Thanksgiving Week/Weekend Re-cap
Started the week off pretty crappy with a bad, bad case of food poisoning (which I gave to myself through some home-made Sauerbrauten -- it'll be awhile before I fix this dish again!). Slowly got better, but was still a little sensitive in the stomach department up until Thursday. Thank goodness! I took my dogs over to drgntrainer 's house for the Thanksgiving festivities. This year they fixed a ham instead of a turkey as the protein dish for the celebratory meal. So I made cheese podadoes (cheese mashed potatoes from my youth) as a side dish and a pumpkin pie for dessert. We also had steamed asparagus, acorn squash, olives and crescent rolls. Yum to the deliciousness of all the food!
Since I was not able to go to my mom's for the holiday (she lives in NC), I moved into drgntrainer 's house for the weekend. Brought with me my 12th Night garb sewing project to work on. It's a 16th century French gown. I've used a golden velvet, a green/gold brocade and an eggshell satin (all materials that have been in my stash for quite sometime). It's coming along pretty well; damn it is heavy! :-) I've completed a lot of the work on it but there is still so much to do still (mostly hand work). Thankfully we decided to start these dresses weeks ago. I've not attempted an outfit of this caliber before, so I'm learning so many things and am gaining a lot of confidence in my ability to sew (which I have felt has never been my strong suit). Hopefully the finished product will be pretty and not fall apart! :-)
My dog Homer got drgntrainer 's family a free Christmas tree yesterday! The local radio station 105.1 hosted their annual Tree-Pee event at Sleigh Bells of Sherwood tree farm. The event goes like this: the first 105 families/dogs get a chance to pee on or near a set of trees; if they pee within 105 seconds, the family gets a free tree! When it was our turn, Homer went to the first tree and watered it within seconds, winning us a free tree! My other dog, Tyge, succumbed to peer pressure and was a little overwhelmed to perform. That was okay; we only needed one tree because I don't have room for a live tree. The tree that was selected (not one of the pee'd on trees of course!) is a 7 foot Douglas fir. It's very pretty and for some reason drgntrainer 's cats love it!
All in all it was a very good weekend. But it hasn't ended yet: I'm going over to khalja 's house today for some weaving time! Yay!!
Since I was not able to go to my mom's for the holiday (she lives in NC), I moved into drgntrainer 's house for the weekend. Brought with me my 12th Night garb sewing project to work on. It's a 16th century French gown. I've used a golden velvet, a green/gold brocade and an eggshell satin (all materials that have been in my stash for quite sometime). It's coming along pretty well; damn it is heavy! :-) I've completed a lot of the work on it but there is still so much to do still (mostly hand work). Thankfully we decided to start these dresses weeks ago. I've not attempted an outfit of this caliber before, so I'm learning so many things and am gaining a lot of confidence in my ability to sew (which I have felt has never been my strong suit). Hopefully the finished product will be pretty and not fall apart! :-)
My dog Homer got drgntrainer 's family a free Christmas tree yesterday! The local radio station 105.1 hosted their annual Tree-Pee event at Sleigh Bells of Sherwood tree farm. The event goes like this: the first 105 families/dogs get a chance to pee on or near a set of trees; if they pee within 105 seconds, the family gets a free tree! When it was our turn, Homer went to the first tree and watered it within seconds, winning us a free tree! My other dog, Tyge, succumbed to peer pressure and was a little overwhelmed to perform. That was okay; we only needed one tree because I don't have room for a live tree. The tree that was selected (not one of the pee'd on trees of course!) is a 7 foot Douglas fir. It's very pretty and for some reason drgntrainer 's cats love it!
All in all it was a very good weekend. But it hasn't ended yet: I'm going over to khalja 's house today for some weaving time! Yay!!