I've been quiet for a spell - summer weekends on Fire Island have kept me away from computers, and by day's end I'm reduced to a useless rag with just enough energy for Mad Men with vino (bless you, sexy Don Draper, you cheating scoundrel). But I'm hoping this fall to have more time to post, and read and re-read your own wonderful posts.
Let's kick it off with a few of my mother-in-law's gifties to her precious GrandMaster K, for his recent second birthday:
Oooooh. Aaaaah. I can relax and drop my knitting-needled pretense - she has us covered.
But I haven't totally given up on the domestic goddess approach to life...I have received a 3-year subscription to Fine Cooking, and I intend to do some of just that. So stay tuned and I'll share the least-maintenance, most delicious recipes that I come across. Mama H's pancake recipe book kept me busy on weekends this summer. Wish I could jet over to her place and do some cooking relief for Mister T! I do look forward to hearing dispatches from her bed-rest... with all that lying down and thinking, she's sure to be a zen master by December!
- Mama V.
Mama V, I love the green sweater and hat that your MIL knitted for Master K. It's one thing to knit a duck and sew it on the sweater, but it's a whole new level of skill to sew it in the pattern. Do you receive these goodies by surprise in the mail? How exciting! Enjoy Fine Cooking. I just love the magazine. Did you receive the issue for Thanksgiving? I wish I could cook Thanksgiving dinner this year. I think we'll just host my family and ask that everyone bring along a home-cooked contribution to the meal.
ReplyDeleteYou're so lucky! They're beautiful creations. Doesn't it inspire you to knit something too? Or maybe the reverse, you don't need to. I'm still optimistic that you'll finish the scarf. If you don't think you will send it over to me and I'll finish it for you!
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