farmer's market

our local farmers market just started! i wandered for the first time ever and took in the vendors and what they were selling. i was modest in my purchases, though. trying to get only what i have plans for at the moment. i saw some beautiful eggplants, and i wanted to get them, but the fact of the matter is, i don’t know what to do with them. i’d be perfectly content to sit and stare at them… at the dark, lustrous, glossy aubergines… but i’ve never cooked with them.

i perhaps got more lettuce than jake and i con conceivably eat before it wilts, but it’s so pretty! and it was buy one, get one… enough vegetable rapture for now. onto sock/colorwork rapture!

sanquhar socks in progress

i am loving knitting this up! i find colorwork incredibly addicting, and madelinetosh sock is so gorgeous in contrast with the natural white!

we watched the thin man last night. it has been a long time since i last saw it. this isn’t much talked about in the blogs i read, but does anyone else miss the local video store? i loved the local video store. actually, all of them. i loved my main one especially, but to me, the local video stores were like local yarn stores. you go to one for a certain type of thing, and a second for another. just as i go to my closest yarn store for their koigu collection, or malabrigo, but i make special trips for madelinetosh or blue moon. and so i would go to one for their outstanding foreign collection, or another for contemporary indie films. i really dislike blockbuster, and most of the chain video stores. they seem to only have lowest common denominator collections. netflix has fixed that somewhat. i have a selection available again. but i still miss my local video store.


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