Slowly, our summer improves. Since summer easily extends through September, there is still plenty of time to enjoy weekend afternoons and many evenings on the patio. Last Sunday, we finished off a batch of Limoncello Fizzy Sangria that we had made for a lab member’s moving away party. It was a big success at the party and very refreshing. It also looks good photographed with the sun shining through it:
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\nWe got the recipe from 101 Sangrias and Pitcher Drinks<\/em><\/a> by Kim Haasarud. The publisher is Wiley, who I thought published mostly textbooks. Hmmm….<\/p>\n

I also finished knitting a crazy sock:
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\nThe pattern is Chouwa from Knitted Socks East and West<\/em><\/a> by Judy Sumner. Chouwa means harmony, and this sock obviously bypasses that concept, but since I have so few wild socks, I say it’s a keeper. The best part of knitting this sock was that I figured out how to knit stockinette in the round while reading. Using my iPad, and making the text large, I was able to read and knit simultaneously! This made the stockinette portion fly by, and I didn’t have to decide whether I wanted to read or<\/em> knit.<\/p>\n

Now, I can knit many of my more vividly colored variegated sock yarns into simple stockinette socks without becoming bored to tears. That is a victory in my book. I even started a new sock in that very vein:
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\nThat yarn is Seacoast Panda (merino\/bamboo) in Cinco de Mayo. And it’s stripey!<\/p>\n

Kitty #34 would like me to say that reading and knitting is nothing compared to her victory. She made it up onto M’s lap!
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\nUsually as she walks around she keeps up a constant meowing commentary, but one morning she was quiet, and she took M by surprise (I’m told she was in “super secret kitty, silent, stealth, invisibility mode”–something beyond human comprehension). He let her stay up there, blissed out, for several minutes; he even pet her a bit, being careful not to rub his eyes before washing his hands. Lucky for Kitty #34, he isn’t super allergic to her. She purred, which she informs me was real love-purring, whereas when she sits on my lap, she pity purrs. Hmmm… Pity Purring…like one of my babysitters when I was little would say when she thought we were fibbing about something, “My Great Aunt Fanny.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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