Thanks!

Your thoughts and prayers are much appreciated.  The problem is not stemming from her heart.  Whew.  We had to argue with the doctors that her slightly elevated enzymes, were not reason for catheterization.  They even mentioned open heart surgery!  I checked several medical sites and there are a number of benign issues that can cause this, it can be temporary, and many times a reason is not found.  She agreed to a stress test and echo first, both showed no change from priors.  If they had their way, a heart cath would have been done first, and totally unnecessary.  She will be having the endoscopy soon.

 

Nitzy, stump sitting.  The overturned copper kettle is a safe house for chased chipmunks.  I have several around the yard, the least I can do after homing feral killers.  The toads have their pot houses but rarely have the sense to hide in them. 

 

The logs and limbs in Carole's yard are because the loggers do not clean up, they are not a tree service.  They want the trunk only and leave the limbs.  Passing by wooded areas reveals a mess just like the one behind her house. Her yard trees were white oak, poker straight, and huge for which the logger will get a very fine price, in exchange for cutting.   I begged her to hire someone for cleanup but she thinks her grandson will cut and take it all for his woodburner.  No he won't.  Monthly income is not even enough to pay bills let alone removal expense but we offered to chip in.  If the mess is still there in four weeks, I am calling a few people myself and she can get mad if she wants. Years ago, a logger stopped at her house and gave her a price for some of her trees (cherry and hickory) and she was thrilled.  He cut, stacked, and sneaked back at 3:00 in the morning with the rig and took them all.  She couldn't hear them at the bottom of the hill but the neighbor did, knew she was selling the trees so didn't question it.  She received nothing and no one could locate him behind several fake businesses, including BBB and the police.  The 13 cherry and 8 hickory trees were worth a great deal of money.

 

Garden was drowned again and now the tomatoes have a blight from the damp and humid days (weeks!).  But the Roma beans we were given, an Italian green bean that is wide and flat, popped and are growing nicely. 

I can't believe July is half over.  Where is summer going??

 

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Here we go again.

In the ER until 3am with Carole.  Chest pains and rising enzymes, not sure what is happening yet.  They will do endoscopy and also a heart catheterization which she is terrified of after all the other heart procedures that ended life threatening.  Blockage?  The TAVR valve?  As more enzymes show up, they are getting concerned. 

 

I had to be at her house early this morning to let in the lady I hired to give her house a good cleaning.  She was doing walls while I worked in the kitchen.  While I was there I decided to use my $7 a month phone to show you the luge track driveway I refer to in winter.

 

Starting to go down... 

 

 

 

 

half way down....

 

 

veering sharp right at the bottom where cars come flying around this bend.

 

Going up!

You can see how steep the hill is ..

 

They logged the property behind her house and left this mess for her to look at.

In exchange for the wood's value, they also removed a few of her dangerously leaning trees.  What a fricking mess.  Some of the trunk pieces are 2 feet wide, too large to cut and too heavy to move.

 

 

 

 

 

We won't know anything about her condition until tomorrow.  Hopefully it is something that can be fixed without a bodily invasion.

 

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Dark and damp once again

More rain today - see the drops on the tub?  Just started when I went outside to check geraniums.  And it's chilly.  Very cool air last night and I needed a cover to sit outside. 

 

 We've been pressure washing the driveway which takes a few days and Mark is out there now adding new strings of obscenities to the standard phrases.  Seems there is a problem with the washer so I will stay in here.  I don't understand why men get so upset when we tell them what the problem could be and ask forty questions all starting with "did you...".  They are so sensitive.

 

 Now the sun is out.  Whoops.  There it went. 

 Still working on Polly and completed the first two pages of the chart.  Enjoying it! 

Have a nice week.

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It ain't over...

until the crabass says so.  So.  Now it's over.

 

  

These dogs bothered me from the beginning but unlike every other aspect of a design, I never thought to change them.  Had not a clue how or what to modify.  Then I saw Patti Gagliardi's finish on her post and knew what to do.  Thank you Patti!  Patti has two dachshunds and likes to include them in her stitching which is what I assume, led to the change. 

 

 

I added a few more stitches to the head, shown on the right, original on the left.  Not the first time I added stitches to a completed and sewn finish.  It's not hard to do, even with the fusible interfacing.  And if it was, the dogs were barking loud enough for me to attempt it anyway.  One is still barking because he's a little short in the tail.  Sorry pal, that I can't fix.

 

Done. Again.

 

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Green and galvanized

Even in the shade, I just love the pop of sweet potato vines,

 

and galvanized metal.

 

Hope your weekend is splendid.

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It's a good thing

I didn't attempt a pouch.  SO much trouble with this small piece and there was no good reason for it.  Easy to sew following the straight border, but between the machine, the iron, the interfacing, the glue, the Frixion, the fill - there was a conspiracy to aggravate.  And they succeeded.  Every fricking one of them.

 

 

 

 

So all I did was use the same leather cording for each and slipped the little heart over.  This way, I can remove the heart to hang elsewhere when I choose, and as always, straps are not in seam but sewn to the back, easily removed also.  If I didn't like this design so much the flames would have been scorching my hair as I croaked out a song.

Although fabulous as charted, I'm glad I removed the row of hearts at the top.

But it's over now and I deserve a treat.  My melt-a-ways are gone.  I guess I'll settle for a Dove with a tall one.  Iced tea of course. 

Sweet as can be.

 

Have a good day folks!

Thanks for visiting.

 

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