Fanny, our older dog, has a hematoma (a blood filled blister) on the flap of her left ear. She's always rubbing her head on the ground or against furniture so I don't know how or when it formed exactly. It grows and shrinks in size and didn't seem to bother her much until last night when we were eating supper and she scratched her ear.
Suddenly, there was blood everywhere as it poured out of the hole she had punched in her ear flap! Luckily, she had gone thru the outside of the flap and the hematoma is on the inside, so I applied pressure and sort of milked the hematoma trying to empty it of liquid. That took a few minutes. Blood and water were really flowing! Then while Jeff kept Fanny quiet, I quickly switched comforters on my bed. (The one that was there was less than 3 months old and I didn't want it covered in blood! Call me selfish if you want to, but, come on now!)
When the bleeding slowed down to an ooze, I put on a healthy globe of antibiotic cream. She didn't seem to mind. I hand fed her...and Zoey...some leftover hamburger and she started cleaning the blood off her legs and feet. I washed her head and back and Jeff mopped the floor. She eventually got comfortable on my bed and slept until Jeff called for the dogs to go out. When they came back in we had Act 2, started when Fanny rubbed her head on the armchair in my room and shook her head spraying blood all over my white curtains. We repeated our treatment and finally all got to sleep.
This morning the hematoma is about half the size it was last night. I'm sure if she rubs her head against something it will start to bleed again. She's eating and going outdoors as normal but Zoey must be afraid of the smell of blood because she's staying away from Fanny. I bet if Fanny knew that's all it would take to get the pup to leave her alone.... Now I'm going to take down my curtain and wash it. Hope the blood comes out.
Thursday, January 24, 2019
Tuesday, January 22, 2019
What To Do When You Are Snowed In
1/21/19---I proved something to myself today that I already knew. Actually, 2 things. First, while I can't knit to a recorded book, I can knit to a DVD of that book. (Listening to a recorded book puts me to sleep.) This afternoon I started the first size 6 cardigan of the season, a raglan from the neck down, in Red Heart's Perfectly Pink worsted on US 5 and 7 circulars and started to watch the 3 episodes of Dorothy L Sayers' "Gaudy Night" I had gotten at the library. I stopped periodically to let the dogs out (and right back in, it was too cold out there for them! After a couple of trips, Zoey wouldn't even go past the kitchen door!!) And to pour myself a cup of coffee or tea. I had to put wood on the fire once, too, but I managed to work right along, working the 1st white sheep in after there were 19 sts. on each front. When the dvd was finished it was about time to switch and watch the early Evening News and I had 46 sts. on the fronts so I started the 2nd sheep. I stopped working when I had 50 sts. for each sleeve and it was almost 6:30pm! In the morning I'll put the stitches for the sleeves on single point needles and work on them...if I can move my left thumb and index finger. That's the 2nd thing I proved to myself...5 1/2 hrs. of steady knitting is too much for my thumb. It feels like someone tried to rip it off my hand!
1/22/19---While I sat here at my PC writing this last night, I had my left hand wrapped up in my therapy bag...all nice and hot from being in the micro! Boy, does that make the thumb feel better! I went on the Mid-York Library site, www.myls.ent.sirsi.net, and ordered 8 more DVD sets of British mystery books. Some I had never heard of before and a couple I was familiar with (ordered one with Diana Rigg that sounded pretty good). Until they come in, I'll have to sit here at the PC and watch Acorn or Britbox while I knit. Zoey and I are going to argue over who gets to sit in the armchair but she can share the sofa with Fanny.
I woke up this morning to what I thought was my neighbor on his Cub Cadet snow blower but it was someone on a snowmobile riding up and down the driveway and around the neighbor's yard and the field across from our house. I don't know if he was able to flatten the berm at the mouth of the driveway that the county plow creates. Can't see that far from our windows. The garbage truck hasn't come in yet so I don't think so. Jeff wanted to go out with the walk-behind snowblower yesterday and take care of that 'snow plug' but decided it was too cold. (The wind chill yesterday was -14F. Today's air temperature is suppose to be +15F with little or no wind chill because the wind has died down.) Until that little problem is cleared out we are officially still snowed in.
1/22/19---While I sat here at my PC writing this last night, I had my left hand wrapped up in my therapy bag...all nice and hot from being in the micro! Boy, does that make the thumb feel better! I went on the Mid-York Library site, www.myls.ent.sirsi.net, and ordered 8 more DVD sets of British mystery books. Some I had never heard of before and a couple I was familiar with (ordered one with Diana Rigg that sounded pretty good). Until they come in, I'll have to sit here at the PC and watch Acorn or Britbox while I knit. Zoey and I are going to argue over who gets to sit in the armchair but she can share the sofa with Fanny.
I woke up this morning to what I thought was my neighbor on his Cub Cadet snow blower but it was someone on a snowmobile riding up and down the driveway and around the neighbor's yard and the field across from our house. I don't know if he was able to flatten the berm at the mouth of the driveway that the county plow creates. Can't see that far from our windows. The garbage truck hasn't come in yet so I don't think so. Jeff wanted to go out with the walk-behind snowblower yesterday and take care of that 'snow plug' but decided it was too cold. (The wind chill yesterday was -14F. Today's air temperature is suppose to be +15F with little or no wind chill because the wind has died down.) Until that little problem is cleared out we are officially still snowed in.
Friday, January 18, 2019
It's Time To Be A Yarn Pal, Again!
The deadline to mail this round's Yarn Pal package is Saturday, 1/19, so I finally mustered up the courage to make some decisions. I find it so hard to decide what kind of yarn to send to my new Yarn Pal each round after I've seen the photos on Facebook of what other people have sent/received.
Everyone has found exciting yarns in such beautiful colors. I know I've been happy with all the yarn I've received but I'm still a little hesitant about what to chose for my new pal each round. We're given a short bio with a preference list of colors to go by each round. My pal this round likes to knit...hats, gloves, socks, shawls and sweaters...in some of my favorite colors...greens, yellows, oranges and gray, so I raided my stash for some sock yarn from KnitPicks that I had just received and then started looking at what was available locally. I saw some shawl yarn from Red Heart that looked nice and thought that might do but couldn't make up my mind. Every time I went into Walmart I checked out the yarn and kept handling that shawl yarn. Yesterday, with time running out I finally decided on which color combo when I saw a skein of scarf yarn, also from Red Heart, that was beautiful! So soft and squishy! A lady who I did not know was looking at yarn and commented on that skein and I told her what I was thinking it might be for. I also told her why I was holding the shawl yarn. She said she preferred the scarf yarn and that helped me make up my mind. I may go back and buy that shawl yarn for me...or another skein of the scarf yarn. I put the yarn in a Japanese Knot Bag that I had knitted. It's done in a white based ombre Sugar n' Cream yarn. It's not a really big project bag, but the 3 skeins filled it up. The bag can also be used as a lunch bag or even a pocket book. It has an owl charm on it for luck, too.
I also got some notions (yarn sewing needles and stitch markers) because I never have enough of them. Of course, I've been know to flip stitch markers across the room as I knit over them and anybody who's been in my house knows, anything that hits the floor is immediately claimed by one of the dogs! I put them in a little felt notions bag that I made. (It was a tight fit in their packaging but once they're open will fit better.)
I had picked up an extra 2019 Erie Canal Calendar when the Mid York Library System handed them out in December with the idea of including it in this round's package. The photos of the canal are so beautiful and I thought they showed off our part of the state so well. I put a small x on the map on the back of the calendar to mark the approximate location of our little house here in the little woods, too. I had kept a large white envelope with a snowman on it that another calendar had come in and the Erie Canal Calendar fit perfectly so I put it in that and wrote my introduction note around the snowman.
It still seemed a little light to me so I went to look for a knitting magazine. Walmart had only 2 and another lady who was looking at them, also a stranger, recommended one to me. (See, all knitters are really friends even if they don't know each other. We stood there and talked for a good 10 minutes!) The magazine fit in the Snowman envelope with calendar perfectly. At the last minute I decided to put in a 'sweet treat' and got a Dove salted caramel bar (just didn't mention it on the custom's declaration!). The total weight of the package came to 1lb, 14.7oz.---I don't think the candy bar added that much weight!
Oh, I gave my new Pal the address to this blog so maybe when she gets the package she'll look us up. Maybe she'll even add a comment!! Wouldn't that be great?!?! She could even add a photo of the package!
It's snowing quite steadily right now but it's suppose to stop by noon. Good, I've got an appointment at the clinic in Hartwick Seminary today and I don't like the trip up Rte.28 in this weather. And, I've a short list of things to pick up when we get back to town, too, to make sure we're stocked up for the big storm this weekend. We're suppose to get 18-20" min. of snow between Sat. and Sunday. Delightful, huh? Maybe I'll stop and get that skein of yarn, too.
Everyone has found exciting yarns in such beautiful colors. I know I've been happy with all the yarn I've received but I'm still a little hesitant about what to chose for my new pal each round. We're given a short bio with a preference list of colors to go by each round. My pal this round likes to knit...hats, gloves, socks, shawls and sweaters...in some of my favorite colors...greens, yellows, oranges and gray, so I raided my stash for some sock yarn from KnitPicks that I had just received and then started looking at what was available locally. I saw some shawl yarn from Red Heart that looked nice and thought that might do but couldn't make up my mind. Every time I went into Walmart I checked out the yarn and kept handling that shawl yarn. Yesterday, with time running out I finally decided on which color combo when I saw a skein of scarf yarn, also from Red Heart, that was beautiful! So soft and squishy! A lady who I did not know was looking at yarn and commented on that skein and I told her what I was thinking it might be for. I also told her why I was holding the shawl yarn. She said she preferred the scarf yarn and that helped me make up my mind. I may go back and buy that shawl yarn for me...or another skein of the scarf yarn. I put the yarn in a Japanese Knot Bag that I had knitted. It's done in a white based ombre Sugar n' Cream yarn. It's not a really big project bag, but the 3 skeins filled it up. The bag can also be used as a lunch bag or even a pocket book. It has an owl charm on it for luck, too.
I also got some notions (yarn sewing needles and stitch markers) because I never have enough of them. Of course, I've been know to flip stitch markers across the room as I knit over them and anybody who's been in my house knows, anything that hits the floor is immediately claimed by one of the dogs! I put them in a little felt notions bag that I made. (It was a tight fit in their packaging but once they're open will fit better.)
I had picked up an extra 2019 Erie Canal Calendar when the Mid York Library System handed them out in December with the idea of including it in this round's package. The photos of the canal are so beautiful and I thought they showed off our part of the state so well. I put a small x on the map on the back of the calendar to mark the approximate location of our little house here in the little woods, too. I had kept a large white envelope with a snowman on it that another calendar had come in and the Erie Canal Calendar fit perfectly so I put it in that and wrote my introduction note around the snowman.
It still seemed a little light to me so I went to look for a knitting magazine. Walmart had only 2 and another lady who was looking at them, also a stranger, recommended one to me. (See, all knitters are really friends even if they don't know each other. We stood there and talked for a good 10 minutes!) The magazine fit in the Snowman envelope with calendar perfectly. At the last minute I decided to put in a 'sweet treat' and got a Dove salted caramel bar (just didn't mention it on the custom's declaration!). The total weight of the package came to 1lb, 14.7oz.---I don't think the candy bar added that much weight!
Oh, I gave my new Pal the address to this blog so maybe when she gets the package she'll look us up. Maybe she'll even add a comment!! Wouldn't that be great?!?! She could even add a photo of the package!
It's snowing quite steadily right now but it's suppose to stop by noon. Good, I've got an appointment at the clinic in Hartwick Seminary today and I don't like the trip up Rte.28 in this weather. And, I've a short list of things to pick up when we get back to town, too, to make sure we're stocked up for the big storm this weekend. We're suppose to get 18-20" min. of snow between Sat. and Sunday. Delightful, huh? Maybe I'll stop and get that skein of yarn, too.
Wednesday, January 16, 2019
Evidence of Zoey the Thief
Tuesday, January 15, 2019
Time For A New Mail Box
About a week ago I found our mailbox sitting upside down...full of mail...in the snowbank under it's base. The wooden board that it was fastened to had been split and the screws holding the setup together dislodged. Wally's mailbox hadn't been touched so we couldn't blame the snowplow for the destruction. I set the box back on the stand and Jeff said he doubted we'd be receiving any mail in it any more.
Our mailman had always brought packages to the house and left them on the front seat of the car instead of hanging from the box so I just figured until Jeff put up the new box (which had been sitting in the enclosed porch for a couple of months) that's how we'd be getting our mail. But no. Each day our mail was put in the box...even when packages were included...they were shoved into the box, too. Somehow the box stayed balanced on the galvanized pipe base!! Today Jeff decided we had probably run out of luck and it was time to put up the new box. I had already put the numbers on the door of the new box so I just wrote them on a piece of note paper and taped it to the inside of the box. (For some reason the mailman insists on the numbers being there, too.) At least the temperature today is closer to freezing than it's been this week so hopefully it wasn't too bad out there for Jeff. (Can't wait to hear
that story.)
We always tell people that our driveway is opposite the first set of mailboxes they come to on Smallsbush Road and they seem to go right past them Now, with a bright white mailbox, maybe they can see it.
I had thought of doing some art work on the side of the box around the red flag but never got to it. I think I'll see what kind of stencils I can find. That would be a lot easier than standing there painting a scene. And then again, maybe I'll leave it white. Definitely makes it noticeable. And when it gets knocked down next time it won't bother me as much.
Jeff said if anyone complains about the color...white...he'll go out and paint pink polka-dots on it!
Our mailman had always brought packages to the house and left them on the front seat of the car instead of hanging from the box so I just figured until Jeff put up the new box (which had been sitting in the enclosed porch for a couple of months) that's how we'd be getting our mail. But no. Each day our mail was put in the box...even when packages were included...they were shoved into the box, too. Somehow the box stayed balanced on the galvanized pipe base!! Today Jeff decided we had probably run out of luck and it was time to put up the new box. I had already put the numbers on the door of the new box so I just wrote them on a piece of note paper and taped it to the inside of the box. (For some reason the mailman insists on the numbers being there, too.) At least the temperature today is closer to freezing than it's been this week so hopefully it wasn't too bad out there for Jeff. (Can't wait to hear
that story.)
We always tell people that our driveway is opposite the first set of mailboxes they come to on Smallsbush Road and they seem to go right past them Now, with a bright white mailbox, maybe they can see it.
Jeff said if anyone complains about the color...white...he'll go out and paint pink polka-dots on it!
Saturday, January 12, 2019
Getting Old Is A Pain
Our driveway is the rutted, frozen mess it is usually this time of year. Every time we have a thaw the driveway turns to mud and everything that passes over it leaves tracks of various sizes and depths. When temperatures go below freezing again the mess turns into an obstacle course of hills and valleys making walking to and from the car very interesting. Yesterday I managed to slip and slide my way... without falling and only tripped once. I had my heavy winter shoes on and didn't think I had done any damage since I had managed to stay upright. After spending the evening reading with my shoes off I was surprised to find my right ankle quite swollen and tender. In fact, the last time it had looked like that was almost 10 years ago when I broke the tib and fib just above the right ankle. I hobbled to bed and hoped it would be back to normal by morning.
Not only wasn't it but I woke up to a sharp pain in my foot every time I moved all night long. It did not make for a very restful night. This morning the swelling was down but I still got a sharp pain every time I tried to put any weight on my right foot. I pulled on the new pair of compression socks I had recently bought and hoped they would help but I grabbed Jeff's cane to lean on as I tried to walk.
After starting a fire in the woodstove I settled in my chair next to it. I had a book I wanted to finish before the football game started and then I planned on working on Jeff's long awaited Christmas socks (they were suppose to be a Christmas present last year-2017-but I had only gotten one finished.) I put my leg up on the footstool and got comfortable, getting up only when the dogs demanded attention, the fire needed another log or I wanted a cuppa. (A hot cup of tea for those of you not familiar with British slang.) I had to be careful because the pain in my foot kept coming back when I least expected it as I hobbled around the house and I had put the cane away. By supper time the swelling had not returned and the pain wasn't as bad. I still don't know what I did to the ankle but I definitely did something. I hope staying off it helped and tomorrow I plan on spending the day the same way: next to the woodstove knitting. I've got a lot of work left to do on that sock. The foot is 10" from the toe to the turn for the heel and I'm only half way there!
Not only wasn't it but I woke up to a sharp pain in my foot every time I moved all night long. It did not make for a very restful night. This morning the swelling was down but I still got a sharp pain every time I tried to put any weight on my right foot. I pulled on the new pair of compression socks I had recently bought and hoped they would help but I grabbed Jeff's cane to lean on as I tried to walk.
After starting a fire in the woodstove I settled in my chair next to it. I had a book I wanted to finish before the football game started and then I planned on working on Jeff's long awaited Christmas socks (they were suppose to be a Christmas present last year-2017-but I had only gotten one finished.) I put my leg up on the footstool and got comfortable, getting up only when the dogs demanded attention, the fire needed another log or I wanted a cuppa. (A hot cup of tea for those of you not familiar with British slang.) I had to be careful because the pain in my foot kept coming back when I least expected it as I hobbled around the house and I had put the cane away. By supper time the swelling had not returned and the pain wasn't as bad. I still don't know what I did to the ankle but I definitely did something. I hope staying off it helped and tomorrow I plan on spending the day the same way: next to the woodstove knitting. I've got a lot of work left to do on that sock. The foot is 10" from the toe to the turn for the heel and I'm only half way there!
Thursday, January 10, 2019
A Trip To Cooperstown
Jeff had doctor appointments in Cooperstown today but we decided it was too cold to take the dogs and let them sit in the car for 3 hours so with a little hesitation we left them home. After letting them out for awhile, I put out 2 bowls of dog food and a big bowl of water, had 'little talks' with both of them, and promised chicken nuggets from Burger King on our return...a bag for each of them and we left them inside! I didn't expect them to do anything really bad, just the usual puddles-and-piles of being left alone for 3 hours. I forgot to put the garbage pail on the porch so I expected that would be spread around the house, too. And lately, Zoey's been trying to destroy(pulling the stuffing out of) the big red pillow that I use when I want to read in bed so I hoped I had put that up high enough to have it out of her range!!
We had an uneventful drive down Rte. 28. The road was clear most of the way expect for around the Jordanville Rd intersection where the wind sweeps across the cornfields and generally makes a mess of the highway. I really had to slow down several time...in fact, most of the time I didn't make it over 45mph but we got to Cooperstown in plenty of time. Canadarago Lake was barely frozen over and Otsego Lake hasn't even started to freeze yet! The Susquehanna River was roaring around the clinic and hospital, too. The trip home was worse. Traffic was heavier and the weather was messier. It took half an hour to make it to Richfield Springs where we stopped for gas and coffee...the half moon cookie at Stewart's was so fresh and so delicious I thought it was right out of the oven! Back on the road, things got slower and messier and then it all came to a stop. A tractor trailer had gone over onto it's side as it went around a curve! There were more flashing lights on pickups, fire trucks, a couple of ambulances. sheriff's and state police cars than you could imagine!
It looked a lot worse than it was, too! I felt sorry for the driver of the rig! I think he'll be busy for quite awhile filling out paper work! Jeff even thought he saw a HazMat truck! I don't think any other vehicle was involved and it looked like the wind may have just lifted the truck off it's wheels...anyway, that driver had some explaining to do!
When we finally got home around 4:30pm the girls started barking up a storm to welcome us. Jeff reminded me not to be too harsh with them for any puddles or piles or garbage thrown around. This was the 1st time in quite awhile we had left them home alone. They greeted us with open arms...and mouths and we were licked and pawed and treated like long, long relatives...and they couldn't even see the BK bag! (Maybe they could smell it!) They went out for a quick trip and came back in to be greeted again. After their chicken treat they went back out and finished their toilet. Now Fanny is asleep on the sofa here in the parlor next to me and my PC and Zoey is sacked out on Jeff's bed while he's on his PC. We all survived our day and maybe we'll try it again next week when I have to go back to see the dermatologist. Too be honest, this was one of the longest times Jeff and I have been alone together lately and it was kind of nice. (I even got called 'Mrs. Day' 2 or 3 times.)
We had an uneventful drive down Rte. 28. The road was clear most of the way expect for around the Jordanville Rd intersection where the wind sweeps across the cornfields and generally makes a mess of the highway. I really had to slow down several time...in fact, most of the time I didn't make it over 45mph but we got to Cooperstown in plenty of time. Canadarago Lake was barely frozen over and Otsego Lake hasn't even started to freeze yet! The Susquehanna River was roaring around the clinic and hospital, too. The trip home was worse. Traffic was heavier and the weather was messier. It took half an hour to make it to Richfield Springs where we stopped for gas and coffee...the half moon cookie at Stewart's was so fresh and so delicious I thought it was right out of the oven! Back on the road, things got slower and messier and then it all came to a stop. A tractor trailer had gone over onto it's side as it went around a curve! There were more flashing lights on pickups, fire trucks, a couple of ambulances. sheriff's and state police cars than you could imagine!
It looked a lot worse than it was, too! I felt sorry for the driver of the rig! I think he'll be busy for quite awhile filling out paper work! Jeff even thought he saw a HazMat truck! I don't think any other vehicle was involved and it looked like the wind may have just lifted the truck off it's wheels...anyway, that driver had some explaining to do!
When we finally got home around 4:30pm the girls started barking up a storm to welcome us. Jeff reminded me not to be too harsh with them for any puddles or piles or garbage thrown around. This was the 1st time in quite awhile we had left them home alone. They greeted us with open arms...and mouths and we were licked and pawed and treated like long, long relatives...and they couldn't even see the BK bag! (Maybe they could smell it!) They went out for a quick trip and came back in to be greeted again. After their chicken treat they went back out and finished their toilet. Now Fanny is asleep on the sofa here in the parlor next to me and my PC and Zoey is sacked out on Jeff's bed while he's on his PC. We all survived our day and maybe we'll try it again next week when I have to go back to see the dermatologist. Too be honest, this was one of the longest times Jeff and I have been alone together lately and it was kind of nice. (I even got called 'Mrs. Day' 2 or 3 times.)
Saturday, January 5, 2019
It's A Dog's Life
Zoey and Fanny got dressed up for Christmas this year and let me take photos of them wearing their new hats. Neither was too very pleased with the idea but they posed anyway. As soon as the flash went
off Zoey wanted to chew the head band! Fanny didn't care for the band but she just put up with it. Next year we'll try again. At least, I only spent $1...at The Dollar Tree...for the hat. Maybe next year I'll buy another and they can each have one...to destroy.Speaking of destroying things, this is what Zoey did to a $50 bill the other night. Jeff had given me some money and I had put it in my mom's big, old
wooden jewelry box on my night table. The lid was down but that didn't stop Zoey. I walked into my room to find money all over my bed and this bill in pieces! (Luckily, I was able to find enough pieces to put back together so the bank would accept it.) I yelled when I saw what she had done and she peed on the floor. Jeff got mad at me and nothing was solved. Zoey is a thief, and a pee-er when excited. I showed the bill to the girls at the library yesterday and they got a laugh out of it. So did the bank teller. At least the only pieces that were missing were on either side of Grant's head. The serial number was intact,
The star of today's Doggie Do was Fanny, for a change. I had given the girls some of their Christmas rawhide treats and she had finished hers. I had told Jeff not to let Fanny take Zoey's if Zoey walked away from hers' and that's what happened. When Jeff tried to take it away from Fanny, she just clamped her mouth shut and refused to let go. No amount of ordering, threatening or pleading was going to make her open her mouth and give it up. Ended up I held on to her collar and Jeff used a piece of kindling wood to pry her jaw open. No growls or snarls, she just held on. I praised her strongly (and sneaked her a treat) when she finally gave it up. It's always something with those dogs. Worse than kids.
(Zoey had to have a treat, too.)
Wednesday, January 2, 2019
Happy New Year!!
New Year's Eve was quiet here in the little house in these little woods. I had an old-fashion head cold and if you know me, you know what that means. I never fail to amaze myself that my sinus can produce that much yuck! Jeff got me some Benadryl and that helped. I went thru an entire box of tissues in 2 days!! I envy those of you who can bring that muck up without vomiting, I can't, so I end up either blowing it out my nose or swallowing it. Neither thought is very attractive, pleasant or enjoyable. I spent most of the day dosing next to the fire and tracking the color of my mucus (clear-white-yellow). I took a double dose of Benadryl when I went to bed and managed to sleep most of the night. Feeling a little better I got dinner together the next morning(store-made meatballs, hot sausage and cheese ravioli) and left the meat in the kettle of sauce on the stove. The house smelled good...(I think) but I couldn't be sure. I took a hot shower and could breath a little easier so I curled up next to the fire again and waited for my cousin to come over. I even managed to bake a cake! I washed my hands so often I was surprised I had any skin left on them. My cake wasn't as successful as I had hoped for. I wanted a carrot cake but the store was out of carrot cake mixes. Since you can substitute pureed fruit for oil with a box mix I decided to substitute 2 jars of baby food/carrots for the 1/3 cup of oil. That was twice as much as I needed but I thought it might give it more flavor. I also used 4 eggs instead of 3 as the package called for. (It was the cheapest cake mix the store had and I wanted to be sure it turned out half-way decent.) I should have added some spices but we'll blame the Benadryl for that goof. Jeff and Ed didn't complain about any part of the dinner so I guess everything was ok.
Ed had had an interesting morning. The power was out on his side of East Herkimer most of the day and he wasn't sure when it would be restored. Luckily it came back on just before he felt to come over. He has a sump pump in his cellar and that's always a worry when the power fails. He thought he had about 4 hours left before his furnace would have been in trouble. I glad his power was restore. I don't think it would have been very comfortable to go back into that house after it being heatless all day. Another of the joys of country living. We don't have water problem in our cellar so no sump pump. Jeff's sister does and she lives in Utica, so maybe it's not just country living!
I spent most of today next to the woodstove again, wrapped up in a blanket, knitting. My cold has progressed to the coughing stage, and again, if you know me you remember what I sound like when I'm coughing! Tomorrow I'm going to ask the pharmacist to recommend a cough syrup for me. I use to be able to take Robitusssin but read something about it interfering with Warfarin. I haven't been able to get my INR in range for about 6 weeks but there's no sense mess it up worse. But at least I'd have a reason this week!
I hope everyone had a safe New Year's and is happy with the results. A couple more days of rest and I'll have to get back to work and start filling my project bags for the shop. We open for our 45 season in 96 days...that's April 10th!
Ed had had an interesting morning. The power was out on his side of East Herkimer most of the day and he wasn't sure when it would be restored. Luckily it came back on just before he felt to come over. He has a sump pump in his cellar and that's always a worry when the power fails. He thought he had about 4 hours left before his furnace would have been in trouble. I glad his power was restore. I don't think it would have been very comfortable to go back into that house after it being heatless all day. Another of the joys of country living. We don't have water problem in our cellar so no sump pump. Jeff's sister does and she lives in Utica, so maybe it's not just country living!
I spent most of today next to the woodstove again, wrapped up in a blanket, knitting. My cold has progressed to the coughing stage, and again, if you know me you remember what I sound like when I'm coughing! Tomorrow I'm going to ask the pharmacist to recommend a cough syrup for me. I use to be able to take Robitusssin but read something about it interfering with Warfarin. I haven't been able to get my INR in range for about 6 weeks but there's no sense mess it up worse. But at least I'd have a reason this week!
I hope everyone had a safe New Year's and is happy with the results. A couple more days of rest and I'll have to get back to work and start filling my project bags for the shop. We open for our 45 season in 96 days...that's April 10th!
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