Month: January 2004

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ck.bmpcapt. noah.bmpCaptain Kangaroo has died. When I read the news, I remembered another Captain of Childhood — Captain Noah. Anyone out there remember him too? red and yellow and pink and green, purple and orange and blue, I can sing a rainbow, sing a rainbow, sing a rainbow too ….

sock-it-to-me!

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The promised pictures! Here are the ladies busily working on ….. swatches! That’s right, swatches! Taking my cue from recent mitten migraines, I started us all off with swatches. From there we conquered the intricacies of knitting on dpns. I found this site that will generate a sock pattern based on your measurements. We had a great time! At one point, Mollie exclaimed “Now I know why people buy socks!” :)

Under the heading of Obscure Holidays – I present to you Pie Day!
why this isn’t wildly popular is a mystery to me!
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I had my first piece of Oatmeal Pie in Lancaster County, PA. I was in love. I got home and immediately set about trying to find a recipe. I searched the internet, but had no luck. Where did I finally find one? On my very own bookshelf! Like Dorothy, the thing I was searching for was in my own backyard so to speak! It is from an old cookbook, Farm Journal’s Complete Pie Cookbook. This book came from my mother’s collection and I didn’t realize it was on my shelf. I suggest baking one of these babies and filling your pie-hole with it!!

Unbaked 9″ pie shell
&#188c butter or margarine
&#189 c sugar
&#189 tsp cinnamon
&#189 tsp cloves
&#188 tsp salt
1 c dark corn syrup
3 eggs
1 c quick cooking rolled oats

Cream together butter and sugar.
Add cinnamon, cloves and salt.
Stir in syrup.
Add eggs, one at a time, stirring after each addition until blended.
Stir in rolled oats.
Pour into pie shell and bake in moderate oven (350&#176 F) about 1 hour, or until knife inserted in center comes out clean.
Note: during baking, the oatmeal forms a chewy, ‘nutty’ crust on top – pie is rich, delicately spiced.
It’s as Easy As Pie!

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Have you looked along the right side of this page? There you will find some interesting things – a link to Petfinder that also has a featured pet picture, links to other sites that I enjoy. check it out! There is also a site meter that counts the number of times people have visited PurlingSwine and a countdown to my birthday (2 days left)!

So where am I going with all of this? Well, to save you the trouble of trying to figure out what the perfect birthday gift would be ;) I have a great, simple idea …. the site meter is up around the 900 mark how about driving it up to 1000? happybirthdaypurlingswinehappybirthdaypurlingswine

Tonight some knitting friends are coming over for a mini lesson in sock knitting. They obviously don’t read this blog – after yesterday’s rant, no one in their right mind would want lessons from me! Although, I should say that in the manner of many teachers, I know what should be done, I just don’t always do it! Hopefully these ladies won’t be camera shy and I will have some pics to post tomorrow.