WEEK 12

 

Happy Fall!  This past week gave me a hint of fall.  We had temps below 100F and it was glorious to be out and about.  But, alas, we will be over 100F this coming week and who knows how long that will last.  There have been years when we stayed hot until the middle of October!  I am praying this will not be that year again.

With the temps dropping down I had the itch to cast on something new.  Not to mention, I was getting bored working on the WIP's I already had going.

Say hello to Mehujaa #3.

This is my favorite shawl pattern.  Well, if it is #3 it must be, right?  It is large and light and yet is just enough to keep the chill off when in a building that thinks it needs to feel like Iceland.  It has a 3 row pattern repeat that is fairly simple to memorize.  Yet, if you do not keep track of which pattern row you are on, it will not end well.  And yes, there is a small boo boo on the right side near the top of the shawl.  Someone forgot to do her yarn over!  Since it is near the neck of the shawl, I refused to frog back to that row.

As for the yarn I am using

This has been in my stash for years.  I purchased this when my LYS was going out of business.  It is now a discontinued yarn which makes me sad.  The halo on this is gorgeous and it is so soft.  I realized I needed 3 skeins of this to make this shawl, yet I only had 2.  After scouring the web I found a little yarn shop in California that had a skein of this.  I snatched it up.  I have this yarn in 2 more colorways. A blue/purple and a brown/tan colorway  I did find a third skein in blue purple colorway and grabbed that one too.  I only have one skein of the brown/tan so will use it to make a hat and mitts and possibly a little scarf depending on far the 382 yards (350 m) goes.

Other than the shawl, I have been working on the puzzle quite a bit.

This is my football puzzle.  While hubby watches football, I work on this.  I really want to finish it soon as Hubby bought me 5 more puzzles the other day.  They have more of an 'old fashion' flare to them.  Just the kind I love to do!  

In other news, Jaxon has been released from all healthcare facilities.  She is home for the first time in a month!  Her wound is healing quite well.  The expectation is for a skin graft to happen in the next few weeks.  She has been quite brave through all of this too.  OH!  She got a kitty this week too.  Fluffernutters is a 3 month old male who loves to cuddle.  He is so soft too.  I am sorry I did not take a photo of him when I was over there holding him.  Soon though.

Hubby decided to get this sick this week with Covid!  He was kind of sniffling on Wednesday and we thought it was his allergies.  So Thursday he went and got his allergy injections.  By Thursday evening he was hacking and blowing his nose so much I decided to go ahead and test him.

This was after 3 minutes of the test!  I called his Dr Friday morning and he started Paxlovid right away.  He is already feeling better.  He is still coughing hard at times and still has a runny nose at times.  But, he seems to be healing quite well.  I, on the other hand, have moved into one of our spare bedrooms until he is done coughing like a person with pneumonia!  His Dr wants him quarantined for 10 days!  I thought that had been revised to, until symptoms dissipate.  Oh well.  He still is helping me around the house as much as he can without starting to cough.  But, most of the time he is sitting on the couch watching old western movies.

I am feeling pretty darn good.  Tomorrow I have a cardiologist appointment to go over some test results.  I also need to speak to her about not answering my other specialists requests for procedures to be done.  One of two things is happening.  Either her staff is not getting the messages to her or she is not responding to the requests.  Either way, this is not giving me a warm and fuzzy feeling.  So, tomorrow, I will find out which is the problem.

This morning, I got up and started a loaf of bread in the bread machine.  I have sourdough chocolate cookie dough in the fridge that will be baked today.  They will be going to Jaxon's house.  There will be sourdough crackers made for hubby, today as well.  If I have time and the energy, another batch of sourdough cookies will be mixed up.  Not sure what kind of cookies yet.  But I am sure hubby and I will love them.  I am also in hopes of getting a loaf of sourdough bread ready to be baked tomorrow.  Hubby likes a slice of that with his salads he eats at lunchtime.

Josh is in Seattle at the moment.  He will return on Wednesday.  While he was gone, Stacie rearranged their home so they could move their bedroom downstairs.  He is not stable on the stairs anymore and she has a fear of going to work and him falling down the stairs with no one there to help him.  She did a great job rearranging things too.  There is a full bath on the main floor also, so no need for him go up and down at all anymore.

Here is your chuckle for the week:

Until Next Time....................Happy Crafting!!!!!!!!!!!