holding her own

Gwen has spent the day lying quietly on the dog couch. She has as much pain meds on board as is safe. Covered in blankets, there is a safety fence around her to prevent any enthusiastic younger dog from doing damage. She is eating, drinking, and being carried outside for rest breaks. No signs of infection or drainage, so she has made it safely through the first 24 hours.

It wasn’t a high energy day. After several days of intermittent effort, I have given up on trying to log into DISCOM III (World Science Fiction Convention which is running a hybrid format. I should be able to view the designated sessions, but it just isn’t working consistently. I can find better things to do…)

So I listened to an audiobook (Whispers Underground – 3rd of the Peter Grant series by Ben Aaronovich) as I work my way through the series again and stitched on a variety of projects. I think I now have a complete list of everything I need to finish up – at least the Stitch-a-Longs, including the downloads which are either in PatternKeeper or printed. I might actually be able to finish everything up, if I didn’t sleep between now and the first of the year. Since that is so not going to happen, I will just keep plugging away,  There are five SALs I would really like to finish this year – I am hoping for 2-3.

Tomorrow is looking like more of the same + Dani’s birthday.

 

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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