Go West! Go East!

Well, the trailer rugs are done and on the floor. I finished the rugs with hemstitching on the first night and the next morning and trimmed the fringe to roughly the same length. I've decided that I like having all three of them in the trailer.

They're handy to have, because they collect any dirt or sand that gets tracked in, but they can be shaken out and even washed, if needed. It reduces the need for sweeping.

Our trip to Florence didn't take as long as the last time. It makes a difference when you know where you're going. We got hooked up at the Port of Siuslaw Campgrounds and Marina when we got there. During our stay, we spent the better part of two days at the beach with the dogs. First we went to the one north of town, Hecata Beach, where we went last time, then to one of the parks south of town, South Jetty, which is a fee area, but we were able to use one of our Golden Age Passports (we each have one). Parts of the route to get to the beach were difficult with the stroller because of the deep sand, but we pulled it rather than pushing when the going got difficult, and that worked better. I started the Walk for a Dog app at the first parking lot where we stopped for the rest room, then put it on pause and forgot to start it again until we were partway to the beach. Oops! We still recorded a pretty good walk, though. I think it would have been about a mile. 

Dusty loves the beach, because, with the Chuckit, a person can make the ball go a long way. There is nothing Dusty loves more than to chase a ball. It's fun to watch the ball disappear into nothing with Dusty running after it until he disappears, too, only to return with the ball in his mouth.

Rocky rode in the stroller for most of the "walk," but he got out to wander around on the beach after we got to it. He seemed to be enjoying himself. Interesting smells never lose their appeal, I guess.

He was ready for a snooze on the way back.

Dusty, on the other hand, didn't want to leave. He was having too much fun. He ended up swallowing a lot of sand from carrying the ball, but he got rid of it the next day.

We did manage to wear him out enough for him to appreciate nap time, though.

On Wednesday we took Jim out for lunch to celebrate his birthday, which was in July. He was supposed to be in Bend over that time, but changed his plans because of the excessive heat. We ate at a place called International C-food Market Restaurant (say it out loud, and it makes sense). It was outdoors, of course, or we wouldn't have gone to it, but the weather was very pleasant, so it was especially nice to be outside. They allow dogs in the eating area. Every table has a water bowl, and the waitpersons keep them refilled. In the photo, you can see Dusty under the table and Rocky in his stroller behind Charlie.

I had New England Clam Chowder, which you can get with a salad and toast. Charlie had fish and chips, and Jim had fish tacos.

Our final night for this trip was spent at Three Rivers Casino Resort (still in Florence), where they let you park your RV in their big RV lot overnight for free, just for coming in and registering. To stay longer, you need "points" showing you had participated in the gambling. We stayed in and watched Missing Link, which I had stored on my iPad. I had brought the DVD player that attaches to my laptop, but it was Charlie's job to pick out the DVDs to take, and he forgot, but I had forgotten the pickles, so I think we're even. We hadn't seen "Missing Link" for a while, so it was nice to watch again, and we enjoyed it. (Earlier in the week we watched The Secret Life of Pets, which I also have stored in my iPad.)

We saw a lot of interesting wildlife on this trip, including seagulls, seals and this egret, who was always in this patch of grass. He/she seemed to imply ownership.

The meals were mostly very basic. We had homemade TV dinners for supper two nights, this pizza (a basic Costco frozen cheese pizza embellished with fresh vegetables by me) and some salmon burgers with potato salad I had made ahead of time. 

Breakfast was bagels, bran muffins or cereal. I had brought eggs to cook, but the timing didn't work out for that. Lunch was sandwiches and fruit.

Two of the dolls got to go along, so I could take photos and work it into a story for next week. I handed out a few cards to people with children and dropped off a couple of my books at the Books 'n' Bears in Florence, walking distance from where we were staying for most of the week.

On the way home on Saturday, I discovered this stowaway walking on my leg. I got him onto this piece of used paper towel and gently slipped him into a sandwich bag I had in my pocket for dog poopies. When we got to Sisters to visit the dump station, I released him onto a rock.

I have no idea what kind of bug this is. I hope it isn't a pest.

If you have a few minutes and are willing, please go to Amazon and B&N and search for "Emil: 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 first book, Mariah: Stories from The Doll's Storybook, it would help if you left 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 Hinterland Pullover and the emPower People Kerchief. I took the pullover with me and now have a few inches on the first sleeve. The Kerchief is still in hibernation.

What's on my loom: Waiting for...placemats?

What's on my sewing machine: Its cover.

What's in my hoop: Same as always.

What's in The Doll's Storybook: Pippa and Pauly find a snake in the garden and ask Emil to come and talk to it for them in A Snake in the Garden.

What's on my iPad/iPhone: Still listening to Come a Little Closer by Rachel Abbott. Barely started and didn't get to listen during the trip.

What's in my wine glass: Monte Planus Breedekloof Pinotage 2020 from South Africa. Yum! At least fresh out of the bottle.

What's my tip of the week: I have a lot of trouble getting the tops off of cooking spray, so once I get them off I leave them off. However, whenever I take it with me when we go camping, I put the top back on, so I don't end up with cooking spray all over the inside of the cabinet in the trailer.

Where are my books: The stories in each book first appeared in the blog and they are reproduced with few changes. Emil: Stories from The Doll's Storybook is now available for preorder from booksellers world wide. The link for Book Baby is here. The three stories are Best Buds, Getting What You Want, and The Boys Cook Dinner.

Mariah: Stories from The Doll's Storybook is also available. The three stories in the first book 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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Short and Sweet

This week's blog post will have to be short and sweet, or short at least. We expect to be on the road later today, and I'm in the throes of preparations to get the trailer stocked with everything needed for our trip. At least the weaving is done on the Trailer Rugs. Here it is, off the loom. 

There's some finishing to do and they need to be cut apart. I used cardboard between the rugs to keep a little bit of fringe. There will be three rugs. Two of them should fit in the trailer. The other one will have to find a place in the house.

I'll have to figure out what to do with all the loom waste.

The trailer is hooked up and pulled out of its spot in the back yard.

Because we're going to be gone all week, I had to finish two stories. You will see the story for last week below. This week's story will be out on Friday. I also received the notes from my proofreaders/editors. They gave me a lot of work to do, so I did it. As I write this, I have finished the corrections/rewrite, and my manuscript has gone back for a final proof. I plan on doing the layout for the cover when we get back from our trip, although I could work on it there, if there is enough down time.

I had the usual cooking, laundry, etc., besides two stories to write, the corrections for my new book and getting ready for the trip, so I didn't get much else done. However, next week's blog post should be interesting.

As always, If you have a few minutes and are willing, please go to Amazon and B&N and search for "Emil: 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 first book, Mariah: Stories from The Doll's Storybook, it would help if you left 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 working on the first sleeve of the Hinterland Pullover. No progress on the EmPower People Kerchief.

What's on my loom: Only loom waste.

What's on my sewing machine: Its cover.

What's in my hoop: Still the Whole Cloth Quilt, no progress.

What's in The Doll's Storybook: In Back from Down Under, Jolena has just returned from a ski trip to Australia and has photos to show the boys. She saw some interesting animals there, which you can see in this week's story from "The Doll's Storybook."

What's on my iPad/iPhone: Finished listening to The Woman Who Smashed Codes by Jason Fagone on the Audible app. It was great! Now listening to Come a Little Closer by Rachel Abbott. 

What's in my wine glass: El Tinto Lot 41El Dorado Red Wine from Madroña Vineyards. This wine varies from year to year, but always a favorite.

What's my tip of the week: Don't wait until the last minute to get ready for a trip!

Where are my books: The stories in each book first appeared in the blog and they are reproduced with few changes. Emil: Stories from The Doll's Storybook is now available for preorder from booksellers world wide. The link for Book Baby is here. The three stories are Best Buds, Getting What You Want, and The Boys Cook Dinner.

Mariah: Stories from The Doll's Storybook is also available. The three stories in the first book 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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Ta-Da!

Well, almost. Since we plan to use the trailer again soon, I thought it would be a good time to finish the trailer rugs. I'm now working on the border, but I have to put another bobbin of yarn into the shuttle.

There's still a lot to do on the new book, but the front cover design is done (tentatively). I still have to go through the agonizing process of getting it into the form needed by the publisher. To do that, I have to use software called InDesign. Its logo is a big "Id," which to me means the part of one's psyche reflecting only the basest of instincts, like that of a newborn. It's very difficult to use (the software, not the Id, which I assume is happy to do its own thing), although probably not if you use it more often than I do, which is once a year (again, the software).

If you're wondering what Veronika is reading, it's the first volume in my Goethes Werke (Goethe's Works). Veronika is fluent in German, so she will have no trouble telling us what it says, although the book is meant to be a depiction of a book of old classic stories for children. The stories are fiction, after all. It is what I say it is. Meanwhile, the inside pages are still with my two talented proofreaders.

I managed to make a little progress on the first sleeve of my Hinterland Pullover, although it was a busy week, and I really needed good light to pick up the stitches using this very dark yarn.

Charlie and I have a joint project, which is now more than half done: Putting up netting around the back deck. As you can see, this screening material will not keep out flies or mosquitos. Its purpose is to keep Rocky from squeezing through the vertical slats in the rail and getting stuck. We think he does it because he can't see, but he can smell the grass and wants to go there. It isn't safe for him to be down there for long unsupervised, because there are too many places for him to fall and be unable to get up again, like the sandbox and other play equipment, or under bushes. Obviously, it isn't good for him to get stuck between the slats, either.

It also isn't safe for him to go down the steps to get to the yard. Although he has (even recently) gone down them safely many times, he has hurt himself, and then there's the issue of being out in the yard without supervision. We addressed this problem by getting a baby gate, which works fine. He can still go through the dog door and sit on the back deck or get a drink from the outside water, which, for some reason, tastes better than the water inside. (The little package attached to the gate contains something you can attach to your structure, maybe in case the distance isn't right. I'm not sure. We didn't need them.) 

We lock the dog door when the sun is too hot in the back. He can still get stuck under furniture on the deck, but otherwise, he's fairly safe there. Dusty's old collapsible play yard fencing blocks off the other side of the deck until we can get to putting up netting there. It's a two-person job, because one person has to hold the netting and the other has to put the zip ties in and fasten them.

I need good light to remove the stitching from these T-shirt pieces, which will make up part of the back of the T-shirt quilt. The design along the bottom of this back and sleeve were interesting, and Charlie wanted to include them. I still need to steam-press them to remove the creases from the hems, then attach the stabilizer/interfacing to the pieces. I have a few more pieces to prepare. Then we have to figure out how to arrange them and fill in with fabric.

Appointments messed with my schedule this week. I had a dental appointment on Tuesday and an eye appointment on Thursday. After the eye appointment, I had to sit for a while for my eyes to go back to normal. It was hard to knit, but I listened to my audiobook. I also made a run to Bend Animal Emergency to drop off the rest of Dusty's medication, which we are donating for use by a dog whose owners can't afford it. We feel so fortunate we don't need it at this time. The weather has cooled off for a few days, and Dusty can chase the ball repeatedly without panting or with less panting than when it was over 100ºF.

I've also been doing some online work, promoting my preferred candidate for our new Congressional district, which we will be in after January 1st. She is a good person and has devoted a lot of her life to helping others. We're fortunate to get an opportunity to vote for her.

As always, if you have a few minutes and are willing, please go to Amazon and B&N and search for "Emil: Stories from The Doll's Storybook by Peggy Stuart" in Children's Books. 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 books, Mariah: Stories from The Doll's Storybook,or Emil: Stories from The Doll's Storybook, it would help if you left 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 Hinterland Pullover, some progress made, and the EmPower People Kerchief.

What's on my loom: Trailer Rugs, close to being done.

What's on my sewing machine: Working on back for T-shirt quilt.

What's in my hoop: No progress on the Whole Cloth Quilt.

What's in The Doll's Storybook: In Pauly's Trial, Pauly learns that his friends will support him when he needs to do something very difficult.

What's on my iPad/iPhone: Finished listening to The Woman Who Smashed Codes by Jason Fagone on the Audible app. It was great! Now listening to Come a Little Closer by Rachel Abbott.  

What's in my wine glass: Montepulciano D'Abruzzo 2020 from Villa Cerrina. Montepulciano is the name of the grape variety, and Abruzzo is the location in central Italy where it is grown.

What's my tip of the week: My bread machine was moving around as it worked. It even knocked off the box of tissues that were on the counter next to it. I was afraid it would fall off the counter one day, so I put a piece of shelf liner under it. Problem solved!

Where are my books: The stories in each book first appeared in the blog and they are reproduced with few changes. Emil: Stories from The Doll's Storybook is available from booksellers world wide. The link for Book Baby is here. The three stories are Best Buds, Getting What You Want, and The Boys Cook Dinner.

Mariah: Stories from The Doll's Storybook is also available. The three stories in the first book 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. If you want an autographed copy, I still have copies at my home. 

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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Hear Today, Here Tomorrow

You may remember, if you read the July 4th post, that when our vet checked Dusty, he heard a heart murmur. Although Dusty shows no signs of any heart problems, he recommended a visit with the local veterinary cardiologist and gave us some medication that had been shown to help prevent the progression of a leaky valve, if that's what it was. He suggested we might want to get an echocardiogram to find out for sure. Dusty has been taking the medication for a month. It seemed to make no difference in his energy level, which is quite high, although you can't tell from this photo.

In the meantime, if you read last week's blog post, you may remember that one of my hearing aids stopped working. I was going to have to make an appointment with the place where I got them to have them looked at. I used one of Charlie's for the time being. I had to turn it up a bit, though. With some difficulty, I paired that one with my phone, but that unpaired the other one I was using, a real nuisance. I called the audiology clinic where we bought our hearing aids and found out that, since they are out of warranty, it would cost $80 for them just to look at it. I had received something from our insurance company saying that hearing aids were covered for people who needed them but didn't have them, not mentioning if there was any coverage for people like me, who already had them. I called the number in the mailing from the insurance company and found out that hearing exams were covered with a $60 copay if it was in their network. The only provider in their network in Bend was HearUSA, a different one from the one where we got our hearing aids, so I gave them a call. Their audiologist will be on maternity leave, so I will have to wait to see her until October, but they offered to have a look at my hearing aid. I took my malfunctioning hearing aid in to them on Monday. It turned out to be a quick fix. It had wax in the tube and just needed a quick cleaning. My copay: $0.

I had to get another 25-day supply of Dusty's medication on Monday and picked it up when I went to HearUSA, which is right around the corner from the vet. The medication is very expensive and works out to be about $100/month, which was a real bummer, but Dusty is very important to us, so we were prepared to give up some other things. He was groomed on Thursday and our appointment with the cardiologist at Bend Animal Emergency And Specialty Center was Friday. Dusty had a clump of something on his chest. We couldn't tell whether it was a scab or some hardened pitch or sap. It turned out to be the latter. The groomer was unable to get it off, but they did the best they could to clean and clip around it. However, the cardiologist's technician had some goo remover and was able to get most of it disconnected from Dusty's skin. They shaved the rest of it off when they took him in for his echocardiogram. The cardiologist confirmed that Dusty does have a heart murmur, but it isn't very pronounced. He said that X-rays that showing enlargement of the heart can be misleading, because it's a 2-D picture of one moment in time. The heart swells and contracts as it works, which can make it appear larger or smaller in an X-ray. Dusty went off with them and got his echocardiogram. When the cardiologist came back into see us he had good news. There is some thickening of the mitral valve, which causes the murmur, but it's very slight. There's no heart enlargement at this point. He said that 75% of dogs with this condition never experience progression enough to warrant treatment, and live normal lives. The other 25% may need the medication he's been taking to slow down the progression. Right now, he doesn't need it. No restrictions to activity or diet are needed for him at this point. His recommendation was to monitor the condition in his regular checkups, perhaps an annual checkup with the cardiologist and periodic echocardiograms if needed. Otherwise, he said, "let Dusty be Dusty." That was very good news! The medication I just picked up can be donated to help someone who can't afford medication for their dog. It will be way past its expiration date by the time Dusty needs it, if ever. An annual echocardiogram would be much less than this medication.

Monday I got the story for Friday written and took the photos on Tuesday. The rest of Tuesday and Wednesday were spent mostly with the dreaded H-word, as I wanted to be sure we didn't have a lot of dust where Soren would be sleeping, because of his asthma. We dusted and vacuumed, and then set up the air purifier in the guest room. The family arrived on Thursday, in plenty of time for supper. They had various activities planned to keep the boys busy. Part of the time involved Dusty keeping them entertained and vice versa.

Dusty was disappointed that they didn't bring Louis this time––a stop at the fossil beds at John Day earlier in the week and two nights in a motel made bringing Louis impractical––but Dusty had a good time chasing the ball and the boys in the backyard, in spite of the record-breaking heat.

One of the family's activities was to do some canoeing, using a canoe they borrowed from some friends who live here. 

On Sunday morning, before it got hot, we all went (in two cars) to the new Alpenglow Community Park. The place is huge and includes a magnificent dog park and a huge playground with a splash pad. The trails are paved, so stroller-friendly. You could easily walk a mile with just one circuit of the park. Dusty enjoyed some off-leash time and doggy interaction, and the boys had a nice walk and then cooled off at the splash pad.

Also during this visit, the adults had an evening of mezcal tasting after the boys were in bed. We enjoyed a curated tasting experience from Flaviar.

Alexa and I found time during the visit to drop in at the yarn shop to pick up some yarn for Alexa's birthday, which is a little over a week away. We both got some knitting done during the visit. I finished Pippa's Seattle Cardigan.

The pattern is designed for the larger Happy Kidz dolls, but I used thinner yarn and smaller needles to get a smaller gauge. I figured out the gauge needed by dividing the pattern gauge by .8 (point eight). You get more stitches/inch, so you have to figure out what size needles will give you that gauge with the thinner yarn. I looked through previous projects in my Ravelry project page to find something that had the same gauge. 

I made some progress on the Hinterland Pullover, too, because there were lots of times when mindless knitting was called for. I'm almost ready to bind off the body. It only calls for 1" of ribbing. Then it's on to the sleeves. (I'm using two circular needles, because I didn't have one the right size that was long enough.)

Soren let me read him the manuscript for my new book. I found four mistakes while reading. You always find your mistakes when it's in manuscript form or already printed. Like the fictitious character in my stories, "The Writer," I have to make a new cover using the challenging InDesign software (challenging because I only use it once a year).

If you have a few minutes and are willing, please go to Amazon and B&N and search for "Emil: 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 first book, Mariah: Stories from The Doll's Storybook, it would help if you left 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 Hinterland Pullover and the EmPower People Kerchief.

What's on my loom: No progress.

What's on my sewing machine: No progress.

What's in my hoop: No progress.

What's in The Doll's Storybook: The Writer is working on the cover for the new book, and Billy, who has been helping, comes to tell the dolls they need to keep their voices down, because she finds it distracting, and she has to concentrate in Shhhhh!

What's on my iPad/iPhone: Still listening to The Woman Who Smashed Codes by Jason Fagone on the Audible app. Almost done.  

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

What's my tip of the week: If you have shoes made from Ethylene-vinyl acetate, don't leave them out in the hot sun. It can make them shrink. An example of this kind of shoe is those made by Crocs or Joybees. I found this out the hard way. One shoe of the pair was in the sun for a few hours, while the other one was in the shade. The shoe that was in the sun shrunk up a noticeable amount. You can see the difference, and now I can hardly get it onto my foot.

Where are my books: The stories in each book first appeared in the blog and they are reproduced with few changes. Emil: Stories from The Doll's Storybook is now available for preorder from booksellers world wide. The link for Book Baby is here. The three stories are Best Buds, Getting What You Want, and The Boys Cook Dinner.

Mariah: Stories from The Doll's Storybook is also available. The three stories in the first book 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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