It stormed yesterday. Then it snowed. Then it stopped. Then it snowed more last night. Now the sun is out and the temperature’s mild. Since I never got around to cutting out snowflakes this year, I decided to try out this pattern from Martha. Mind you, my snowflake hasn’t been meticulously starched, so it looks a little more like a shabby doily right now. By the time I finished it yesterday, the snow was all gone.
But it was still quite cold. To ward off the draft from our windows, I warmed myself up with this bowl (one of my recent thrifting finds!) of baby lima beans drizzled with hot sauce and cheese.
The cheese is what really made it extra yummy. We get it from the Swan Bros. Dairy. It’s the only place in Oklahoma that can legally sell raw milk for human consumption. (Technically, other dairies can sell a limited amount of raw milk each month, but I don’t know how regulated it is.) They also sell several different cheeses, both raw and natural. Evan has more or less organized a co-op with some of our friends, and now we have fresh, raw milk all the time. And it is good.
By the way, this is really inspiring me right now. See the little crocheted cape & hood? Oh my word.
March 5th, 2008 at 3:38 pm
My stepmom crocheted a dozen of those little snowflakes for me about fifteen years ago. I hang them on our Christmas tree every year and as you can imagine, they’re quite worn out. I only had three left for Christmas of 2007. I wish I could crochet well enough to make some more but I’m too busy keeping the toddler from burning the house down to even give it a serious try. I’ll have to be satisfied to come by here and peek at yours now and then :)