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?)
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.
While we were in Niagara we went on the Maid of the Mist tour. It was my very first time (the boy had been before as a young’un with his parents or scouts) and I took numerous pictures. I am quite fond of this one and plan to print it up. I hope you love it as well.
While we were on our mini vacation we ventured over to Canada and the Niagara Falls just because we could. While at the Falls I kept looking for an opportunity to practice my french. As luck would have there was this really large sign all in french. So I stood there and translated it for the boy.
The sign in French.
Continue reading “Translation please”
Wedding season is upon us. The boy and I will leave in an hour and a half to begin our drive NE to the Finger Lakes. His other cousin on his mom’s side is getting married tomorrow (yes on a Friday) in a castle out there and it’s gorgeous. Or at least it’s gorgeous in the pictures. The awesome part about them getting married in the Finger Lakes on a Friday before a 3 day weekend is that we can turn this whole trip into a little mini vacation. Today we will meander our way up stopping to shop as we please (and to buy certain items to wear to the wedding) and tomorrow morning we plan to tour around the Finger Lakes a bit because the wedding isn’t until 5pm. That may also include a visit to the LYS in the town where the wedding is. Then on Saturday we are heading to a campground nearby to set up our home base. Then it’s off one of the many wine trails out there. The boy is working on becoming a wine snob, some may say he has the nose for it. 
I will play along but meh I don’t like wine (or beer) and I have decided that really it’s ok. No one needs more alcohol to consume anyway. I will just stick with my liquor thankyouverymuch.
Then on Sunday because *somebody* has finally acquired a passport and because we can, we are headed to the Canadian side of the Niagara Falls. I found a lovely campground a few miles from the Falls and we can crash there Sunday night. Then it’s a brief jaunt home, stopping en route by my friend’s home to deliver her birthday present. Then back here so the boy can go play with his best friend on the only free day he has this week before his wedding Saturday. The main point though is that we *finally* get to go off and spend some time together, relax, have fun and celebrate in the happy couples’ day. Now I better get going and finish wrapping their present.
PS - Whether there are pictures and updates while I am gone depends on how busy having fun and relaxing we are. 
It also depends on if I buy a card reader for the lapple since the camera refuses to talk to any of my computers anymore.
