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owed in our home and shortening was rarely used but back to the turnips betty june would boil and mash the turnips so that they looked like mashed potatoes can you imagine sitting down to dinner and taking a huge spoonful of what you believe are mashed potatoes and realizing in one horrifying forkful that you had over served yourself mashed turnips if you have never tasted boiled and mashed turnips then you are truly lucky there isn t enough butter to save them or you and my parents were strict as all get out about eating what you had served yourself we always took our own portions of food from the bowl i still look at a bowl of mashed potatoes with great detail and suspicion because i finally got to the point where i could tell the difference you see mashed turnips have a grey tinge and look a bit runny on top i just made myself laugh that i can still remember this with such clarity but my mom did us such a huge favor it took growing up to realize how her concern about our nutrition served us then and now i am grateful that we weren t allowed to have kool aid even if the other kids thought we were aliens soda was a treat and only allowed if offered by a relative or friend when mom and dad weren t around my mother was originally from waukesha wisconsin where she grew up on a dairy farm the idea of fake dairy items infuriated her because she felt and i wonder where i get my righteous indignation that these things took away from the farmer also she felt that foods made exclusively from chemicals were highly suspect again i am my mother s daughter have a wonderful day my soundtrack for today is a wonderful expression of how i am feeling the swedish chef posted in csa family mom soundtrack uncategorized 1 comment cool weekend posted on may 31 2015 by knitwonpurltoo we have had another cool wet weekend no complaining from here this is st louis the minute the rain stops the heat and humidity will grow my hair is frizzy enough as it is i don t need heat yesterday i went to the ferguson farmer s market which i adore and picked up my share of the csa i think i love this i had always wanted to join a csa community supported agriculture because it is supporting small local farmers and i wanted to get all over that there are a few here in st louis but earth dance farms was the most affordable for me and the most appealing plus it s in ferguson i also like that i have to volunteer 4 hours per season as a member this weekend was my third weekend of the season for bountiful organic and delicious food the first week i got a small bouquet some radishes about 2 lbs of spinach and some swiss chard last week i got kale more spinach 4 carrots radishes 4 little beets and some gorgeous red leaf lettuce this week i got some more spinach with a little chard mixed in fabulous spicy radishes carrots and a purple kohlrabi i also got sorrel i need to check on how you fix that i haven t ever had sorrel before that i can remember i cut the carrots up and the kohlrabi and roasted them they are wonderful the kohlrabi and carrots were pretty darned delicious raw too have a great weekend all here s my soundtrack for today a sweet song by a mega talent ms joni mitchell have a good one posted in csa gardening soundtrack uncategorized leave a comment memorial day 2015 posted on may 25 2015 by knitwonpurltoo my flag is out and i have been thinking of the true sadness of this day for so very many my family was blessed my uncles came home from wwii and so did my dad i lost no friends in viet nam although several came home with addiction and ptsd yet the pain of this day for so many families and friends cannot be assuaged by hanging out flags i wish to god we could just leave our young to grow old and not die in foreign lands yet if they hadn t we would not have our freedom today six years ago we said our final goodbye to mom as well her passing was not a tragedy she had a life so very well lived and loved still she died on may 25 2009 on a memorial day weekend monday just like today i am so very grateful for the time we had with her not sad at all and that she and dad prepared us so well for this life i have not knit a stitch in a week i am weeding like the true whack job i am i am sore and stiff and happy as a clam i planted a few flowers in pots for the deck and have decided that i need to make part of my old vegetable garden into a flower garden i m pretty sure that this is a stage of crazy but don t care i did buy my hanging flowers for the front porch my yearly splurge and am madly in the love with them aren t they pretty i have no idea what they are but i was told by the lady that sold them to me that they are in the petunia family and my pansies are still lovely but starting to get a bit leggy i guess i best mosey off to the garden now i will leave you with my soundtrack for today great rendition of a great song have a good one posted in family gardening soundtrack 2 comments back in the saddle again posted on may 17 2015 by knitwonpurltoo i actually had a request from rachel of dyeabolical fame to blog again i was stunned and quite flattered so how ya been i have been pretty good i have been busy ish not too busy to blog but too dull i have been knitting a bit since january winter wasn t horrible but dull i think i had a serious case of ennui and couldn t shake it part of my problem and i have just one or two of those is that i find my life wonderful but not always interesting and if i don t find it interesting i can t make it interesting in the blog work is fine home is fine stinky is fine sassy fine grover is fine he is now 10 years old i haven t told him so he doesn t realize he s that old he still thinks he s a young pup and wants to gogogo but runs out of gasgasgas just like me yesterday i went to the world s smallest craft fair it was delightful so much talent and so many tempting things i was big on desire and short of funds i came out wanting all of it but settling for these from rachel konica minolta digital camera the yarn is just as squishy as it looks and i got a finger row counter i have wanted the row counter for years and i love the colors of the yarn it will be a hat the bouquet it came from the ferguson farmers market yesterday the market is still going and growing i was also able to get my honey while there today i went to church but couldn t sing because of a lingering upper respiratory infection i m a baritone that squeaks today after church a group of us went to an indian restaurant buffet i really enjoyed it i am a bit of an indian food novice so it was all new and interesting except for the naan which i am very familiar with then i wandered home to do laundry i plan on posting once a week or if by some bizarre accident something gets really interesting and with that i bid you a good week and wonderful soundtrack posted in uncategorized 3 comments planned obsolescence in knitted gifts posted on january 1 2015 by knitwonpurltoo happy new year one and all i just finished the christmas gift socks for my bsil i knit them with her healing in mind she had that foot surgery last winter that she endured with great presence in fact her entire family did anyway her right foot is still bigger than her left because she is still healing and will be for quite some time well i decided to knit her socks anyway but planned on knitting one sock quite a bit bigger than the other so that she could wear hand knit socks even though her feet weren t the same size i wrote the date i started march 8 2014 and the date finished december 31 2014 there is no reason it took me that long but it did i m very pleased with the finished product of course it s too dark the yarn is dyeabolical flowershop inferno always a joy to knit and it s a party of colors in a sock there are two different sizes one for her left foot is a medium and the one for the healing foot her right is large so that it s easy to tell the difference i put a little bow on the side of the big one this pair will not be used in a year or so and i m fine with that i just wanted her to have some love on her feet while she continues to heal i m gonna mosey on along right now you either love her or hate her but i love her here she is singing sting s if i ever lose my faith have a good one posted in uncategorized 4 comments merry christmas and happy holidays to all posted on december 24 2014 by knitwonpurltoo hope this finds you well and happy posted in uncategorized 2 comments i ve been away for some time now posted on october 18 2014 by knitwonpurltoo it s been an interesting eventful and sometimes sad late summer into fall as some of you know i live in st louis mo i am about 7 10 miles away from the community of ferguson which became infamous in the media i haven t really known how to respond on the blog because like so many others i m not sure anyone will ever know the truth and feel the media has treated st louis like so many other places and people like the latest shiny new toy play with us report inaccuracies and downright lies mingled with the truth then move on to the next new shiny toy in this case it s ebola i will not attempt to explain the events in ferguson that day because i don t know that being said i also spent every sunday afternoon for 10 weeks or so visiting my bsil s mother in hospice it was bittersweet for me my bsil s mother was difficult at times when she was strong and healthy but when her health began to decline she softened and was so dear i took her flowers and up until the final two weeks she brightened when she saw them i have no regrets and was grateful when she was able to finally move on into her next great journey in mid september now for the important stuff my refrigerator died not life altering by any means but still a pain in the rear after it died i measured the space twice i went and looked at refrigerators in the store i measured the one i wanted twice it was delivered to my house two days later it didn t fit now i might have been upset years ago when i wasn t knitting but now i know knitter s can t count so i just chalked it up to life as a knitter now a cabinet must be removed today and it shall be grover and i have to walk into the kitchen single file i have been knitting i was spinning a bit when my peanut came over and asked if she could spin on my joy and i said sure there s about 8 left on the unspun fiber and she hasn t finished it yet little stinker i hope to blog a bit more often i miss everyone s updates except margene who faithfully updates and joan and cookie too i m afraid i am the cause of the loss of a blog friendship due to communication error i am still sorry about that one but cannot correct it because the line was severed have a good one all posted in family knitting spinning uncategorized tagged a little visit family spinning 6 comments summer in middle earth posted on july 12 2014 by knitwonpurltoo it has been a pretty spectacular summer so far here in middle earth we are hot today but we have had some pretty gorgeous days in the 80 s so whining is not allowed i signed up for the tour de fleece once again with team cranky pants and team dyeabolical yarns so far i have fixed the drive band on the spinning wheel ripped the old spinning off the bobbins i fear leaving the spun fiber on the bobbins for 3 years glued it all together it currently looks like this i was so put out by that stupid fiber not dave s fault that i just wadded it up and threw it away you can tell i didn t even care if the picture was in focus so now i m beginning on this rachel s dyeabolical falkland fiber in the ricky colorway i love it there will be more pictures when i actually have something on the bobbin to show you we have also been moulting here this is just a small sample of the fur the pup has been shedding since june i have it everywhere inside and outside tonythegrasscuttingguy is absolutely stunned by the sheer volume of it i take piles of it out to the garden area and just put it down there for the birds and animals to take the rug is a constant mess i d blame it all on grover but stinky adds her fair share today the boy went for a bath and day at camp he is exhausted of course but happy i had to get a different car frank the buick had a case of terminal old crappy car disease so he had to go i purchased a small used suv thinking that the pup could get in and out without too much trouble of course i was wrong it is quite a distance for a 9 year old giant breed dog to go so i bought him a ramp to get in and out of the car i also remembered that he is a guard dog breed so training was going to require the steak n shake cheese steakburger training method it only took 3 cheeseburgers to get him trained to use it and now he s a champ he looks adorable in the cargo hold behind the seats he s also quite a bit safer in that area well that s what i ve been up to not particularly exciting but that is how my life goes and i m just okey dokey with it have a good one posted in uncategorized tagged a little visit esau marie grover life spinning weather 4 comments culling the herd the wrong way posted on june 1 2014 by knitwonpurltoo i ve been pond mucking removing and relining and restocking as we all know i know how to have a great time it still looks pretty much like this but now there are fish i bought 10 lost 2 to old age or illness lost 3 more some other way attrition can be brutal i believe either the racoons owls hawks or who knows who have been at it i finally went to buy water plants l we s nor h ome d pot have anything at all like that i even checked with wallyworld nada finally i was talking to chris and karen at church this morning and they told me about a pond place nearer i looked it up on my smart phone thank you smartphones and proceeded there after church i got my plants came home and put them in we ll see how effective they are at protecting my idiot fish i will post pics of the water plants after they have made themselves tohome right now they re on their sides and look just sad have a good one my soundtrack for today don t let the rain come down because we are currently having our monsoon season posted in gardening soundtrack uncategorized tagged a little visit pond soundtrack weather 4 comments older posts networked blogs networkedblogs blog knit won purl too topics knitting spinning life follow my blog midwest knitters previous next list random archives archives select month june 2015 may 2015 january 2015 december 2014 october 2014 july 2014 june 2014 may 2014 april 2014 march 2014 february 2014 january 2014 december 2013 november 2013 october 2013 september 2013 august 2013 july 2013 june 2013 may 2013 april 2013 march 2013 february 2013 january 2013 december 2012 november 2012 october 2012 september 2012 august 2012 july 2012 june 2012 may 2012 april 2012 march 2012 february 2012 january 2012 december 2011 november 2011 october 2011 september 2011 august 2011 july 2011 june 2011 may 2011 april 2011 march 2011 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