Blog of Housewifery

I like to knit
I like to bake
But I'm a MOM
That takes the cake!

Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Productive Day!

Yesterday I received the RHSS Whip box from my wonderful friends at Post Mortem over on Ravelry:

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Included was one (1) RHSS (Red Heart Super Saver) Whip:

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I removed some lovely vintage craft magazines* from the box:

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And scored some awesome yarn. Phoebe has marked it as hers, so now I can’t give it back!

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I then restashed the box with this stuff:

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Ian chased Phoebe around with the whip:

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She made it down the stairs to safety!

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And the whip was a little tangled, so I modified it a bit to make it more useful for actual whipping.

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And despite the whipping and drama, I still managed to accomplish one maple leafy strawberry-rhubarb pie, 16 jars of strawberry jam, and one caved-in loaf of bread.

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All despite having an aching back and a sunburn from picking the strawberries the day before. Stupid strawberries. Why hasn’t Monsanto genetically modified some high bush strawberries yet?

Anyways. I also froze a bunch of them and dried another pile. Altogether 12 quarts of strawberries passed through my house yesterday.

Today, I am so tired, I sat down to knit. But I finally had to accept the fact that the sock I am working on would not fit any human foot, so I had to frog it back about 4 inches. And it is in this irritatingly fiddly herringbone pattern too. So I actually got a negative amount accomplished today! Woo hoo!

 

*I haven’t read through them all yet, but I have to say I enjoyed the recommendation in the one I have read to apply DDT to keep moth larvae out of your pear trees…. YUMMY!!!