Bottle Cap Boy

Many of you know that Thomas has been fervently collecting bottle caps for about a year now.  It all started with the Duck Rabbit cap that my open-hearth cooking teacher, Kay Moss, gave him at the end of my class at John C. Campbell Folk School last spring.  Since then, he has amassed an impressive collection ranging from plain old Sam Adams to rare examples from the 1950's and 60's.  For a long time, Thomas's favorite cap was Bud Light Lime, but it has recently switched to a tie between a cap with an anchor on it (not sure the brand) and Green Man, a beer produced in Asheville with a woodsy, Celtic looking face on the cap. Hopefully he will remain happy with sorting and organizing his bottle caps rather than drinking all the beer in the bottles!

Ukranian Eggstravaganza

I'm finally getting around to posting pictures from our annual Easter egg dyeing play date with our friends Inge and Anna.  This year, we decided to challenge ourselves by using the Ukranian technique of drawing designs with melted wax on the eggs before dyeing them and then melting the wax off to reveal the design.  We definitely need more practice!  We also experimented with the quality of color produced on white eggs versus brown eggs and found that brown eggs produce a much richer color than white ones.  That's good news because I have no white layers in my flock!

You can also see pictures of Thomas and his Easter basket, complete with chocolate bunny and wooden toy chicken coop--and pictures of our Easter dinner with Mamaw and Poppy.  Thomas, of course, chose to feast on his chocolate bunny rather than my carrot cake.