Monday, October 30, 2023

Back in Action

It's the season to snuggle together to keep warm.

The pups went to the groomer on Thursday, but Wednesday evening we noticed that Sandy's ears were bothering him. They looked red inside. I called the vet early Thursday, and they were able to see him before the grooming appointment. He had an ear infection. We're using an ear wash several times a week now and he gets an antibiotic ointment every 12 hours. The redness is gone, but we have to keep up the treatment. He's really good about it. Treats help.

Supposedly it snowed this week. I've live with snow for a number of years. This isn't snow. There's something that fell from the sky that was frozen. It landed on the cover to our barbecue. It wasn't anything like snow, but it was cold.


There was still some rainwater in the dog pool. It froze. This is indeed ice.


There was ice on the back deck. It was real ice and very slippery. I stayed in and watched the dogs from the back door.


Winter always comes just in time for Halloween. However, we managed to get in some walks with the pups. This one is representative, but our walks varied in length from 1/2 to 1 1/2 miles.


We (the pups and I) walked to the dog park on Saturday, so the pups could run loose, while Charlie took the car to go get his COVID booster. The pups and I stayed at the park for some time, because one dog would leave and another would come. The dogs were having so much fun, I was happy to stay. I was thinking about leaving but called Charlie to see if he was done yet. He said he would come and pick us up. We stayed for a while after he got there, because another doggy friend had shown up. This one had brought her own ball and someone to throw it. Dusty and the other dog competed to get to the ball first. Both were pretty happy to share. Sandy enjoyed just chasing to get to the ball and then racing back. (He knows Dusty is ball-obsessed.) They all had a great time.

Speaking of vaccinations, I got my RSV shot on Friday. My arm still isn't sore. The technician said most people don't have any side effects from this shot. I was expecting at least a sore arm. I'm glad to have all three done (flu-COVID-RSV). I know I can still get sick, but this reduces my chances of being seriously ill.

Yesterday, I took the pups to Alpenglow Park. There were at least 20 dogs in the all-dog yard. Dusty was a ball-retrieving champion! This was the only photo that had both of them in it. We got in a mile on the trail after that. Charlie stayed home. He was feeling the effects of his shot.


Besides regular bread, I made some pumpkin bread with chocolate chips this week. It counts as a vegetable, I understand. We had it in time for National Chocolate Day, October 28. (If you look up "National Chocolate Day," you will find some other dates, but I think this is the official one, unless every day is National Chocolate Day, which is OK, unless you're allergic to it or you're a dog.)

The Rose City Yarn Crawl Mystery Knit Along had a presale of the preclude and a sample of the beginning of the first clue. If you read last week's blog post, you saw my yarn and beads. I knit up what was in the first clue. This is only the beginning of the first clue. The rest of it will come out on January 17th. There is also a Crochet Along. If you want to participate now, you will have to wait until January. I've put mine away until then, because I have to wait for the rest of the clue.

The sleeve for the Kultainen käki Cardigan is getting longer, but it isn't long enough yet. I tried it on. I need at least another inch. It probably doesn't look any different from last week's photo.

The second placemat is coming along. I put in a spacer (a piece of cardboard longer than the placemats and about 2" wide) and then got a start on the second placemat. After I had a few inches, I removed the cardboard and did the hemstitching at the beginning. When I get to the other end of this placemat, I'll do the hemstitching and place the cardboard again. This is the first time I've done it this way.


I've been looking for someone to do the machine quilting for the boys' quilts. I had called the local quilt shop, but they said their quilter was going to be out for nine weeks or so. I called a sewing machine shop and got the names of a couple of machine quilters. I called one and waited. On Friday, I got a call back. The quilter can finish Soren's quilt before Christmas, and Johan's, too, if I can get it to her before the end of November. I'm going to try to get it finished this week. I have an appointment with her on Thursday to look at quilting patterns and drop off the quilt top and backing. If I have Johan's done by then, I can drop off both of them. I'm not happy with using the black inner border for Johan's quilt, because the outer border is so dark. I may have to substitute something else.


The choir is putting together a gift basket for the church bazaar. I decided to provide a copy of the Christmas poem from my latest book. I wanted it to be smaller, because there would be so few pages, so I had to do another layout. I set it up with only one verse and one photo on each page. Then I had it printed with heavier glossy paper for the cover and thinner glossy pages inside. I added the photo of Pauly looking at the Christmas tree his first Christmas.


For some family cuteness (in case the pups aren't enough), here's Karen with her two kids after the second performance of The Little Mermaid, LaCrosse Ballet. She was a maid. Daphne was a mermaid and Zachary was (obviously) a pirate.


Since Halloween is coming up, I thought I would share this photo from Halloween, 2009, when the H1N1 "Swine Flu" was running rampant. We wore pig noses and were draped with pain relievers, decongestants and cough medicines. We had signs on our backs that said, "Ban Tamiflu!"


Happy Halloween!

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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 Kultainen käki cardigan, the EmPower People Kerchief (hibernating) and the Happier Days Shawl, the Mystery KAL for the Rose City Yarn Crawl 2024.

What's on my loom: Still the placemats, working on the second one.

What's on my sewing machine: Boys' quilts.

What's in The Doll's Storybook: It's a Boy! was about Billy's arrival and how he got to be a boy, when all the Happy Kidz the Götz company makes all girls. (We now have Pauly, but he's a Little Kidz, so smaller.) We're glad Billy wanted to be a boy, because we needed boys!



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

What's in my wine glass: La Crima Pupura Tinto Seco dry red wine from Spain.

What's my tip of the week: When I'm knitting a sleeve in the round, I like to use two circular needles, the same way I usually knit socks. On occasion I have accidentally picked up the wrong end of the wrong needle and ended up unable to continue until I slipped all of the stitches from that side back onto the correct needle. If I

Where are my books: The stories in each book first appeared in the blog and they are reproduced with a few changes. 
Our Favorite Verses: Poems from The Doll's Storybook is available from the BookBabyBookshop and other booksellers worldwide. Poems included are Valentine's DayKeeping PetsBack to School, Victor the VultureThe Week Before Christmas, Insomnia and Veronika's Vocabulary Verses.
The stories in Classic Tales Retold: Stories from The Doll's Storybook are Little Green GreatcoatThe 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 hereThe three stories in Emil are Best BudsGetting What You Want, and The Boys Cook Dinner.
The three stories in Mariah are Being LittleBesties, 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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Monday, October 23, 2023

Just a Quick Rundown

Next year's Rose City Yarn Crawl doesn't start until March 7th, but the Mystery Knit Along (KAL) and Crochet Along (CAL) are giving us a head start on the new projectsI was lucky to find the perfect yarn in my stash. It took some digging, but when I found the lovely stuff on top, I knew it was perfect. Then I had to do some digging to find something compatible for the second yarn.

The MKAL starts with a provisional I-cord cast-on (CO). I've done this before, but not exactly this way. It calls for optional beads, and I love adding beads to a project. I had some, but they're smaller than called for (although they would work) and a pretty silver color, but I don't have enough, so I'm going to buy some just for this project and get the size required, today, I hope. I have named this project the Happier Days Shawl.

The sleeve of the Kultainen käki Cardigan is coming along, although not very fast. I'm on the straight knit with no increases section. When it's long enough, I'll CO the second sleeve.

As for weaving, I finished the first Raggedy Placemat. Finally! I decided to do the hem stitching while it's still on the loom. I need to put in a spacer, and then I can start the hem of the second one. I'm using 1/2" strips, mostly cut width-of-fabric, but some lengthwise and some on the bias, because I had some 1" bias strips left from the Raggedy Rugs, and I could use them by cutting them in half lengthwise. The weaving goes very fast, but it's hard to do if I have to watch our sneaky younger pup!

We're still working on the trailer before we put her under her blankie. The teak mat we ordered for the wet bath came this week. The surface stands a bit above the floor of the bath, allowing water to drain and protecting the floor. I think it's perfect!

We also got the tension rods to put up our shelving, something like this. It won't rest right on the cornices, but just above, and we can't put anything heavy on them. (We will have one over the dinette and one over the bed, each place where the roof slopes down.) We still have to get the wire shelves, and zip ties in white, so they won't be obvious. (Not our pod, but one like ours.)

Sandy has been keeping us busy, as usual. He got my wallet early in the week. He took all the cards out and spread them around in the yard. (I'm watching my credit card statements for unexpected charges at Chewy and the pet shops.) Later he got my knitting. Again! Both of these were up high, supposedly out of reach. He opened my purse and took out the wallet, not disturbing anything else, just like a pickpocket. My knitting bag had the handles tied together in a square knot in the middle of the dining room table. He had untied the handles, taken out the knitting, scrambled the yarn and left the knitting bag right there where it was. I have noticed that he tends to do this kind of thing first thing in the morning, so for the last few days, I've been closing the dog door after the pups come back from their morning potty sessions. Sandy got one of Charlie's caps off the coat rack and took it to the back door, where he was stopped. He just dropped the hat and went to have a snack. Fingers crossed this works! He does relax, though.

Saturday we went back to Good Dog Trail. I took the photo of the map and changed it to B&W, upped the contrast and exposure and adjusted the highlights and shadows to make a more readable version. Then I wrote in the names of the trails, using my computer to zoom in on the picture, so I could read them. The roads are for nonmotorized vehicles, like regular bikes. They have numbers, but no names. The trails are for dogs and hikers. 

It was fun, although we met a man who was clearly afraid of dogs. The first I noticed was Dusty barked at him, which he never does. Dusty must have realized that the man was anxious. The man moved off the trail, as if he thought he would be safe there. I told him our dogs wouldn't bite, and his reply was "I've heard that before." We called the dogs and moved on along the trail. We wondered why a person who was so afraid of dogs would hike in an off-leash area, and on a Saturday, too. 


We took the trails that appeared to lead most directly to the river, then found out later, that's the hard way to go. It's very steep. The dogs were excited to find the river, though.


It was really beautiful, and the day was sunny and warm.


After both dogs has a drink, Sandy wanted to go for a swim, but we were worried about the current, so we called him to come back.


We went back to the trail and continued on. Eventually, it came back to the way we came in. 


I didn't get any photos from our Madroña pop-up meeting, but it was good to see everyone, and we had a good time.

That was pretty much my week, except that my Covid booster apparently triggered my arthritis, and I didn't get much sleep for a couple of nights. I had to use the heating pad, and at one point I took some Ibuprofen. It came and went for about three days. Then my knee was still a little tender for a couple of days. By Saturday, it was gone. 

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If you have a few minutes and are willing, please go to Amazon and B&N and search for "Our Favorite Verses: Poems from The Doll's Storybook by Peggy Stuart". 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, Mariah or Classic Tales Retold, 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 Kultainen käki cardigan and now the Happier Days Shawl. (Of course, the EmPower People Kerchief is still hibernating, but with winter coming on, it will be handy to have to use, so I'd better get on it.)

What's on my loom: One placemat done.

What's on my sewing machine: I didn't get any work done on Johan's quilt, but I washed the backing for Soren's.

What's in The Doll's Storybook: In "Reading, Writing and Recycling Again," Jolena learns how to organize her thoughts before writing and why we put paper (and other things) into the recycling bin, a recycled story that first appeared in 2018.



What's on my iPad/iPhone: Still listening to Die Unendliche Geschichte by Michael Ende, no progress this week.

What's in my wine glass: Avalon Blend 2020, Red Wine from California.

What's my tip of the week: A flannel or corduroy bag filled with regular white rice makes a great heating pad. It can be microwaved and then it molds itself to your body, wherever you put it. However, it cools off and has to be reheated. For long-term use without having to get up, an electric one is perhaps better.

Where are my books: The stories in each book first appeared in the blog and they are reproduced with a few changes. 
Our Favorite Verses: Poems from The Doll's Storybook is available from the BookBabyBookshop and other booksellers worldwide. Poems included are Valentine's DayKeeping PetsBack to School, Victor the VultureThe Week Before Christmas, Insomnia and Veronika's Vocabulary Verses.
The stories in Classic Tales Retold: Stories from The Doll's Storybook are Little Green GreatcoatThe 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 hereThe three stories in Emil are Best BudsGetting What You Want, and The Boys Cook Dinner.
The three stories in Mariah are Being LittleBesties, 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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Monday, October 16, 2023

Covered Up

The salad and garlic naan we had with our Slow Cooker Indian-Spiced Red Lentil Soup. I just thought it made a pretty picture.


The first sleeve of the Kultainen käki Cardigan is coming along, in spite of a busy week. One more increase, and then straight until it's long enough. I really like the feel of the yarn.


While I was at church yesterday and Charlie was "watching" the dogs, Sandy decided to take up knitting again. The yarn was a tangled mess when Daddy took it away, still indoors, having not made it out the dog door to the muddy backyard. Fortunately, the few stitches dropped from one needle on the sleeve were easily replaced, and the tangled mess was only attached to the body, right at the sleeve divide. It's so much easier to untangle if you can find one single end, so I broke the yarn at the sleeve divide and untangled it while rolling it into a ball.


I've since wound the ball into a center-pull ball, so I'm ready to go when I get back to the body again. He had already raided my purse earlier, removing my knitted cap, gloves and my wallet and taking them out to the backyard. I found them all spread out there in the yard, as if he were trying to figure out how to use what he had discovered. The wallet itself will need some repair. The credit cards and various ID documents were a bit dirty. I recovered everything, I think.

As promised, here's a photo of my progress on the placemats. One placemat almost finished. Just one inch more of the rags, than the edging/hem to do and finally some weaving to space the placemats apart. Since the weaving is turning out 14" wide, I've decided to make the placemats 20" long instead of the 18" planned. They will probably shrink when washed, anyway.

The design is made by the warp. I'm putting the rags (weft) in helter-skelter, as the mood and supplies dictate. Each placemat will be different.

I picked up some backing for Soren's quilt this week. It's a quirky quilt, but I think he will enjoy looking at all the fabrics in it, the way I did when I was a child with a quilt on my bed. I think the backing looks like a galaxy far away.

Another step in winterizing the RPod 171 was a challenge. We had to turn off two valves in the water heater before putting the antifreeze in. (You don't want the antifreeze to go into the water heater.) We knew where the water heater was: under the bed, right next to the fridge. Posts we had read indicated that we might have to lift the plywood bed platform to get to it, so we moved the mattress into the "dining room."

Then we had a look at the plywood section of the bed platform that covered up the water heater and that side of the pass-through storage. Charlie unscrewed the plywood and then we started working on trying to get the plywood up.

It probably would have come up easily, except that this one piece of decorative molding on the fridge cabinet was holding it down. 


We debated about whether we were going to have to cut a hole in the plywood or make a notch in the molding. I couldn't believe it would be that difficult, if we were supposed to get to where the water heater was and turn off or on the bypass valves twice a year. I decided to have a look at the area where the water heater was in the storage area. The arrow in the photo below points to the bay door. Right under the tip of the arrow is the vent for the water heater. (You can turn the power on and off there, but you can't reach the valves.)


I opened the bay door and peered in. I found a panel covering the water heater. There were screws in each corner, holding the panel onto a sort of a wood frame. Hmm....


Before we start sawing wood, I suggested, let's call the service department at the dealer, and Charlie agreed. (For him to ask directions, he really must not have wanted to start cutting up this expensive investment!) We soon had someone from Service on the phone. We put him on speaker, so we both could talk and listen. We explained what we wanted to do and what our problem was. The dealer sells lots of different makes and types of RV. Our RP 171 may have been the only one of that model they had in the past year. However, when I mentioned to the service person that this panel had screws in it, he suggested that we try that first, since it would be easy to take off.

While Charlie did that, I set to work making more tomato jam. I wrote the date on the top of these jars, because this was the second batch I would have in the fridge.



I was just wiping them off when Charlie came in and said that he had turned off the valves on the water heater and was ready to pour in the antifreeze. He said it was easy. (Easy if you know how to get into the water heater.)

We didn't get many walks in this week due to rain at all the wrong times, but Friday was a nice day, other than being cool, so we decided to go to Good Dog Off-leash Trail just after lunch. Dusty cried all the way there, because he had figured out where we were going and was excited. The crying got louder after we crossed the overpass over Hwy 97. Sandy just sat relaxed and looked out the window. When we got there and let the dogs off their leashes at the trail, they were both on the same page, though.

Dusty made sure to scatter his version of bread crumbs so we could find out way back.

We were able to walk quickly along the trail. Both dogs stayed fairly close to us, running up ahead and then making a loop back around us.


We took a picture of the map of the trail, although it's hard to read on your phone. Later we found a pdf version for next time.


Here's a screen shot
 of our hike from the Walk for a Dog app. We were hoping to come across the access to the river (that blue squiggle in the bottom right corner), but gave up when we thought we had been out long enough.


Next time, maybe we'll pack a picnic lunch and follow a planned trail. We've seen photos of the dogs playing at the water's edge, so we know we can get there. It was a lovely hike, though.

You've probably heard that we had an eclipse. Charlie got up early, because it was supposed to start about 8:45 AM and reach full magnitude about 9:13 AM. We took the dogs and went down to the end of the street, where we expected to have an unrestricted view of the eclipse. Charlie had his special glasses.


It was pretty cloudy, so we didn't really expect to see much of anything, but periodically the clouds would shift, and you could use the special glasses to see what was happening. Later, as it got closer to the full magnitude, the clouds were thin enough that you could see the eclipse with the naked eye. I tried to take photos of it, but the camera couldn't capture what we saw.


We had a nice visit with the neighbors who live in the house on the corner.

Sunday, besides church and Sandy's misadventures, Charlie and the dogs went to a meet-up group outing at Pine Nursery Off-leash area at 3:00 PM. I had an appointment to get my next Covid booster. I dropped them off and drove to the pharmacy, where I had an appointment. I was a half hour early. They told me they were running about an hour behind schedule. I was supposed to pick up my family at 4:00 PM. As it turned out, I got my shot at 3:30, the time for my appointment. I don't know what the delay was all about. There was only one other person getting a shot. (Update: They didn't fill in my shot record. They send you a link to an app called "Clear." You have to input all your previous doses. It keeps it on file in case you need it, but there's no way to print off a copy, as far as I could tell. I ended up filling in the information on my own vaccination card. You need the brand name and the Lot number. I wasted a lot of time trying to download a copy of the proof of vaccination to print it. Didn't happen.)

I got back to the park to pick up Charlie and the pups a little after 4:00. From there, we went to 10 Barrels Brewing for beer and some food. I ordered a beer called "Call of Nature." I almost didn't order it because of the name. It was good, and it didn't live up to its name.


Our next-door neighbors arrived with their two dogs, who found a nice place to wait.


Dusty and Sandy waited under the table.

One more thing: Someone who bought a copy of "Our Favorite Verses" has a friend who works at St. Jude in Memphis. She took the book to show her friend, since the royalties go to St. Jude. She shared this photo of the book and her doll Katharina with St. Jude in the background.

It's so nice to see my little books go out into the world.

This book arrives at booksellers on Wednesday of this week.


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If you have a few minutes and are willing, please go to Amazon and B&N and search for "Our Favorite Verses: Poems from The Doll's Storybook by Peggy Stuart". 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, Mariah or Classic Tales Retold, 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 Kultainen käki Cardigan.

What's on my loom: Some progress on the placemats.

What's on my sewing machine: Johan's quilt.

What's in The Doll's Storybook: In Forgiven, Pauly learns something about how to deal with anger. This is an all-new story in #TheDollsStorybook.



What's on my iPad/iPhone: Still listening to Die Unendliche Geschichte by Michael Ende. Not much time to listen this week, for some reason.

What's in my wine glass: Shannon Ranch Big Horn Red Blend 2020. Very nice.

What's my tip of the week: Most of the time, I'm just cooking for two, but we often buy packages of frozen food designed for six or eight people. If you take out enough for only two it may leave a space of nothing but air when you put the package back in the freezer. It may cause the rest of the package to stick together making it difficult to remove only enough for two the next time. I've learned that if I divide up the package into two-person amounts when it first comes into the house, it's easier to deal with.

Where are my books: The stories in each book first appeared in the blog and they are reproduced with a few changes. 
Our Favorite Verses: Poems from The Doll's Storybook is available from the BookBabyBookshop and other booksellers worldwide. Poems included are Valentine's DayKeeping PetsBack to School, Victor the VultureThe Week Before Christmas, Insomnia and Veronika's Vocabulary Verses.
The stories in Classic Tales Retold: Stories from The Doll's Storybook are Little Green GreatcoatThe 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 hereThe three stories in Emil are Best BudsGetting What You Want, and The Boys Cook Dinner.
The three stories in Mariah are Being LittleBesties, 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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