Oh boy! A new post less than a month after the previous post. What is this world coming to? It's coming to me making brioche dough at 10:30 at night. Right now the mixer is incorporating the butter into the dough. It's almost there, then I get to let the dough rise for an hour, turn it out and fold it over a few times and then stick it in the fridge overnight. This bread better be delicious... Of course, it's flour, yeast, eggs, sugar, salt, water and butter, how far wrong can it go? Oh. Don't answer that. You pessimist.
I just tasted the dough. If I were the sort of person to add "gasm" to the end of a word to indicate, you know, pleasure, that would have been a doughgasm. Since I'm not, it still was. ;-)
Sometimes, I think my cats are part lemur. It would explain so much. The tails. The long legs. The jumping. Other times, I'm pretty sure that they are all cat. After all, their mother is feral and where would she meet up with a lemur on the Central Coast of California? These are the questions that keep me awake at night. Or that might be my boyfriend. 0:-)
I should probably go get ready for bed so that all I will have to do when the hour is up is take care of the dough and then go straight to bed. I'll finish this post first. It's rambling nature should indicate my state of mind quite clearly...
I'm working on the most darling little sweater and blanket set for a friend of mine (for her baby to wear). I only hope that I finish the sweater while the baby is still small enough to fit into it. They change from newborns to babies in no time at all. The pattern is an adorable vintage pattern I bought off of ebay (looking at vintage knit and crochet patterns is my newest obsession. I have managed to restrain myself to only buying two items. And one of the patterns was for a specific and definite person, which is always a good start. Yay me!). I'm not sure if babies were smaller then (and I'm not even sure when then was because the person I bought it from updated it and I bought a copy of her update) or if my gauge is wrong or if it will all turn out all right. My gauge is fine because I checked before I started and the yarn and hook I chose match the gauge the pattern says it should be. It's tiny. Itsy bitsy. Hopefully it won't be too small. Of course, if it is, Mom could just save it and the child could use it for a doll when she gets old enough to play with dolls. So, it'll work out one way or another, and the blanket will work for the actual baby, of that, I'm certain. I think that it will be more of a carriage cover size than an wrap around the baby size. Which is a nice size to have anyway. Especially one as cute as this one. The sweater set (sweater, bonnet, booties and mittens) will be in pink and white. The blanket in sage green and white. I'm all excited. It's already adorable, and I'm only about half way through the sweater.
That is taking up most of my knitting and crocheting time. I'm most of the way done with my Lion Suede seed stitch scarves for my friends Christmast presents. I have the fringe on one to do, and about half of the third to do. I still have all the hats to knit, but those shouldn't take too long. Especially since I'm probably not going to knit them in the round. That might be a hasty statement that I will later recant, but as of now, I'm planning to do them in rows and then sew the seam. It's all a big knitting adventure.
Okay. Off to put the dogs in the front room and ready myself for bed. That should take me neatly through the rest of the hour that the dough wants to rise before being deflated and then put in the fridge overnight.
Talk on ya later,
Harley
Saturday, October 21, 2006
Friday, October 06, 2006
A Cat For All Seasons...
We have three (3) cats right now. They claim to be wild kitties, but I'm beginning to disbelieve them. Especially when we wake up in the morning and find all of them on the bed.
Let me introduce you to the cats (in order of gender from female to male and then age from youngest to oldest). No pictures other than that created by my words because I don't have a camera or the means to upload the pictures... Well, I guess the camera is more of the problem than the uploading because I clearly have access to a computer. Anyway... On to the cats...
Tropicana's Dainty Portia (Portia, Porch-uh, Little Porshie)- Short-haired tabby. Black and grey stripes on a background of pale gold shading to white on her chest and stomach. The tip of her muzzle is white too. The tips of ears and the tip of her tail are black and there is a black stripe down her back (from whence all stripes originate apparently). She has big, round soft golden eyes that always look innocently startled. Except when she's batting some innocent rodent around, the she just looks delighted with herself and the world. She loves scratches, but isn't entirely sure she wants to be touched. Which makes it an hysterical comedy of errors when one reaches down to touch her, she tries to run away and lean into the scratch at the same time. Sometimes she falls over.
Tropicana's Clouded Jaguar (Jaguar, Jag, Jaggers, Big Guy) - Short-haired black. From the front and back and top he looks like your typical solid black cat. Then you see the side view and you notice that he has dark grey tabby striping on his sides. He has big, round amber gold eyes. He's the king of the world and he knows it. He likes to bring rats, mice and shrews into the house to share with his sister (Portia. Yes, they are littermates). Jag knows he likes scratches and he will demand them when and where he wants them. And bats at one if one stops before he's ready. Yesterday he smacked my butt when I stood up to leave the porch before he had gotten his fill of cuddles. Then he ran away. Tail straight up in the air.
Tropicana's Golden Lynx (Lynx, Lynxie, the Lynxer) - Short-haired tabby. Black and grey stripes on a background of dark gold shading to pale gold on his chest and stomach. The tip of his muzzle is white, although not as white as Portia's. The tips of his ears and tail are black and there is a black stripe down his back. In fact, until one gets to know them very well, and sometimes even then, it is very difficult to tell Lynx and Portia apart. He has big, round bright green-gold eyes that watch everything. Mostly he sits around looking wise even though he's only a year older than his siblings. The stripes on his legs are so symmetrical that when he sits in Egyptian cat pose they line up exactly across the legs, making it hard to tell where one leg ends and the other starts. Until he gets up and moves around again, of course. He also has a line across the base of his neck that looks like a necklace, and the lines around his eyes look like they were drawn on his face in kohl.
Next time: Cat Tails - Did you just say what I think you said?
Talk on ya later,
Harley
Let me introduce you to the cats (in order of gender from female to male and then age from youngest to oldest). No pictures other than that created by my words because I don't have a camera or the means to upload the pictures... Well, I guess the camera is more of the problem than the uploading because I clearly have access to a computer. Anyway... On to the cats...
Tropicana's Dainty Portia (Portia, Porch-uh, Little Porshie)- Short-haired tabby. Black and grey stripes on a background of pale gold shading to white on her chest and stomach. The tip of her muzzle is white too. The tips of ears and the tip of her tail are black and there is a black stripe down her back (from whence all stripes originate apparently). She has big, round soft golden eyes that always look innocently startled. Except when she's batting some innocent rodent around, the she just looks delighted with herself and the world. She loves scratches, but isn't entirely sure she wants to be touched. Which makes it an hysterical comedy of errors when one reaches down to touch her, she tries to run away and lean into the scratch at the same time. Sometimes she falls over.
Tropicana's Clouded Jaguar (Jaguar, Jag, Jaggers, Big Guy) - Short-haired black. From the front and back and top he looks like your typical solid black cat. Then you see the side view and you notice that he has dark grey tabby striping on his sides. He has big, round amber gold eyes. He's the king of the world and he knows it. He likes to bring rats, mice and shrews into the house to share with his sister (Portia. Yes, they are littermates). Jag knows he likes scratches and he will demand them when and where he wants them. And bats at one if one stops before he's ready. Yesterday he smacked my butt when I stood up to leave the porch before he had gotten his fill of cuddles. Then he ran away. Tail straight up in the air.
Tropicana's Golden Lynx (Lynx, Lynxie, the Lynxer) - Short-haired tabby. Black and grey stripes on a background of dark gold shading to pale gold on his chest and stomach. The tip of his muzzle is white, although not as white as Portia's. The tips of his ears and tail are black and there is a black stripe down his back. In fact, until one gets to know them very well, and sometimes even then, it is very difficult to tell Lynx and Portia apart. He has big, round bright green-gold eyes that watch everything. Mostly he sits around looking wise even though he's only a year older than his siblings. The stripes on his legs are so symmetrical that when he sits in Egyptian cat pose they line up exactly across the legs, making it hard to tell where one leg ends and the other starts. Until he gets up and moves around again, of course. He also has a line across the base of his neck that looks like a necklace, and the lines around his eyes look like they were drawn on his face in kohl.
Next time: Cat Tails - Did you just say what I think you said?
Talk on ya later,
Harley
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