Peanut turkey stirfry

One of my favourite dishes, for isitandlookout.

( the recipe )

Wool and woodpeckers

Grey and gold 1





Grey and gold 2


I finished knitting a head-hugger hat for Marian, same style as one Danny gave me. I just have to wait until he's here next weekend to teach me how to graft ends together. Meanwhile I'm working on a scarf for Mom.

I want to make a hat for Brenna, too. Looking for ideas, I headed to Len's Mill Store this afternoon by way of the river.

In the tall elm at the entrance to the park, I was excited to see a pileated woodpecker, a large, striking bird that resembles the ivory-billed woodpecker recently rediscovered in Arkansas. I've seen the pileated in woods around Guelph before, but not for years, never in Eramosa River Park. They normally fly at first glimpse of a human, but this one seemed unconcerned about me.

The bad news is woodpeckers are making a feast of the elm, which indicates it is embattled with beetles, likely diseased and dying.

Len's offers a fair variety of yarn, but nothing inspired me. I'll probably end up hitting Romni Wools in Toronto for another ball of Noro Silk Garden or Kureyon in brighter colours, and knitting this beanie.

In other seasonal news, I baked Christmas cake this morning.