a day with the dogs

or, in fact, my second day with the dogs. Mostly consisting of letting them out, chasing them back in, and ignoring the cats on the other side of the fence.

Alex is holding his own – surgery is scheduled for Wednesday. So, other than giving him the occasional hand – I am dog watching and stitching. Speaking of stitching – it is the last day of Embroidery.com ‘s Love to Stitch 2022 challenge. The idea was to stitch a minimum of 30 minutes each day and document with starting and ending photos. This is not an issue for the average person who uses Facebook or Instagram. For the non-luddites but social media avoiders, it was possible to email in everyday. It was possible to miss up to four days. Lucky for me – since I remembered on the 2nd (means the first is my first miss), the 11&12th for whatever reason, and the 14th. I stitched on all of those days, just forgot to send off the email!

But anyway – I made a reasonable amount of progress this month – I already noted that I finished the January Quaker, the Fox, the Barbara Ana SAL and the Owl Forest Cook & Cat. 

The Swan has been started, I have made decent progress on the February Quaker

 

I have only the last few days of Feb to add to the temperature bookshelf and have the March shelf ready

and completed another section of the Zodiac border. 

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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