pokingmyeyesout

... the first day of summer started in a classic Northwest style, reminds me of my first summer here - cloudy, 50s, with chance of drizzle. Combined with the post-surgery-pain-medication haze, I took a nap (aka passed the heck out!) on Saturday. I woke up just in time to clean up before J and N came over with LOTS of yummy food to feed us. She also brought me some 'girl' yarn for me to make a toy. I had picked out the cutest hippo.

The next day ... I was reading the hippo pattern and fighting off the sleepys again. But wait, I should be making the Sleepy Puppy.

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DH thinks the color says it is a Fox, "it is a Red Fox". Clearly, not what I intended, a Girl Sleepy Puppy.

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... was the size of the growth on my foot. I had outpatient surgery today and it is gone!

my foot, iced, on the ottoman

The doctor called to follow up a few hours later.

doc: .... ... ... I sent it off to pathology...
me: oh good. maybe they can determine whether it is alien
doc: (cackle laughter) yea. they will know whether you belong on Earth
me: ut. I hope they dont send me home

I had anticipated a similar experience, like the last two times at outpatient surgery (stop it recurring issue on foot!) - check in, wait, go there, check in, and wait ... stickers, iv, nurse, different nurse, etcetc ... This time, it was a lot smoother and a lot less answering the same questions. And coincidentally, I am just at the beginning of the front and back (the ztzt part) of Camellia.

nurse: (reads my blood pressure) are you alive there?
me: er. what? (looks up at 100 / 58) oh, that's lower than normal
nurse: yea. what's your normal?
me: last week was 110 / 68
nurse: you are alright. blood pressure is lowest in the morning (it was .. just after 5:30am). It is the highest in the afternoon.

So after I situated in room, I pulled out Camellia. My primary nurse came in and we started chatting .. she is a ballroom dancer and a crocheter. Although she has not found time to crochet, 3-4 times / week ballroom and competition dancing will do that. Then my doctor walked in ...

doc: "are you knitting in the round?"
me: "no, I am knitting front and back at the same time, separately, then seam. I need the structure for this"
doc: "how do you do that?"

Seriously. No "Hi, How are you?". She has been my podiatrist for over four years and I've seen her many times. The conversation went on to more crafty. "I saw this cute crochet hat with flowers at Salmon Days, and I copied it for my daughter." "oh, you! reverse engineered a hat!". We had quite an extended conversation about crochet and knitting. Not only did she reverse engr a crochet hat, she also is on her way of steeking a baby sweater. She said knitting is harder, to which, I replied, crocheter thinks knitting is more difficult, and knitters thinks crochet is more difficult.

Heh. It was all good today. Ice is on my elevated foot. Knitting is nearby. Although, I feel an impulse 1-yr-old-girl project coming on.

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Two hats to sisters. When I knitted the watermelon hat, I was doing some wishful thinking that my friend would have a girl. (previously blogged). And she did! The Shores hat is for her sister, who is also the recipient of a cow :)

Super quick, super cute projects. Both knitted with destash & gift yarn from J and GD. Thanks for all the colourful yarn :)

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I brought this clover scarf and mom's cardi with me on our Memorial Day trip to see Brothers in law and their families (and bonus Bobby Bear!). I didn't really get a chance to work on them much. Kooler had a lower urinary tract infection. (Bladder infection. We were up all night and the couple nights before. No sleep for the weary. I found a vet open on $unday and couple of trips later, she got some meds and we were on our way to be better.)

I laid out the post-wash clover scarf and spotted my mistakes - in the little squares and an extra clover at the end. DH gave it a courtesy glance and did not spot the mishaps. I always miss some when I inspect my work in progress. For example, I found a dropped stitch in Mom's cardi way back there after I bind off. This must say something about my brain-dead state of mind. Maybe next time, I will let the work in progress rest overnight and do the inspection in the morning, when my mind is fresh(er).

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Look, another FO in brown!

Mom: "why don't you like brown?". I like brown. As a matter of fact, I have some Silk Garden stash in Taupes & Black that I will knit up, once I find a pattern to match.

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The destash yarn is from GD, I bought additional two from webs and they happen to be the same dyelot (!). The button is from J. The yarn very nice and very squishy and it made a very nice and very squishy cardigan for mom. It is generously sized. We say Thank You!

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My SiL told her we were visiting, and added that I was the one who made / gave her the Bear. She brought it to show me, unprompted, when we were there. It makes me very happy to see well loved gifts. :D

I made Bobby Bear almost a year ago. A few months later, we visited them and Bobby Bear was slightly pilly. I am happy to say that Bobby Bear looks almost exactly as he did. His nose was a little loose but after some gentle inspecting, I decided not to mess with it.

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