"It's not too late to back out," my mother said, as she adjusted my veil. That was 60 years ago today. She thought Charlie was too bossy, and he is, but I can hold my own.
I made waffles this morning, using our electric waffle iron, a wedding present. It isn't very pretty, but it still works.
Not exactly an anniversary present, but we finally got a cover for our stovetop this week. It's bamboo and can be used as a cutting board, but we mostly wanted it to keep crumbs and bits of stuff from falling through the grates on top of the gas burners, which makes a mess and can't be cleaned out properly without removing the grates. It's easy enough to move the stove cover to our kitchen cart when I need to use the burners. The other side has measurements marked along the edge and a pattern to roll out dough into a circle engraved in the middle with measurements for that, too.
We had another Madroña pop-up Zoom meeting during the week and got a few walks in, although rain caused us to miss a couple of days of walking. We made a run to PetCo and the Natural Grocers on Monday, with a stop at the Pine Nursery off-leash area on our way home, because it wasn't much out of the way. We keep a tennis ball in the car, so Dusty got to chase the ball a lot. He's very fast for his size. I think he must use his ears to increase his momentum.
Sandy doesn't bother to try to get the ball unless Dusty isn't around or is looking the other way. I think he picked up that behavior when he was a puppy, because Dusty always got to the ball first. Sandy's just as fast now, but he doesn't seem as motivated. Unless the thrown object is a stick. Then he thinks it's his.
There were some other dogs at the park. Sandy is very friendly and gets along with other dogs. This one was a little intimidating, though. He was big and still pretty young, so he was more active and playful than Sandy is used to with big dogs. They did play some, though.
The dogs always sleep when we come home from an off-leash area. Sandy thinks his Lamb Chop toy needs to join them most of the time.
Sandy chews or sucks on her. Occasionally he makes a hole in her pelt, and I have to sew her up. Otherwise, he keeps pulling the stuffing out until there's nothing left. That's what happened to the first Lamb Chop. He wants to take her out to the backyard, which can be muddy, so I have to watch him and take the toy away if he tries to sneak her out. I can wash her in a pillowcase and dry her in the dryer, and she comes out clean, but the fabric is getting thinner all the time. One of the reasons we went to PetCo was to get a replacement Lamb Chop. We also ordered one online. One is stored in the coat closet. Here's the other new one.
Now that the hand-quilting is done, I've been knitting again. Friday evening I put the stitches on waste yarn and picked up the stitches from the provisional cast-on. What you're looking at is the back neck and shoulders now on the needles and the stitches on the waste yarn, which are just about armpit level. Now I'll be knitting over the shoulders and the front neck. Here's the pattern for the Gentle Spirit Tee.
I wrote another story this week. I'll need to take the photos for it, perhaps this week.
Choir is now in its second week back from summer hiatus. Charlie came to church on Sunday so we could get a blessing for our anniversary and his birthday.
I guess it's too late to back out now.
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