It WAS a week of challenges; not all in the stitching camp however!
This is the week our roof is being torn off and replaced so of course, it's raining,. Not heavily but enough to keep the roofers away. Of the five work days this week 9adn it was supposed to be DONE yesterday) they only got in two work days and I'd guess the house is one-third done,if that much. The hassle, besides the noise (and scaring teh cats but more on that later) is that the dumpster for the torn off rubbish is in our driveway and since they were supposed to be done yesterday and I didn't need the car all week, my car is trapped in there. Looks like next week will be interesting as I have my weekly Girls' Night Out meet-up *and* a hair cut scheduled...
As for scared cats --- the housecleaner did the attic guest suite last Wednesday and left the door to it open (we never do as the cats love to sleep in there and there's nothing worse than trying to get black cat fur off of a duvet cover!). But what with the noise from the roofers, apparently the cats found the room irresistable. Thursday night, my husband, in his infinite wisdom, closed the door to that room. Friday, the littlest cat (Kathy) who is mouthy at the best of times, was particularly in our faces. No amount of food or petting pacified her. As dinner approached, I realized I hadn't seen the other two (Faith and Dominic) all day and Dominic, at least, is always at the dinner table, looking for love... A mad search of all the house. No cats. Was little miss Mouthy telling us they were missing? She sure was, but not very effectively --- we found them eventually, locked in the attic bedroom suite. Looks like it's the dry cleaners for us, to have that duvet laundered...
The third challenge was motivation to stitch this week. TAST Week 42 was done promptly for a change but I didn't get back to stitching until Thursday and Friday when I finally put in two more speciality stitches on "Birds of a Feather". Can you tell? A blue fan stitch and a gold diamond eyelet stitch in all the border "boxes"...
This is the week our roof is being torn off and replaced so of course, it's raining,. Not heavily but enough to keep the roofers away. Of the five work days this week 9adn it was supposed to be DONE yesterday) they only got in two work days and I'd guess the house is one-third done,if that much. The hassle, besides the noise (and scaring teh cats but more on that later) is that the dumpster for the torn off rubbish is in our driveway and since they were supposed to be done yesterday and I didn't need the car all week, my car is trapped in there. Looks like next week will be interesting as I have my weekly Girls' Night Out meet-up *and* a hair cut scheduled...
As for scared cats --- the housecleaner did the attic guest suite last Wednesday and left the door to it open (we never do as the cats love to sleep in there and there's nothing worse than trying to get black cat fur off of a duvet cover!). But what with the noise from the roofers, apparently the cats found the room irresistable. Thursday night, my husband, in his infinite wisdom, closed the door to that room. Friday, the littlest cat (Kathy) who is mouthy at the best of times, was particularly in our faces. No amount of food or petting pacified her. As dinner approached, I realized I hadn't seen the other two (Faith and Dominic) all day and Dominic, at least, is always at the dinner table, looking for love... A mad search of all the house. No cats. Was little miss Mouthy telling us they were missing? She sure was, but not very effectively --- we found them eventually, locked in the attic bedroom suite. Looks like it's the dry cleaners for us, to have that duvet laundered...
The third challenge was motivation to stitch this week. TAST Week 42 was done promptly for a change but I didn't get back to stitching until Thursday and Friday when I finally put in two more speciality stitches on "Birds of a Feather". Can you tell? A blue fan stitch and a gold diamond eyelet stitch in all the border "boxes"...
This weekend is International Hermit and Stitch weekend for October, so I should get in a few more border stitches before the "stitch-in" is over!
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