Good Morning Everyone,
Welcome to April! I feel like I'm running behind - after a less than ideal (meaning extremely restless) night of sleeping (or not), I fell asleep early this morning and then slept in longer than usual for a day when I'm scheduled to be with Iris. I've showered and coffee has been poured, but that's about it!
Yesterday I was able to procure a leg of lamb for Easter dinner! The 7 hour leg of lamb that I will be cooking (Patricia Wells' recipe) is cooked along with potatoes, onions, carrots and tomatoes and becomes so tender that it falls off the bone. According to the recipe, you should be able to eat it with a spoon. I never have, but it's a good recipe. I need to get a couple of bottles of wine to pour in - most likely I'll use white this time (you can make it with either red or white). I plan to also have asparagus, but I will pick that up later in the week. And a coconut pie which I'll most likely make on Saturday.
I also accomplished quite a bit on my long to do list including rubbing all the cabinets in the kitchen with orange oil. It smelled so good! And the cabinet doors are no longer dusty!
Now it's time to link up with Kat and her Merry Band of Unravelers to talk about making and reading.
My Panning for Gold sock has not seen any love since Monday, but it is further along than last week.
I'm roughly half way through the heel flap which this time is a simple slip stitch rather than eye of the partridge. Maybe I can manage the balance of the heel flap and heel turn whilst at C&M's today (while Colin and Iris have lunch together).
Monday's mail included a bounty of new yarn stash! First up is the April yarn for The Farmer's Daughter's 2026 Sock Squad. Aptly named Morning Honey. I love it!
And the yarn I ordered from Lisa at Fibernymph Dyeworks arrived. Fast!! First up the set up minis that I requested. The color way is River Rocks and I couldn't resist it. There's a bit of Stellina in the yarn, so sparkles!!
And then two full skeins from Lisa:
The skein on the right is her Pollinator Pi color way and the one on the left is Mountain House Winter. Both are gorgeous! I've knit with Lisa's yarn in the past and it does not disappoint.
I'm pretty sure that Pollinator will become socks for Colin (bright!! cheerful!!) since he has talked of wanting to have bee hives. And Mountain House Winter may become socks for Fletch. Of course, I need to finish what's on my needles and there are so many other things I want to knit. More hours in each day, please.
Reading has been good. I finished listening to Blaze Me a Sun by Christoffer Carlsson about a crime in a Swedish town. This is the book that Fletch and I had started listening to but stopped when Fletch got bored. I decided to finish it. It was good, but I wish I had paid more attention (meaning stayed awake) early on when Fletch and I were listening. I'm not planning to jump out and find other books by this author, but I did enjoy it.
With my eyes I read Speak to Me of Home by Jeanine Cummins - a saga of family, home, identity, love. It was good though in places it felt a bit long and drawn out. Still, a good read.
Fletch and I are continuing to listen to The Long Ships by Frans Bengtsson after dinner. There is much that I had forgotten about this story that we read out loud decades ago, including a lot of humor. We are both really enjoying this one.
And that's a wrap for me. Time to pour some more coffee and try to wake up. Happy Wednesday!
