Glow in the Dark Socks for Claire

One sock complete.

Crazy, crazy day-glo sock yarn.  Girl of the House is excited.

Duluth

College visit to Duluth today.  One of our most favorite cities.  

Sunday morning

Girl of the House and snuggle buddies.  

Feeling very spoiled

Girl of the House made a beautiful meatloaf for supper tonight.  

What a treat!

As we (frequently) say at our house, "I'm a very spoiled girl".

St Pats Day Already?

Girl of the House is ready after a quick stop at the Target dollar bins. 

Conference winners, plus...

Northfield Girls Alpine Skiing took first in conference.  

YAY!

The top five skiers receive All-Conference Honors.  Girl of the House was All-Conference for the second year in a row.  

Sweet!

Waitin' for the bus

Girl of the House this morning, waiting for the bus.

Isn't it great when you have a really good book?

Grand Targhee 2010

We had a fabulous time at Grand Targhee over the holidays.

Besides the snowshoeing on Christmas Day, we skied four full days.

Ready to launch on the first day.

We snow tubed after a full day of skiing.

Girl of the House had her 15th birthday.

We had fresh powder.

Just an awesome family time.

GotH cooks!

We recently picked up 20 frozen chickens from Finca Mirasol, a branch of the Hillside Farmers Cooperative.  

Once a week, Girl of the House cooks a meal.   This week, it was to be chicken!  She chose a recipe a few days in advance and assured me we had all of the necessary ingredients.

She began with some of our home-grown purple potatos.

 

She added some of our yukon gold potatoes.   

Mmmmm, mashers!

While they warmed in the oven, she began her surprise:  Fried Chicken.

I'm sure I haven't made fried chicken in 20 years.  I wasn't much assistance to her.

Note the recipe book computer open on the counter.

I'd say she was pretty successful.

It was delicious!

 She's the chief piemaker for Thanksgiving.

Here she tried out a new recipe:  Pear Frangipane from Relish magazine (Relish is one of those freebie little magazines that comes in our Northfield paper)

This is amazingly delicious!  And it looks elegant too.  It will definitely be going to my brother's house for Thanksgiving.

I've been working on a new sweater.

Muted Musician Gansey (Ravelry Link) from Beth Brown-Reinsel's Knitting Ganseys.

Knitted from Cascade 220 in a lovely periwinkle color at four stitches per inch.  Anyway, that's the gauge called for, but I'm not sure I like it.  It seems a bit loose and 'sleazy'.  I keep knitting though.

Well, we'll see...

Knitting in the dark

 What do you do, sitting in the dark, while attending a two hour high school concert?

Are you able to sit quietly and attentively throughout?

Or do you bring a project you can do in the dark?

Simple fingerless mitts of my own handspun.

Two hours of two by two ribbing in the round, with simple buttonholes for the thumb openings.

It was a lovely concert and a productive evening!