Dichroic Reflections

domestic pursuits

It's been a busy weekend. Yesterday was rowing, flying (actually, a lesson on the flight simulator because the plane we were supposed to fly had a broken turn coordinator) and some shopping. Yes, more shoes. Another sports bra. I guess I'm always looking for perfection. (In the sports bras - in the shoes, I just like variety.) Also batting gloves, which I may use if my hands shred while rowing the marathon. (Less than two weeks now!) I'll try them out tomorrow morning.

Today was more domestic: food shopping, cooking, cleaning up therefrom, and knitting. Rudder is sick. It's only a cold, but they tend to hit him hard and it's especially worrying because he's got a regatta next weekend in whih he's slated to do three (!) 5000 meter races, and then the marathon the week after that. So I did what any good Jewish wife would do: I made chicken soup. I even tried to tailor it to his taste: I skimmed less fat off the top than normal and put bits of chicken meat back in the soup after I took out the parts of chicken. They shredded nicely. I also tried a couple of ideas sprred by Egret's chicken soup: I added celery and green oninos in addition to the usual carrots (not bad, but they didn't add the spring-vegetable flavor hers had, so it much have been the squas she included) and I cooked the matzo balls in chicken boulon instead of plain water, because Rudder said hers were "more flavorful". (She used the mix instead of plain matzo meal.) I don't really like the shreds of chicken all through the sould but I may include the celery in future and will definitely keep using the boullon (or the mix, but I have quite a bit of matzo meal on hand to go through first).

As for the knitting, the scarf for my mom is FINISHED! Here's how it looks on, in shadow and bright sun (the funny expression is because I'm squinting into the sunlight) and in closeup.

I've also gotten a start on the Moebius scarf for Rudder's mother. I was a little worried about this because I couldn't quite understand how it worked and had to follow the instructions blindly, which is not my favorite way to work. It seems to be working out well, though. I'm about 3 rows into it, but since this scarf has only one edge and you're knitting form the middle out, that actually translates to 6 rows wide. She's blonde and blue-eyed and wear a lot of light blues and turquoise, so I think this will suit her - don't know how well the yarn shows in the photo but it's variegated blue and turquoise. Off he needles, it should be roughly 48" in circumference.