socks and baguettes
It was a pretty quiet weekend around here. We both worked on Saturday and before heading off to work Saturday afternoon, I decided it was the perfect time to make the baguettes. They look a bit funky but taste great. A lesson was definitely learned with this bread - don’t put too much flour on the cutting board or they won’t roll very well. I ended up doing more pulling to shape the loaves than rolling. (Yes, one of them has a bite taken out of it. It appears that a husband couldn’t resist.)
Saturday evening, I watched the Olympics and knit while Bryan worked on school stuff. I knit on the Snowflake vest during the Olympics. It’s the perfect Olympics project because I don’t have to pay real close attention to it. My yarn is a bit kinky from being part of a previous vest for nearly 10 years but it’s nothing a good wet blocking won’t take care of. This first week, I’m only going to knit on the vest while watching the Olympics just to see how much I can get done. If this was how much I got done in four hours of the Olympics, I wonder where I’ll be by the end of the week? I have to work tonight, so I won’t get to knit the full four hours of coverage, but I will have the tape to watch tomorrow.
Sunday was our Valentine’s Day, we figured it would be easier to celebrate yesterday than on Tuesday. We watched two movies and went out for dinner, no reservations needed. :) One of the movies we watched was Grizzly Man, which is a fascinating documentary about Timothy Treadwell, a man who spent 13 summers trying to project grizzlies in Alaska. Even though he’s a sympathetic and likable person in the film, you have to wonder who he was protecting himself or the bears. Some of the footage he took while out in the wilderness with these bears shows a bit of his madness in the sense that he was consumed with these bears but had a lot of internal demons that he was dealing with. He seemed to be more afraid of the human world than he was of the grizzlies. In the end, he and his girlfriend, who was always afraid of the bears, were both killed by a grizzly bear. Bryan and I have been talking about this film since we finished watching it last night. There is something haunting but very powerful about this film. It’s definitely worth checking out. We both think it’s one of the best documentaries we’ve seen in a while and we tend to watch more documentaries than the average person.
During the two movies, I got a lot of knitting done on the first Lilly sock. I kept trying it on to see if it was where I wanted it to be. I came to the conclusion that they will look great as full knee socks, so I have about 25 rows left before I finish the first sock. Why waste the rest of the ball of yarn when I can get a full knee sock out of it, is what I’ve figured and I love this yarn.
Jessica said,
February 13, 2006 @ 10:58 am
I loved reading your review of Grizzly Man - hubby and I have it on our list of document
aries to watch with netflix. We too watch more documentaries than the average person and
have seen several good ones recently if you’d like any recommendations. Thank you again
for the lovely secret pal package - I’m sure I will enjoy all the goodies very much! Love
the baguettes - it doesn’t matter how they look - only how they taste.
Erin said,
February 13, 2006 @ 12:30 pm
There’s nothing better than freshly made bread. Yours may not look the best, but I bet it tastes great!
Melissa said,
February 15, 2006 @ 12:03 pm
That sounds like a very interesting documentary. I’ll have to check that out. Your bread looks delicious too! Hope you enjoyed it.