Something from Aubrey.

The rules:

1. Copy this list into your blog or journal, including these instructions.
2. Bold all the items you’ve eaten.
3. Cross out or italicize any items that you would never consider eating.
4. Optional extra: post a comment on Very Good Taste, linking to your results.

1. Venison
2. Nettle tea
3. Huevos rancheros
4. Steak tartare
5. Crocodile
6. Black pudding
7. Cheese fondue
8. Carp
9. Borscht
10. Baba ghanous
11. Calamari
12. Pho
13. PB&J sandwich
14. Aloo gobi
15. Hot dog from a street cart
16. Epoisses (maybe- that horrendous French cheese Eileen got last summer was unlabelled)
17. Black truffle
18. Fruit wine made from something other than grapes
19. Steamed pork buns
20. Pistachio ice cream
21. Heirloom tomatoes
22. Fresh wild berries
23. Foie gras
24. Rice and beans
25. Brawn, or head cheese
26. Raw Scotch Bonnet pepper
27. Dulce de leche
28. Oysters
29. Baklava
30. Bagna cauda
31. Wasabi peas
32. Clam chowder in a sourdough bowl
33. Salted lassi
34. Sauerkraut
35. Root beer float
36. Cognac with a fat cigar (both, but not at the same time)
37. Clotted cream tea
38. Vodka jelly/Jell-O
39. Gumbo
40. Oxtail
41. Curried goat
42. Whole insects
43. Phaal
44. Goat’s milk
45. Malt whisky from a bottle worth £60/€80/$120 or more
46. Fugu
47. Chicken tikka masala
48. Eel
49. Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnut
50. Sea urchin
51. Prickly pear
52. Umeboshi
53. Abalone
54. Paneer
55. McDonald’s Big Mac Meal
56. Spaetzle
57. Dirty gin martini
58. Beer
59. Poutine
60. Carob chips (unfortunately)
61. S’mores
62. Sweetbreads
63. Kaolin (accidentally)
64. Currywurst
65. Durian
66. Frogs’ legs
67. Beignets, churros, elephant ears, and funnel cake
68. Haggis
69. Fried plantain
70. Chitterlings, or andouillette
71. Gazpacho
72. Caviar and blini
73. Louche absinthe
74. Gjetost, or brunost
75. Roadkill
76. Baijiu
77. Hostess Fruit Pie
78. Snail
79. Lapsang souchong
80. Bellini
81. Tom yum
82. Eggs Benedict
83. Pocky
84. Tasting menu at a three-Michelin-star restaurant
85. Kobe beef
86. Hare (does plain ol’bunny rabbit count?)
87. Goulash
88. Flowers
89. Horse
90. Criollo chocolate
91. Spam
92. Soft shell crab
93. Rose harissa
94. Catfish
95. Mole poblano
96. Bagel and lox
97. Lobster Thermidor
98. Polenta
99. Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee (it was estate, even)
100. Snake

Not too shabby…

I do have more baby stuff to show off, since I never finished the week o’junk, but, eh, I’ll get around to it.

Doggy Update:  Toaster is still at the hospital.  No more runs, but a few more pukies.

Now back to our regular programing:

These socks are from a pattern by Miriam Felton I found for free on her website. I don’t expect you to recognize the yarn, but it’s left over from the first pair of socks I ever knit. Matt and the baby will have matching feet!  Well, sorta matching.

Week of knitting fun is on hold for one day.  Following about 24 hours of sad doggy drama, poor little Toaster was admitted to the “hospital” with hemorrhagic gastroenteritis.  It was sad and scary and gross, and our sweet, obnoxious fur baby will probably be in veterinary custody until Thursday.  It’s very quiet here without him.

These aren’t for warm-keeping, but for mess-containing.

“Kitchen cotton” bibs (a mix of Peaches & Creme and Sugar’n Cream…I feel so rebellious!), pattern from Mason Dixon Knitting. They still need buttons, but, eh, there’s no hurry. I have a plastic snowman full of navy blue buttons that I got for, like, 50 cents at some time in the past. That should work.

Judging by the state of our many cotton dishrags, these will not age well. Since I made’em, I have stumbled up on a pattern suggesting super wash wool for baby bibs. Less likely to fade, more water resistant (won’t wick moisture through to baby’s clothes), and just as machine-washable. That’s some smart thinking, right there!

Soooo, last weekend we went to Ocean City with some friends. Here’s proof:

No, no one was on the other end of the line. Yes, we had fun. Until we got stuck in traffic on the way home. Yes, we saw the truck that went of the bridge. Now, on with the shizz-ow…

Woooo, a whole WEEK of baby crap, coming your way! Like I said, I’ve been knitting for the little baby who currently has no purpose other than to pummel my internal organs for twenty minutes, every hour and a half or so. We have just entered the third trimester here, folks! Nesting instinct kicking in, in 3, 2, …

Yes, that is my belly.

This cute little sweater is made out of some Reynolds Blossom that I got at All About Yarn. It’s a Reynolds pattern, too. The size is 3-6 months, but it’s roomy and the sleeves roll up, so I figure on a longer period of wear than that. But it was simple to knit, inexpensive, and machine washable. What more could I ask for?