Beauty!! Sweet dreams that'll give me!! Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzsnort...
Where's Catscan?
Depends on whether they're lit, perhaps? No?
No, they are flat on their faces in the snow...but their reflection can be seen in the northern hemisphere under the right atmospheric conditions. I saw it in Upstate NY...it was reddish orange...like grownut said.
N.B. Moxon: Check the hat link when you come to.....it is soooooo you. Yes it is.
for porkpal....
String-Dried Eggplant
INGREDIENTS
Eggplant
Coarse salt
String
Jars or boxes
Slice the eggplant in rounds, and cover them with coarse salt for several hours to draw out the liquid. Drying should be done on a string; avoid using a wire, as it may rust. Place out of direct sun. Dried eggplant will keep in jars or in tightly closed boxes, if protected from moisture, air, and vermin.
You can do the same thing with snap beans. When dried they're called leather britches, for obvious reasons, and they're great tossed into a pot with water, a bit of bacon or ham, and possibly some onion and cooked to a fare-thee-well.
I bake my eggplant slices on cookie sheets brushed with a tad of olive oil, and once they're a bit soft I put the pan into the freezer and later pry off the frozen slabs and stick 'em in a freezer bag. Makes it much easier to assemble moussaka or eggplant parmesan that way.
How did we get here from Where's Catscan, though, and I still wanna know about Beadmom and France!
That hat looks like a bizarre antennae type of device for aliens. I much prefer my chicken hat. I think all those ridges would make my head look like a squashed caterpillar. Oh Catscan, how you mock me!
You might be able to search Beadmom's posts...I missed that thread or threads.
Sounds great on the green beans and the eggplant. I've been looking for an exact recipe for that stuff I love and am having no luck.
(You got me started getting us here with the zucchini and Old Bay)
Porkpal....my daughter's trampoline is a perfect place for outdoor drying. black, well ventilated surface. Wouldn't recommend sousing herring on it...(think we must've crossed on a post or two, or I missed yours...NO idea how that conversation got that wonky!)
Claire...I think you would be ravishing in that hat!!
It was late, things were said, things were consumed, the Mandelbrot set was running in the background--it was nobody's fault....
GG--check toward the end of the Yak thread to learn of Beadmom's heartless Gallic abandonment of us.....
I think we all agree that Moxon needs that hat...whether she wants it or not....
Thanks, Catsy. Now if I could only get my DD to move to France. And then Beadmom is going to Ireland after staying with her DD, one presumes, in that castle! Wow!
And here we sit talking about leather britches. Oh well.
That hat is strongly reminiscent of the caterpillar in Alice in Wonderland; all Claire will need is a hookah, poor dear.
She can pull it off. Claire can do ANYTHING!
That is it exactly! The hat, the hookah, the inscrutable wisdom, the serenity in the midst of absurdity--it IS Claire in Forumland....but how to get it on her?
{{{ok...so we get ZeeZ on the road with DD...ply Claire with lovely vintages...maybe a few of us should stow away...jump off in rural IA, tie her down and Voila!}}}
or possibly stitch a few chickens and farm animals around the outside and she'd be easily convinced? hmmmm...plotplotplot...
First we get the pattern....then the yarn, a nice wool in chartreuse, I think....
and pink...
I was thinking that too....
{{{now if we start thinking pink in tandem.....eewwwww!!!}}}
{{{It is kinda creepy--but really we wouldn't be thinking of it if it weren't for Moxon...so it is her eewwwww, and not ours}}}
Oh my word...I go out to move my sheep onto new pasture and I come back to this.
Have you NO shame?! You people....geez....as if my chicken hat was not enough, I also have elf hats. I do not need embarassing alien antennae hats.
Claire...the way you wear the chicken and elf hats...I'm sure there is NO such thing as an embarrassing antennae hat. And while I grant you it takes a certain special something to pull it off with panache, verve, and any number of impressive vocabularianesque qualities...my DEAR...you, yes you, are fully capable of doing the look justice. (No higher praise than that, is there Catsy?)
Grownut thanks for the egg plant advice - sounds possible, even for me.
Moxon definitely needs THE HAT. But perhaps in green to perpetuate the caterpillar theme. The hookah is optional. Marshmallow can't wait to grow up and provide the fleece for it - a worthy ambition.
That is the point Moxon...you DO need the hat. And the hat needs you.....But meanwhile we will lull you into a false sense of security by discussing other issues.....Did you look at the Mandelbrot set video?
(Okay, guys (yes, I am from California, why do you ask?): Here's the lowdown, I just surveyed the local yarn offerings and nothing really meets the criteria of chartreuse and pink in wool....so I think plain green will have to do....Now to get the pattern...Ravelry, I think she said? Is anyone here a member? I can join--but it's sort of like asking a hatching addict to to join a chicken of the month club.....Anyway, in order to throw her totally off guard I am going to knit a quicky hat in grey and white...no reason to think another hat is threatening...once her guard is down, we pounce!)
A multitude of plots can be hidden behind a Mandelbrot set...( It would also make a good screen saver for those with no insanity in their family.)
Very well said, porkpal...
Why, hello Claire dear...having a nice day? Yes the Mandelbrot set colours are pretty aren't they? Porkpal and I were just discussing that. Wouldn't they make a nice platform for designing yarn colours? Sort of shake you up and help you see fiber with new eyes....yes, dear....no, just run along, we are all very busy today....lots to do. Busy, busy, busy....
She's gone, isn't she? Whew, that was close...
Moxon has never used a hookah, nor any sort of tobacco related product in any way, shape, or form. Moxon is not about to start. Moxon will contemplate the hat in green.
Meanwhile, being lulled by Mandelbrot sets....
You know I'm going to a yarn dye party tomorrow. My spinning guild is getting together for a bit yarn dye day, and we will all be up to our elbows in fun colours, and I could do a Mandelblot dye platform....hmmm...yes indeedy....ooohhhhh....
Must go look at Ravelry for good pattern ideas for Mandelbrotty yarn. Ravelry...pattern heaven....hmmm....
It is not so much whether or not Moxon had used, or not used, a hookah--nor whether or not she should--it is really a question of whether she would look good doing so...and I think the answer is a resounding "Yes"....barring the hookah, she should grace th world with the image of herself in a marvelous alien antenna hat...it is the least she can do for manknd.....
Wait a second, this whole thread started out as a "Where's Catscan" game, which was great fun, and highly successful, and now it would only seem appropriate, dear Catsy, since we have you figured out, that YOU should be the one to grace the world in a marvelous alien antenna hat....if at the very least to indicate your sympathy (or empathy) with my plight as an "alien" (so says the government) and it would be a nice gesture of solidarity.
I had to go into the cool basement this afternoon to reorganize my fiber stash. It was a very luscious experience.
As I understand it hookahs were not used for smoking tobacco...And Mox is too young to have been involved in smoking all that other stuff - so Sixties!
It is true that THE HAT would be a good disguise for a self-proclaimed hider.
So sorry, Moxon, but I have already done time as an alien...I even had a nice green card to prove it. And I don't wear hats--ever--except broad-brimmed ones in the field.
No, the alien caterpillar hat is yours...it was made for you...for you it lives, and for you it dyes....
What? Where were you an alien from? I disbelieve you.
I didn't wear hats in the past. I shunned them. But I came to see the error of my ways.
Well hookahs are used to smoke--things--including tobacco.....
Grownut you are being cruelly disingenuous to suggest that that hat would make me "less" conspicuous...only someone with Moxon's innate northern grandeur can pull it off...unless it appeals to you?
Are we forgetting my seven years of servitude in Britain?
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I also have done my alien time....
porkpal...the Barnyard Fairy wears fuschia and chartreuse...there are a few pictures of her in some old threads here, which is why I suggested the pink. talk about a luscious yarn...hint of silver running through...yummy.
YESSSS! You must make it for Grownut so that she can look like a proper caterpillar hiding under her rock! Yes, yes yes!!! A perfect solution!!
Moxon has never smoked anything of any sort, except salmon.
Yes, we forgot your years of servitude in Britain, but even so, I didn't think they had "green cards." I thought that was only here. Foreigners in Canada don't have 'green cards.'
Dear....I was asking you to second me on the topic of Claire and The Hat...perchance I was not sufficiently parenthetical?
By the way (leading you off topic) this is my finally grown up (well mostly) goose, Slappy. He is a Sebastopol goose and is finally getting his long, floppy back feathers. This was him at feeding time earlier today.
Grownut requires brims....head too small otherwise...
and really I can't hold a candle to Claire here...
And look! This is one of my new-ish roos. Do you think he is a sizzle? He has frizzle top feathers but he has a lot of fluff underneath (particularly towards the rear). I think he might be a Sizzle.
