23 April 2007

progress

Last night I got past the endless (four inch) 2x2 cuff on the second soldiersock. Now there's another eight inches of leg (if I'm reading this correctly) before I start the heels. That oughta go quickly (in comparison to the cuffs ); I am just thankful to be past the hard part on both socks.

Took a break from everything --that is, knitting and yardwork-- today and instead worked on the Janlynn bears cross stitch a while, and read in the hammock (and subsequently took a nap in the hammock, then it started sprinkling and I finished my nap on the back porch glider).

Klutz had been hacking, like she's got something (feathers?) stuck in her throat, so she went to the drrrr this morning, and Nameless has an appointment tomorrow morning, before my dentist appointment. Klutz is also feleuk negative ...wow, we've been lucky. Nameless is the last one, then all nine will have been tested. Shorty seems to be over whatever weirdness she was experiencing; I think a reaction to the drugs (metronidazole), making her spacey and uncoordinated. Dr. Ralph said that's possible, and didn't seem concerned. He's probably as amazed as I am at the amount of business we've given him lately. I still want to make a cross stitch for their clinic; they're such nice people.

th'Mr took the third load of what-used-to-be-the-smokehouse to the landfill this morning, the neighbors fixed the door handle on my van, everything seems to be coming right along (while the money flows out like a river).





Night before last we got tomatoes and pepper plants in the ground as well as beet seeds, and that may be the end of planting. Beans are along the same fence we had them on last year; he has one row of corn sown and left space for two or three more rows (staggered, time-wise), and I'm not sure what else... melons of some sort, potatoes. I replaced the basil that hadn't survived the weird week of freeze we had after spring began.

Oh yeah - saw the first hummingbird yesterday and reported it to the hummingbird website. I'm only seeing one at a time at the feeders; could be he's the only one here so far.

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