Back to the “attic”

In a book by one of my favorite authors, one of the characters keeps complaining that his uncles “locked him in the attic” until he recovered from being sick. There actually wasn’t an attic, nor was he locked in, but he was recovering from significant trauma.  I have almost adopted that in terms of ‘going to the attic.

We actually don’t have an attic. There is the main floor with the living room, kitchen, dining area with a few steps up to a bedroom, major bathroom, another bedroom which is rapidly becoming a second library + TV room with attached tiny bathroom. Up the stairs to the right is the space I took over for my craft room, to the left, there is yet another small batch of stairs with a bathroom straight ahead with a sitting room on one side and a bedroom on the other. I am now referring to the sitting room as “the attic” and have moved my larger floor frame in along with this full coverage in progress.

at a petite 90k stitches, it is going to take a while. Currently 13% done. It is obviously too big and complicated to ever be a travel project. It can also be a bit difficult to stitch on with the velcro cat wanting all the pets.

We were supposed to be attending a luncheon at the Bancroft Library this noon, but I just wasn’t feeling up to it. And NO ONE wants a fellow attendee who is coughing her head off..

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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