Monthly Archives: August 2012

5 things so far

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Here are five things about me so far today that you probably don’t care about:

  1. The weather was perfect for taking the motorcycle to work.  Cloudy but no fog.  I hate fog.  The temperature was 72 F.  It’s supposed to get into the upper 80s by the time I leave for home but it’s ok if I get sweaty then.  I’m just going home.
  2. My leather riding pants don’t fit me any more.  Too small.  I had to wear my chaps.
  3. I had my motorcycle registration and insurance card in my hand this morning for my bike.  I have two different motorcycle jackets so I don’t keep it in either one.  By the time I was dressed and ready to go, I couldn’t find the cards.  I looked for at least five minutes and could have been staring right at them but I couldn’t see them.  So I left without them.  I hope I don’t get stopped on my way home.
  4. I know I had my registration and insurance cards yesterday since Mr. Aitch and I went to get our driver’s license renewed.  We had to provide FIVE forms of identification, proof of citizenship and residency.  I used my motorcycle registration as one form of residency.  BTW my new photo is terrible.  I look 10 years older and 25 pounds heavier.  See #2 above.
  5. Someone was cooking bacon this morning.  It smelled so good.
  6. Even though I was seven minutes late for work this morning, I was still the first one in the office.
  7. I can’t count.

I’m finished

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I finished the Sheep Carousel by Kate Davies earlier in the week but just got around to uploading my photos tonight.

Love the well written pattern.  I want to include Kate’s vikkel braid in my next project.  The only thing I wanted to know was what teapot Kate is using.

Love the Jamieson and Smith yarn.  It is sticky enough in colorwork for longer floats between colors.

Love my fully clothed teapot.

With the crocheted reinforcements in place.  My crochet skills are sorely lacking and I had to redo that part three times before I got it right.

Here I go!

Cutting the steek.  There is a reason why steek rhymes with eek!  But I’m not afraid of steeks any more.

The cut steek.

I was so proud of myself that I forgot to take any photos of the inside before I tacked the steek facings to the inside.

Here it is.

 

Would I knit another one?  You bet!  I have enough yarn left over for a second one in the reverse colors.

Wedding weekends

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The past two weekends were filled with two weddings.  The first one was out of town which resulted in me pet sitting for part of that time.  The second wedding was local.

The twins were flower girls in the first wedding.  The only still photos I have were taken with my phone.

E is on the left and is trying to be cute and she’s successful.  Z is on the right and is trying so hard not to smile.  Not so successful.

Here we are waiting to leave for the reception.

I love my dress and wore it again this weekend.  No one who attended the first wedding was gong to attend the second so I felt safe to repeat the same outfit.

This weekend’s wedding has no pictures to go with it.  As I said it was local so Mr. Aitch and I didn’t have to juggle too many things to attend.

I really need a few days to myself to catch up on everything I’ve kind of let go.  This has been a busy summer and I only have two weeks of “summer hours” left.  I enjoy having an extra day off during the week but the 10-hour work days are really taking their toll.

Later this week I will have an update on the Sheep Carousel.

Freshly baked rolls

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Mr. Aitch and I love freshly baked bread and rolls.  In fact we’ve been known to have that and a bottle of wine for dinner!  Unfortunately it’s just too darn hot in the summer to turn on the oven.  We usually end up having store-bought “freshly” baked bread or rolls.  Until now.

I cheated and used the frozen bread dough already shaped into rolls.

I sprayed the 8×8 aluminium pan with cooking spray.  Then I placed nine rolls in the pan and sprayed a piece of plastic wrap with the cooking spray.  This was placed over the rolls (spray side down) to keep them from sticking to the plastic while rising.

Once they were doubled (or tripled) in size, Mr. Aitch fired up the grill to 400 F.  Our grill has three burners so he turned off the center burner (indirect heat) and we placed the uncovered pan of risen rolls right on the cooking grate.

Sorry for the overexposed photo but we were in a hurry!  He closed the lid, set the timer and turned them half way through the baking time according to the directions on the package.  He was able to maintain a fairly consistent temperature (350 F) adjusting the burners as needed.

18 minutes later we had freshly baked rolls.  Perfect.

After we took them off the grill, I dumped them out of the pan, brushed the tops with a little bit of bacon grease then wrapped them in a cloth to keep warm while he grilled the rest of our dinner.

We’ve done this twice within a week and can’t wait to do this again.

Have you grilled anything unusual?