Allergy Season

has arrived here. There has been more than enough rain to have everything blooming, pretty plants and weeds alike.

I love the flowers, but flowers = pollen. So here I am, itchy eyes, runny nose, post nasal drips + cough. And we all know how popular anyone with a cough is in public.

Good excuse to stay home, right? There are always Falcon Cams to watch.

Meanwhile, I am making progress on the Elephant.

with the upper ferns, a few more flowers and that patch on his body to complete before the 20th.

Poison Apple (Snow White) is creeping toward a finish. I still have backstitching to go on the dress, followed by all the beads….

and lastly – the first part of Vampryum is done – with some substitutions in the upper arch because I got irritated by color changes every three stitches.

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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