life with a chronic disease and a really big yarn stash
MacKenzie Speaks: The First Week of June
Hi. I’m MacKenzie. The Mother of Cats has spent the day reading a book, so I’ve taken over here to share the week with you.She has been cleaning this week. Crazy. She kept muttering about cat hair, vacuuming, the importance of guarding against wool moths… Impossible to understand! Yellow Boy is very upset because the furniture got moved around…and she even washed my cat blanket. Sigh. It took forever for it to dry. I know. I counted.
She hung out new flowers on the deck…and sewed a quilt top with roses on it. It’s OK, I guess; the green highlights my eyes. Instead of quilting it, though, she stopped and made matching bed socks. I don’t know why she stopped quilting. I only messed with the machine a FEW times…She said I was exhausting her. Hey. She washed my blanket. I need to lay on something!!All the neighborhood children are out of school now and playing out front. She, however, won’t let me go out to play with them.I even asked nicely!!Thank heavens I get to play in the backyard. The catmint is coming right along…Sigh. I told Yellow Boy to stop doing that!!Well, that’s the week. Its nice and hot outside now, and the Mother of Cats is in the lawn chair reading her book and eating leftover Chinese take out. I’m in camouflage waiting for a moth. Or maybe a garter snake. If that darn squirrel comes down I’ll give him a chase that he won’t quickly forget…
The yarn is Crazy Zauberball in the colorway 2170_Blasser Schimmer
The quilt is a kit I found years ago at the Great Amrican Quilt Factory called “Leading Ladies”. Fast, simple, fun. Even with cats who help a little too much.
The book is The City of Mirrors by Justin Cronin. All knitting activities are basically on hold while I finish this book.
I weave, knit and read in Aurora, Colorado where my garden lives. I have 2 sons, a knitting daughter-in-law, a grandson and two exceptionally spoiled kittens. In 2014 I was diagnosed with a serious rare autoimmune disease called systemic sclerosis along with Sjogren's Disease and fibromyalgia.
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10 thoughts on “MacKenzie Speaks: The First Week of June”
Oh Mackenzie! You poor dear. Washing your blanket of all things. You need to get back on it to make sure it is all covered in fur and all those good cat smells! It sounds like you have your work cut out for you. But since the Mother of Cats is absorbed in the book, this may be a good time to get to it! Good luck.
Yarn, Books & Roses 
Wonderful post, MacKenzie! You’re a natural. 😉
Thank you.
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Wonderful post – great pics and terrific sense of humor! Loved it!
MacKenzie: Thanks! Mother of Cats: Glad you liked it. I hope to get back to work on that quilt soon. 🙂
Oh Mackenzie! You poor dear. Washing your blanket of all things. You need to get back on it to make sure it is all covered in fur and all those good cat smells! It sounds like you have your work cut out for you. But since the Mother of Cats is absorbed in the book, this may be a good time to get to it! Good luck.
I showed her; I took over her new (mostly white) shawl. Ha!!
Great post Mackensie! I hope you have now been reunited with your blanket 🙂
It is back!!
My blanket is back. I don’t think she understands how traumatic that was. I need more cookies and lots of pets!!
🙂