{"id":8583,"date":"2018-09-21T23:50:39","date_gmt":"2018-09-21T23:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/?p=8583"},"modified":"2018-09-21T23:52:03","modified_gmt":"2018-09-21T23:52:03","slug":"september-i-hardly-knew-ye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/?p=8583","title":{"rendered":"September, I Hardly Knew Ye"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m sitting here with a cup of Dunkin Donuts coffee laced with Pumpkin Spice creamer watching WPC56, a British crime drama on tv. David and I have a penchant for British shows, especially ones that take place in the middle of the last century when he and I were just babies.\u00a0 We pretty much watched all they had on Netflix, quit Netflix and started Amazon Prime which has a large selection on Britbox.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 One of my favorites I’ve watched in the past few weeks was the Village about a late nineteenth and early twentieth\u00a0century British\u00a0village and all the happenings in it. It was before women’s suffrage and during the first world war.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Very interesting.<\/p>\n

But enough about what I’m watching. This month has flown by in a haze.\u00a0 Earlier David and I had both gone in for eye exams and because\u00a0I have had problems with one of my eyes and am blind in it, I figured the doctor would find something wrong with me, but instead, David found out he had very bad cataracts and had to have surgery to remove them.\u00a0 He had told me a while ago that when we were sitting and bird watching that\u00a0the birds looked a little blurry. I thought he just needed a new glasses prescription.\u00a0 Surprise to us.\u00a0 So, this week he had the first eye done and while the doctor was in there he fixed David’s astigmatism. After he gets his second eye done he won’t have to wear glasses any longer. Just use reading glasses.\u00a0\u00a0 I have only known him wearing glasses and I’ve known him since I was twelve,\u00a0so it will be strange to see him go without them.\u00a0 He has already seen a difference. Amazing what they can do nowadays.<\/p>\n

My daughter has MS and has entered a new physical therapy study in Indianapolis and I volunteered to go with her two times a week for moral support.\u00a0 Plus I have to get her scooter out of the car and put it back in again.\u00a0 Let’s just say, I have very little upper body strength so it’s been fun getting that scooter in and out of the car. We practically have to take it all apart so I can lift it, but we get it done.\u00a0 She has a very nice therapist whose name is Depak who is very inspirational and makes us both feel like he can help her movement a lot more.\u00a0 So I’m looking forward to the next ten weeks as she is put through the paces.<\/p>\n

I have been knitting up a storm.\u00a0 David and I took a road trip to a little town that had a really nice yarn shop and I bought this yarn<\/p>\n

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I’ve already knit one sock from this.<\/p>\n

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This is knitting up into a beautiful sock.<\/p>\n

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This is the yarn I am using. It was a bit pricey, but the yarn is wonderful and knits up so well and I can probably get a couple of pair of small socks from the remaining yarn when I get the larger socks knit.\u00a0 As of today I have knit fifteen pairs of socks since January and hope to get several more done before Christmas.\u00a0 I was thinking I would like to knit socks and sell them and was checking out what other people charged for handknit socks and the prices ran from $40.00 a pair to $65.00 a pair depending on the price of the yarn.\u00a0 I may have to start selling some socks to feed my sock knitting habit I have acquired.\u00a0\u00a0 Believe me, the time it takes to make them, getting a pair of handknit socks is a wonderful gift.\u00a0 I did knit one sock in a couple of \u00a0days this week only because I was challenging myself to see if I could do one that quickly.\u00a0 I know there are lots of faster knitters than me out there, but I never thought I would ever be able to knit one sock, let alone dozens of pairs.<\/p>\n

I am hoping to branch out into larger knitted items. I found this pattern at the same store. It looks fairly easy. Just knit rectangles and sew them together. I’m thinking of knitting it in a soft lavender.<\/p>\n

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I had Thanksgiving dinner\u00a0Sunday for my family since we will be gone on\u00a0Thanksgiving this year.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I hadn’t made a big meal like that\u00a0for months and it\u00a0plum wore me out.\u00a0 I baked a\u00a0pie, homemade rolls, made homemade noodles and several other dishes to go along.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0After I have cooked a big meal\u00a0like that, I am not hungry until everyone goes home and then my appetite suddenly comes back and then I eat.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0As you have read, cooking isn’t my favorite pastime, but I can do it when the need arises.\u00a0 This\u00a0next week I will be baking cookies for a bake sale.\u00a0 One of our grandsons is in a\u00a0club at school where they do things for others and they are having a bake sale and the profits will go to a charity they have picked, but they have to ask people to bake something for them so my grandson called me on the phone and asked me if I would bake something. Of course. I would do anything for my grandchildren if I can. \u00a0Glad they are teaching the children to think of others.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We need more of that.<\/p>\n

I didn’t get any pictures of our “Thanksgiving” dinner only the aftermath.<\/p>\n

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The table really looked pretty. You’ll have to take my word for it.\u00a0 But I find I am living more in the moment nowadays\u00a0and don’t think of taking pictures until it’s too late.\u00a0\u00a0 I used my Fiestaware dishes and it was a very colorful table.<\/p>\n

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Then we gathered around the tv to see some videos of Disney World rides we will be riding( well, some of us will be riding) when we all go there together.\u00a0\u00a0 I’m afraid riding anything that drops suddenly is off my list of rides, but I am sure I will have plenty of things to see and do while we are there.\u00a0 See the guy in the red shirt on the floor? That’s our oldest son. He is almost fifty and he loves amusement parks. He has a season pass to King’s Island in Cincinnati and goes there almost every day before and\/or\u00a0after work.\u00a0 He’s ridden all the roller coasters. This is the kid who was afraid of heights and once when we had to sit way up in the uppermost seats at a Cincinnati Reds game, he was afraid.\u00a0\u00a0 Things have changed.<\/p>\n

October will bring another surgery and more trips to Indianapolis.\u00a0 I’m hoping to get some quilting done. Ever since we remodeled my shop, I have had hardly any time to just go out there and sew. I did finish sewing together a wall hanging today which thrilled me beyond all reason.\u00a0\u00a0 Plus we are getting our house painted and a new screened in back porch built.\u00a0 It’s going to be another very busy month.<\/p>\n

Hope your days are filled with some work and some play and that you will enjoy the Autumn weather because the heat will soon go away.\u00a0 Halleluhah.\u00a0\u00a0 Bye.<\/p>\n

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