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Thursday, December 31, 2020

More drama please, also a tar baby

I wrote the next two paragraphs two days ago, and just as expected a whiny crapstorm has folliwed. Not in reaction to my post, which hasn't yet been posted, but to the idea that VP PENCE might count only Trumps electoral college votes, or individual members of Congress might vote to refuse to accept the count at all. I feel that 2020 has been a tar baby of a year, and just WILL NOT let go. ***************** Oh, can we just have one more "episode" from our Drama Queen in Chief? Donald, just give it up. You have a month to create something like a favorable memory of you for your nation. Try not to blow it. I frogged the loom knit wrap, and started it over on a circular needle. It is coming along. I'm going to look for light blue worsted, which I think will play well with the colors I've already got laid up. I'LL play with knit and purl stitch patterns, and shift colors around. Just keeping it simple

Sunday, December 27, 2020

Monday evening

The bigger box for the Texas care package is too big, but the next smaller size I have on hand is way too small. I need to add more good stuff. Yesterday we went to Wally World for the Christmas shopping. I bought one big pack of ankle socks for Mr. Adams, and two big packs for the Adams ladies. Still not enough to fill the box. Quick convo with Sis, just jokingly asked for underwear sizes. People, she did not bat an eye, just filled in the blanks. Yes, we grew up getting socks & undies for Christmas. I will have to make another trip to Wally World. OR...start on a loom knit throw, which will hopefully be a lot quicker than using the circular needles & hand knitting it. I had bought a butt load of acrylic yarn to make an afghan, all in nice coordinating colors, but alas never started the thing. The plan is to use two strands together on Disco's biggest loom, and change one color at a time to make a marled look. I just wound up nine balls to start, so handy to have a winder and yarn scale. Let's see, how long must a wrap be? and if Jan 6 is Twelfth Night, That gives me maybe 5 days to produce the wrap & 5 days for shipping. Well, I really need to attend to other issues just now, like pulling my cook upstairs so she can start dinner. God Bless & take care. Darn, I just realized today, the 28th, that I didn't publish this one.

Saturday, December 26, 2020

Holiday over

...Now back to work? It's not much of a holiday if you're still doing the same things you do daily. We did splurge on Christmas Eve dinner, with a nicely roasted turkey breast. Alas, there weren't any turkey legs available at our regular grocery, so no dark meat. But there was a mountain ("This means something.") of mashed taters with white cheddar, turnip greens, green beans & biscuits. We had pumpkin pie with whipped cream. We dodged a bullet, if you will, by changing our cable and Internet service just before the holiday. While we were Christmas shopping last Tuesday, I encountered a rep for the service we used to have. Immediately, I latched on, and let him begin signing us up. One problem though: he needed the Plaidman to sign too. I said I'd look for him, but if the rep (Ned) saw him he should say hi. I gave Ned a description. Several minutes later. Ned saw him, and said "you must be Terry", and freaked out the old man. Within a few more minutes we were signed up. The tech came to the house Christmas Eve & git us connected. Then a bomb went off in front of AT&T's transmission center in Nashville. If we hadn't changed providers we. would still be out of service.

Saturday, December 19, 2020

Friday night

This morning I stirred through several jewelry boxes, for another Christmas pin. I found another big one. This one is a silvery Christmas stocking. Terry thought it was a boot: How is that Christmassy? I don't think he's twigged to the theme yet. As it happens, I gave Disco several of my Christmas pins. She recalled that & told me I could borrow them. I will believe in her intention, but it's likely to be Twelfth Night before she brings them upstairs. I am so close to being able to finish the watch cap; I just can't face sorting the mess I made of it! At this point odds are about even between it becoming a hat, or a small bonfire. I really need to wash up, dress, and get busy with any thing that will advance our Christmas. I promise there will be photos.

Friday, December 18, 2020

I'd like to declare

A moratorium on commercial prepackaged frozen dinners in our household. My darling daughter has served up another, almost the same d**n thing she made for us Tuesday. It is uninspiring, to say the least. Well, I ate enough to be polite, and pushed the rest aside. There's only so much of the blandness & lack of veggies a gal can take. For the past several days I have been dressing up for breakfast by using one of my big fashion pins to draw in the collar of my pink plush house coat. Today I found a cute penguin wearing a stocking cap and holding a string of tree lights. He's adorable, and I'd show you a picture but I'm using my phone and it "won't" pull photos from my gallery. I will still take photos, but I may have to get our techie involved in putting them here.

Tuesday, December 15, 2020

Another thing

Novartis Patient Assistance Foundation has put on a burst of speed, and delivered the first box of my 2021 prescription already! I'm so glad that will not be a concern during the holiday. Disco hasn't been feeling the holiday much; she's usually dragged the "tree" out of the closet by now. She did ALL the holiday decor last year, a valiant effort to instill a little spirit into her creaky, cranky old roomies. We may swing by an outdoor lights show at the fairgrounds. There was one in 2018 that was terrific, only the road in was way too small to handle the traffic. We spent more time waiting to get inside it, than actually cruising the drive-through show. That particular show has been moved, hopefully somewhere that can handle the traffic. The fairgrounds show is new this year, but I'm not sure it's drive-through. I should check.

Monday, December 14, 2020

A long slog, but soon done

Could 2020 last any longer? I am so DONE with T-Rump and his shenanigans, not to mention his complete narcissism and his lies. I'd bet a buck he thinks he can stay in the White House as long as he doesn't concede. But we, dear reader, know that as soon as Joe Biden takes the oath of office, T-Rump becomes a private citizen with NO ACCESS to the White House. If he won't budge for the Secret Service, the Marines can drag him out by his heels. I would pay to see that. But where to send him? Mar-A-Lago cannot legally be both a residence and a resort. I guess he still keeps a floor of Trump Tower, and Melania might prefer NYC to Florida. OK, that's enough of my attention for the Lying Sack O'Shit for today. I have been knitting! Just a hat, with an unusual texture. I wasn't thrilled with the look of it, and had decided to frog back a few rows, and found a mistake in my interpretation of the pattern. There's one section of 4 knit stitches; no where else has that many knit sts together, but I managed to completely overlook this 4 sts. I'm usually better with charts. Big sigh. one thing I don't do well is putting a smaller needle through a row several rows below. When the rows above were frogged, it was apparent that I'd picked up sts from two different rows. I've almost finished sorting that out. Then I'll knit two rows of ribbing before getting back to the textured pattern. I hope this turns out as pictured, in Jennifer Myrick's Clingman's Watch Cap .

Thursday, July 16, 2020

New-ish normal

Hello from the  quietist house on the block.  Kids are still out of school (normal ), but not converging on the pool despite the  90F Temps (completely abnormal).  More fellow shoppers are wearing masks , I've developed a taste for documentaries and the new
 "Perry Mason"  (remember the theme music from the original TV series?  I wish I didn't!).  Sis makes fun of me for reading the paper, but what Reader could turn up her nose at fresh daily reading  material. 
We've contacted an HOA-approved contractor,  now we wait for an estimate of the cost of building a ramp from the front porch to the sidewalk.People are so funny: next door neighbor's "friend" from church got all hot & bothered  with poor Jeff, simply  because "a good Christian" would already be getting the ramp built.  Mind you, we don't even know this believer, but he's ready to fight on our behalf.  God bless!

Wednesday, March 18, 2020

All by ourselves

We are pretty hermitic, staying home & playing with our electronic gadgets.  But poor Plaidman has been "questing" for days, going further afield & circling back to the local grocer, hoping to find a package of toilet paper.  Seriously, what has possessed our neighbors that they feel compelled to stockpile four months worth of TP & paper towels??  Last I heard, COVID 19 is a respiratory illness, not a diarrheal one.
With the seasonal changes, all of the Plaid Patrol  has been coughing  & sneezing.   But we got a scare yesterday:  Disco started having difficulty breathing,  to the point she had to sleep sitting up.  This is common in pneunonia, which IS a COVID complication.  So she got a trip to a local clinic, which has the test for COVID.  Her test came back nnegative, and she hasn't got pneumonia.  Her symptoms were chalked up to allergic sinusitis with drainage (hence the cough).
  Whew! A bullet dodged,  for sure.  I think we can handle the other problems that come with trying to get things done.  I've been waiting for a delivery from GNC,  but the store where Plaidman placed the order is now closed, and I can't find the order on their website.  I have been waiting for some word from the manufacturer of Xiidra about my application for assistance.  I wil keep hoping, and wish all my friends health and comfort.

Wednesday, February 26, 2020

Still alive

It's been so long since I signed in that I forgot my password.  Then I got a shock: I actually gained a follower while I was away.

So, what's been on the needles?  I'm about 20 rows from finishing a lapghan that'll be sent to Sis in Texas.  I'm putting together a carton of good things for her, to include the two lapghans, some trinkets from Antique Archeology, and a large collection of cross stitch pattern books.  The gurrls have both become interested in cross stitch.  Other items OTN include oven mitts for Plaidman, and reusable sweeper covers for the neighbor, who's got wood flooring throughout his house.  I still get Interweave Knits, and Disco & I look thru it for lovely things that I might want to knit.  But I don't really spend a lot of time knitting, because of Pinterest -- the worst time waste ever.  Oh sure, Disco & I find lots of funny things to share there.  But useful stuff? Not so much.  I do save a lot of hat pictures, I'd really like to knit more hats, especially stranded work.  But I don't really have a lot of the yarn I need for that work.  Maybe I'll treat myself to some Knit Picks Palette, if I can make some space for it in the craft room.

Watched Despicable Me: 3 again last night; such imagination!  Love Gru & Lucy.  And Dru!!  A lot of the action in this movie makes me think of an Ardman film, The Wrong Pants.  It won an award, and is just killer funny.  It stars, of course, Wallace & Gromit.  Look for it.