I'm doing... when I need to work out something else in my head. I know, I'm weird.

That's all for today :)