Ralphie is intent on being involved in every level:
Adjusting the speed control on my wife’s 570:
checking the stitch length on my now finished Irish Chain project:
the Lenscrafter location where we have been getting our glasses for the last few years will reuse frames, but it will nullify any discount on the lenses. We have given up on them and my wife got her last prescription filled at Costco She got transition lenses on one pair and a pair of sunglasses, with new frames for much less than she paid for one pair of sunglasses at Lenscrafter
nellie, I did get back to sleep. The wind died down shortly after the watch was over.
Safe travels to you metal mouse and pearl.
hippy, I love the color on your wife’s block. Ralphie looks perfectly capable as a QA. (I’m a fan of ginger kittehs).
Houseirk, laundry and grocery shopping is done. Right now, I’m picking out the materials and dies for a consignment Christmas card set. She wanted 25 of them with gold somewhere on the card. I had the perfect paper in my stash and high quality card bases / envelopes (I got them for a steal on Marketplace a couple of years ago) in mind, so they should be pretty.
Thank you for sharing that story, it’s always interesting (to me) to learn how others got started. I’ve taught several adults basic cross stitch and needlepoint. They all had different reasons for wanting to learn.
You and your wife’s work is lovely, I’m sure that your Quality Control Cat has a lot to do with it, LOL! Both of you do amazingly even points which I understand takes a LOT of skill, and I can see why.
Are you two also good at picking your own colors? I can choose primary colors, but the secondary ones just defeat me.
Thanks so much for the wonderful pics!
Oh dear, does this mean a short pay check as well?
Welcome almost home metal mouse! I hope the rest of your journey goes well and you enjoy sleeping in your own comfy bed with the bathroom where you expect it to be.
Ick. Working in those sort of conditions is horrible and soul sucking. I hope they move you too!
And they also don’t stock post exposure rabies shots for the same reason. Back when I was active in feral rescue, I kept my rabies shots current because while most folks don’t die of rabies anymore, as you mentioned the between part is pretty horrible.
Hubs got his beard trimmed today! I am SO happy, he looks so much better. He started growing his beard a couple of years ago and neither of us really knows how to trim full beards but he didn’t want to go to the beauty salon because he’s a studly he-man who doesn’t step foot in such places.
There is a new salon a couple of towns away, owned and operated by a lady biker. Half is hair and the other side is her tattoo salon. It’s not really pink and girly like the last owner had it and this lady did a nice job on my hair, so I made hubs an appointment and told him that if he didn’t want to keep it, he could call and cancel.
Evening all. Well, I am officially out of Argentina, am sitting in the Condor Class lounge for us folks who travel 1st class (actually my first time in an airline lounge in 22 years). Leaving in about 2 hours, had to get a ride from the main domestic airport to here, took about an hour and a half to make it through Buenos Aires traffic. At least I can turn my seat into a “bed”, we’ll see how that works. If all goes to plan my next message will be in the good old US of A.
Have read all but simply can’t retain much, I promise on the next MMP to do better.
Take care all y’all… I’ve missed you.
Thanks.
Thanks
The colors for the two classes were assigned. The hand sewn projects are my color choices. I have some blocks I have made with some other fabric. I have bought a few bundles of fat quarters and use them for experimentation.
Sunflower thought the color scheme for the BOM she is taking was hideous and we scoured the fabric stores for her choices. She bought a yard each of a lot of colors of the same fabric. It will be beautiful when it is done
I promised Sunflower that I would not be offended by three statements:
- You know, your beard could really use a trim
- You should probably shift from beer/wine to ice water
- Here, have an Altoid
We talked about you behind your back constantly! (OK, yeah, it was about how much we missed you, but still, you were gossiped about!)
And both of you quilters…that must have been SO much fun! Hubs used to go into the needlework stores with me and follow me around while I showed him threads and patterns. Next he started coming in but sitting in a chair by the front door and playing with his phone. Nowadays, he will sit in the car and play on his phone. He’s not interested, and that is OK.
I will sometimes go into his beer supply stores to see what is new (they usually have a small selection of cheese making supplies), but usually wait in the car and play with my phone.
However, we do spend much time discussing fermentation, proper sanitization and pasteurizing techniques so it’s not like we never do anything together!
You are a very good man, no wonder she loves you so!
Hubs agreed that his beard looked bad, he just didn’t have anyone he trusted to trim it for him. OK, well, he trusted me, but I wouldn’t do it because I was afraid I might screw it up even worse cause I screw my bangs up every time I try to trim them.
I am really glad I found this hairdresser cause hubs rocks a properly groomed beard but the shaggy one was making him look like a single old widower who needed a wife to take care of him. (I like to go into the grocery store with him just to watch the old women hit on him, too funny, and what is even funnier is that he doesn’t see it when it’s happening, only after I point it out later.)
And, I just got a call from one of my buyers saying that the goats are birthing, goating? tonight and that I can start getting milk from that dairy next week. As they all got preggy in the same night (20 girls, one boy), it makes sense that they would all give birth at the same time, but I was still really shocked because I’m only a pretend farm girl at heart.
I lurve working with goat milk. It is nothing like cow’s milk, it WANTS to be cheese, plus besides being easier to work with, it pays better.
@JaneDoe42 Thanks. I will be a much happier camper if they do.
@swampbear thanks. Its for a sad reason but there are people I am anxious to see.
@The_Stainless_Steel_Rat missed you too
Still traveling and It will be after midnight before we get there. Gnight
Howdy Y’all! Sup got fixed and et, then the kitchen got cleanded up. We were both so exhausted after that, the only thing we could do was binge some Netflix whilst we recuperated. OYKW has gone to bed, but I’m not quite ready to go sleepy bye yet. It could happen soon, however.
The joys of store points – 20 gallons of petrol for eighteen cents! No, not eighteen cents a gallon – eighteen cents, total. The store can knock the price to almost zero, but they can’t void the last nine mills, so we have to pay nine mills a gallon.
All five cats went to the vet’s during the last week and a bit. Nandi, appropriately (as he’s only about six months old), is the smallest, at 7.6 pounds. Angel, our “old lady” at 14 or thereabouts, weighs 8 pounds. And the other three, at just over a year and a half, are 8.1 (Lily), 9.1 (Eraser), and 10.8 (Jiji) pounds. Be interesting to see how much Nandi has gained by the time he goes in for neutering next month. We suspect he’s going to end up bigger than Jiji…
I was starting to think I needed to call on the engineering experts in here to get a flat-pack cardboard kitty scratcher/toy assembled, but it’s properly together. I think. Let’s see if either of the furry doofi even likes it (if they don’t, oh well, I found it at That’s Cheap, so didn’t spend much).
Lots of scuttling around trying to run errands, with not a lot actually getting accomplished. Bleah.
GG is pretty stable at 17.8 lbs. I’m happy where he is, but he isn’t quite two yet, so it’s possible he’ll gain another 6 oz or so.
Congrats on the kitties all passing their vet checks, dare I ask how much neutering is now? It was HOLY COW expensive a year and a half ago, it couldn’t have gotten any less expensive since then.
Ours love their cardboard scratchers, but it did take a while for them to learn what the first one was. Did yours come with a little bag of catnip? If not, get some out of your cupboard and sprinkle the cardboard.
It’s a shame you can’t enclose your patio, cardboard scratchers are way messy and we like ours to have them outside.
French onion soup, oysters, and a Vieux Carré at The Black Cat.
For dinner we had Steak Salads (6-ounce filet mignon on arugula, with figs, pistachios, goat cheese, and a balsamic reduction).
Can’t speak for neuter (Buddy was already snipped when he moved in), but when I asked the foster lady who took my little houseguests, she said spays were $65 at the vet her organization uses.
The patio has a fence around it, and about half is covered by the balcony of the apartment above me. We’re not allowed to put additional roof on it, due to the fire department needing to be able to get in via the patio if emergency demands it. I do have a good vacuum currently. Allie loves cardboard scratchers, Buddy favors the furniture or carpet (little brat!). Allie’s fond of nip, Buddy’s indifferent to it.
This is the one I got them (for about $7, vs the price at the link)
Ohhhh, I was thinking there were new folds in the flat boxes. Did it come with the jingle balls, or do you have to supply them?
I think we talked about your patio before and I do understand that you have to follow the rules…I was just giving you sympathy about vacuuming cardboard shards on a daily basis.
I’ve gotten some newborn goat pics that I can’t manage to post here. They are way cute, but they are all white. This is confusing because the moms are all black and I think I remember the boy being black too. I’m sure this is like all babies having blue eyes, but it’s good that I’m not breeding goats cause I would have been positive I’d done something wrong to get that result.
It came with the jingle balls, which may get substituted if the kids get too annoying about middle-of-the-night jingling. 
I actually don’t typically see much fallout from the cardboard scratchers until they’re almost due for replacement.
These are much quieter:
Well, until GG puts one between the bed and wall so he can fish it out again. Then it gets loud.
Oddly, those cannot be shipped to my location.
Up, caffeinated, off to heave.
Yep. If you just announced a year of record volume, and record profits, I guess you have no choice but to cut people’s hours. 