01.06.08

A Great Day

Posted in Local, Play, fiber at 9:18 pm by trueepicure

With the exception of having to leave my Honey at the airport headed for Texas, today was a wonderful day.

I headed over to Stitch DC - Capitol Hill to return my defective Addi Lace Needles (they were part of the apparently funky first batch of ALN) after dropping Honey off, and arrived about 45 minutes before Stitch DC actually opens. I decided to see if I could find a magazine and a cup of coffee, so I proceeded walk over to Pennsylvania Avenue.

On Pennsylvania Avenue, I found Bread and Chocolate, which is a local chain, based in Alexandria VA. I missed Murky Coffee, right around the corner. I’ll have to try them next. And there definitely will be a next time.

I’ll be back to the Capitol Hill area again in the near future, not necessarily for the yarn, although I did purchase some new yarn that I didn’t need… well, they had AllHemp 6 (Hemp for Knitting) the pumpkin color that I’ve been wanting for a LONG time, and some lovely Kid Seta mohair yarn! Ooooooo… But the best part of the trip was the walk through the outdoor portion of Eastern Market. It was such a beautiful day - almost 60 degrees, gorgeous after some really frigid days here in the DC Area.

I didn’t buy any produce at the farmer’s market, but I found a great soap maker from Baltimore, Licopevel. I purchased a bar of cedar and sage soap that doesn’t contain any sodium laurel sulfate (or any of it’s cousins) or preservatives. I hope it lasts a while, because the soap is expensive at $4.50 a bar.

I went home for lunch, and did a couple more errands, including a trip to Borders to buy a couple of gifts. A few other books fell into my arms as well, including Michael Pollan’s In Defense of Food.

Finally, I headed home for some quality time with the fur-kids and some much needed down time. A busy, but great day.

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Juice for Today:

Juice #1
1 Granny Smith apple
1 Braeburn apple
handful of frozen cranberries
2 carrots
chunk of ginger (a little too much this time)

Juice #2
2 Granny Smith apples
3 carrots
2 Clementines
1 glug of OJ
small chunk of ginger

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