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I was in Brighton Beach the other week, and I bought these pickles for the label. They’re pretty good, but not great.
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I worked a Saturday night shift at the co-op, ringing up fun Saturday night groceries (lots of pints of ice cream, and ice cream sandwiches!), and got home at 11. I had bought 2 small heads of cauliflower to put up using the Curried Cauliflower recipe in Put ‘Em Up, and I decided just to go for it. I have a mixed CD from my friend and former roommate Holland called “late night baking” (the cover features a receipt for flour, baking powder, and chocolate chips timestamped at 2:12am); I suppose I could make a complementary version called “late night canning.”
And then I used a bicycle stamp to make the labels. Yay!
Also, gearing up for Thanksgiving, I made a batch of Cranberry Walnut Orange Mint Relish, from Karen Solomon’s Can It Bottle It Smoke It–a book I won from a giveaway over at Punk Domestics — one of the best canning sites there is. I am looking forward to eating this soon.
NYC Marathon 2011 was incredible! The best! We watched on 4th ave in Brooklyn, then got on the subway and scooted uptown to watch on 5th ave in Manhattan (amazing geography of fourth and fifth being very far apart). It was a beautiful day to be outside and people watch, and then wander through central park and then see finnishers wrapped in space blankets spill out into the streets. Going home, I’ve never had a friendlier crowded subway ride, everyone congratulating each other, talking about their times and their travels.
(Jamie and Elon with their encouraging sign)
(and here is Hollis with her amazing sign)
The thing that’s hard is explaining why the marathon is so great, though. My friend Ryan asked what it was that made the marathon inspiring, and I wrote back to him saying:
I don’t know how to explain just how amazing the marathon is. I never thought I would care until it ran by my house the first year I lived here and I just got all teary. I think it’s something about athleticism without sports stardom, about the collectivity of doing a thing, the way the city really changes to let this thing happen…and then add to that the people you know who are running (and have been training forever), and the blind runners and the guides to the blind runners…It’s all kinds of outstanding. It doesn’t make any sense, but it is.
Do any of you have a better way to explain why you love the Marathon?
Today is the NYC Marathon! It’s my favourite holiday in New York. And I am so excited to see Naomi Wolf (not this Naomi Wolf) run in the thing she’s been training for forever!
Here are a few snaps from last year:
I got a hot new bike for my 29th birthday (more on that soon, I think I’m calling her Ghosthorse), but I don’t need to have 3 bikes. Thus, with a smidge of sadness, I decided to sell Lisa the Blue Schwinn (that name never really stuck).
This is a photo of she and I at last year’s Tour De Taco.
Enjoy her charms, Rembert Browne!
So New York is getting a bikeshare system–very exciting. I didn’t actually ride one of the bikes when I was in DC, but I did take this photo that makes Jon look like he works for the program.
these are all in the garden now
These are seedlings started on the windowsill–they’re all in the garden plot now.
granny hexagon, and hook!
If you make a silly face and brandish a hook, you’re a pirate! I mean, I am, and here’s me playing around with hexagon crochet. My hexagon paper piecing project has been delivered to its recipient (photos soon!), now I have something in the works for these.
New semester! I tidied up my workspace, filed last semester’s papers, bought a new printer, and now I have space for being a good graduate student.
Becky shared her workspace shot the other day and I wanted to do the same. After being away for a lot of winter break (in Vancouver, and New Orleans), it’s nice to, as Lindsey says, “re-nest.” And all the better to do so right here.
Also: Happy Birthday Megan!
I have a guest post up at the Yarnia shop blog about the Girasole.
calagary, M:ST, canadian thanksgiving weekend
I am off to Calgary tomorrow to participate in the Mountain Standard Time Festival! David McCallum and I are performing Sticks and Stones
Sticks and Stones is a long-duration public intervention performance that makes use of knitting and the ancient Chinese strategy game, Go. The project explores the subculture of the reclamation of craft, strategy games and public gaming and the public’s relationship to these things. Go is played on a grid and knitting - as a series of rows and stitches - is an excellent medium for representing this grid. The long performance will see two competitors engage in the public knitting of a game of Go, resulting in the gradual creation of roughly 300 swatches, representing the state of the board at each move throughout the game. As the swatches accumulate, they will be gathered and presented, documenting the process of the performance.
Exhibition: October 11-28
Venue: TRUCK +15 Window
Performances: October 8-10
Venue: Art Central
Presented by M:ST
This is the outcome of this pile of books on our coffee table, back when D and I were roommates in Toronto.
Okra Pickles
Okay, so Okra pickles aren’t as thrilling as pickled eggs, somehow, but this photo is a lot nicer. So here you go. Recipe from the Ball Complete Book of Home Preserving. With extra garlic.
It occurs to me that I will indeed eat well through the winter, but it will be all pickles and condiments.
tiny precise hand-stitching. This shit is addictive, yo.
These litle notes are my favourite thing about being home. Vancouver, August 2010
a small collection of what people like
Also, people who like knitting like sewing. And country music. More on Flickr (click the photo to get there).
Rooibus or Ceylon?
www.colettepatterns.com/shop
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