Room for improvement

This week has been a collection of "could be finished if only ......"

Not enough yarn (running with soda on Ravelry is sending me her leftovers so i can finish) 

Protein recovery drink needing more liquification (almond milk, kiwi, banana, tofu, frozen kale & flax seed oil)

Apparently I can't read directions and watch TV at the same time

If only all of life's challenges were so simple. 

So close, and yet, so far away

This will be my pineapple shawlette. The yarn came from a yarn & tea club. I started it at yoga teacher training last spring. Nearly finished the knitting last summer. I don't remember why I stopped working on it. I decided to finish it this week on my vaca. 

  I started binding off 2 days ago...only to discover there wasn't enough yarn. I frogged the bind off stitches AND two more rows. Started again today. And now I'm about a 24" short. 

  I will not let this project defeat me. I don't remember pissing off the great knitting goddess. I don't know how I will rescue this...maybe a smaller picot? UGH!

Breakfast

I can't remember the last time I had a bowl of boxed cereal for breakfast. You know, like raisin & bran flakes, crispy rice, or the sugar cereals everyone loved as a kid. Over the past few years, I've reduced my processed food intake for a few reasons...the corn allergy, if its processed  & re-enriched is it really healthy, and in an effort to live a sustainable lifestyle. 

I don't how I used to think that breakfast had to be cereal & milk, which left me feeling extremely hungry in 2 hours. Today's breakfast tossed this notion far to the wayside to far, even oatmeal doesn't come close. I present:

Egg salad!

Fiddleheads

Today I ate my first fiddlehead. I was worried it would be to 'grassy' tasting, since it is a type of fern. However , I was delightfully surprised by the texture, crisp and fresh flavor that didn't give the slightest hint of 'grassy'. 

I posted this picture on my Facebook page and one of my high school classmates was brave enough to ask me what a fiddlehead was.  I had forgotten my roots. Maybe only a handful of old timers would know what a fiddlehead was or even how to find one. I wonder if they even grew in the woods in the land of anthracite coal. 

  I'm just thankful that my local grocery here in CT, hundreds of miles from coal region, had some this year and that I found the recipe I had saved since last year (probably because it wasn't in a 'safe' place). 

  Even better was the rhubarb crisp and vanilla ice cream for dessert. Thank you to the previous house owner that left this wonderful plant in my yard. 

Productive weekend

Spring is here in CT, but it looks & feels like winter. This knitter can only cope by doing what she loves best....knitting!

This is what is finished this weekend...
A vest that I finished knitting a year ago and was waiting to be finished. Pattern (Knitwhits Shalimar) was purchased at Stitches East. It was using Noro Silk Garden Sock.

A cowl knit with merino/cashmere yarn from my July 2012 shipment of the Unique Sheep SipnStitch Tea club.

And then there are the dogs reminding me that I need to stop knitting to feed them

Ten stitch blanket done!

Last minute snood preparation

5 finished snoods ready to go to the CGA annual fundraiser at Hooker Brewery (http://www.ctgreyhounds.org/Beerfest.html). Now to finish up a small lavender snood for a petite & proper grey lady.