Wednesday, July 2, 2014

camping, eggs, and knitting

Check this out, we have almost everything packed and ready for our annual camping trip.  That pink thing with the fin is my daughter's life jacket (look close and you can see my son's Nimo one=D. ) I am getting more excited by the minute.

I am going to the store for last minute food stuffs; apples, cucumbers, cheese etc. This brought up a question about taking eggs camping. I am pretty comfortable bringing hard boiled eggs. We can stick them in the cooler and then put them in a bag in the cold lake. Because I am American, I hesitate with raw eggs. My neighbors raise chickens and I am perfectly fine leaving any eggs they give us on the counter for a few days, but store bought eggs....well that gets a little more complicated. So the question is do I go over to my neighbor and beg for a few eggs; take some of these

 organic unpasteurized eggs, treat them the same as hard boiled, and hope for the best; or just hard boil some and leave it at that?
We are also going to try bringing milk for the first time. With it frozen it should stay good longer in just a cooler and it can double as an ice pack.

The last thing I need to pack is my knitting. This is what I am thinking about bringing:

You should recognize the blue in the middle as the shawl I have been working on, the pattern is Evelyn Clark's swallowtail shawl. The purple will be fingerless gloves for my daughter, one is almost done --it just needs the sewing up. I am thinking of turning the green into Softsweater's sunlight shawl for sad people, The mitts are quick and easy and the sunlight shawl is simple stockinette that can be done in the car and semi-dark. But, the swallowtail has a dead-line. I know I can't bring all three camping but I can bring them and then leave one in the car, the question is which one?

Well, I must get back to packing up, we leave tonight.
I will let you know how everything went on Monday.
Ta ta for now
XO Lue Lue

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