From the weekend

First up, I was successful in my first steps towards turducken. The short explanation (for those who don't want to go to wikipedia) is that it's a chicken in a duck in a turkey, with layers of stuffing in between. I had wanted to make this a couple of years ago but didn't get far. Everytime my friend Josh sees me, he asks me about turducken. So, after St. Louis, I was reinspired and more so after I read this site about preparation. Finally! A site that shows me what the chicken is supposed to look like after I've pulled all the bones out. My plan was to first debone a chicken and stuff it. My next attempt would be to debone a duck and a chicken and make the "ducken". Finally, I'd go for the all out "turducken". The set is found here. Here's my dinner from Sunday:


In other bizarro weekend happenings, I saw that one of my African violets had some flowers


And even MORE bizarre, I saw that the sacrificial orchid grew more buds and a couple of them are starting to open! I know it grew more buds because Anne's orchid was a near exact replica of the orchid at the state when I bought it and there were only 3 or 4 buds per stem at the time. Who needs a refresher on this? Now, there are more buds?


Last night, I was doing the crochet border on Charlotte's Web when I ran out of yarn. Ya. That sucks. I went to Knit Happens in the hopes of finding the same color of yarn. I wasn't too concerned with the dye lot since Koigu is handpainted. Well, I got there, saw my yarn, and said, "Oh, yeah, this is the shade. I've been staring at it enough the last few days to know it!" I cam home, checked the tags and even more amazing is that it's even the same dye lot! Note that I had bought the Koigu a year or two ago. This was the first lace I had ever attempted!