Well it's been quite the work month for me, quite stressful and pressureful. As a reward for conducting myself with all that grace under all that fire (except for that one night on Valentine's when we were out with friends drinking and I started crying when talking about work) (not my most shining-est moment), I bought a little present for me on Friday - a Le Creuset grill pan that is super petite (enough to grill two steaks or 4 small burgers or 4 links of sweet Italian sausages), super heavy, and super cherry red. It's a piece of cookware that's super not shitting around.

Then I went around the corner to our local butcher to buy some steaks. I love having a local butcher! They don't shit around either when it comes to their produce or their meats. I asked one day if they had any duck - I'd like to try roasting a duck sometime - and they told me to order it on Tuesday so that it could be slaughtered on Wednesday at a farm nearby to be delivered fresh to the store by Thursday. How cute! So cute that I wonder why I keep putting off ordering that duck! Huh!

Everything is seasonal, from local sustainable farms. I'll be honest and tell you right now that I don't know 100% what "sustainable" means, except that it can be very expensive, but since it's all the rage with all the liberals, sustainable must be something worthwhile, right?

So we bought a pound of hanger steak from a grass-fed cow and grilled it up on my new grill pan.

While our tastebuds rejoiced, our jaws were very tired by the end of the meal. We were left to wonder how FAR this particular cow had to travel away from the barn to get to its patch of grass. You normally don't think about it but cows tend to get rather muscular when allowed to roam so freely.

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Friday, February 08, 2008

Here are some better photos of HRM the Kooch.

(Love my little Duck to pieces, but the guy cannot for the life of him take in-focus photographs.)

I jumped the gun with all the seaming. That photo in the magazine is misleading. The awesome belt which really is the whole reason why I started this 2-year knitting sojourn, is not actually belt. WHAT? you say, if not a belt then what? Well, they are actually ties which end at either side of the waist. One tie for the right, one for the left. The right tie is attached to the waist seam of the front right panel, and vice-versa for the left. THEN the left and right front panels are seamed to the back panel.

Does not that sound entirely nutters to you? And how odd would that look, a cardigan with a half-belt? And how empty and naked the back.

So screw the instructions and the design, I'm making a full belt.

Here are some more photos of Rambling Rose to fill up space. I blocked the back and fronts and let us now bask in the glory of the awesome stitch definition. Go STR Go.