Sweater Project

After using a laptop as my primary home computer for several years, it’s kind of intimidating to sit down in front of this monster when I want to work.

Woof.

I spent yesterday in Fredericksburg at the Oktoberfest celebration there. My stepfather’s band, the Band Aids, played a two-hour set of some get-down boogy Dixieland jazz. They’re a pretty good group. I started working on a novelty hat for one of the ladies at the Yarn Barn while I was sitting there. As I was casting on, a nice old lady named Jackie came up and asked what I was working on. I showed her; she told me how she did crochet work and that she was trying to make afghans for all of her grandchildren. We commiserated about how you always seem to be a couple projects behind.

“But what’s really hard to keep up with”, she confided, “is the cooking. Every year I make peanut brittle in cake pans for all the children. Well, it’s so popular that each one of them keeps asking for more each year.” Jackie estimates she’s going to bake just shy of 100 pans of peanut brittle this year and about 50 lbs. of fudge. I told her that my mom’s got the same problem with her kids (namely me) and her canned goods. My mom’s pickled green beans are the ultimate crispy, salty snack, and her canned preserves are wonderful.

I told Jackie I thought she was some kind of superbeing to be doing that much holiday cooking and then distributing it to all of her kids, who are scattered across Texas. She just smiled and said, “naw, I’m just your average mom.”

Moms rock.

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