Comments on: Fried Turkey

By: Marne

Marne — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 13:05:58 +0000

Knitting really isn’t difficult, I swear. You have to know how to do all sorts of different stitches and techniques in order to sew. You only have to learn two stitches in order to knit!
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By: Elizabeth A.

Elizabeth A. — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 23:02:03 +0000

My stepdad always used a cajun flavored turkey injection marinade on his fried turkeys. That may have been the variable.

I promise you are associating too much doom with knitting. You just need a place you can go to (Seems SIL would be very helpful) when you get stuck. A good knitter can fix your mistakes. I like to knit for about a week and then I don’t want to knit again for a year which means I forget most of what I have learned. I love a good yarn store.

Or you could just knit scarves. It’s really difficult to mess those up. It can be very soothing, but it’s much, much slower than crocheting.
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By: Christine Eclavea Mercer

Christine Eclavea Mercer — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 01:45:58 +0000

Marne, I like that you are teaching me these things about animals with useful hair/fur. I’m very pleased to know that my neighbors may keep those funny animals because they are defending the other animals. My other thoughts were that they might provide a different type of milk. Or that they just have a sense of humor and like when people slow down to look their weird animals.

By: Marne

Marne — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 00:03:29 +0000

Some people keep a llama in with their sheep, goats, or cows because they are more aggressive and will kick any attacking coyotes. This is also why you sometimes see a donkey or burro in with the sheep, cows, or goats. They fight off predators.
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By: Christine Eclavea Mercer

Christine Eclavea Mercer — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 18:21:45 +0000

Marne, that animal is kind of cute. In a weird sort of way. I think there is something like an alpaca living near here. I suck at animal identification. But for certain, there is a farm nearby where the residents have a bunch of interesting animals. DH says some of them are Emu. There are also a multitude of other large four legged creatures that are definitely not horses, cows, or sheep.

By: Marne

Marne — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 01:53:28 +0000

Alpaca comes from Alpaca! They are a very fuzzy, llama-like creature, seen here:

http://writinggrandmasbook.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/zodiac-alpaca-dante.jpg

Cashmere, however, comes from goats.

Merino wool is the very soft wool that you felt. It is typically a much softer wool, but it does come from sheep.

It could be that you’re mildly allergic to lanolin. Or it could be that you need to have wool with a low micron count. (Wool is scored by microns — the lower the micron, the softer the wool.)
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