This darned bug! I didn’t sleep well last night and there is finally a new cough medicine at the pharmacy for me this morning. Hubby will be fetching it soon. Meanwhile, I’m trying to get enough energy to vacuum my atelier which is knee-deep in dog hair. Anybody who thinks short haired dogs don’t shed much … our lab sheds like he’s getting paid for it! I may be allergic to him so I wonder if the mountains of dog hair floating around are adding to my coughing problems. I may have to vacuum in a couple of rounds.

I wish I’d bought stock in tissues! I have been going through tissues like crazy … seriously, perhaps a box or two every day! Is that sharing too much?

Yesterday I worked a lot on my Gansey Afghan. I am really enjoying the pattern and it’s a good, low level challenge for my brain right now. It’s not boring because of the different texture patterns but it’s not a huge challenge either. And it’s really pretty. I have been thinking about making another one for me, an orange one perhaps, for my atelier. We shall see. I do have a long list of things to knit already formed.

I have one virtual meeting today and I managed two loads of laundry yesterday. I had run out of clean pajamas! My hubby changed the sheets on our bed so I’m in compliance with my allergy doc’s advice … does anybody wash their bed sheets every week anymore? I’m allergic to dust mites and even with a new mattress, new pillows and no curtains or rugs in our bedroom, that was her recommendation. I think I need to buy another set of sheets!

This is almost the right color green. I’m not sure why it refuses to photograph well but, alas, it does. Anyway, the directions say to knit until it’s 48 inches long. I haven’t measured the length yet but I think that I’ll knit until about 12 rows shy of the end of the fourth repeat of the chart which should use up most of my yarn before the last 11 rows of garter stitch to end the project. AND end having bits and bobs of yarn left over. The last afghan I made, for my bonus daughter and her hubby, used just over two balls leaving me almost an entire 900 yards of yarn “left over”. Ugh! At that rate, I’ll never not have a ton of yarn. LOL

It’s a beautiful sunny day today and the lake out front is empty of ice fishermen but their shacks dot the ice as far as the eye can see. It’s so quiet here. How lucky we are to be able to live here in this special place at this crazy time in our nation’s history. I’m so saddened by the division and hatred at all levels of our government and locally, often between just the average Joe who has to be feeling the financial hurt that we are feeling. Groceries are so much more expensive and healthcare costs are rising as are insurance costs and real estate taxes. My credit card bills have been on the rise exponentially without buying anything “extra”. I feel very fortunate to have a roof over our heads that won’t require any big expenses (likely anyway) because it’s new enough and we are going to try to rent our guest cottage this summer to bring in some money, we hope, to help with the ever-increasing real estate taxes in our town. We are fortunate, indeed, to be able to afford it. For now. Many others our age, in our community can’t and they’re at risk of losing their homes.

Gone knitting.