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April 6, 2018


different kind of snack, color, and weekday produce
posted by soe 1:25 am

Cherry Blossom Kites

Three beautiful things from my past week:

1. We happened upon an open bakery during our drive home from Connecticut and then were pleasantly surprised to discover that it was an Asian fast food shop. Rudi had a sweet pastry with Hawaiian pizza toppings on it paired with a red bean matcha latte that he said was like nothing he’d ever drunk. I had a taro-red bean bun and a hot chocolate with salted cheese on top (whipped cream, cream cheese, and rock salt). Everything was delicious.

2. My favorite food truck seller complimented my sense of style, which was something I didn’t know I had, and asked how I developed my sense of color. I told him that I usually just describe my wardrobe as put together by a six-year-old, which his chef then said was underappreciated.

3. While they weren’t selling anything particularly exciting just yet, weekday farmers markets re-opened this week, a sure sign of spring.

How about you? What’s been beautiful in your world lately?

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April 5, 2018


blooming in d.c.
posted by soe 1:22 am

Spring

We came back to D.C. Monday to find more things blooming, including this bush near our apartment.

Peak bloom for the cherry blossoms down along the Tidal Basin will begin tomorrow and will carry on into next week, depending on whether you ask the National Park experts or the local meteorologists at the Washington Post. As Saturday is slated to bring cold and possibly even snow (for our first garden clean-up of the season — hooray!), the flowers are more likely to keel over from shivering than sweating. (It will also make our neighborhood stink because magnolia trees are definitely Southerners and they drop their flowers if the thermometer even thinks about dipping too low.)

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April 4, 2018


post-easter unraveling
posted by soe 1:21 am

Post-Easter Unraveling

My trip to Connecticut didn’t have a lot of downtime, which means a lot of what you see here is not new. I didn’t end up taking the hat with me, because I need to figure out where the brown skein of yarn is still, so it’s only a couple rows further along than last week. Also, I stopped at the bead shop and they didn’t have exactly what was called for, although they had some other pink beads (and I have some reddish ones here at home) that might work. I suppose the only way to figure that out is to try them. The sock is my meeting and event knitting, which is up to the heel turn, so it needs to stop being my public knitting until I’ve got the gusset stitches picked up.

I did finish (and enjoy) A Gentleman in Moscow and am looking forward to pulling out Sing, Unburied, Sing and picking up Obsidio at the library this week. But in the meantime, I’ve started the 19th-century-set mystery The Secrets of Wishtide and am carrying on with Strange the Dreamer. Crocodile on the Nile was renewable, so I’ve put that aside and have started listening to The Bookshop on the Corner. I also have Neil Gaiman’s Norse Mythology out on audiobook.

How about you? What are you currently reading?

Visit As Kat Knits to see what others are knitting and reading.

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April 3, 2018


here and gone
posted by soe 1:10 am

We got about five inches of snow at my folks’ this morning . . .

First Snowman of 2018

. . . which quickly melted this afternoon.

Melted

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April 2, 2018


happy april!
posted by soe 1:37 am

I wish you all a joyful fourth month of the year. In D.C., this month will be filled with cherry blossoms and warmer days, our first baseball games and the first garden clean-up of the year, bike rides and violets. But first we have to get home from Connecticut, where they’re expecting a couple inches of snow tomorrow morning. I’m not amused.

I hope everyone had a nice Easter. We ate a tasty supper, followed by lemon black-bottom pie and Jesus Christ Superstar live on tv.

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April 1, 2018


happy easter!
posted by soe 1:01 am

To those who celebrate, let me wish you a Happy Easter. And while I’m locked out of Rudi’s laptop, which means I can’t embed things from YouTube and Flickr, I still wanted to point you to this classic Easter special I remember fondly from when I was a kid. I’ll be celebrating the day with my folks & some family friends and hope you’re also with those you love, at least in spirit.

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