It’s much hotter today. We put the air conditioning on shortly after getting up this morning. We took Gus down to the river and walked back through the woods in an effort to keep out of the sun. I only did a few rows of knitting as it was too hot to sit outside until evening. I did, however, work on my quilt back. I may be able to put it together in a few days. Don’t hold your breath. That’s about it for today.
Cat Bed
Sleeping Maude
I was supposed to do something, but I don’t remember what it was. Oh, well. Can you have hot flashes when everything has been removed? I never really had them so I don’t know. Maybe senility is finally setting in. I know I called my daughter this morning. My phone says so. Why hasn’t she called me back? She’ll probably call when I’m on the toilet. She’s good at that. Maude is here, sleeping under the desk lamp making little sucking motions with her mouth. Her fur is so warm. She’s making me hot.
Progress was made on the gloves today. Here’s a picture.
Doesn’t it look much better?
happy ducks
All day long, there have been ducks splahing about in the creek. It was a beautiful day, but warmer. We finally put the air on at noon, but it will probably be off again by bed time. It’s so nice to have the windows open and be able to hear the outside noises. It really has been a great week. Yesterday was the first time all week that we had the air conditioning on and that was because Doug was not well. He is so much better today and he has something in case it happens again. I am so glad that’s all it was. He’s a pain in the ass, but he’s all mine.
Here’s the latest picture on my gloves. I’m much happier now.
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
I worked on my gloves for an hour or two this afternoon.
ready to remove the thumb stitches
thumb stitches on waste yarn
FOOD LION MAKES THE ABSOLUTE WORSE MACARONI SALAD I HAVE EVER TASTED. And their seafood salad if pretty awful, too.
We went down there to pick up a few things. They had tuna steaks and mahi mahi on sale. The tuna was great by the way. Jenn had given me about 20 crabs which I had picked the day before trash day. I was making crab cakes and I wanted some macaroni salad go with it. The store in Reisterstown has very good macaroni and potato salad and different kinds of each. This store had one of each. I didn’t like it’s colorless appearance, but Doug said it can’t be that bad so I got it. Even the macaroni noodles were awful. They were bigger, thicker and doughy. They were gross. There was a lot of cheap mayonnaise and little else. So—-tomorrow is trash day and guess where the macaroni salad is. I still have the seafood salad. I was able to doctor it to passable if not eaten alone.
Well, the pleasant continues to hold, even though it was a bit more humid today. The gloves are coming along. I tried to take a picture of it on my hand, but I didn’t have much success.
Sanquhar gloves
front
I was happily knitting on my never ending sweater and watching TV when the power went out. It just recently came back, but I have forgotten what I was going to say. I noticed that there was only one picture on yesterday’s blog so here is what was missing.
Elvis
We’ll start with the gloves. I have finally gotten through the thumb gouging thumb gusset and am working on the second row of blocks.
See my initials
A storm is coming and I don’t like to be on the computer when lightning strikes.
All I can say is, “These gloves had better last forever because I intend to be buried in them.” Will I finish these? Yes. Will I wear them? You better believe it! This one has my initials on it. That part wasn’t that hard. I’ve started the thumb gusset. Now, that is a pain. It has two increases on every row with those 0000 needles. It’s a wonder that my fingers aren’t bloody. If I can get the first row of blocks done tomorrow, I’ll have another picture for you. If the weather holds out and I don’t have to go anywhere, it’s possible.
Breakfast with Zip
Up a Creek in Lower Slower Delaware 