Well, it is finally getting a little chilly here in Wisconsin. I had to shut the windows in the living room because my toes were getting cold while knitting and watching TV. I know I should just put socks or slippers on and be on the computer job searching, but oh well. I have been feeling in a funk lately because of this whole unemployment thing. Also, I have been crazy congested in my nasal passages. So congested that if I yawn my head gets out of balance because of the air not being able to flow within my head and I get this ‘head is about to explode’ feeling. It is wonderful. Well, on a positive note I got a happy phone call about a potential job today, and that put me in better spirits and I decided to finally go to the grocery store and put some fresh food in the house (we have been living off of leftover meatloaf and soup and stuff like this. I have not eaten fresh greens in almost a week). While at the grocery store I decided to buy this:
My savior
Ok. This stuff is like no other nose spray I have ever tried. It is a gel, which is weird, and true to the advertising it did not drip. And it worked! I was sitting happy! So I decided to make an apple pie with a bunch of apples I had just bought. Now weird thing, I went to my favorite recipe website and in the search box typed in ‘apple pie’. Simple, right? Half of the first 10 recipes were apple pies that involved no apples. HALF. NO – APPLES? What is this? I am just utterly confused. Anyway, I found what I was looking for in All American Apple Pie. I love the crumble crusted apple pies, not so much the extra crust topped type. I followed directions expect I used Macintosh apples. Unfortunately, I just could not squish all the apples into the frozen pie crust I cheated and bought. So I made a mini pie on the side. Here are the results and they were delicious!
This apple pie is about 4" tall!
Mini-me apple pie
In the midst of my rut I have been knitting up a storm. I have completed 4 charts on the Hidcote shawl! Yay! Here is the proof. You can kind of see the white safety line where each chart changed. Hooray! Isn’t it getting big?
Charts 1-4 Hidcote Shawl
Side note-I eluded to some issues with my knitting needles for this project here. I have had it with the Bryspon needles. The join between the needle and the flexy-cord is just not smooth enough and I have been pulling out my hair having to finagle each and every stitch over it all the time. AND I keep getting more stitches every row! Plus the ends were not pointy enough and for all the knit-two-together-though-backloops and centered-double-decreases it took me three times as long as it should have. So, Sarah let me borrow her size 3 Addi Lace Turbos and I am buying my own at Iris tomorrow. I think the Bryspon would be fine if I were not knitting lace-weight, but that being said, they are being taken off this project and relocated to the needle bucket.
On the ice water mmaeurseent … 1/2 of what? Cup? Tablespoon? I am going to try this, but don’t want to mess it up. Thanks!