Productive weekend....

Because of exhaustion and time conflicts with Carrie and Robert, I spent the weekend at home. I was in bed by 9:00 on Friday night and I didn't wake up until about 8:45 on Saturday morning. Almost 12 hours of sleep...Awesome! I must have needed it. Did a very little amount of house keeping and then settled in to knit for the entire day. Unfortunately, I got 14.5 rows from the end of Catkin and ran out of one color with only 3.5 rows left of it to do. ARGHHHH! I'd been watching the ball with some alarm for a couple of days wondering if it would last...Apparently not! Of course it was already after closing time so I had to wait until today to run to Soft Horizons to see if, hope against hope, they might have the same color in the same dye lot. It didn't happen. They had the same color but not the same dye lot. I figured that was as close as I was going to get and bought it and crossed my fingers. I tried calling the Knit shop but they aren't open on Sunday and I can't get into town during the week during normal business hours. I'm fairly certain that Fiber Nooks and Crannies doesn't carry this particular yarn. Fortunately, when I checked just now, there is no noticeable difference between the two dye lots...Phew! That would have been nasty! I had hoped to finish it this weekend but I'm just glad I CAN finish it eventually.

Between services and after my run to the yarn store, I whipped up a batch of cookie dough and stuck it in the refrigerator. Then after our second service, mom and I made old fashioned filled cookies using a recipe that is doubtless older than either of us. It is a recipe passed down from my father's mother and her sister and likely came from their mother and maybe her mother before. The filling is a thickened raisin, water and sugar mixture. The recipe is pretty bare bones. There are no mixing instructions, I think they assume that you know how to mix up a basic batch of cookie dough. It came out of my great aunt's head and I wrote it down. For example it says to add at least 3 cups of flour...it ended up needing about 5. There is 3 tsps of Baking powder so they really fill out in the oven. We ended up making two batches of dough to one batch of filling and came out exactly right--No dough nor filling left over. They are yummy and just as I remember them off of Auntie Dorothy's table. Mom has lost her little pie crust roller so I couldn't decorate them like Auntie D used to but we made do with our fingers. They may not be as pretty but they taste just fine!

These are part of the Thanksgiving contribution I'm making. I also have stuff to make... actually, I don't! I left the ingredients mom was contributing at her place. *sigh* Well the plan is to make a jello salad, layered pumpkin cheese cake, and sugar free apple cranberry crisp (it uses artificial sweetener and we have a lot of diabetics at our table). I'm not 100% sure when I'm going to do any of this, though.

For now, I must away to bed. Tomorrow is a new day and hopefully, a quiet and uneventful one. Ta for now!

Oh, btw...

It's a boy. I'll have a new GodSON round about April 29th.