WIP Progress

 I really haven't made good progress on my projects lately. I'm not sure why, because I have been working on them. Here's where I am with the train cross stitch. Not much more to do on the engine. Just wheels and small detail stitches. I have one last car to do after this one.

I'm here on the green ripple afghan. It's been frustrating because I feel like I've done more unknitting than knitting on it. I keep dropping the yarn overs, or forgetting to do yarn overs. Then I find myself ripping back to fix it. Ugh.

I've been having problems with my hands lately. I've been doing activities that are making them sore. For instance, I participated in the No Kings protest and held a sign up over my head for 3 hours. It went really well. We had over 1000 people show up and the public support was overwhelmingly positive. 

My hands and arms were so sore the next day. I didn't knit or stitch for two days to give them time to recover. I am amazed, though, that my feet and knees were fine the next day because I stood for 3 hours on all that arthritis! I was definitely hurting. I took a 15 minute sitting break halfway through. That little break helped a lot.

A little over a week ago I managed to break my glasses. I hadn't been to the optometrist since Covid, so I was way overdo anyway. I was starting to see things a bit blurry too. I needed a new prescription but have been dragging my feet to get it done. I got my eyes checked last Saturday. They are perfectly healthy (yay!) and the new glasses should be ready in another week. I took my daughter with me because she hadn't had her eyes checked since 2017! Hers are healthy too, and her new glasses will be ready at the same time as mine.

The weather around here has taken a nosedive down into the cold dept. It's been in the 40's and 50's consistently for a couple of weeks or more. The leaves are falling off the trees, and autumn is definitely ending soon.

A couple nights ago we had a storm. No lightening or thunder, but plenty of wind and rain. Around 11:30pm the power went out. Found out later a large tree had fallen in a road and dragged the lines down. It wasn't fixed until after 7am the next morning. Doug and I did not get much sleep that night because we discovered we can't sleep in bed without our CPAP machines. I sat in my recliner all night, reading. Around 5 I must have fallen asleep in said chair because when the power came on it woke me up. We have ordered a portable power system for our CPAPs

Earlier that day, just before dark, we got a rainbow. I took a picture.

It wasn't as bright as they usually are, but the sun was just barely above the mountains and it was getting dark out with cloud cover.

Dougs heart is still in proper sinus rhythm. Hurray!

That's the news from the Parkarosa.

Live long and prosper. \\//