Making Breakfast ...

How do you boil an egg??
I often ask this question, mostly out of curiosity. (I get Brent to make my eggs, he has telepathic ability to read how done my egg is by the way the steam rolls of the egg when held out of the water on a spoon)

I asked Melanie this morning before our staff meeting.
She believes in Martha Stewart ... here is what you do.

• take a pot
• put your egg into it
• cover it with cold water, about 1/2 inch over
• turn burner on high
• time from a rolling boil for 1 minute
• cover
• remove from heat
• leave for 3 mins to have a soft egg, run under cold water to stop the cooking and make it easier to peel
• or leave it for 13 mins if you want a hard boiled egg, and then do the cold water thingy.

I'll let you know how I make out.
Last day of work today!!!
Ellen

New Passion

I didn't know I had fat ankles until I started taking pictures of my feet.

Almost a year ago I decided to explore sock making. My first pair was done on 5 needles and seemed to take for ever. It was about to be a short lived passion when I found a book.
Toe-up 2 at a Time by Melissa Morgan-Oaks.

So what that means is .... two socks can be knit at the same time, when one sock is done, so is the other! yay. and they are guaranteed to be the same size. Not an easy feet (ha) when knitting one at a time!

The other bonus about this method is that you knit them with circular kneedles. (Spell check wants me to change that to needles ... but I'm not going to!)
I love the way you cast on, the knitting starts at the toe.
I love the way you do the heel, you increase for a while and then knit stitches together ... instead of decreasing and picking up stitches which was just messy!
I have a great way to cast off which insures they stretch enough to get them on (over my fat ankles!).
And I am actually wearing and loving them.

I think I will knit socks for the rest of my life.

Christmas Tree hunting

Brent and Casey and I walked for hours on the back lot of the Christmas Tree farm, looking for the  perfect tree. After great effort, we found the best tree we have ever had! (we say that every year)
Cody, Chris, Kayla, Brent, Casey and I went back later that day ... IN THE DARK ... to find that small white and red tag we had tied on early in the day. Holding flashlights, and using the truck headlights, we cut it down ... well mostly Cody with a bit of help from Brent. We all stood around cheering him on!
Christmas is really here.
:)

P.S. $25 was all that we had to pay for the Perfect Tree ... I wonder how much an 8 foot tree costs in the big city??? 

Back Home

 

My suit case went all the way to Sao Paulo and back home to Fredericton all by itself! It feels very grown up! When I asked it what the weather was like it wouldn't answer me, odd. I on the other hand, spent 30 hours traveling to no where. But that's OK. I am now back in Fredericton and back to work ... it is a rainy day, the snow is all gone. Hard to believe what it looked like Sunday morning from my front window ... this is what it looks like outside my office.