Gult garn -- Yellow yarn

     Plantefarvning er på menuen i det lille hjem for øjeblikket. Og alle maj måneds planter farver øjensynligt gult. Men det er dog forbløffende hvor mange gule farver, der findes.

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Plant dyeing is much of what's going on right now. It seems that the plants of May all dye yellow.

l-r: Wild cherwil 1st bath on grey & white wool.  Marjoram 2nd & 1st bath. Tansy 2nd  & 1st bath. Scentless mayweed 2nd & 1st bath.

     Lugtløs kamille, der er ophav til den lysende gyldengule farve, er en værre primadonna. Den kan hverken tørres eller fryses uden at blive en skygge af sig selv. Så nu vil jeg forsøge at koge en suppe, dele den i fem, fryse de fire dele ned og farve med den ene nu. Så vinder jeg også fem ens bundter garn og markerer med datoer. Jeg tror at 14 dage, en måned, 3 måneder og et halvt år vil være fint.Så den 25. november vil resultatet foreligge.

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Scentless mayweed, theat yields the wonderful sunshine yellow is a stupid plant. It cannot be dried or frozen, and still dye anything.  MotherOwl likes experimenting. One dyebath was split into five equal parts. One was used yesterday, the other four froxen dow. The yarn was wound in five skeins of same weigth. One put into the remaining dyepot, the other four hung on a hook with labess on them: To be used on June 8th, June 25th, August 25th, and November 25. (Two weeks, one month, 3 months and 6 months from now). In November the skeins can be compared, and the experiment called a success or a failure.

Det var vild kørvel og ikke skarnyhder.
This was Wild chervil and not hemlock. 

Lugtløs kamille ude i marken.
Scentless mayweed groving in the field

En stor tingfinderpung, som Uglemor har strikket af svampe- og plantefarvet garn. Uglemor har glemt hulrækken, men den bliver altså ikke lavet om lige nu.

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Big treasure pouch made from plant and mushroom dyed yarn. I forgot the holes, but I don't want to frog it.




Hvad jeg læser: Der kommer snart nogle honningbolcher og måske nogle andre. Ugleungerne er blevet store nok til at varm bolchemasse i køkkenet går an.

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Reading: Hov to make your own candy. Honey drops and some other ones coming up. The Owlets are big enough now that HOT candy in the kitchen is OK.

Vejen hjem -- 11 -- On my Way Home

     Tirsdag morgen. Uglemor står op og kigger ud af vinduet. Jeps, det er gråvejr. Allerede nu, en time senere, er skyerne ved at sprede sig. Men tirsdag morgen kvart i otte skal det bare være gråt.
     I dag er det Sankt Patricks dag. Da Piraten elsker grønt, Irland, trekløvere, regnbuer og guldpenge; ikke nødvendigvis i nævnte rækkefølge - og ud over dette hajer, pirater, skattekister, murloc'er, spækhuggere, kaniner ... - så står menuen i dag på irsk mad, øl (KB's hvidtøl), regnbueslik og guldpenge med Sankt Patrick-billeder og trekløvere.
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It's Tuesday. MotherOwl gets out of bed and looks out. Oh yes, it's cloudy and windy. Of course. Now, as I'm writing, the clouds are hurrying avay, the Sun peeping through the cover. But Tuesday morning just has to be cloudy here.
Today is Saint Patrick's day, and as the Pirate loves everything Irish, green, shamrocks, rainbows and golden coins - when his attention is not taken by sharks, rabbits, murlocs, pirates (of course), treasures ... - today will see us finding golden chocolate coins, eating Irish food and drinking beer (a weak, but tasty Danish variety of small beer), eating rainbow candy and driving bread snakes away.

I am Murloc

Solopgang/solnedgang: 6:24/18:16, dagens længde 11:52, tiltaget 5:01 (DMI)

Hvad nu? --- Now what?

Nu har Uglemor og Ugleungerne igen lavet sære ting. Hvad er nu det? Og nej, det er ikke sæbe ;)

MotherOwl and the Owlets have been making strange objects again. What's this? And no. It's not soap again ;)

• En lille honningkagemand mand og en slikstok.
• A gingerbread man and a candy cane. 

     Vi har læst "Det lille hus i den store skov" og forsøgt at lave ahornsirup slik. Det var et forsøg, og vi er ikke helt sikre på at det lykkedes. Vi kogte ahornsirup indtil det begyndte at blive grynet. Ugleungerne havde fyldt en stegepande og diverse skåle med sne og så hældte Uglemor forsigtigt snirkler i sneen. De blev lidt gummiagtige, men de forsvandt lynhurtigt ned i Ugleungernes maver. Smagen fejler ingenting i hvert fald.
     Resten hældte Uglemor i en chokoladeform. Det blev til adskillige små mænd og slikstokke. Ahornslikket er ikke bolcheagtigt sprødt som vi havde forventet, men snarere grynet eller flageagtigt, og smuldrer, når vi bider i det. Men igen, smagen er herlig.
     Siruppen kommer fra en stor dåse, vi fik forærende i sommers, Vi brugte ca. det halve i går, og hvis frosten fortsætter - det fryser lige nu godt 7 grader - så kan det være jeg prøver med resten senere i dag. Eventuelt efter lidt efterforskning på nettet.


MotherOwl has been reading "Little House in the Big Woods" aloud for the Owlets, and as it was cold and snow, we decided to make maple candy. We looked in the book, and just boiled the maple syrup while stirring occasionally until a drop on a plate turned stiff. Then MotherOwl poured it over the snow which the Owlets held in cups and bowl.

Then the rest went into candy forms. The syrup poured over snow became rubbery, maybe -4 degrees centigrades is just not cold enough ;) and the small men and candy canes are flaky like, disintegrating when you bite, but the taste is fine. Not a bit was left over from the snow ones, and only because MotherOwl evilly hid some away did a few small men survive until today.
We wonder if it's supposed to be like that. Not at all hard like normal candy but flaky and granulated

The syrup is from a big tin of maple syrup, we only used about half of it. Maybe we'll try again today, it's now 7 below zero and getting colder ;) I like snow!