Wednesday WIPs: When it Rains it Pours

 

All I managed to work on this week was the Hue Shift. I had to do the first square in the third row twice. The square I'm working on now seems to be behaving.

It turned out to be another one of those days. I woke up at 2 am with a terrible headache and at 9 am ended up here. At the vets. 

I thought someone had a UTI but it turned out it was just an inflamed backside. She got a butt trim and a good cleaning and was sent home with a 10 day supply of antibiotics. She had gotten a bath on Saturday and I might have been too zealous with the soap and the washrag in a certain delicate area. Expensive lesson learned. $350.

She absolutely hates the vets and wore herself out fretting about it. That turned out to be a good thing because she was calm for the rest of the day and we spent it napping my headache away. Here's hoping today is a better day for us both.

TNT: No Rest for the Weary

 

I sat down for a very few minutes yesterday and stitched the name of the author and started a new tree on the garden sampler. Between kitty sitting, stiff neck and holiday cleaning there wasn't any time for sitting and stitching this week. 

I was tired from Sunday's festivities and I was looking forward to a lazy day to get some crafty stuff done but instead it started with a bang. That was the sound of my mother's and grandmother's china hitting the floor....

...when the shelves in the cabinet that I keep it in collapsed. Somehow nothing broke. We spent the morning trying to figure out how to fix the shelves. Upon examination it seems that we had the pegs in the wrong way. We flipped them over and hopefully that was enough to keep everything where it's supposed to be. 

Then there was this. At 8 am a dumpster was delivered. We had a giant pile of debris from the bathroom remodel that needed to go. We always do this type of clean up in the winter before the critters and bugs wake up but most of our winter was covered in ice so we didn't get it done when we wanted it to. The Mister decided this was the week so we spent the rest of the day hauling stuff and cleaning out sheds. I am very happy to report that at this writing The Mister is as tired as I am. Maybe tomorrow will be a day of recovery. I sure hope so. I'm really tired.

Hippity Hoppity

 

Look who we ran into yesterday.

He made a big impression on Baby Grand. Big Grand had seen enough big bunnies this week to be wary of a random one just taking a stroll. Smart kid. 

The egg hunt we had planned with the Grands in our yard got rained out so we took them down to the boardwalk and hid the eggs among the benches and the flower beds. It was just as wet but there was much less mud. 

The kiddies didn't seem to mind getting soaked. 

Finding eggs was okay but it was puddle jumping that really got their attention. 

Before all that excitement, I tried out the oven for the first time on a ham. It worked perfectly. The rest of dinner was my pathetic attempts at potato salad and coleslaw. In all my years, the proper execution of both eludes me. The deviled eggs and roasted asparagus were good though.

Daughter brought a bunny cake from her favorite gluten free bakery....

...and some fancy chocolate bunnies from a chocolate shop she discovered in Connecticut last week. 

Eggs were dyed.... 

....and crafts were done. Without any of the other Grands, it was a scaled down version of our usual holiday festivities but we made it work.

Hoppin' Down the Bunny Trail

 

Happy Easter!

Cleaning Up

 

I did a whole lot of this yesterday and I will be doing a whole lot more today. 

When this comes out of the closet you know I mean business. I'm having Easter here this year and making the place presentable is going to take a lot of work. 

I did sneak in a bit of this in the late afternoon while The Mister was out mowing. After a night of sleeping sitting straight up on my couch so as not to do any crazy twisting in my sleep, my neck is feeling much better today. SNL is new tonight so I think I'll repeat that sleeping arrangement just to be on the safe side. 

Friday Fluff: A Pain in the Neck

 

When I stay at Daughter's to kitty sit, I sleep on the couch. She has a lovely guest room with its own private bathroom but I'm too spooked to go way upstairs in her big empty house. On Monday morning I woke up with a stiff neck that I haven't been able to shake all week. It's getting better but I can only find relief when I'm upright and on my feet. I've spent the week doing lots of odd jobs around the house but little of anything else. I did get three more sections done on the handspun Pi Shawl before I came home. Four more sections to go but I can't look down to knit right now. 

I hadn't gotten very far on my latest spinning project before I left and I didn't add anything to it this week either. I did get all my winter clothes cleaned and packed away. Pup's too. I hand washed and hung all the woollies out to dry when we had sun and warm weather. It's back to cloudy and cold which is fine by me. 

My first little loaf of the reanimated Betty White turned out to be a good one. Cooking and cleaning I can do. Sitting and knitting or anything else that I have to look down to do, I can't. That includes sleeping and even watching TV so I'm a pretty grumpy mess right now. I just can't get comfortable and my other body parts are now trying to join in the fun. It's always a domino effect when you get old. The misery starts in one place and just keeps on traveling.

Touch and Go

 

When I got home I had to resurrect the refrigerated Bettys and at first it didn't go so well. I was worried. Then after a day of 80 degree heat they came back to life with a vengeance. 

Look at those bubbles. That's a first. Betty was really happy so I put her to work.

We made waffles in the morning.

I finished off the last two pieces of Betty White that I had in the freezer for lunch so I started the process of making more bread. She made an excellent tomato sandwich.

After we turned on the AC I made crackers. I hated to have to turn it on since the Bettys were performing like crazy in the heat but when the thermostat hit 80 it had to happen. The Mister said so.