Found His Mittens

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Grandpa Haws

Filed under: general — Theca at 5:35 am on Thursday, September 17, 2009

 Died today after a long battle with emphysema.

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“…for life does not end, it merely changes…”   Father Rodriguez, Requiem Mass

First Grandpa memories:

Getting Sayman Salve in the bathroom by the stairs for all my little cuts.

Getting help naming my doll Nancy.

Finding mysterious money scattered over his driveway left by a nefarious pirate.

Holland America Boston Cruise

Filed under: general,knitting — Theca at 10:14 pm on Saturday, September 12, 2009

I’m back from my wonderful vacation.  A seven day cruise from Boston to Nova Scotia and back. Then we looked around Boston for a couple days.  I just labeled 1200 pictures on Flickr, but I’ll be continuing to weed out the unneeded ones.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/theca/sets/

For anyone who may check this blog, I have some old family pictures online also, here:   http://picasaweb.google.com/jabbryan/OLDFamilyPictures#

While I was gone,  I did some knitting too, whenever it was quiet.  I made 2 pairs of baby booties with Debbie Bliss Cashmerino, using this free pattern I found called Ruth’s Perfect Baby Booties.  It is a very, very nice pattern!  The booties came out perfect.  I just had to put the ribbons in and block them when I got home.

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I haven’t done any knitting since I got home, and I probably won’t for another week.  I DID decide to try my hand at making oatcakes this week, however.  On Cape Breton Island, they told me that the Scots used to carry a bag of oats around the waist.  If hungry, and no other food had turned up, the oats would be mixed with water and rolled around thoroughly and then backed on a hot rock or over a fire.  Nowadays, oatcakes are a favorite of the island but they put in other ingredients to make them taste better.  I made mine the original way.  5 minute oats, worked in my hand with water, then patted out on a pan or, if firm enough, no pan, then put in the toaster oven for 15 minutes.  Came out great, although my first experiments were a bit messy!  I like it plain and crunchy, although honey or jam could easily be spread.  Even peanut butter would probably work.

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