No no no no no no

 I just can't deal with this.  Over and over, tied down, the fights, the resistance, no neighbors willing to help, agencies filled and no where to go.  

I heard an odd noise, sort of a cat cry, but not really.  Really.  A baby.  A darling gray tabby with large ears hiding under the wash tub while Missy sat close.  It was the baby's cry, not Missy.  Petey is not in his box ten feet away or Missy would have been hiding.  He will destroy this homeless kitten.  Nit heard the cry, was at the glass door growling.  I just can't keep doing this.  So upset.  After telling Mark, who knows I have been in tears for two weeks with my lip and mouth constant burning and pain, he shook his head.  He said I can't save them all and can't take any more stress right now.  We talked back and forth and I keep glancing out the window into the dark.  Since the others are in house, in garage, in outdoor shelters, there is no where to keep him safe tonight and what happens after that?  It's been two years and I can see that Petey will never be the fourth in the family of three which makes it difficult and sad as he sits and looks in.

Last glance, he/she is gone.  Did Petey show up and chase him?  Is the kitten in the shelter further from the house or is that where Petey is?  It's very cold and the baby needs protection, but with one entrance, he could be trapped with no way out. What about the straw bales fifty feet away?  I will not sleep tonight.  My brother still has two from the dozens of homeless he has helped, homed, and rescued over the years and Ohio's wonderful organization took his last found litter.  He will not take another.  No one to call until Monday but I will then, and if there is an opening, I will try my best to find him/her.

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Any progress is progress

 It's not as much as I hoped, but considering

-Carole regressing, 

-Bud failing, 

-being totally miserable from my Sjogrens worsening,

-being unable to consume chocolate, fruit, or pasta sauce because of the burning,

-getting a handful of hair every time I push it back, 

-my painful toe after two botched surgeries is needing a third, 

-and still living in menohell, 

I'm surprised Elizabeth hasn't been tossed out the window.  

This will hopefully be my only crabass pity party of the season.

I only take a match to projects that are causing me great aggravation, and Elizabeth has been very polite.  Two more rows and I'll be into the A&E bottom.  The vine border isn't a great deal of work and won't require much time.

I hope you're all able to release the snark and enjoy what's left of a very difficult year.  But we've made it through.  It may seem as if we're isolated, but it's the first time we are connected by the same catastrophe with every home across the world.  Physically alone.  Mentally and emotionally linked, united.

Thanks for the visit folks. 

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Checking the boxes

 Raised off the deck?  ✅

Bottom layer of thick foam? ✅

Waterproof pad over foam? ✅

Shelf above house for lounging? ✅

Patio area for food? ✅

Corrugated plastic roofing covering all? ✅

Roofing end raised for easy drainage? ✅

Still waiting for delivery of heated pad? ✅

Hunkering down for the big snow storm? ✅

Totally ticked off about it?  ✅✅

Planning to do nothing but stitch? ✅✅✅

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More than any other year

 WAY more!!!

Bud is eating pate food thinned with water, almost a can of Fancy Feast a day.  The chicken and turkey baby foods are no longer acceptable to him.  His mouth/tooth issue continues and he is still losing weight but otherwise doing OK.  Petey on the other hand, is an absolute brute.

Sadly, my sister's friend passed yesterday from Covid and the other that was very sick and recovered, has relapsed.

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Santa's coming to ....

 Patty Goza.

Patty was one of the email entries so I can contact her for mailing address.  

Thanks everyone!!!

My brother's oldest cat passed away at home this weekend and he is just so sad.  She was one of the strays that was never friendly, but always stayed on his porch in her plush heated condo, pampered and well cared for.  And sent him to the hospital twice with serious infections from her bites. Last year at this time she decided to finally enter his house and was a happy and totally changed cat ever since.  

I'm making progress on Elizabeth but now have a floater, quite large, that is flitting back and forth directly in my line of vision.  Dammit.  I have been in a rotten mood with anxiety blips.  They are so brief, that when I feel like I have to get up, throw something, and run, it's over before I can find an object to toss!  And I can see my pulse in the same eye that has the fricking floater.  

But life is dandy ain't it folks?

Happy week!!

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Christmas o f f er

Hello hello.  My Christmas give away this year will be for Kogut's Santa's Hike chart.

This is mine done on Dolphin linen.

If you would like this chart, leave a comment with your initials or email on this post, or email me directly.

samplersandsantas@gmail.com

I will draw a name on Monday evening at 8pm.

I need to do some research since I found out that if I open an email on the tablet, it does not show up on the laptop and vice versa.  Been driving me nuts!  I remember reading them but couldn't find them, then I realized they were only on one device.  So I will be checking both until I can correct this.

A few days ago I received an email from a reader that has bought so many of my boxes, asking me if I have an Amazon account.  I thought maybe she needs a favor so I replied (the return email address was the same I've always used).  I think it may be a scam and I have no way of contacting her because sending to her email comes back with another link to a new one.  After my accounts were hacked and used when I was on the Cleveland Clinic wi-fi (thousands!!), I called my card companies and requested a $500 limit.  Judy, if this is actually you, let me know!!

I've  been spending so much money ordering online and that's not good.  When you're doing this from several different establishments, you lose track of what you're spending.  Yoi.  

That's all folks!!  

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