Step Into My Thimble

Contrary to what you might think, what with all the posts on hose attachments, kohlrabi, bikes, etc., I am actually doing some knitting these days. I used to think I would never knit again when the baby was first born, and then she was very good at daytime sleeping so I did get to knit, and now…well let’s just say the napping is not on any kind of schedule. It took me a few weeks to make this:

It’s a wool diaper soaker wrap. The yarn is some undyed I had in my stash, I think from one of those swap boxes that was getting mailed around a few years ago. I dyed it with Wilton cake dye. The goal was light green with spots of burgundy, and we got brown with spots of green and red. Oh well, it’s baby underpants! Who cares! I just have to treat it with lanolin and she can start wearing it.

Happy holiday weekend!

I’m 34 today. That seems kinda old! Rodney and I got my parents to babysit, and went out for dinner and some Plainwell Ice cream.

This is what I got for my birthday, plus Mother’s Day and our anniversary all in one:

It’s a Giant Sedona DX w (women’s frame). I can’t wait to trick it out with an ipod holder, GPS, ground effects, and of course a flag.

This is my candyswap package. See it on Flickr for details! Thanks Clara E, it was the best swap package I’ve gotten in a long time.

And also on Flickr, check out the fist series. Maeve has found her first object of worship.

We are going to a pig roast in the Detroit area this weekend. See you on Monday!

I’m selling a bunch of crap on ebay.

If you can believe it, that account is the longest continuous internet account I have ever had. Six years and five months. I pretty much hate ebay for its evermore fleamarket trashlike qualities, but sometimes there are people who go nuts and pay way more than you expected for your junk. Wish me luck.

You know when you have been spending a long stretch of time alone, and you get wrapped up in doing something (I guess maybe that is “the zone”) and then after a while you actually consciously acknowledge your thoughts? Here is one that was in my mind repeatedly today, until I said it out loud to the baby. Pardon the profanity.*

• I just want to make this fucking kohlrabi salad.

The baby was interrupting me. How dare she!

So, the salad was made, finally. It is from Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone, with mustard vinaigrette minus the capers.

That cookbook is great but there is always one stupid ingredient that is impossible to find. I may have mentioned this before. At the moment I am either going to have to drive to detroit for a preserved lemon, or make my own, if I want to cook Chickpeas and Mixed Greens with Moroccan Spices. And making preserved lemons requires sea or kosher salt, and dang if I did not walk all the way to the health food store today and forget to buy either of those items. I WILL EAT CHICKPEAS AND MIXED GREENS WITH MOROCCAN SPICES IF IT KILLS ME.

Having said that, I could have easily gotten capers, and probably creme fraiche (which I substituted plain yogurt for) in this town, but a decent fresh kohlrabi might not have been so easy. Thanks to my farm share I had a nice big purple one in the box from last week. Today we get another box and I hope it is good stuff!

Parenting brings out a weird new kind of determination, I tell you. Maybe it is the lack of sleep that makes you cling desperately to a few things you really want to get done?

*We have not started a Swear Word Jar at our house yet, but the child does have her own bank account with regular deposits getting sucked out of the paycheck of her father. I probably swear more around her, but I also knit things for her for free AND I use my very own body to feed her whenever she wants!

**Anyone else notice I did not use any apostrophes in this post? I keep getting MySQL errors with them for some reason. Without-apostrophe writing is like a foreign language almost. I am SO casual like that!