Blog Entries http://www.inapeanutshell.com Sat, 04 Sep 2010 15:09:10 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.inapeanutshell.com/index.php?option=com_myblog&show=Abby-is-Two.html&Itemid=73 <img src="images/63/abbytwo_1.jpg" alt="abbytwo_1.jpg" hspace="4" vspace="4" /><br />We took Abby to get her claws trimmed on Saturday and while we were there realized that we&#39;d just passed her second birthday. So instead of her usual post-nail-clipping treat we got her a little, dog friendly cupcake. It was rock solid and iced with yogurt (the kindthat usually covers raisins) and Abby was very excited about getting to eat it.<br /><br /><img src="images/63/abbytwo_2.jpg" alt="abbytwo_2.jpg" [...] Peanut Abby http://www.inapeanutshell.com/index.php?option=com_myblog&show=Garden-Curry.html&Itemid=73 <img src="images/63/gardencurry_1.jpg" alt="gardencurry_1.jpg" hspace="4" vspace="4" /><br />I made curry for dinner last night and it was awesome. It started in my garden and ended on the table and was super easy to make.<br /><br /><img src="images/63/gardencurry_2.jpg" alt="gardencurry_2.jpg" hspace="4" vspace="4" /><br /><img src="images/63/gardencurry_3.jpg" alt="gardencurry_3.jpg" hspace="4" vspace="4" /><br />Heat one can of coconut milk and some curry paste (I used two tbsp of green curr [...] Peanut Recipe Garden Food http://www.inapeanutshell.com/index.php?option=com_myblog&show=I-m-Home.html&Itemid=73 <img src="images/63/DSCN0197.jpg" alt="DSCN0197.jpg" hspace="4" vspace="4" />I actually got home yesterday but was too tired to do more than download the pictures from my camera (I took almost 400!) and grab a shower (4 am is too early to shower). My trip was great. I met a lot of my Dad&#39;s side of the family that I hadn&#39;t really known before and saw lots of cousins I only remembered as toddlers. I&#39;ll be going through all those pictures and pulling out some for a post soon (probably o [...] Peanut Vacation Socks Sock Club Knitting http://www.inapeanutshell.com/index.php?option=com_myblog&show=Quiet-House.html&Itemid=73 <p>This is not Shelley. &nbsp;This is Rob.&nbsp;</p><p>Shelley is away this weekend, visiting her Grandparents to celebrate their 60th wedding anniversary, so I figured I should keep the blog rolling. Unfortunately I don&#39;t have a camera here so I can&#39;t take any new pictures. &nbsp;Abby just doesn&#39;t know what to do with herself and keeps checking at every sound to see if it&#39;s her momcoming back. &nbsp;I took her over to my parents&#39; house last night to have some company and pla [...] Peanut http://www.inapeanutshell.com/index.php?option=com_myblog&show=A-Balloon.html&Itemid=73 Look what we saw this evening!<br /><br /><img src="images/63/balloon_1.jpg" alt="balloon_1.jpg" hspace="4" vspace="4" /><br /><img src="images/63/balloon_2.jpg" alt="balloon_2.jpg" hspace="4" vspace="4" /><br /><img src="images/63/balloon_3.jpg" alt="balloon_3.jpg" hspace="4" vspace="4" /><br /><img src="images/63/balloon_5.jpg" alt="balloon_5.jpg" hspace="4" vspace="4" /><br /><br />We&#39;d have missed it completely if I hadn&#39;t needed to give my parents a ride home from the boatyard. As s [...] Peanut Around Town http://www.inapeanutshell.com/index.php?option=com_myblog&show=Some-Rambling-About-Knitting.html&Itemid=73 We&#39;ve been having a lovely August. It can be an iffy month here - some years it&#39;s fabulous, others it&#39;s grey and wet - but it is always the end of our summer. By as early as next week we&#39;ll start to see leaves edging toward yellow. The evenings already have that pleasant coolness to them and the shrubs that were blooming a few weeks ago are producing raspberries and rose hips now. Before I became a knitter Fall was a brief, chilly season before it got really cold; now it is one o [...] Peanut Knitting Christmas Autumn http://www.inapeanutshell.com/index.php?option=com_myblog&show=How-To-Pretty-Stickers.html&Itemid=73 What do you do when you want pretty stickers but don&#39;t have any in the house? Dress up some plain ones! Here&#39;s a simple how-to:*<br /><br /><img src="images/63/pretty_stickers_1.jpg" alt="pretty_stickers_1.jpg" hspace="4" vspace="4" /><br />Grab some plain stickers, a rubber stamp and an ink pad.<br /><br /><img src="images/63/pretty_stickers_3.jpg" alt="pretty_stickers_3.jpg" hspace="4" vspace="4" /><br />Ink your stamp and press it down over your stickers.<br /><br /><img src="images/6 [...] Peanut Tutorial Paper Crafts http://www.inapeanutshell.com/index.php?option=com_myblog&show=Volunteer.html&Itemid=73 Guess what this is?<br /><br /><img src="images/63/weed_1.jpg" alt="weed_1.jpg" hspace="4" vspace="4" /><br />I&#39;ll give you a closer look.<br /><br /><img src="images/63/weed_2.jpg" alt="weed_2.jpg" hspace="4" vspace="4" /><br />It&#39;s a peanut!<br /><br />It must have been buried by one of the squirrels that frequents our feeder. I found it growing next to my new plot of spinach (it wasn&#39;t there a few days ago when I was planting). I pulled it out while I was weeding and then realized [...] Peanut Garden http://www.inapeanutshell.com/index.php?option=com_myblog&show=Rockin-Sock-Club-July-August-2010.html&Itemid=73 Spoiler Alert!<br /><br /><img src="images/63/rscJuly2010_1.jpg" alt="rscJuly2010_1.jpg" hspace="4" vspace="4" /><br />Guess what came in the mail today? July&#39;s Rockin&#39; Sock Club package and it&#39;s such a good one. Ready for some coloured goodness? Read on ...<br /><br />---<br /><br /><img src="images/63/rscJuly2010_2.jpg" alt="rscJuly2010_2.jpg" hspace="4" vspace="4" /><br />Not one but two skeins of delicious yarn!<br /><br /><img src="images/63/rscJuly2010_4.jpg" alt="rscJuly2010_4 [...] Peanut Yarn Sock Club http://www.inapeanutshell.com/index.php?option=com_myblog&show=Today-456.html&Itemid=73 <p>&nbsp;</p><img src="images/63/DSCN9518.jpg" alt="DSCN9518.jpg" hspace="4" vspace="4" />... I picked a bowl of fresh sugar snap peas and sunberries. The peas were for my lunch. The sunberries are for the freezer.<br /><br />... I checked on my ripening tomatoes.<br /><br />... I plan to do a little more spinning.<br /><br />... I&#39;m going to try on and rip back the sock I&#39;ve been working on.<br /><br />... Abby and I will go adventuring for smooth rocks.<br /><br />... I&#39;m going to [...] Peanut Me Life http://www.inapeanutshell.com/index.php?option=com_myblog&show=Yesterday-455.html&Itemid=73 <img src="images/63/rambleandride2010_3.jpg" alt="rambleandride2010_3.jpg" hspace="4" vspace="4" />Yesterday, in between a slow morning and a lazy evening, we walk down to Old Town for the annual Ramble and Ride. Old Town is a nice walk from our house and I like events where we can take Abby along. We were a little unsure about the weather when we set off. There was a cool breeze and grey clouds passing overhead but when the sun hit you it felt hot. We took a chance and went without jackets, som [...] Peanut Life Around Town Abby http://www.inapeanutshell.com/index.php?option=com_myblog&show=Lazy-Lazy-Lazy.html&Itemid=73 <img src="images/63/DSCN9398.jpg" alt="DSCN9398.jpg" hspace="4" vspace="4" />I&#39;ve got stuff to post and things to do but with a whole extra day of weekend ahead of me I&#39;m putting it all off.<br /><br />This is one of the sunflowers in my sister&#39;s garden. It&#39;s taller than either Jane or I and has a huge scary looking spiky bud on it (is it still called a bud when it&#39;s bigger than your fist?). There are four or five of these flowers along the inside of the fence that faces the [...] Peanut Miscellaneous Garden http://www.inapeanutshell.com/index.php?option=com_myblog&show=Stones.html&Itemid=73 <img src="images/63/DSCN9363.jpg" alt="DSCN9363.jpg" hspace="4" vspace="4" />Last night our power was out ... twice ... for about half an hour each time. I was going to blog but that wasn&#39;t going to work so I looked around for something crafty to do instead. I ended up at my spinning wheel and got a nice chunk of spinning done. I hope to finish off that project and share it soon. While I was spinning I was thinking about crochet. In particular I was thinking about the crochet stone pattern p [...] Peanut In My Studio Crochet http://www.inapeanutshell.com/index.php?option=com_myblog&show=The-Fifth-Annual.html&Itemid=73 <img src="images/63/JAFDTP2010_5.jpg" alt="JAFDTP2010_5.jpg" hspace="4" vspace="4" />The Fifth Annual Jane Austen Fancy Dress Tea Party was held about a month ago. As usual it consisted of good friends, good conversation and lots of food. In fact I think I broke my record for food provided to a known number of people.<br /><br /><img src="images/63/JAFDTP2010_1.jpg" alt="JAFDTP2010_1.jpg" hspace="4" vspace="4" />Macaroons on the cookling rack.<br /><br />I also, somehow, only really took picture [...] Peanut Jane Austen Food http://www.inapeanutshell.com/index.php?option=com_myblog&show=Strawberry-Freezer-Jam.html&Itemid=73 <p align="center">&nbsp;<img src="images/63/freezerjam_1.jpg" alt="freezerjam_1.jpg" hspace="4" vspace="4" /><br /></p>Erin made some ... and then Alicia did too ... and it looked so pretty and yummy ... and it turns out it is even easier than I thought!<br /><br /><img src="images/63/freezerjam_2.jpg" alt="freezerjam_2.jpg" hspace="4" vspace="4" /><br />Last Friday (actually two Fridays ago now) I went grocery shopping in the afternoon and thought I&#39;d get myself something nice for afternoon [...] Peanut Summer Red Food http://www.inapeanutshell.com/index.php?option=com_myblog&show=Why-my-house-smells-like-vinegar.html&Itemid=73 <img src="images/63/pickling_1.jpg" alt="pickling_1.jpg" hspace="4" vspace="4" /><br />I&#39;m making watermelon rind pickles right now. The rind is cooking in the pickling liquid (which smells like a cross between the chip truck and Cinnabon). Our whole house smells sweet and vinegary; it tickles my nose.<br /><br /><img src="images/63/pickling_2.jpg" alt="pickling_2.jpg" hspace="4" vspace="4" /><br />Once again I need to apologies for the lack of posting around here and plead lack of internet [...] Peanut Life Food http://www.inapeanutshell.com/index.php?option=com_myblog&show=Trellises.html&Itemid=73 <img src="images/63/trellises_2.jpg" alt="trellises_2.jpg" hspace="4" vspace="4" />Rob bravely removed our collection of wasps&#39; nests last night so I spent part of my morning happily puttering around in the garden. Beets and spinach and Swiss chard were thinned. Weeds were pulled, berries picked and I finally got around to building some trellises for my peas to climb up.<br /><br /><img src="images/63/trellises_1.jpg" alt="trellises_1.jpg" hspace="4" vspace="4" /><br />I&#39;d decided a whil [...] Peanut Garden Abby http://www.inapeanutshell.com/index.php?option=com_myblog&show=My-Garden-Gloves.html&Itemid=73 <img src="images/63/DSCN9100.jpg" alt="DSCN9100.jpg" hspace="4" vspace="4" />I should be gardening right now. I should be out in the yard with Rob moving around large quantities of soil. I should be helping to prep a spot to put rhubarb this fall.<br /><br />... but we need the wheelbarrow to move soil around and it&#39;s in the shed.<br /><br />... and when I opened the shed and got my gloves out we discovered two beautiful papery wasps nests on the inside of the doors.<br /><br />They ignored [...] Peanut Life Garden http://www.inapeanutshell.com/index.php?option=com_myblog&show=2010-Weeks-27-28.html&Itemid=73 Two weeks in one post. Lots of animals in these pictures. I hope everyone had a nice weekend. We&#39;ve been rather lazy and fully enjoying it. <br /><br />---<br /><br />Week 27<br /><br /><img src="images/63/week27_1.jpg" alt="week27_1.jpg" hspace="4" vspace="4" /><br />Gratuitous puppy picture. She was watching for squirrelsbut it was raining too hard for any to come to the feeder.<br /><br /><img src="images/63/week27_2.jpg" alt="week27_2.jpg" hspace="4" vspace="4" /><br />I suppose a bad pi [...] Peanut Life 365 http://www.inapeanutshell.com/index.php?option=com_myblog&show=Look!.html&Itemid=73 <p>&nbsp;</p><img src="images/63/stingray1.jpg" alt="stingray1.jpg" hspace="4" vspace="4" />I knit a stingray!<br /><br />If I fold it up properly it looks a bit more like a baby jacket.<br /><br /><img src="images/63/bsj_inprogress_1.jpg" alt="bsj_inprogress_1.jpg" hspace="4" vspace="4" /><br />Still a little wonky. I&#39;m going to wash it (and get all the shrinking out of it) before I do the sewing up and put the buttons on but I couldn&#39;t help going into my button jar to see what kinds of [...] Peanut Sweater Knitting Buttons Baby