Hi folks. Spending the weekend at home because of weather, and I came up with what I hope will help me with the motif placements.
I started at the bottom of the grass and highlighted the graph into five rows. Using a bright thread, I wove it into the margin matching the graph. This should allow me to check the position of the motifs along that left edge. It's difficult for me to see the linen threads and I am very unsure of myself. Counting off of them will be much easier and I can be more confident that my placement is close to the chart.
I've been using my new Oxo duster, and these old bentwood stools took only minutes. They were always a PITA because of the tight curves and this duster took care of it all. Happy dance. I've been looking for new stools for quite a while but since we have only one furniture store and they have ... well.... nothing that I like, I am forced to order online. I don't know about you, but I prefer placing my rear on the seat to test comfort and not have to assemble, but I have no choice. I guess cushions can always be added.
I sprayed a lot of the Feliway on a mat inside the carrier, and Bud handled the vet visit much better than before. He did cry, but only a few times and actually laid on the mat instead of pacing. Even at the office, he was afraid and anxious but not like before. I hasn't worked on their favorite napping spots in the house, but I do believe it helped in the carrier. We are trying the tiny cut of Valium to get Missy manageable but there is always a chance it will have the opposite effect. Carole took Valium once and felt like she wanted to crawl up the walls. We'll see. He's on an antibiotic and his heart is not doing well, so we are also to give him 1/8 of a 81 mg aspirin every three days. No more. That is very difficult to cut into such a small piece. He should start to feel better in a few days.
I was gathering fabric to make my own little thread catcher/holder, and found uncut corduroy to work really well, as did velveteen. I was working on a pattern to make one with two sides, two colors, one for dark threads and one for light. Not sure I will go any further.
Hope the weekend is going well!
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Am glad you have something to help with the trips to the Vet. That is always an anxious time for us with Sheldon and Pippa.
Cold here......am staying in where it's warm.
Take care.
Charlotte in Va.
I purchased some CBD (hemp i hope) for pets from a local shop that sells these products for humans During thunderstorms my daughter gives her three maltipoos just a drop in yogurt. It was originally to be rubbed on one of their knees which was swollen but it was also for oral use. I do not know how that might work for the "brats" as you used to call them.
Nice that the howling was at a minimum. It is the worse part of going to the Vets. I know!!! Have you tried smashing the whole pill and then dividing it, you know like the old days between two spoons. Did your Mother ever do that? I know it won't be exact but neither is cutting off 1/8 either. Just a thought.
Good idea to mark your fabric with thread. Hope it helps x
1/8 of a baby aspirin? How the heck do you do that?
Great idea using the thread. I hope it helps you. I know it would help me.
17*. Windy. Snow. UGH! Winter has arrived in northern Ohio :(
I mark my larger projects with thread every ten stitches just like you did. I find I can keep track of where I am better. I try to use a floss or thread color that is not in the piece itself. So glad you found a way to make Bud's vet visit a little less traumatic.
Marly, glad the Feliway helped, just be careful amount used, has alcohol in it, needs to dry. They also make a plug in diffuser but I am a little leery of diffusers. Difficult to get 1/8th 81mg aspirin. Some pharmacies can compound a liquid, can be flavored with tuna etc. It would be measurable. Problem with that would be 1) getting liquid in Bud, but he may like tuna and 2) can aspirin be compounded. Good idea with the motifs.
How do you get the cats to take pills?? Mia is a totally high strung little thing -- and I have to rub meds into her ear. She refuses any pills. I dread the day she needs any pills!
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