New Year's Eve

I finally went to the doctors on Monday and with the assistance of medicines I am doing better. Yes, anti-biotics with steroids are kicking the strep throat into submission and causing a bit of a buzz in my head..........needless to say, I am awake a bit longer and knitting so fast I can't see the stitches as they fly from my fingers!

I knit this neck warmer from Knitty Winter 2008, called poinsettia. It will be heading north to an appropriate recipient!

I dug through my stash and compiled this for the next Psalm quilt..told you I needed to make more of these!
All cut out now and ready to be sewn together-today most likely.

I took the leftover yarn from the socks I finished for Marsel and have started a pair for Abigail so we will all have matching ones. I knit the rest of the KnitPicks bare yarn into another sock blank-this one I will dye in shades of pink and then knit into lacey handwarmers. I will explore the Knitty site for a pattern so I can ring in the New Year with yarn in my hands tonight!

I also got news from the doctor that my mammogram this month is a non-issue...always good news but that the baseline bone scan I had came back with moderate to severe bone loss in my lower spine-- already......at a young 53-I felt this was quite a shock of a diagnosis. Needless to say, I am now adding to my diet Caltrate with D and a weekly dose of Fosomax! I am grateful that there is something I can do to stem the deterioration , grateful the doctor suggested the bone scan now, and trying to get used to the idea.

GRIEF

My beloved fur boy is gone. .......................... We searched our whole 11 acres, miles of ditches, and hundreds of feet of hedges, put up signs and visited neighbors.

I don't even have his body-just his absence.

I have no words, a very large ache resides where my heart is now.

.................He would love to curl up on my lap in the evening and interrupt my knitting for some love.

I would always oblige him.

I would gladly put away my knitting forever if I could have him back.