I had a really good week! I also wasn't too diligent about keeping my camera around when things were happening so I don't have any pictures for you again... at least not any pictures of my knitting (oops). I will distract you instead with pictures of really cute bunnies!
That's Spencer and Gypsy. They are current residents of the Midwest Rabbit Rescue & Re-home and are totally cute. Gypsy is an Angora and I can't remember what kind Spencer is right at the moment. My sometimes deranged (but in a loveable way) DW had decided that he really really wants to get some rabbits.. I haven't really made up my mind at the moment. I'm pretty sure that I would love having them if we did get them but I'm not sure I need the added stress of caring for another living being more complicated then a fish. So the jury is still definatly out on this decision, but I suspect that it will come to a conclusion sooner rather then later.
I actually have a social life!!! I know, it's such a shocker... DW and I made a haggis dinner on Saturday night for a group of friends. In addition to the haggis we had tatties n' neeps (potatos and turnips) and a good time was had by all! For all of you who are cringing or looking for the nearest bathroom at the thought of haggis just stop it! It's a pudding (the British sense of a pudding not jello) form of meatloaf. We used kidney and liver in addition to the lamb and venison that we used for the meat portion and then there was oatmeal, onions and spices. We weren't able to get our hands on a whole stomach but we had one that was cut up so we wrapped that around the filling and wrapped the whole thing up in cheesecloth and tied it shut. We ended up not having a big enough pot to boil the whole thing so we added a pint of beef stock and plopped the whole thing in a casserole dish and threw it in the oven so that we could use the tempature probe that came with our oven to ensure that it was cooked through. We ended up having four of our friends over and they all really enjoyed the food. Despite being a bit time consuming this is definatly a food I will cook again! PS - that isn't a picture of our haggis, ours didn't look quite that pretty at the end, oh well.
And I leave you with the cuteness that is penguins in sweaters! The Knitist! deserves all the credit for this find. It's an Australian Broadcasting Company article about the Aussie Fariy Penguin population and the use of sweaters to help them recover from being exposed to oil spills. The whole story (and the pattern for the Penguin sweaters) is here!
Well thats all for now folks! Hope everyone has a great week!