Up a Creek in Lower Slower Delaware

I know.  I wasn’t in the mood.  I wanted to get to bed early, but it didn’t happen.  It got humidduring the night and we had to turn the air on this morning.  Our morning walk was pretty awful and we were glad to get back.  We’ve been spoiled by all the lovely weather.   

The index finger is finished except for the sewing.  I prefer to only get my needle out when it is absolutely necessary.  It was supposed to be three squares wide and high.  That made it way too big.  I like my gloves to fit.  I do have gloves that are too big, but they go over my other gloves.  I don’t do that much anymore because I don’t find myself standing around in the cold waiting for public transportation.  I have nothing against it.  It’s just that I no longer have to wait for the 0530AM train in the middle of winter.  Yeah.  OK.  Let’s get back to the finger.  It wound up being 2 and 2/3 squares wide.  The third that is missing is not noticeable because it is on the inside by the middle finger.  The directions also called for three complete squares high before starting the decrease.  I started decreasing in the third row of blocks.  I decreased in the full ones and started decreasing in the 2/3 block when it had the same number of stitches.  It turned out very well and fits perfectly. 

I have since started the thumb which was also too big so it is being redone.  One of the nice things about gloves is mistakes are so little.

My knees were not happy today.  As a matter of fact, they woke me up at 4:50 this morning.  I didn’t walk very far either.  At least it never got over 80 degrees and a very nice breeze came through all afternoon.  I got the index finger on my  gloves done, but I didn’t like it and tore it out.  I started again and it looks much better.

We were getting ready to go for a walk when Doug got vertigo so badly that he couldn’t stand up.  We managed to get him to a chair and I took his blood pressure.  It was a little high and he was sweating profusely.  I wanted to to take him to the ER, but he said to call the doctor.  And what did the doctor say?  “You better take him to the ER.”    After blood work, EKG and other crap, the doctor gave him a prescription and let him go.  It took less than two hours.  But it still screwed up the day.  Doug was exhausted and slept for a couple of hours.  The dog didn’t get a walk until the middle of the afternoon.

This is what Gus was expecting