weekending

Mar
2012
12

posted by on chickens, cooking, family, growing our food, knitting

3 comments

ahhh … a long weekend.  Such bliss.  We are …


:: cooking and eating our way through Hugh’s new cookbook – Veg – though Abby is not sure the recipes could be considered authentic Hugh seeing as he has lost his curly mop!

:: casting loving and longing looks at the two new gorgeous skeins of wool that found their way to Bootville on Friday – Beaverslide for arm warmers and Araucania for socks (red socks to wear with my newly dresdenised skirt!)

:: finishing the first sock and frantically knitting the second so that I may dive into that afore mentioned gorgeous wool

:: counting the emerging spring beans and hoping for magical ones

:: spending the afternoon in the garden with Julian, Abby and the feathered girls, still marvelling at the beautiful eggs they present us with every day, and watching with an amused and careful eye as Fu learns that she may WATCH the chickens, she may FOLLOW the chickens about, she may even SHARE their podge (when they let her – Benny has no qualms standing up to Fu) but she may not TOUCH the chickens – those chickens are OURS not hers.

:: wondering why it is that MY feet turn black when gardening in my old chewed up crocs, whereas Julian’s feet stay clean?

:: turning today’s eggs into pasta – and pondering the pasta drying rack Julian’s finally constructed me after 10 years of whining :-)

Wishing you a lovely weekend with those you love – and plenty of what you love too …

 

3 comments

  1. Penny
    March 12, 2012 at 2:08 am
    # 1

    I was given a copy of HFW Veg for Christmas and have been steadily cooking my way through it ever since so much so that we hardly eat meat anymore. There is not one single recipe so far that I haven’t enjoyed and many that I make over and over.We’ve just finished off the remains of the kale and mushroom lasagne for our lunch, its absolutely delicious, do try it if you haven’t already.

  2. Marei
    March 12, 2012 at 6:44 am
    # 2

    Looks like a most lovely weekend.
    I LOVE that sock!! I need a pair….but of course, don’t want to knit them myself….

  3. gail
    March 12, 2012 at 6:44 pm
    # 3

    It all sounds delightful Lily,

    Blessings Gail

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