Lisbon. Portugal

This is the real 6 Dec. For whatever reason I grabbed the wrong draft email, cut, pasted and happily sent it out. Then realized that it was the wrong date. Argh

Miriam went out and about. I stayed on the ship. It is not just that I have been here before, but the fact that I was feeling like crap. I managed to stash my migraine meds in a “safe place.” Thinking about it – I think that safe place might just have been the counter in our room at the IBIS and they didn’t get packed. 

I have been through all of my things a couple of times, and they are just not here… Obviously not thrilled. It isn’t just the pain, it is the ability to ward off the pain in the first place. 

So Miriam went out to view art musuems and I stitched.  Today I managed to finish this section of the Barbara Ana and will move on to The Secret Garden (a SAL by a designer out of the Netherlands. 

I ran out of DMC 606 so the bird’s wing isn’t done. I can finish that up at home – or if I am lucky the needlework shop in Ponta Delgada will be open/

I am hot spoting off my phone to write this entry, and for some reason, the computer doesn’t want to do air drop. I am too tired to figure it out…..

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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