Hi. I’m Hannah.
It has been a crazy week. There have been thunderstorms. The Mother of Cats decided to move a bunch of furniture. The Mother of Cats replaced the broken television in the downstairs room with only a LITTLE help from me. Then the washing machine broke during a big thunderstorm. Strange men took it away and installed a new one on Friday while the CoalBear and I hid the whole time (Hello… strange, scary men… hey, we helped with the television, right?) Then the Mother of Cats decided to reorganize all of the yarn in the craft room. Yay!!! We went crazy wild helping her with that!!! She says that it is time for Fall Knitting!
Listen, I am a fan! I loves the yarn!!!
There is a lot of yarn for socks, so the Mother of Cats decided to focus on sock knitting for a while. She is also concentrating on a shawl (while ignoring two other ones), and there is yarn for a new sweater, too. Do I believe her when she says she is going to concentrate on socks? No… not really. But it is cooler now and she is wearing socks again, so I guess it is sock season.
She finished one pair and is making progress on a second pair. She says that the yarn on the purple sock is purple zebra yarn because it has black stripes in it. Whatever. Who cares about zebras? Cats are better right?
While the Mother of Cats was deciding on yarn color matches and taking the pictures the CoalBear and I looked for bunnies. No bunnies! No raccoons!! The backyard is getting pretty boring now that the weather is getting colder. Good thing there are still birds and squirrels…
So that was kind of the week. Lots of things moving around and general commotion as the new television went up and the washing machine left for a new home. There was some knitting, and we got to play with yarn. The Mother of Cats moved all of our cardboard boxes around so the CoalBear thinks that they are new toys (not too smart, that boy!) and I mostly helped with the knitting and tried to chomp yarn.
This is Hannah, signing off.
Time for tuna!!
Notes from the Mother of Cats:
- The shawl is Age of Gold by Joji Locatelli.
- The sweater that I am making with the Spincycle yarn is Antipodes by Andrea Mowry. I found that berry-colored yarn in the stash and I’m hoping that it will knit okay with the bouncy Spincycle yarn as it is a slightly lighter gauge. The Spincycle’s name is Dirty Little Secret. 🙂
- Those are Frankensocks made from a mish-mash of other patterns and tricks picked up over the years.
- I had to take a couple of down days in the middle of the week because of a covid-vaccine triggered flare. This time the shot hit me pretty hard, but the upside of a new covid vaccine should be a couple of weeks feeling pretty good as my autoimmune disease usually calms down: Vaccine Holiday!! Why does this happen? I think that triggering an immune system response with the vaccine disrupts the sad little inflammatory feedback loop that is part of my chronic autoimmune disease (systemic sclerosis). It doesn’t last more than a couple of weeks, but it is nice while it is happening!! For some reason the covid vaccine works the best.
What a stately pose of Mat. the Cat in the first photo. His fur is beautiful.
Yummy yarn! Sock weather here, too, in some mornings and evenings.
Crazy the need for socks and heat, alternating with turning on the AC. September often has triple-digit temps and no rain, but that’s not the case this year. As for next-week’s hurricane-spawned bad weather forecast for next week, kinda weird, too. This year, El Paso, a whole other climate from the Texas coast, is seeing more hurricane action than the coasties usually do.
How great that your covid booster gives you a few weeks of respite from the immune system problems you’re “blessed” with. I wish that response could last indefinitely for you. I wonder if this reaction is being studied seriously with an eye toward an off-use of this vax. Seems like this could be a potential moneymaker for big pharma besides providing an effective treatment for some immune-system-based body malfunctions.
I’m thinking positive thoughts for you during next week’s low-pressure system. I hope that there’s minimal mudslide damage in the deforested areas and nobody is hurt.
I like this time of year, but it also drives me crazy. I can have trouble sleeping because it is too warm, but then in the morning I have trouble getting up because it is too cold.
The response to the vaccine is really something that I and some other patients experience; in our support group some of us get the next booster as soon as it is available to us for that reason. It has been studied in terms of long-haul covid, and I think that there is some evidence that other vaccines may also have the effect. Here’s a link about covid boosters and long hauling: https://newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/mayo-researchers-find-vaccine-may-reduce-severity-of-long-haul-covid-symptoms/
I think that we will be okay here in the Denver area with the incoming storm, but there is rain in the forecast. It is really going to be bad in the southwest where there were fires.
Sounds like chaos reigned at your place this week. New stuff is fun — after things calm down. And especially if that vax is going to help you. All I ever get out of it is a sore arm. About two weeks from now — covid and flu.
No bunnies here, either. I miss seeing them in the yard, even if only occasionally. But they freeze when they see Charlie and then are very easy to miss. Squirrel is still hanging around, and there was a bluejay on the deck one day. First time I’ve seen one here. Maybe he’s just passing through.
Berry, eh? Looks and sounds delicious.
I really got a sore arm this time, and I ran a fever for a day too. It has been days and my arm is still warm to the touch, but I feel much better than I did the day right after the booster. The flu shot was a breeze compared to this covid booster.
I had blue jays in the yard this year! So cool to see. There is only one bunny left that hangs out in the yard out front, and I did hear a bird catch something yesterday afternoon: I hope it was a squirrel!!
That berry yarn has silk and yak in it with the merino. As soon as I get the shawl and the current pair of socks done, I hope to get it cast on. I impulse bought the yarn on sale. 🙂
Definitely sock season. Now that I’m taking more Pilates classes, I need to knit myself more yoga socks. The Y always keeps the studio room soooo cold. Good way to use up my leftover yarn. I noticed that we haven’t had hummingbirds at the feeders the past few days. Makes me sad as that’s a definite sign of fall is here. I’ll take the feeders down if no bird visitors by the end of the week. Lots of pretty purple and pink projects on tap.
It is kind of shocking how quickly the change came. I am wearing the socks again most days now, and just a couple of weeks ago I was dying of the heat and wearing shorts and sandals.
I heard the first flock of migrating geese a couple of days ago. Fall is upon us.
You can’t go wrong with purple and pink, right? I have a lot of grey and black in the wardrobe, so they work well.
I’ll be into my socks soon
Well, it has been a busy week. I see you fell down the old “Organizing my yarn stash” rabbit hole. Looks like you made it out safely! Love to all!
It is always risky organizing the yarn stash… This time I got out inspired and then I BOUGHT MORE YARN!!!