Monday Madness, Musing, Miscellany…

Posted on | March 17, 2009 | No Comments

My husband is amused with me because I am very concerned about how the butterflies we have will make it in the wild. “They’ve never experienced life on the outside, ” he teased. I was, however, concerned for a legitimate reason. I don’t think anything is supposed to touch their wings and they’ve been flapping them on their food. Food for now is wadded up tissues soaked with sugar water and slices of mandarin oranges.

They’re cute, you know? When you look up close, they have little eyelashes. And their probosces are so cute when they uncurl them. They’re so delicate, how could they make it in the wild?

Well, it comes right down to a gracious and loving Creator, doesn’t it?

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The knitting. Well, I just sent my sister a package with two baby sacs, the Baby Grrr! hat and the pea pod. I am hoping they get to her as swiftly as the other package with the blossom hat. What I’m hoping is that she can take really good photos of them. I’m thinking I might try to do a good job of writing out the patterns for Pea Pod and Baby Grrr! and see if Knitty.com will take one or the other. I’ve never, ever tried to do something like this since I’m more of a pattern-follower (I seldom change them up). But lately, our Thursday knitting group has gotten me inspired. These are intrepid ladies!

Okay. So I just realized that I have to re-knit both the pea pod and Baby Grrr! because I forgot to measure them and their stitch gauge. DUH. *face palm*

Righty-o. Here’s another concern, mild for now: I am still waiting for my linen yarn to arrive and it’s one day shy of two weeks since I placed the order and got confirmation. Normally, it’s not an issue but this yarn is going to hopefully end up being a table runner that will be raffled off at our women’s retreat early April. That’s really, really soon! While I do knit quickly, I really prefer having a buffer of time in which to take care of something like this. I’m a little nervous to be honest but we’ll see how it goes.

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I need to get this done: upload the photos I took of the boys’ frontier farm buildings. I managed to find some notched popsicle sticks and the boys went to town building log cabins out of them. They even drew some plants on green paper to serve as the “farm” and made a stable for oxen or sheep and a coop.  That was fun!

We’re planning on visiting a real Pioneer Farm on Friday. I plan to take lots of pictures! That, and I’m also hoping that they’ll have a demonstration of sheep shearing, wool carding, spinning and dyeing.

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Our efforts to plan a weekly menu are somewhat in place still. It is a bit difficult to plan things out when a lot of shopping is done at Costco. The budget is blown and smaller things like condiments and such still have to be bought to complete a recipe. I’ve not really planned anything out lately since we have a ton of leftoevers to eat our way through.

Most recently, I made chili rellenos casserole which I really enjoyed. Unfortunately, in our youngest the reaction was aversion. He ate a bit but not long afterwards something caused his digestive system to work backwards. Fortunately, that happened when we were already done with our meal.  Honestly, it really is a good casserole in spite of the reaction it causes in five year olds who are opposed to the idea of corn kernels in their meals.

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