Breaking news

Lily's human slave just said, "Enough is enough. One day of sleeping in the cabinet was ok, but it won't be an ongoing option."

He's making pancakes for the Sunday Morning Pancake Jamboree, then he's cleaning out the cabinet. I'm glad the windows are open as I can't stand the smell of bleach.

Whole lotta pictures

Let's start with Lily sleeping in the cabinet. As you can see, her human slave made it possible for her to have a nice nap out of reach of other kitties. The little varmint is sleeping right where my plates and bowls go.







I think this shot is saying "Why did you wake me up?"

And yes, that is the shaved area where the abscess is near her tail where her fur looks funny.






Doesn't Scooter look good for being 18 years, 3 months old? I love this expression Keith caught on his face. There were some other pictures, but I thought this one was too funny and very cute. "Where's that liver? I want it NOW!"









Here is some charity knitting for the Atlanta Knitting Guild. This is the fourth bear item I've knitted this year. They are very quick and go to such a worthy cause.











Here are my Woolly Boully socks in progress. I love how the pattern changed when I switched from stockinette to ribbing in the cuff. That's also why the cuff looks so thin. It's 2x2 rib.

These are the Roses for You socks. Woo hoo! A finished project!











A detail of the lace panel. I think I need to get some sock blockers.

Lily's newest sleeping spot.

Lily, former stray kitty that she is, has been scrapping with a feral cat that comes around to eat occasionally. Unfortunately, she had an abscess this week, and a trip to the vet today. Apparently she wasn't feeling very well after getting home from the vet (and who would be after having an abscess flushed out, followed by antibiotic shots). She decided to find a quiet place to sleep it all off. Now, I wasn't at home when this was happening, but Keith was. He heard some odd noises, the sounds of porcelain knocking together. When he went into the kitchen, he saw a tail hanging from the cabinet where we store our dishes. Lily was working her way onto the dinner plates!

You must remember that Keith is Lily's slave absolutely. The hinge on this particular cabinet is broken, and he knew there was no way to keep Lily out of it. Instead he took out the dinner plates, bowls and dessert plates, leaving almost the entire bottom shelf empty. She slept there most of the afternoon, went outside to snooze on the top of the van for a short while, and she's back sleeping in there again.

I suggested we put a box on top of the fridge, and I think we'll try that tomorrow. I need my cupboard back. I said we could get child-proof locks to keep her out until Keith replaces the hinges. I'd like someplace besides the dishwasher to store my clean plates. We'll have to clean the cabinets and wash the things she walked on.

Tomorrow - pictures and tales of the "scoop and squirt", or how we gave Lily her liquid medicine. If you see me in the next week, I've earned every bloody cut that I will have on my hands and forearms. I will have suffered growling, yowling, hissing, spitting and clawing to help Keith medicate his kitty. Hmm, I wonder if all that would warrant receiving a little blue box from Tiffany's? One that actually had something from Tiffany's inside it?

Nah, they'll just put our name on the wing we've paid for at the vet clinic.

Visions of Mad Max

As much of the Atlanta metro area and north Georgia runs dry of gasoline, I find myself thinking of The Road Warrior. Will the lack of gas lead to bikers in bondage gear roaming around the state stealing fuel and just causing mayhem? Honestly, I doubt it. They would be confronted by hordes of angry Georgia and Alabama fans upset that the football game and all associated activities had been interrupted, and who'd want to be on the receiving end of that wrath?

As for me, I'm avoiding any unnecessary driving and keeping my eyes open for a station with some fuel. It seems unlikely that any will be available until early next week. It's high time for us to end our dependency on oil and look for other alternatives. I may just have to learn how to make biodiesel and buy some old diesel Mercedes wagon from the '70's. (Hippification in progress.)

I must admit - I loved the costumes from the Road Warrior. Hippy paisley is much more comfortable, but black leather always looks good.

Need a laugh?

Please go read this. I was laughing out loud. Of course, you may need to scroll through some of the older posts to get the whole story, but to paraphrase, they originally thought Blueberry was a girl.

Nudge, nudge, wink, wink! Say no more!

In other news, my stash has suddenly become a Ravelry shopping stop. Just tonight I've had the second person in a week ask if they could buy something from it. I said yes to the first as she wanted 3 balls of Knit Picks yarn I had bought on a whim. I had the dye lot she needed, and who knows when I would have used it.

As for this second one, she's wanting a single ball of my silk yarn. It's been in my stash waiting for the perfect pattern to come along. Since I got it on sale, I may have too much of it, but I'd rather have too much than have to desperately search for it. While I can sympathize with the situation, I probably won't sell it.

Oops! I forgot how

to do my stretchy bind off for the second sock.

It's been a long day of grocery shopping, food prep and laundry. At this point I'm going to bed and binding off tomorrow night. Other than that, the second Roses for You sock is finished. I need a new knit night project, and I'll do this.

I bought this pattern probably 2 years ago, most likely because I liked the green tweed yarn of the sample. I kept looking for the yarn, and one day I realized the Elsebeth Lavold Silky Wool was the right weight and tweedy texture. I bought enough of it in spring 2007, but I just haven't gotten around to doing it. I think it will be easy enough to work while talking in a group, unlike Keith's sweater with the intarsia.

Left out yarn

The Silk Garden sock yarn picture was accidentally deleted from yesterday's yarn post. Here it is!