Knits With Cats

I'm watching Ovation - Friday night they play a Death In Paradise marathon. I actually look forward to it every week.

Happy birthday! Enjoy your spa day!!

That seems really unfair!

We're expecting mid 60s early in the week, but still have anywhere from 1 to 6 feet of snow that needs to melt before anything comes up. Maybe later in March or early April.

Stew is simmering on the stove top for dinner tonight. It's above freezing and snow and ice are melting, but it's also very dreary and gray and comfort food seems right. Might even make some egg noodles - SO loves egg noodles.

Love the fabric!

We got 7" more snow overnight, and now it's above freezing so it's melting and dripping and sounds like rain. May be icy tomorrow. Plow dude just came by and sanded (plowed earlier). Looks like we may have a beach this summer. March is coming in like a lion.

We got another 7" of snow last night. I am really getting tired of snow. But it's supposed to be low 60s early next week before dropping back below freezing again.

Thank you!

Birthday month treat day 5: Today's treat is actually a weekly event - knitting with a group of ladies of a certain age. I've been part of the group for about 2 years, the group has been meeting for about 15 years. We laugh, encourage, learn, and support each other. I love these women!

Yeah, my favorite lipstick was discontinued years ago. Even the rep for Estee Lauder (I think) agreed it was perfect, and I bought all I could find then. Lipsticks don't age as well as nail polish, sadly.

Timeline cleanse:
Baby tapir getting scritches for their itches.

If you want to scritch your very own tapir & you live outside of Central or South America or SE Asia, you'll need to visit a zoo.

But these little guys are (evolutionarily) from around here, in North America. Let's talk about it.

2 square glass bottles of L'Oreal nail polish in color Versailles Romance, which is pale peach. Posed on a white granite vanity top with an ink blue towel as background.

Birthday month treat day 4: more nail polish from eBay! 2 bottles of L'Oreal nail polish in pale peach. Love the color, have worn it for 10 or 12 years, and of course, it's no longer made.

White.box with a woman in blue exercise clothing demonstrating use of a black Pilates ring.

Birthday month treat day 3 (fell asleep last night before I posted this): a Pilates Toning Ring suggested by my old PT to strengthen my leg muscles to - I hope - make my knees hurt less.

Dry land cotton farmer in West Texas

Ranch hand / cowboy / farmer in Central and West Texas until his mid-40s, then worked oil leases in West Texas

That's beautiful! Love the colors! You can tie it, or put a button, or wear it with the point in front, or criss-cross the points on the shoulder and pin it - so many options.

As bad as cigarette smoke. New housekeeper helper reeks - I can smell her when she comes into the downstairs mud room; she swears she quit smoking months ago. I disagree!

A triangular shawl in shades of emerald green with flashes of gold and white. The pin is wooden from Ukraine, painted with yellow and lavender flowers.

Finally learned an easy way to wear a triangular shawl easily all day - don't laugh, I'm sure every other knitter knows this! I like to wear shawls like cardigans, here's how. Drape it over my shoulders with a bit of a collar, overlap fronts a bit, and use a pin or shawl pin to hold it closed. Done!

Body let me get to sleep about 4:45 am, and I got about 3.5 hours. It's a bit light but my only obligation is playing mah jongg and they understand about this - we've all got something!

I have enough yarn (at last inventory before we moved 6+ years ago) to knit more than 100 adult sweaters and 200 pairs of socks. I still buy the special yarn because tastes change. We won't talk about fabric, embroidery stuff, beads, books, etc. If it makes one happy it's necessary. No guilt.

You don't have *that special yarn* at home, do you?

I was at the bank for 15 years- longest anywhere - and delayed my retirement several times over 2 years because we couldn't find a replacement. Finally divided my teams under leads and put each team group under a different manager. Not ideal, but my teams and leads were self-sufficient.

Manos del Uraguay yarn still exists, still beautiful, still expensive. Available through Jimmy Beans and other resellers.

That list was really dumb - I rolled my eyes so hard they almost got stuck.

Yeah. Due here around 1 pm. It can stop any time, really.

According to Fitbit I got to sleep about 4:45 and slept off and on until about 9:15 for about 3.5 hours. Thanks to SO for understanding. Today will be a little tough, but not terrible and my knees feel better.

3:30 and still awake. Now I'm hungry too, so I had a granola bar, then broke out the Cheddars. I'll be placing another order to British Foods in Boston tomorrow for more! Back in the recliner with a heating pad and heated throw, but I'm not cold, just awake and very alert. Time to read or knit.

Just after 1 am, still wide awake. Working NYT word puzzles, all 3 xwords complete. Turned on the slow rain sounds, got into bed with the CPAP - the rhythmic breathing often puts me to sleep in less than 10 minutes - we'll see. Ate too many Ghirardelli chocolates, Cheddars and Garibaldi's were next.

Thank you!

Birthday month treat, day 2: signed up for the 2026 Quiltfolk BOM - Botanical is the theme. I haven't made any of the 2025 BOM blocks yet although I have fabric picked, but this one really spoke to me. 1 class per month starting in April, 1 block per class. Should be fun!

My mother made something like this in the 60s, and we kids called it dog food! Ground beef, onions, rice, and cream of chicken (or celery) soup. Guy I was dating stayed for dinner one night and *loved* it - when we got engaged had to promise to make dog food for him! Would have, but we never married