Well we're plodding along. I am way ahead in the books. Some of the team is done. The rest of us could finish in the next week or two. I didn't shoot any in the book last week. I shot one round of practice with two shotguns.. neither mine. I hit 10. Which sucks.. but it was just practice to fill out a squad.

Scores are posted through week three. We have 4 pts. Which means we won two weeks and lost one one week. That seems ok.

Salted Carmels

These are the caramels I made for Heidi tonight. Recorded here so I can try them again.

1 cup butter salted
2 1/4 cups brown sugar
1 tablespoon kosher salt (or 2tsp regular salt)
1/3 cup light corn suryp
2/3 cup dark corn suryp
1 14oz can of sweetened condensed milk

3qt saucepan

melt the butter in a 3qt sauce pan over medium heat
stir in brown sugar and salt stir until mostly melted down
add corn suryp stirring constantly until smooth.
slowly add milk stiring all the while.

Stir continuously until the firm ball stage (which I call 250 and the rest of the world calls somewhere between 245 and 248) and no my thermometer isn't wrong. I just like carmels that if you cut will stand up....but not the filling rippers of hard ball at 260.

These are salty and sweet, and early testing indicates addictive

http://www.entropyhouse.com/penwiper/who/extermaknit.html knit a dalek!
http://www.entropyhouse.com/penwiper/who/knittardis.html knit a tardis!

I know a kid who needs these.

Lest you all think I died.....

Hmm.. trap last week was ok. I hit 21 and 18 I think. The 18 was with Tony's gun as Sig was using mine. Hmm... what else... In the past week I've knit most of a llama. And today I made three pairs of flannel PJ pants; two in green plaid, and one in horrible geometric fabric. I was tempted to make one green plaid pair and two pairs that were parti-colored. Half horrible half plaid. I didn't though. I was out-voted.

Also I finished the keychain I've been obsessing over knotting. Tomorrow I'll try taking pictures of all these things and posting them.