One of the requirements for traveling to New England is to bring back fresh seafood. My amusing cousins kept trying to tell us that lobster is fresher on Wednesdays so we wouldn’t leave Tuesday evening. Before we split we went to Schermerhorn’s and Donut Dip to pick up seafood and donuts respectively to bring home. The donuts were for the boy because we missed the Pumpkin Festival on Saturday and when my aunt Millie mentioned that Donut Dip had pumpkin donuts I said we had to go. At Schermerhorn’s I got 2 live lobsters, 2 tuna steaks and 2 stuffed clams for the boy and I to try. My mom took home 4 live lobster for her household.
Tonight the boy and I whipped up the tuna steaks from a recipe I have been wanting to try. The trouble with living in Central Ohio is that I wasn’t sure where to go to get fresh tuna steaks and I wasn’t really willing to risk our health by getting not so fresh fish. The tuna cooked up wonderfully and has been added to our “to make again list.”
The boy pan searing the tuna steaks.
Tuna steak rare to medium rare
This just looks so scrumptious to me.
After making the tuna we decided to partially cook the lobsters so that we wouldn’t have to find a place for them to live until we are ready to cook with them on Friday. We found instructions online and nervously went about placing them in the pot. Thankfully there was no screaming.
The lobsters hanging in the cooler.
Alas, one lobster did try to get away and squirmed out of the tong’s grasp landing on our stove. We managed to wrestle him into the pot though. Now they are relaxing in the refrigerator until I can make the lobster chowder and lobster tail on Friday. Mmmm. The stuffed clams will be tomorrow’s dinner. We have to get all this fresh seafood eaten up before the boy leaves for Japan on Sunday. (Anyone else jealous that he gets to go to Japan?)
We buried my Aunt Rose today. I have had a wonderful time seeing my extended family again and I am working on plans to come back and visit them more. I am also on the hook (along with my cousin Hilary) to provide the family with a reason other than a funeral to get together (reading between the lines means “wedding”).
This is the rose for a Rose that I laid on her casket. I will truly miss my Aunt Rose. She was a wonderful woman and a joy to everyone who knew her. My plan is to somehow emulate the wonderful woman she was.
My mother and I drove to Massachusetts yesterday. I am very happy to be here and to visit this side of the family. Sadly we are here because my dear great Aunt Rose departed this world last week. We are holding the wake tonight and the funeral tomorrow. She was a wonderful woman and I dearly love her.The bright spots to the wake are being able to see my extended family whom I haven’t seen in a couple of years and it just so happens the great aunt and uncle I am staying with live less than 30 minutes from WEBS.
So my aunt Millie, mother and I trekked up there this morning. We had a grand time wandering around looking at the different kinds of yarns. Aunt Millie fell in love with some of the alpaca merino yarns and their wonderful softnesss. I found the spinning stuff but didn’t see any Turkish spindles. I did however find located near the spinning items a lonesome Namaste Executive bag. I had been contemplating buying this bag for a little while but I wanted to see it in person first. Of course they then discontinued it and I had given up hope of ever finding another. After carrying it around for the rest of our shopping trip I deemed it acceptable for purchase and bought it. 
Namaste Executive Bag in Rust
Plenty large for my knitting.
There is room for my laptop in here. Finally a carry on that will hold the laptop and my knitting together.
I am off now to go visit the woman who taught me to knit. My mom and aunt Millie can’t wait to show her what she has created. It really is nice to have your own cheering squad.
During the quiet months of the summer (quiet? ha!) when I wasn’t blogging because of all the traveling I was doing a wonderful package arrived. KathyInGeorgia crocheted me a beautiful doily as a housewarming gift. The boy was very excited when it arrived (as was I) and quickly set about to figure out where it’s final resting spot would be. The table we initially put it on won’t suffice because no one will see it there. It will most likely live in the formal living room - which seems to be where all of our pretty stuff is! In fact I will make it my goal this weekend to give it a final home. But for you today I have pictures of this beautiful doily and for Kathy I have a giant THANK YOU. I apologize in being so tardy in posting this.
Trying to show off the motif
Full shot of the doily
Thank you Kathy! This is absolutely gorgeous.
I am super de duper excited for autumn to be here. You may or may not have noticed that I was very very busy this summer with business and personal travel and weddings and other people’s babies being born. October is the month where I have only one scheduled activity. Once I realized there was only one event on the calendar I put out a cease and desist order to the boy and now we have a month with nothing on the calendar (except for a yarn dyeing party at our house this Saturday!) and it’s going to be bliss. There are lots of little things around the house I have been wanting to work on and some unpacking I would like to finish. The change in seasons has oddly made it easier for me to get up in the morning, or perhaps that can be more directly correlated with going to bed before midnight. At any rate I have been productive and am hoping to continue that streak in the coming month. I hope you all have a wonderful autumn and I will have some FO and other updates soon!
