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Is my current status on the full coverage Menorah cross stitch. Today is the 7th. I might just have this finished before Hanukkah starts. Seven days – about 5K worth of stitches. My only challenge is going to be losing Wednesday to medical appointments at the SFVA.\

I’ll post an progress update tomorrow: I’ve zeroed out five colors and have eight more under 100 stitches each. Unfortunately, those stitches are pretty scattered. ten colors have between 100-240 stitches. The last couple? 13xx & 20xx.

Otherwise, I have had a lap full of cat every time I have sat down to stitch. He is so [not} helpful. But he is warm and looks at me with adoring eyes. I know that what he is really doing is asking for more food. He seems to have survived a few hours on his own this afternoon while George and I went to the Cal Women’s Basketball game. It turned out to be very lopsided – San Jose State isn’t having a gre at year in any case and they were just wiped off the court at just about every turn. Ear plugs helped protect the little hearing I have left.

 

About Holly

fiber person - knitter, spinner, weaver who spent 33 years being a military officer to fund the above. And home. And family. Sewing and quilting projects are also in the stash. After living again in Heidelberg after retiring (finally) from the U.S. Army May 2011, we moved to the US ~ Dec 2015. Something about being over 65 and access to health care. It also might have had to do with finding a buyer for our house. Allegedly this will provide me a home base in the same country as our four adult children, all of whom I adore, so that I can drive them totally insane. Considerations of time to knit down the stash…(right, and if you believe that…) and spin and .... There is now actually enough time to do a bit of consulting, editing. Even more amazing - we have only one household again. As long as everyone understands that I still, 40 years into our marriage, don't do kitchens or bathrooms. For that matter, not being a golden retriever, I don't do slippers or newspapers either. I don’t miss either the military or full-time clinical practice. Limiting my public health/travel med/consulting and lecturing to “when I feel like it” has let me happily spend my pension cruising, stash enhancing (oops), arguing with the DH about where we are going to travel next and book buying. Life is good!
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