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Nov. 14th, 2004 08:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
which_chickThe weekend out went well. I made crepes of varying pronunciations (crepe rhymes with pep but also with grape, I guess) but no matter what they were called, they were yummy. I have leftover caramel sauce, which I think I wouldn't if I hadn't given people four choices of topping (apple-caramel, black raspberry, sour cherry, and peach). I did have about the right amounts of ingredients, though, and that was nice.
The pies (two) went swimmingly. Most folks ate theirs warm, with ice cream on it. I'm not a big fan of warm apple pie because it's all sloppy and runny inside and I'd rather have lovely, sedimentary layers of firmly-packed apple goodness instead. I prefer my pie lukewarm and I don't trash the (gorgeous) crust by dumping ice cream on top of it. That, however, is just me -- others do as they will with the pie. It's not like I can't have pie any time I want. I am the pie factory. I do not have to go to weekends out with friends so that someone can make me a pie.
Roy's wobble board got tried out by nearly everyone, to a reasonable amount of amusement.
I made a lot of headway on my knitting and taught Cora (Cousin Sue's older daughter) to knit because I'm of a compatible handedness and Cousin Sue is not. Cora seemed quite pleased with the knitting and she made a very solid effort, for not being a grownup yet. She did inform us that she was not a child, she was a preadolescent. (She is, I think 11.)
We also took a walk along the Lehigh Canal walkway thingie, which was a nice outing. It's a good, reasonably-level place to walk and we were not the only folks out on a sunny November Sunday afternoon. What remains of the lock structures is pretty interesting stuff and it's got waterfalls, which is never a bad thing. The Lehigh River (next to the canal, kinda) is bigger (wider) than I thought it was but apparently not very deep. It looks watercraft-navigable, though. Hrm.
The pies (two) went swimmingly. Most folks ate theirs warm, with ice cream on it. I'm not a big fan of warm apple pie because it's all sloppy and runny inside and I'd rather have lovely, sedimentary layers of firmly-packed apple goodness instead. I prefer my pie lukewarm and I don't trash the (gorgeous) crust by dumping ice cream on top of it. That, however, is just me -- others do as they will with the pie. It's not like I can't have pie any time I want. I am the pie factory. I do not have to go to weekends out with friends so that someone can make me a pie.
Roy's wobble board got tried out by nearly everyone, to a reasonable amount of amusement.
I made a lot of headway on my knitting and taught Cora (Cousin Sue's older daughter) to knit because I'm of a compatible handedness and Cousin Sue is not. Cora seemed quite pleased with the knitting and she made a very solid effort, for not being a grownup yet. She did inform us that she was not a child, she was a preadolescent. (She is, I think 11.)
We also took a walk along the Lehigh Canal walkway thingie, which was a nice outing. It's a good, reasonably-level place to walk and we were not the only folks out on a sunny November Sunday afternoon. What remains of the lock structures is pretty interesting stuff and it's got waterfalls, which is never a bad thing. The Lehigh River (next to the canal, kinda) is bigger (wider) than I thought it was but apparently not very deep. It looks watercraft-navigable, though. Hrm.
