Hooray for the Printing Press!

The proof copy of the latest book has arrived. As is always the case, I found things that needed fixing. That's why I get a proof copy! I thought the cover was perfect. (Veronika was reading from a volume of poetry by Johann Wolfgang Goethe. (She told me my poems are fun, but Goethe's are better.) I can't argue with that.

But I digress. UPS said the proof copy would be delivered on Tuesday by 1:45 PM. Charlie said (based on our canine surveillance team) that UPS never comes that early. I had an appointment with my orthotist at 1:30, so there was no way I would be home by 1:45.  It turns out that Charlie (and the pups) were right. I snapped this screen shot at 3:22 PM. It was about 4:00 when the package actually arrived.

As I said, the cover appeared to be fine. The inside pages had a few problems, which is not unusual in my experience. When I switched the Vocabulary Verses from the middle of the book to the end (as recommended by one of my wonderful editors, so the photo credits would be at the end), MSWord decided to make some of the photos square instead of a ratio 4:3 rectangle, which is what I have throughout the book, except for the page with the portraits of all my characters, which are, indeed square. I had gone through and looked to find all the square photos, but I missed two, one of which is pictured below.

On Wednesday, I corrected these two photos and read through the entire inside pages, making a couple more corrections. The new inside pages went in later on Wednesday, and we're set up for preorders to become available soon and delivery to book outlets on October 18th or so. I should have my personal copies in another week.

Our wonderful choir director is leaving us, which makes me sad. Yesterday was his last day, but he found us a replacement, someone who has subbed for him. We had practice for a special Sunday anthem on Wednesday evening, followed by a get together at McMenamin's. Sunday we sang "For the Beauty of the Earth" by John Rutter, one of my favorites. I think it went well.

The pups were due to be groomed on Friday. Sandy's hair grows very quickly. This is typical for puppies, and I expect he will look better for longer as he matures. Dusty's haircuts look good for longer. This was Sandy's first grooming appointment since he was neutered, which occurred the day after his last grooming appointment. The groomer said he was much more cooperative than he has been in the past. I don't know whether the neutering caused that or if it was a matter of being a month older and growing up. At home, we have spurts of Sandy acting like a mature dog and reverting to puppyhood with nipping and cases of zoomies.

On Thursday, knowing they would go to the groomer the next day, I took the pups to the dog park. We walked there and back, and we visited both the big-dog area and the small-dog area. There was a big dog there when we got there, but she and her human left soon after we arrived. Someone had left a toy in the small-dog enclosure, so I threw it a few times for Dusty. We walked around on the very limited trail there, then we moved back to the big-dog enclosure to take advantage of their larger hiking trail. They raced up and down the trail and played with each other.

Dusty and Sandy both seemed to be trying to live up to their names. They were very dusty, sandy and exhausted by the time we walked home. That's a good thing!

We had our first major mishap with Sandy on Sunday (yesterday). I had packed my vitamins for our camping trip in a bag with some canned food. Charlie called me at church and said that Sandy had gotten into the vitamins. I told him how many there were of each, while he tried to find them all on the couch and on the floor. The one I was most concerned about was the Vitamin D capsule. When I got home, we added them all up and found that we had all but 1 each B6 and probiotic. One Vitamin D had been bitten into and had a tiny bubble in it, indicating that some of it was missing. One Fish Oil had been bitten into and was almost empty. I took the bottles of what he might have consumed and went with him to the emergency vet. The Vitamin D was the only one they seemed concerned about. A blood test was normal, but if he got much of what was missing from the capsule, it might take up to four days to show up. We will have to have blood drawn every day for four days. They also gave him some activated charcoal and some subcutaneous fluid, which is under is skin as sort of a sac that could drift around. We still plan to go camping. LaPine is not that far away, and we could take him to a vet there to have blood drawn or come back to town. We will have time to go back to the emergency vet for tomorrow's blood draw before we leave, because check-in is 4:00 PM. They have a direct connection with Trupanion Pet Insurance. The insurance only paid a small amount, and the receptionist at the clinic couldn't tell why (Sunday, and she had never charged Trupanion directly before), but I suspect they paid after our deductible was met. I suspect that the additional blood draws will be covered. 

In the meantime, the archeological dig continues to fascinate Sandy. Here's his latest treasure. I wonder if the number 7 means something.

Another activity this week was our biweekly Madroña meeting. It's pretty much a Zoom wine-drinking party. This week the participants decided to exchange email addresses, so we can get together in person if we're going to be in someone's area. One couple lives in Canada during the summer and in the US during the winter. One couple lives in Houston. Another family lives in Minnesota. Most others live in California, from San Diego to Lake Tahoe area. Madroña is located in Camino, California, about 45 miles east of Sacramento. If you're going to be in the area, it's worth stopping in. We have been buying their wines for years, under the Madroña and Rucksack labels. They have great tasting rooms and special events, if you know enough ahead of time, because they sell out of tickets, and space is limited. (Not this week's photo.)

We're planning on leaving today to take "Our Pad" to LaPine State Park, which is not far from Bend. We want to try to use our equipment a lot while we're still under warranty. I've been busy getting the trailer and our menus ready to leave, but one thing I've been trying to do is get done with the colorwork part of the Kultainen käki sweater so I can work on the straight knit section while we're camping. Here's where I was as of Saturday night. I had only one round to go before the colorwork part would be finished and have since finished it. You can just start to see the two almost-complete cuckoos in the top of the center of each panel.

I also got the inner border on Soren's quilt sewn on. The outer border is a Scooby Doo fabric. I think he'll like it, as he's a fan. the background in the little Scooby headshots are almost the same blue as the background setting blocks, although they look green in this photo.

School has started again for the Wisconsin grands. Both are back in regular dance classes. Daphne is a class assistant/helper in one of the classes at the dance studio.

Both kids really seem to enjoy dancing, and the exercise is good for them.

Here are Soren and Johan, mugging for the camera. Soren (on the right) was recently diagnosed with SATB2, which is a chromosome-deletion disorder, and very rare. Communication through speech is very difficult for him, but he has no trouble communicating with the dogs in the family.

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What's on my needles: Still the Kultainen käki cardigan. Now on the straight green stockinette.

What's on my loom: No progress again on the placemats, but I did find the strips of fabric I had cut for them, so will be back on it, now that the book is set and ready to go.

What's on my sewing machine: Still quilts.

What's in The Doll's Storybook: A new story this week, Bad Air. The dolls have noticed all the smoke in the air and no children outdoors playing. Mandy explains about the wildfires miles away and why children need good air to breathe.

What's on my iPad/iPhone: Still listening to Die Unendliche Geschichte by Michael Ende. Not much time to listen this week, with the book and a new blog story, but I'm still enjoying it.

What's in my wine glass: Colossal Reserva Casa Santos Lima 2018, which we've had before and like.

What's my tip of the week: When you measure the inside section of your quilt top for borders, measure across the middle, not the edges, which could have been stretched. Make borders on opposite sides the same length and ease in any fullness. (There shouldn't be much.) I like to put on the two longer sides of border first, because the top and bottom won't be as long. Of course, if you have corner squares, this doesn't matter.

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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Play and Work

Life is exciting, when you're a puppy or when you live with a puppy. There are lots of puzzles to work out. We wondered, for instance, why Sandy was letting a bunch of dog toys sleep on the dog bed and then sleeping on the floor instead of on the bed.

All of those toys had been out in the yard. He takes things out there, then often brings them back. Sometimes something from the yard comes in with him, like that stick on the floor, or a pine or fir cone. (Those items get dismantled, which makes a mess, but he doesn't swallow them.)

I found this arrangement a few nights ago. Art? Message? The interesting thing is, these are meant for dogs to chew, and we've had dogs who liked them. However, Sandy won't chew them. I've decided that he found them in the toy bin and thought they didn't belong. When I ignored them lying randomly on the floor, he made this arrangement, so I would notice.

We've had bad air a good part of the week, which makes me grateful for our air conditioning. Our last summer before we had it put in was the first year since we moved here that the smoke was bad in August. Now it's every year. We have occasional breaks of a few hours or a day when the wind carries the smoke from our annual wildfires away from Bend. When that happens, we get outside with the dogs, unless it's too hot. We visited the dog park twice this week and managed several walks on the trail. Sometimes there were other dogs at the dog park. If not, our pups still enjoy the smells of other dogs, and they always enjoy the walk from our house to the park and back.

The RPod is going to see some more use soon. I hopewe can get a break in the smoke. We've been getting Our Pad ready to go. We signed up all the warranties that required a registration, and we've been looking at the instruction manuals and YouTube videos to learn how our various pieces of equipment work. For instance, we learned that we can leave the solar connected to the battery when we aren't using the trailer, and the solar will keep the battery charged. When the battery is full, the solar will stop charging until the battery runs down a bit. 

Based on our first trip in Our Pad, we decided we needed a few things we didn't already have, so we did some shopping. 

The items are (clockwise from 3:00) wheel covers, level indicators, a baking sheet, pizza pan and cork puller, over-the-door hooks, an unbreakable mirror (in which you can see our dining-room ceiling) and a toilet paper holder.

The wheel covers came in a set of four, but our trailer only has two wheels in use, so we have spares.

The one on the bottom is for the spare, which we bought separately. It's the same as the one we had on our old fifth wheel.

The level indicators will help us level the trailer in a campsite. One is right to left (or port to starboard) and the other one is front to back (bow to stern). We had these on our old fifth wheel, too. They were very useful, but they went with the old rig when it left us.

Now for the pans. We had to wait until we actually had our new trailer to find out how big the oven was and what would fit. The oven is a High Pointe convection/microwave designed for small trailers. The small cookie sheet I used in the old fifth wheel doesn't fit. Our pizza pans don't fit, either, although in that case, the pans are too big for the size pizza I usually make anyway. This one should be perfect. We will only be able to bake the pizza on convection mode because we want it to bake, not just heat up, and the metal pizza pan should work fine. 

The cork puller is similar to one we usually take with us but sometimes forget to bring, and then we have to use one that doesn't work as well, so since we were shopping, we added it.

We needed the over-the-door hooks because the only hooks for anything are on the outside of the bathroom door. Towels take up a lot of space, and we need them on the inside anyway. 

We also needed to replace the mirror you can see hanging on one of the existing hooks. I bought it at Freddy's in Florence, so we would have it to use while we were camping. It has to be stowed away carefully, because it could break, and it could damage the door anyway, hanging on a chain. It was a temporary fix, but now we will have an unbreakable mirror designed for camping, that comes with its own stick-on hook. We hadn't thought about a mirror until we were actually living in the new trailer. Our old rig had mirrors in three of the upper cabinet doors in the main room, a big one on the wall, one in the door of the bathroom cabinet and another one on the back of the TV shelf in the bedroom. We don't need that many. I guess they thought it made the main room look bigger and brought in more light.

Now for the toilet paper holder. I don't think it will work well as a dispenser until some of the toilet paper has been used and the roll is smaller, because it's tight, and only one sheet pulls off, leaving the end of the paper completely inside the holder. We think it will work, though. What we needed was something that could stay in the bathroom all the time except when someone is taking a shower. This will hang on one of those over-the-door hooks until the shower is needed, and if the person taking the shower forgets to move it, the case will protect it. That's the plan.

In case you're wondering why the toilet paper needs to be moved when someone takes a shower...this is what's called a "wet bath."

We're hoping to go camping next week for a few days. It will give us a chance to figure out what else we need.

My brother-in-law, Jim, installed his piece of the Berlin Wall in his front garden. We have pieces, too, but very small ones. He and his wife were living in Berlin when the Wall came down on November 9, 1989. They were there and managed to come away this this nice souvenir. He has placed it in the front yard of his home in Florence.

I managed to get a few rounds of the Kultainen käki knitted this week. The cuckoo's legs are starting to show up, although you can't really tell unless you know what you're looking at. The pattern repeats are between the stitch markers. The two cuckoos are on each side of the center, facing each other. The tails and feet started a round before the legs. (That section of vertical stripes is where the steek will go.)

Here's what the finished sweater will look like, except that I'm making a cardigan, and I've moved the motifs to each side, so the design doesn't get broken up. (Photo from the book, Knitted Kalevala, where you can find the pattern.)

I also finished sewing together the inside part of the quilt top. Here's what it looks like. 

The inner border, 3" wide black faux batik, is cut out. All I have to do is sew it on, then on to the outer border. I'm hoping to be done with the top before we go camping next week.

There will be an all-new story out on Friday. I'm hoping to keep to a once-a-month schedule for new stories, and reposting the old stories, one at a time, in between. It gives me a chance to edit them with the perspective of time, although I find I'm only making slight changes.

The proof copy of the latest book should come this week, probably tomorrow. When it does, I'll reveal the cover and what it's about. I'm hoping we don't need to make any changes, but there is still time to get them done, if needed, and still have the book out in time for holiday shopping.

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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 Kultainen käki cardigan and the EmPower People Kerchief (hibernating).

What's on my loom: I didn't make any progress on the placemats.

What's on my sewing machine: Still quilts. Veronika has been helping. Here she's pinning two rows of blocks together. 

What's in The Doll's Storybook: What Are Dolls For, Anyway? The five girls discuss what their purpose in life is. They talk about kindness, looking after others and what children learn from having and playing with dolls.

What's on my iPad/iPhone: Still listening to Die Unendliche Geschichte by Michael Ende. Still enjoying it.

What's in my wine glass: Giardino Pinot Grigio delle Venezie 2022. OK, but not my favorite. Maybe it was the food pairing that didn't work. We had it with Thai stir-fry vegetables and tuna.

What's my tip of the week: Olive oil is good for a lot of things. One of the things I use it for is making salad dressing or sautéing vegetables, but when I use my pressure cooker I have another use for it as well. I dab a little olive oil on my finger and apply a thin layer of oil on the gasket of the pressure cooker. This keeps the water from leaking out during cooking, and maybe has extended the life of the gasket. (Other kinds of cooking oil will also work.) I don't know if this will work on an instant pot, as I don't have one.

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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Food, Festivities and Frustrations

The week started out with laundry, as it usually does after a trip, but there was some special feasting along the way.

I threw some stuff into the air fryer for brunch. All of these ingredients, some Penzeys Northwoods seasoning and 180ºF for 20 minutes, giving the basket a shake every 5 minutes or so. We had it with a cheese omelette.

We had a pop-up meeting with the fans of Madroña Vineyards. This meeting (it’s really a Zoom wine-drinking party) called for Chimichurri Sauce.

We've done this before with Chimichurri Sauce, but it was a different recipe. I followed this recipe exactly except that we could only find Kalamata olives.

It could be served with a variety of things, but we chose to have it with salmon, which Charlie grilled on the BBQ after allowing it to marinate in the sauce, along with some fresh zucchini. I made some sourdough Dutch Oven bread to have with it. We chose Rucksack Cellars’ Chardonnay 2019 to accompany the meal. (Chardonnay is not my favorite variety, but Rucksack’s is exceptional and had the added benefit of being affiliated with Madroña.)

Our lives with Our Pad continue to be interesting. We’re fortunate to have a dump station within walking distance from our home (but walking there doesn’t really have much purpose, other than that there’s a drive-through or walk-through coffee stand adjacent). Charlie drove over to the dump station on Monday, took care of business and returned to park our little trailer in her berth next to the house. It took less time than it used to take to back the fifth wheel into that same space. Just to refresh your memory, this is what he is used to.

This is what he now has to deal with. He says it handles differently. It’s more responsive, so he has to make smaller adjustments to accomplish the same thing. It will get easier as he becomes used to it. They look nice together, don't they?

I forgot to mention in last week’s blog post, that the fridge in this trailer has an ice maker.

The TV reception in the trailer is better than in the house, for some reason, even though it's parked right outside.

Snowball was getting rather dirty, after having had frequent trips out to the backyard, as well as being dragged on the floor all over the house. I decided to take a chance and wash him in the washing machine. I zipped him up in a zippered pillowcase and put him in with the trailer rug on “delicate” and using cold water with my normal detergent. He looked a little bedraggled when he came out or the washer (I didn’t use the dryer), but by the time he was dry, he looked pretty much back to normal, only clean.

Sandy loves Snowball and carries him to bed each night. He has a little bell in his tail that jingles when he’s moved (Snowball, not Sandy).

Speaking of Sandy, he turned 7 months on Friday. When I weighed him, as I usually do on Fridays, he was 18.2 lbs., so only about 1/4 lb. weight gain since the previous weighing. We took him to the dog park to celebrate.

Both dogs enjoy associating with other dogs, and Dusty especially loves chasing the ball.

We can only do this, of course, when the wind carries the smoke from forest wildfires away from Bend. Some days are better than others, and Friday, the smoke was barely detectable.

Sunday was really nice and smoke-free for the Meet-up group's dog socialization meeting at Bob Wenger Memorial Off-leash Area at Pine Nursery, which is a huge area about four miles away, on the north part of town. Both dogs had a great time meeting other dogs, including miniature silver poodle Asta, whom we had met before.

(That's Asta in the photo, not Dusty. He's a bit smaller than Sandy and is Dusty's double except for his size, and how his tail curls over his back and has more black in it.) Here's Dusty having a discussion about the ball with Asta (mostly hidden by the brown dog) and the other dog. Sandy is running toward the camera.

Sandy has been having what can best be described as a case of the zoomies at bedtime each night. I have a cardboard box in the bedroom, and if I give it a slap, he quiets down and will go to sleep. We’ve taken that as a sign that he needs more exercise, so we’re trying to walk more. I’ve been having trouble with one toe, which has made it difficult to walk very far. I’ve experimented with various pairs of shoes until I can get to the orthotist on the 22nd. For now, it seems like my Croc knock-off shoes are working with the orthotics for my dress shoes in them, so we’ve resumed our walks along the Larkspur trail. There’s a person who puts out painted rocks, and now she has some signs on her fence. There's often something interesting to see.

My editing/proofreading team finished with corrections/modifications to my latest book. The proof copy is now in production. Two things made it easier to do the layout and cover this year. Last year, the publisher started to make a “templating service” available, so I didn’t need to mess with InDesign, the required software for the cover, which was a major expense and headache to use. Now they will take my cover design and transform it into the required format for publishing. It’s more than the software rental, but it saves me many hours of time and aggravation. This year, I was able to convince Microsoft to let me own MSWord alone permanently (without the suite) for the flat rate they give students and teachers. That means I can work on my books year-round instead of having a marathon session every summer. What will the new book be, you ask?

You will find out soon!

I have a lot of difficulty responding to comments to my blog posts because of technical issues beyond my control (my lack of understanding of how things work). Message me on Facebook, Ravelry or Spoutible if you need information.

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 green Kultainen käki cardigan, a few more rows done, in spite of being busy with laundry, puppy and the book.

The EmPower People Kerchief is still hibernating. I'll probably finish it when I get done with the Kultainen käki.

What's on my loom: I didn't make much progress on the placemats. Again.

What's on my sewing machine: Still quilts. No progress this week.

What's in The Doll's Storybook: Mariah made her first appearance in this story from #TheDollsStorybook in September, 2018. In "Being Little," she learns that, although she is very small, there are people who can help her with things that are difficult for her because of her size.

What's on my iPad/iPhone: Still listening to Die Unendliche Geschichte by Michael Ende. Just when you think the story is over, it continues on. It's a long book, but I'm enjoying it.

What's in my wine glass: Atico Sauvignon Blanc 2020. Not bad!

What's my tip of the week: Did you know you don't necessarily have to preheat your air fryer? In fact, for hash browns and fries, it's often better to start with a cold appliance.

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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