Goodbyes and Hellos

We had to say goodbye to Rocky in Tuesday. We had a great goodbye walk with the stroller on Monday, because, although it was cold, it was sunny and there wasn't much wind.

We wrapped Rocky up with a blanket and the heating pad, because he would mostly be sitting. We got him out to walk for a bit when he indicated he would like to. He walked for about 15 minutes. On Tuesday we had sort of a little party. The dogs had some doggy birthday cake left over from Rocky's 18th birthday. 

After the vet left, I wrote up a eulogy blog post for him. It was therapeutic. When I was done writing it, I checked Ash's Mystical Poodles website, in Nevada, thinking ahead, just to see what our breeder, Marie, had. I found this.

Two of the boys were available. Not sure if Charlie would agree to another puppy, I decided to wait for the right moment to bring it up. The next day, he came back from a dental appointment and wanted to talk to me. I could tell he had planned what he was going to say. The bottom line was he wanted me to go to Marie's website and see what she had. I told him I had already looked, and she had two boys that could be perfect for us. They will be ready to go to their new homes right about the time we will be coming back from Arizona with the trailer, which would save us a two-day trip in the car. (We’re further away now than when we lived in Utah. She will send them by plane but with a courier, in-cabin. I can’t imagine what that costs!) Charlie wanted to call. What if they were both gone by the time we were ready? So we have a new family member joining us in March. 

Here’s an update on the cedar closet. Saturday I filled the storage bins, organizing by cardigans/pullovers/shawls by size and socks. Some of my knitted things I hadn’t seen in a while. There’s room for Charlie’s knitwear, too, and our laundry basket fits.

When I sorted through items to put into the storage boxes, I came across one of these gloves. They are the gloves I bought to take with me to Europe on 1960. My mother thought they were too expensive, and I would just lose one. I talked her into getting them by betting her $25 I wouldn’t lose one. Every postcard I sent home had "I still have my gloves!" added at the bottom. They got separated when we moved. The thread is brittle now, so I can’t wear them.

Remember a few weeks ago when I said goodbye to my laptop? It was repaired and given to UPS more than three weeks ago! The Best Buy website still says "in transit," but on Saturday I called again and asked if they had a tracking number. I wanted some idea when it would arrive, so I could plan. They gave me the tracking, and that led me to the information that it had been delivered to the Bend Best Buy on the 17th! I called again and asked why no one had informed me and why it still says "in transit" on their website. Their answer? They had to check it out before giving it back to me. No!

Yesterday I called and told them I was coming to get it. I had to make an appointment, so I did. Best I could get was 6:20 PM. When I arrived to pick up my computer, I found out it hadn’t been repaired, because they had failed to collect the fee for the repair (still under warranty?) and (and this is the kicker) they couldn’t get in touch with me. Now the space bar doesn’t work at all. The only way to put in a space is to copy a space that already exists and paste it where you want it. Needless to say, I will be on the phone with Apple today!

Remember the water on the floor of the laundry room? The repair man came to have a look at our 1982 Maytag. 

It turned out that one of the hoses had become brittle and had a crack in it. The replacement should be here this week, so we’ll be back in business. Let’s hope it goes better than the computer.

I’m a little behind on the Rose City Yarn Crawl Mystery KAL, but catching up and should be ready for the next clue.

If you have a few minutes and are willing, please go to Amazon and B&N and search for "Classic Tales Retold: Stories from The Doll's Storybook by Peggy Stuart" in Children's. Every click on the page for the book makes it more likely they will keep a good supply in their warehouse and stores. If you are outside the US, you may have a separate website for these retailers. If you have a copy of any of our books, including Emil and Mariah, please leave an honest review on the websites, especially if you bought from them.

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What's on my needles: Still the Rose City Yarn Crawl Mystery KAL, the Talvinen cardigan and the EmPower People Kerchief (still hibernating).

What's on my loom: Dust, but I still plan to make some placemats.

What's on my sewing machine: Still ready for back of T-shirt quilt.

What's in my hoop: Whole Cloth quilt, still no progress..

What's in The Doll's Storybook: In "Looking for Snow," Jolena leaves to go to Idaho to practice with her team. 

What's on my iPad/iPhone: Still listening to Christopher Paolini's "Das Vermächtnis der Drachenreiter," and will probably finish this week.

What's in my wine glass: Viñalba Reserva Malbec 2019 from Argentina. Excellent.

What's my tip of the week:  Sticky labels are hard to remove, but there are tricks that can make it easier. I try to keep the label all in one piece, because when the outer layer is removed and only the sticky stuff is left, it’s harder to get off. Using a hair dryer run over the the outside can heat up the glue a bit and make it easier. The bits that are left can be removed by tapping the sticky side of the removed label to the bits and pulling the label to the side. If all else fails, you can remove it with Goo 

Gone.

Where are my books: The stories in each book first appeared in the blog and they are reproduced with a few changes. 

Classic Tales Retold: Stories from The Doll's Storybook is available from BookBabyBookshop and other booksellers worldwide. The stories are Little Green Greatcoat, The Boy Doll Who Cried Wolf and Lost in the Woods.

Emil: Stories from The Doll's Storybook and Mariah: Stories from The Doll's Storybook are also still available from booksellers. The link for Book Baby is here. The three stories in Emil are Best Buds, Getting What You Want, and The Boys Cook Dinner.

The three stories in Mariah are Being Little, Besties, and Distraction.

If you don't get free shipping from Amazon or B&N, buy from the BookBabyBookshop, because 50% of the price goes to St. Jude. Other booksellers pay much less. 

Note: This blog post was produced on the iPad and the MacBook, using the iPhone for some photos and some photo processing. No other computer was used in any stage of composition or posting, and no Windows were opened, waited for, cleaned or broken. No animals or dolls were harmed during the production of this blog post.

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Out of Warranty

No warranty involved in these needles and lovely yarn, but my eyes are definitely out of warranty. I haven't had much time to knit this week, mostly just in the evenings, when the light isn’t good, and I try to stay in the family room, where it’s easier to look after Rocky. The lighting is inadequate there, too. The light blue is easy enough to see, but the darker color doesn’t show the stitch definition well enough. It’s an interesting project, though, and my audiobook keeps me entertained.

Very long out of warranty is our 1982 Maytag washer. We have a leak and can’t figure out where it is, so we will be calling appliance repair this week. We will ask them to send us the oldest person they have.

Technically, our food-storage list doesn’t come with a warranty, but we decided the old list was overdue for a replacement. It tells us what’s in the cabinet over the fridge. It’s mostly stuff that would take up a bit too much space in the pantry.

It actually didn’t take much time to pull everything out, edit the list and print a new copy.

We found some places where someone had taken something out and forgotten to cross it off.

Definitely out of warranty, our old Rocky dog will be leaving us this week. Our vet is coming over Tuesday afternoon to help with our goodbye party. We had a chat on Friday with Julie, our pet psychic. She told us Rocky knew we were thinking about sending him on his way, and he is ready to go. He has been very happy with us and wants to come back to us. If he does, and if he lives as long as this time, we will be 98 and 99 when we go through this again. 🙄 he has been a great dog. His only health issues until just a few years ago were all activity-related injuries.

Also out of warranty are my hearing aids and charger. Saturday night the hearing aids didn’t charge and we’re dead Sunday morning. I tried moving the plug around until they started to charge, but then came back later, and they were off again. After a few additional attempts, I moved the charger to a different outlet. That seems to have worked. We'll see.

My computer is still on its way back to me after a warranty-covered repair. I’ve learned some tricks to writing my blog and the stories on my iPad, though, so I’m mostly doing OK without it.

For this week's cuteness, here’s our honorary granddaughter, Elsie, with our regular grandson Johan, reading together.

If you have a few minutes and are willing, please go to Amazon and B&N and search for "Classic Tales Retold: Stories from The Doll's Storybook by Peggy Stuart" in Children's. Every click on the page for the book makes it more likely they will keep a good supply in their warehouse and stores. If you are outside the US, you may have a separate website for these retailers. If you have a copy of any of our books, including Emil and Mariah, please leave an honest review on the websites, especially if you bought from them.

Where's my blog: If you want to follow my blog, go here and sign up to follow.

What's on my needles: Still the Rose City Yarn Crawl Mystery KAL, the Talvinen cardigan and the EmPower People Kerchief (hibernating).

What's in The Doll's Storybook: The latest story in #TheDollsStorybook is "Wrapping Paper," in which the dolls explain to Pauly who MLK was and why we had a day off from school to celebrate him.

What's on my iPad/iPhone: Still listening to Das Vermächtnis der Drachenreiter by Christopher Paolini, about seven hours to go.

What's in my wine glass: Gran Maestro Rosso Puglia 2019 from Italy. Excellent.

What's my tip of the week: If you have a place where you store large quantities of anything, keep a list, then cross off anything you take from it. Even if you forget to cross something off, it’s better to know some of what you have.

Where are my books: The stories in each book first appeared in the blog and they are reproduced with a few changes. 

Classic Tales Retold: Stories from The Doll's Storybook is available from BookBabyBookshop and other booksellers worldwide. The stories are Little Green Greatcoat, The Boy Doll Who Cried Wolf and Lost in the Woods.

Emil: Stories from The Doll's Storybook and Mariah: Stories from The Doll's Storybook are also still available from booksellers. The link for Book Baby is here. The three stories in Emil are Best Buds, Getting What You Want, and The Boys Cook Dinner.

The three stories in Mariah are Being Little, Besties, and Distraction.

If you don't get free shipping from Amazon or B&N, buy from the BookBabyBookshop, because 50% of the price goes to St. Jude. Other booksellers pay much less. 

Note: This blog post was produced on the iPad and the MacBook, using the iPhone for some photos and some photo processing. No other computer was used in any stage of composition or posting, and no Windows were opened, waited for, cleaned or broken. No animals or dolls were harmed during the production of this blog post.

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Racked Up

The pot rack is up!

You may remember that we thought Josh could take out the pot light and use his little periscope to look around in the ceiling. It turned out that the pot light is in a box, so that didn’t work. However, a stud finder worked well, as long as you don’t press it too hard against the ceiling. About an hour and $25 later, the rack was up.

I got out my copper pots and pans, which I haven't been able to use because I had no place to keep them in the kitchen. They needed some cleaning, because the copper had tarnished while they had been stored. A mix of white vinegar and salt, combined with a little elbow grease, did the trick.

As you can see from the first photo, I’ve added a few things. We ran out of hooks, but when I get more, I’ll be able to add a few more items to the rack.

You may remember the renovations going on in the bathroom over the summer. Just to refresh your memory, here’s how it was. First the existing shower, which was smaller than it looks, because there was a seat in the molded enclosure taking up half of the floor space. (It’s behind the towel.)

We also had taken the doors off the closets on each side of the soaking tub because they opened into the closets. We had Josh install them so they open out.

This is what it looks like now.

Of course, we needed a shower. What we didn’t need was this huge soaking tub.

This is what we did. We’re happy with our new shower. It even has controls that allow us to adjust the temperature easily.

Besides his and hers closets on each side of the new shower also have a linen closet in the hall. What we needed was a cedar closet for all our knitted items. We had been carrying around some cedar boards left over from a closet in our house in Dana Point, California, which we moved into back in 1987. We didn’t have enough to finish this project, so we bought more. Then shelves went in to hold plastic bins for our woolens. Charlie did all the work himself. 

I have more plastic bins coming this week for the rest of our woolens, which are still in big plastic zipper bags in my closet.

I finished the first clue for the Rose City Yarn Crawl Mystery KAL on Wednesday.

Here’s what I had by Saturday night. The second clue changed to the other color. I’m about halfway through the second clue.

I received one more 1942 birthday gift from our daughter this week, a coffee mug. It’s covered with important things to know about 1942. (The Battle of Stalingrad isn’t mentioned.)

I’m still doing this on my iPad. Here’s an update on my laptop, however. I learned on 

Friday that it had been repaired and was ready to ship back. When I checked on Saturday, it had been shipped. When it arrives at Best Buy, I’ll go pick it up., which will probably be this week. I managed to get Friday's story done on the iPad. It’s getting easier to manipulate the photos and enlarge them. To enlarge a photo in Blogger using an iPad, you have to pull the text box up close to the top so the bottom of the photo barely shows and then tap the photo, then pick the size. It might take several tries.  It’s still much easier on the laptop. One thing that’s easier on the iPad is typing. I may continue to type the stories and my blog on the iPad and then put the photos in using the laptop. I should have it back before I have to do another story. 😅

If you have a few minutes and are willing, please go to Amazon and B&N and search for "Classic Tales Retold: Stories from The Doll's Storybook by Peggy Stuart" in Children's. Every click on the page for the book makes it more likely they will keep a good supply in their warehouse and stores. If you are outside the US, you may have a separate website for these retailers. If you have a copy of any of our books, including Emil and Mariah, please leave an honest review on the websites, especially if you bought from them.

Where's my blog: If you want to follow my blog, go here and sign up to follow.

What's on my needles: Still the Rose City Yarn Crawl Mystery KAL, the Talvinen cardigan and the EmPower People Kerchief (hibernating, of course).

What's on my loom: I still plan to make some placemats. Right now, it’s shielding our Christmas tree (in its box) so we don’t trip over it.

What's on my sewing machine: Still ready for back of T-shirt quilt. 🙄 (One advantage of having to use the iPad is the access to emojis.) 

What's in my hoop: Whole Cloth quilt, still no progress, but it’s calling me. I may try to get it done after I finish the Mystery KAL.

What's in The Doll's Storybook: "Holly and Sam Get New Wheels," Emil gets a letter from his friend Holly and finds out that Sam is in the choir at school. She got to ride in the big school bus with her classmates to a concert. The dolls are excited to hear all about it.

What's on my iPad/iPhone: Still listening to listening to Das Vermächtnis der Drachenreiter (Eragon 1) by Christopher Paolini. I’m about halfway through the story. 

What's in my wine glass: El Accorde Merlot 2019 from San Juan, Argentina. Nice.

What's my tip of the week: Tarnished copper and brass can be cleaned without using regular tarnish remover. Wet a sponge with white vinegar, sprinkle on some regular salt and start rubbing. Add more vinegar and salt as needed. Finish with a nice bath in hot soapy water.

Where are my books: The stories in each book first appeared in the blog and they are reproduced with a few changes. 

Classic Tales Retold: Stories from The Doll's Storybook is available from BookBabyBookshop and other booksellers worldwide. The stories are Little Green Greatcoat, The Boy Doll Who Cried Wolf and Lost in the Woods.

Emil: Stories from The Doll's Storybook and Mariah: Stories from The Doll's Storybook are also still available from booksellers. The link for Book Baby is here. The three stories in Emil are Best Buds, Getting What You Want, and The Boys Cook Dinner.

The three stories in Mariah are Being Little, Besties, and Distraction.

If you don't get free shipping from Amazon or B&N, buy from the BookBabyBookshop, because 50% of the price goes to St. Jude. Other booksellers pay much less. 

Note: This blog post was produced on the iPad and the MacBook, using the iPhone for some photos and some photo processing. No other computer was used in any stage of composition or posting, and no Windows were opened, waited for, cleaned or broken. No animals or dolls were harmed during the production of this blog post.

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Trial by Computer

 The Hinterland Pullover is off the needles.

I finished the knitting on Thursday, then washed and blocked it the next day. It took more than 24 hours to dry, because we've been having rainy weather.

Now I’m able to wear it. Having that off the needles, I was able to cast on for the Rose City Yarn Crawl Mystery Knit-along.

I can show the photo, because it hasn’t gotten interesting yet. (I don’t usually post photos of the mystery projects, because I don’t want post a spoiler, in case someone wants to be surprised.)

You may remember the lovely wineglass I received for my birthday inscribed with what was supposed to be my "vintage," except it was off one year. A new one arrived this week with the correct "vintage."

It even came in a lovely, sturdy box. I think I can store my double-pointed needles in it, but I’ll have to check to see if it's tall enough.

My laptop has again begun to have trouble with the space bar. It was getting where I had to really whack it hard to be sure it would respond with a space. It didn’t always fail, but often enough that it was a real nuisance. If I didn’t notice it’s failure to make a space, Autocorrect would guess a word that had some of the right letters but without the space. 🙄

I really need my laptop to process the photos for my blog posts. I’m doing it now on my iPad. Altering the size of the photo is a challenge with Blogger on the iPad, and I haven’t found an app for Blogger that’s easy to use. It’s like pulling teeth to add photos and get them the size I want.

You may remember that I had a similar issue last March. I took it to SimplyMac, according to Apple's instructions, and it was repaired in just a few days. Now I find out that SimplyMac has gone out of business. Best Buy's Geek Squad is now taking in Apple computers that need repair. Off I went with the laptop to Best Buy. It’s a much longer drive and the wait to get taken care of was much longer. They tell me it could be a month before I get my computer back.

But wait! There’s more! Friday morning I received an email from a law firm claiming that there has been a class-action settlement with Apple over something called a "butterfly keyboard," and I was on the list as someone who might have had an issue with one, so might qualify for a share of the settlement. My first thought was it was another scam, and I almost deleted it, but I did have a problem with my keyboard (now twice), so maybe it was legit. I saw that they addressed me by name, even with my middle initial. The email address looked reasonable. Finally I Googled the name of the law firm, and they do exist. I called the number of one of the lawyers listed in the email and got a switchboard for the law firm. When I finally talked with the lawyer, I found out that my situation was the kind of thing that had caused the lawsuit. Now, to be clear, this defect has never cost me any money because the laptop was still under warranty, and the maximum settlement is very small. Last time, the inconvenience to me was slight. However, it will be out of warranty in June, so what if it happens again?

Stay tuned.

Something long out of warranty is our Thompson Chest. This chest of drawers belonged to my parents. They bought it somewhere and stripped it. (It had multiple layers of paint.) Then, before they could finish it, they bought a little apartment house near the beach near San Diego. They needed furniture for it, so this chest of drawers went into one of the apartments. The drawers were damaged, and someone had left a candle or something on the top, so it was badly stained with wax. When we were getting ready to move, I thought about getting rid of it, but my parents had made a big deal about that it was valuable, so I researched it. I found out that an antique store in California had a similar one, refurbished, for $5K. We decided to keep it, and it has been in our guest room, neither very pretty nor useful.

We asked our carpenter/handyman, Josh, who worked on our bathroom closet and our front porch, to see if he could fix it so the drawers worked and it looked nice, since he mentioned that he repairs furniture during the winter months, when he can’t work outside comfortably. Saturday he brought it back. It’s now back in the guest room, with the drawers working nicely and looking quite nice, I think.

He was able to get all the stains off the top. (I should have taken before photos.) The drawers open and close properly now. I plan to put some shelf paper or something down in the drawers.

Josh thinks it’s actually older than the one in the photos I showed him (see last week's blog post for one of the photos of it), because the drawers are put together with wooden pegs instead of dovetailed. The chest in the photos also appeared to have a new top attached over the old one, which I hadn’t noticed. Josh did all the work for $300, which we thought was reasonable.

Josh is coming back today to put up my pot rack. We hadn’t put it up before because there are so many electrical wires for all the lights in the kitchen. You don’t want to put the hooks into one of those! He has a device he can use to go through the place where the pot light is over the sink, look around and see where the wires are. We'll see how that goes. 

Charlie brought home a jar of artichoke Pasta Sauce from Trader Joe’s, so I decided to give it a try Saturday night. I found several recipes for pasta dishes that used mushrooms and kale, which I wanted to use. I picked out one that I thought was the closest to what I wanted to do, but instead of finishing it with the sauce in the recipe (sort of a roux), I used the artichoke pasta sauce. I also made some other changes, like more garlic, olive oil instead of butter and added garbanzo beans for extra protein. I think we have a new favorite recipe.

Here's the recipe:

We might try this also with one of the other pasta sauces Trader Joe’s has in the same-size jar.

If you have a few minutes and are willing, please go to Amazon and B&N and search for "Classic Tales Retold: Stories from The Doll's Storybook by Peggy Stuart" in Children's. Every click on the page for the book makes it more likely they will keep a good supply in their warehouse and stores. If you are outside the US, you may have a separate website for these retailers. If you have a copy of our other books, Emil and Mariah, please leave an honest review on the websites, especially if you bought from them.

Where's my blog: If you want to follow my blog, go here and sign up to follow.

What's on my needles: The Mystery KAL for the Rose City Yarn Crawl (still on the first clue) and the EmPower People Kerchief (hibernating).

What's in The Doll's Storybook: Find out a little about journalism and how #TheDollsStorybook got started, as the dolls discuss Mariah's article in the school paper in "The Interview—In Print"

What's on my iPad/iPhone: Now listening to Das Vermächtnis der Drachenreiter (Eragon 1) by Christopher Paolini. Our honorary grandson, Leo, had the English version on his wish list for Christmas, and I thought it sounded interesting, so I gave him the audiobook from Audible. I’m listening to it in German, because the German version was very cheap, and the narrator is clear and easy to understand. It’s turning out to be an interesting story. I think the author may have been influenced by Anne McCaffrey's Pern novels as well as The Lord of the Rings.

What's in my wine glass: A white: Alize’s Cellars Chenin Blanc 2020. (At least 2020 was good for something!)

What's my tip of the week: As you know, I usually keep some sprouts growing in a jar or two on my kitchen counter or in the windowsill. 

It was a nuisance to have to gently dig the roots out of the screen each time I watered them. They would grow through the holes, trying to reach the source of the water and root themselves where they thought the soil would be. I have figured out a way to keep them from doing that.

When I water the sprouts, I fill up the jar with water, and instead of turning it immediately upside-down, I tip it just enough for the water to start to run out. 

After a few minutes I lay the jar on its side. When all the water has run out, I put it back in the tray that keeps it tilted.

Where are my books: The stories in each book first appeared in the blog and they are reproduced with a few changes. 

Classic Tales Retold: Stories from The Doll's Storybook is available from BookBabyBookshop and other booksellers worldwide. The stories are Little Green Greatcoat, The Boy Doll Who Cried Wolf and Lost in the Woods.

Emil: Stories from The Doll's Storybook and Mariah: Stories from The Doll's Storybook are also still available from booksellers world wide. The link for Book Baby is here. The three stories in Emil are Best Buds, Getting What You Want, and The Boys Cook Dinner.

The three stories in Mariah are Being Little, Besties, and Distraction.

If you don't get free shipping from Amazon or B&N, buy from the BookBabyBookshop, because 50% of the price goes to St. Jude. Other booksellers pay much less. 

Note: This blog post was produced on the iPad and the MacBook, using the iPhone for some photos and some photo processing. No other computer was used in any stage of composition or posting, and no Windows were opened, waited for, cleaned or broken. No animals or dolls were harmed during the production of this blog post.

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