A Little This, A Little That

I haven’t posted for a while, and the stuff that I keep thinking that I should write about are piling up. I have all of these great books that I think I should connect somehow and then write about. My medical adventures continue. I’ve been driving around looking at the weeds plants in the fields hunting for great prospects for a BioGeek post. The weather has been beautiful: crisp, cooler in the evenings, and perfect blue skies. The trees are flashing their fall colors, and the squirrels are going wild. I pulled out the sewing machine and started using it again. I’ve been working on the catio. Oh, yeah. I’ve also been knitting.

Knitting

The arm warmers are done and I’m still knitting away on the sweater. Oh, you can’t see the sweater in the picture? Well, there isn’t much to see at this point… it is just a huge pink blog. Isn’t Hannah cute?

Catio

I bought and laid out a new rug for the catio. The cats love it!

I also bought a cheap screen door for the catio and my son came down last weekend to help me get it installed. Today I managed to get a coat of paint on it.

Now I have easy access to the back yard that is Mateo proof. I think. Mateo is pretty tricky and has gotten out of the catio a few times now.

Mini Waffle Mania

I bought a little waffle maker during Amazon Prime Days last summer. It is really cute, makes the waffles in just a couple of minutes each, and I have been making a batch at a time and freezing the extras.

What can I say. These little waffles are really nice (and cute!). I shared the fun and wonderfulness of mini waffles with my family, and my niece bought a mini waffle iron. Then she sent one to my sister. As of this evening, we are now officially the Mini Waffle Mafia. Don’t ever question the power of waffles!

Pig Gone Wild

Yep. This happened this week, too. The governor of the state finally sent us the update that we had all been waiting for: Fred had been run to ground and captured in a parking lot by my Kaiser Clinic. Isn’t he cute? I wonder how he feels about catios?

Indigo Sunflowers

I have this wonderful batik fabric that was designed for Colorado: sunflowers, grain, aspen leaves, and a sky full of stars.

How cool is this?

I have been sewing in the early afternoons and so far I’ve produced a couple of hot pads and a place mat.

I’m not sure if I love that place mat… I may make one more to match the one that I have, and then I can change the borders on the next two. It is nice to be sewing again, and Hannah is thrilled to have the machine out. Seriously, she must remember it and is displaying a lot of the kitten behaviors that she had when I last sewed in this room like… standing on the machine and pulling the wall hanging off the walls. Trilling and rolling around under the table. Carrying off the pin cushion. Knocking the scissors off the table. It is so nice to see her perked up like this… (yes, this is snark!)

Well, that is enough catching up for now, don’t you think?

I’m off to make some more waffles.

Laters!

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Author: Midnight Knitter

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.

19 thoughts on “A Little This, A Little That”

  1. What d’you have on the waffles ? – jam ? honey ? Nutella ? butter ? erhmmm .. peanut butter ? I long to know because yes, they look very cute – almost as cute as Hannah does ! 😀
    The business of her relating to the sewing-machine is fascinating, Marilyn: aren’t cats amazing ?!
    The catio you will soon be able to charge for: it’s turning into a real feature !!
    I do like Fred ..

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    1. I put maple syrup on them! Fred is lucky that he is so darn cute. He should be going up for adoption soon… right now he is listed as a lost pet. I love that this happened during badded book week: Some Pig!!

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  5. Your Hannah and my Hannah should have coffee! The odd things that entrance felines are a source of amazement for me.

    I now need a waffle maker. Thank you for the PSA as I wasn’t aware I needed one before. 😉

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  6. Well that was a bumper crop of a post, so much going on. The new catio door looks great, my old cats would have just climbed straight up and out of that but hopefully Mateo and Hannah will be well behaved!

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    1. So far the cats have not gone climbing up the chicken wire or the screen. Yay! Mateo has climbed a post up to the roof, but I put a kibosh on that with some more chicken wire to block the route. He’s after the squirrels, and I actually think that things would go badly if he managed to catch one!

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  7. So much going on! Love the batik. And the pig. How on earth does one end up with a pig loose in the middle of the city? Is it even legal to keep pigs in the city? (True, he is awfully cute.)

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    1. The homes up that way have really large yards, and there are streams with green belts going through the city that he could have wandered along from the more rural areas east of the city. From his behavior they are pretty sure that he was a pet. Don’t laugh… my dad grew up on a farm and he had a pet pig.

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