Pumpkin Sunrise

  Good morning! How are you today? I am doing pretty good and that is exciting after the last two weeks of health challenges. My daughter and her family are leaving today after an unexpected extension of their visit here due to the blizzard in Boston. I am sure they are happy to go home. I have a ton of cleaning to do and putting the house back to the way it was. I haven't knit the past couple of days because of the company and all the cooking I've been doing. Each day my son and his family came over with all of us for dinner. By the time I sit down after they leaave, I'm a zombie and my brain is toast.  Never fear, I took a photo of my current knitting projects. Bottom left is my belle sweater , top middle is my musselburgh hat and bottom right is a delightful cowl that I'm itching to finish so I can wear it before winter passes away. What are you working on this week?

  Good morning! How are you? Thank you so much for the health well wishes, they finally worked! I ended up calling the ENT on call Wednesday night because of the pain and happened to get my own ENT, what luck. She phoned in a high dose of prednisone (again) and double booked me an office visit on Thursday instead of Friday. Once I saw here she ordered antibiotics (again) and on Saturday night during my family party dinner I hosted at my house, I ate pain free after nearly 10 days of painful eating. It was glorious!!(I would not wish this on an enemy) I have another follow up with her on Wednesday morning, she is so very kind. Our daughter, son in law and youngest grandson are visiting over the weekend and unfortunately their flight was cancelled today to go back to Boston because of the blizzard warning. They are here until Wednesday. We have been soaking up a ton of family time together and the cousins are all seeing each other. I have done minimal knitting between not feeling wel...

  Good morning! How are you? I completely forgot to take a photo yesterday so you have one in the early morning instead. I haven't knit much this week because of the pain I've been in since my procedure. It hurts to eat and then I sit and wallow in my feelings, lol. The good news is that the right side of my mouth is back to normal, it's the left side that is being stubborn. I have a recheck with the ENT on Friday morning and hope she can do something about it but I doubt it.  When I did knit this week, I did a tiny bit of rows on my scrappy cowl , which is getting to be long! I might just do the length they recommend because I want to block it wide. If I block it wide then I will lose length. Stay tuned.... What are you working on this week?

  Good morning! How are you doing?  Phew! It's been a crazy rough few days. I had my sialendoscopy procedure done on Thursday at the city hospital and I guess it was successful in that they did it. In time I will see if it improves my dry mouth symptoms from Sjogren's disease. Saturday was the worst day, eating was very painful. However, yesterday was improved and I'm hoping it stays that way! I have a recheck with the ENT at the end of the week. Thank you all for the well wishes, I appreciate them.  Above is my belle sweater  and I'm swimming in the stockinette stitches! I love it. I can read a book while knitting which of course is double the fun. The days are getting longer, the birds are singing and the snow is melting away. Spring is around the corner!! How was your week?

  Good morning! How are you? Thanks for the well wishes on my upcoming medical procedure (sialendoscopy), I will give you an update next week. I cannot wait to be done and resting and recuperating.  My knitting is pretty much the same. I cycle through three projects every day. Yesterday I worked a bit on the cowl . The pattern calls for lots of yardage and I'm wondering how long I really want this to be. Of course I want to block it wider than it is in the photo so that will end up losing length. It's a good problem to be mulling over. I also have plenty of wool. What are you working on this week?

  Good morning! How are you doing? I'm doing pretty good. I had a great weekend and feel pretty healthy considering the past month of un-wellness. I am having my procedure done this week at the hospital on my salivary glands. I will try to stay healthy and avoid any illnesses since it seems to be THE season of germ sharing.  Have you noticed the light that is abundant in the morning and evening? Also I heard the birds singing when we went grocery shopping last week. What a blessed sign of spring just around the corner. I love winter so much but I don't mine early spring either. I've been knitting up a storm in the evenings. Above is the musselburgh hat that is mindless stockinette stitches. I brought this along at the soccer practice on Saturday (indoors thank goodness).  Also yesterday, I painted some Valentine cards in between loads of laundry. I had fun dabbling in my paints. What have you been up to this week?