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Knits With Cats
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Diverse experiences, retired from high tech (mostly start-ups). Adventures keep you young! Knitter, quilter, cat wrangler, gardener, HAM-adjacent, wife, reader, economist, techie, former pilot and motorcyclist, not necessarily in that order. 🧶🧵🧩🌊🐈🌹🌻🍁
Mouth bone stuff is the worst. Finger crossed for no root canal.
December 9, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Skip graduation. Your time is important and you are allowed to make plans if you want.
December 9, 2025 at 9:25 PM
It has pistachios in the filling, with other stuff, rather like truffles. Actually quite good, or at least the ones a friend brought back from her son's wedding in Morocco were quite good.
December 9, 2025 at 9:22 PM
If I don't try them how will I know which ones are good? Also which ones I might want to make myself? He's freaking clueless.
December 8, 2025 at 10:20 PM
That's the best snow!
December 8, 2025 at 10:14 PM
I was just cleared to lift up to 20 pounds in October. I had ablations for afib, flutter, and SVT a year ago which put me a little behind schedule..
It's all doable but it takes longer - unpack boxes in the mud room and bring things upstairs piece by piece, for example.
December 8, 2025 at 6:04 PM
It's been 18 months and I'm close, but my instructions were clear: cooking, laundry, housework, shopping, and walking 30 minutes per day (not all at once) and 3 months of cardiac rehab after I'd been home for 3 months. Now I need a knee replacement - pushing that out for now. Rehab is a bitch!
December 8, 2025 at 5:55 PM
I always order a Georgia O'Keeffe calendar for my office and a Farmer's Market one for the kitchen. Because I am used to having a 2 month minimum view, I also use the Old Farmer's Almanac one in my office, and I keep a desk calendar in both my office and kitchen so appts are easy to remember.
December 8, 2025 at 5:19 PM
...and is wearing light cotton scrubs. OTOH I cooked dinner the night I came home from hospital, and did laundry the next day.- maybe I was an overachiever, or maybe he has the special man-version of recuperation. I suspect he's a bit depressed over this and I'm glad he has a Dr appt tomorrow.
December 8, 2025 at 5:12 PM
I'm sure you are *exactly* the child your parents ordered! Mine, OTOH, just assumed their firstborn would be a boy, so they hadn't even thought of a possible name for a girl! They almost named me Michael (the chosen boy name) but my paternal grandfather put his foot down.
December 8, 2025 at 4:51 PM
We got at least 2 from Nature Conservancy already. Also, ACE Hardware stores usually have them starting in October.
December 8, 2025 at 3:57 PM
I love your fabric choices! Looks very useful - lucky recipient!
December 8, 2025 at 12:01 PM
The lights and decorations make me happy when it gets dark so early. Just because.
December 8, 2025 at 11:15 AM
My mom did that because there were 4 of us and it was hard to keep milk on hand otherwise. When I make yogurt I always add 1 cup of nonfat dry milk when I heat the gallon of milk. I was told it added extra protein and I can't taste it, thank goodness.
December 8, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Thank you! He's getting better every day, I think.
December 7, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Sorted SO prescriptions into morning and evening containers (he can't remember what to take when and had apparently doubled up on one of his diabetes meds, which was negatively affecting his kidneys). Next up: fold laundry, wash more laundry, make meatloaf (SO request), watch football, cuddle cat.
December 7, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Cheese? Fruit of the month subscription? CSA box subscription? I'm more into consumables, as you can probably tell.
December 7, 2025 at 9:08 PM
You live in it as you always have, doing good in your own way and ability. People haven't gotten worse necessarily but coverage of them has and we have to look past it to people who are doing and being good. They are out there not calling attention to themselves.
December 7, 2025 at 6:39 PM