I Am Really Trying to go Slow

 Today was a pretty laid back day. I took time to do self care and a short trip to the grocery store.  I only made one mistake at the grocery store. I purchased pre cooked dark meat turkey that looked very tender and smelled wonderful.  The on.y problem with the turkey is that it had enough salt to qualify as a salt lick for farm animals.  I stopped at five bites.  I figured that those 5 bites had over a week’s worth of salt for me.  There is absolutely no excuse to use that much salt in anything but brine.  

After my morning activity and lunch my body required a three hour nap.  I was honestly so tired that I don’t remember my head hitting the pillow.. my dear husband woke me up for dinner.  Unfortunately what I brought was not worth eating.  To compensate for not eating much dinner I had oatmeal and a banana before bed.  

I am trying to finish projects this week, so I pulled out a Tunisian crochet scarf made with fingering weight yarn.  I managed to crochet about four inches.  This scarf will be my television crocheting until it is finished.  Then I will work on the next item in that project bag until the bag is empty.  

It’s getting late so TTFN.  

A Change Up for Me

 Today I made a decision to put off more complex knitting or crochet projects until after my stitches are out.  This has not been an easy recovery for me.  I can also clear out a lot of UFO’s. This will result in the greater possibility of bringing more hats and scarves over to the Flowing Wells School District Clothing Bank before the holidays. 

I am keeping the patterns simple so the two scarfs in progress are going fairly quickly.  As soon as I finish the couch scarf, I am going to try to get a few more hats knit up.  Think of this as me being in slow production mode. More completed projects, however, not enough to hurt my hands. 

It has been a long day so TTFN.  

A Book Series Recommendation and more.

 We have had super crazy winds here in Tucson the last couple days. The winds were so bad last night that the whole house was rattling. I was afraid to go to sleep because the gusts were over 60 miles an hour. I’m not sure how much that has to do with climate change or if it’s an El Nino phenomenon. The air was so thick with dust yesterday that we could not see the mountains around our house. Some of those mountains were only 2 miles away. Forget about seeing anything in the valley. Now that the wind has stopped, it looks like rain clouds are coming in.

It’s a good day to stay inside to craft and clean. I am Almost finished reading book number 31 in the Bobbi Holmes series Haunting Danielle, mystery series. Bobbi Holmes is also know as Anna J McIntyer..  Since I am so far into the series of books, I would like to recommend this series of books. Truth be told, this is the series books I listen to while I’m knitting. or crocheting. Since I am feeling better being on the right medicine, I have been listening to the books faster again. I don’t know how many books are left of the series, but it’s one of those that, even if there were 100 books in the series, I would read every one of them. 

Now that I’m done with my 5 to 10 minutes of cleaning a day. It is time to kick off my shoes, put my feet up on my mushroom footstool, that doubles as warp storage for weaving supplies. Would you expect anything less from me? My current project for this particular knitting space involves what was once a 3 pound cone of cotton yarn. I am still making scarves from that 3 pound cone of yarn and I am at the beginning of the second year of working with the yarn. All the scarves are going to the Flowing Wells School district clothing bank.  I’m just using up different color yarns that go with the cone on yarn.  In the pattern that I want to do at the moment.  

TTFN

Almost Finished

 I have less than a dozen rows of Mosaic Tunisian Crochet left before I finish my cowl tom.  I am hoping not to play yarn chicken, however, my main color is looking very slim at the moment.  I promise pictures when I am finished tomorrow.  

This and That

 I finally found my rhythm, for the mosaic cowl that I talked about yesterday. It is going so much faster and looking so much better now that I found my rhythm. Hopefully I can finish that tomorrow and start my sheep and treat, area 51 hat for Halloween.

Recovery from the dental surgery is still driving me nuts. It’s still draining my energy too. Hopefully this too shall pass. I really hope the follow-up surgery for this tooth will not be as bad.

I’m really not liking the mashed diet. for the surgery follow-up for the next 3 to 4 weeks. The only thing it’s good for is losing between 1 pound and a half a pound a day. I did find one new food to add today that is low on the glycemic index, the Korean glass noodles. Made with yam starch. They are not very flavorful plain, but they are filling. Which is more than I can say for most of the mashed diet. If you’re wondering about the mashed diet, just think of putting graham crackers in a bowl of applesauce and mashing them till all you have is a paste, and you get to eat the paste, no texture, just paste. Soup is put through the blender until you can drink it with a straw, except that I can’t use a straw because of the stitches. You can see why find this diet so boring. If you have any good mashed food recipes, I’d be interested. I have already pulverized chicken to death, vegetables, I’m eating two bowls of oatmeal a day, and of course there’s the yogurt. 

In other news, It was bound to happen someday. Today was the day I burned my very first pan. Because of the dental surgery and the swelling, I’ve lost my sense of smell and couldn’t smell the pan was burning. Oops. Well, tomorrow I go get a new fry pan. Apparently when you have surgery on back molars, you lose your sense of smell, I wish somebody would’ve told me that in advance..

Well, it’s getting late. So I guess it’s TTFN time.  

The Gentle Current Cowl

 I finally made it to row 63 in the Aklori Design, Gentle Current Cowl. I only have to make it to row 83 before I can cast off. That is only 20 more rows.  What I initially thought was a mistake, is actually part of the pattern.  I am on the second row of mosaic, Tunisian crochet. It is fairly easy.  This gives me the confidence and courage to try to finish another mosaic design by Aklori Designs.  

Since I am at the beginning of row 63 I might pull back a few stitches to get the stitch right from the beginning of the row.   

I bought this pattern as a kit.  If I were choosing the yarn I would choose a lighter contrasting color to make it easier to see what I am doing during the mosaic Tunisian crochet .  The Ott light is helpful, but not as helpful as I would like.  This dark color requires daylight and the ott light combined.

A Flare Up

 The dental surgery on Wednesday has lead to to a full scale Sjögren’s flare up today.  After a few activities this morning,  I slept the entire afternoon.  Now the fever has kicked in.  It has been years since I have had such a bad flare-up.  So I am going to be resting and cutting back on my activities for the duration.  I am in Croissant mode.   

This means that there will be lots of craft projects to complete and since I am already behind in taking photos of my completed work, I will have to catch up on that. So expect to see lots of pictures soon.

Well it’s time to complete the next project. 

TTFN