I took a week of vacation time last week. And I’d thought I could do some things around the house. As always, I just wasn’t up to it. We are making progress on the house. Half the roof has been re-shingled and it looks much better. The other half will be done in a couple of weeks. And we didn’t go anywhere or do anything. The reason is this week, when Lon went to the ER then hospital. He had sepsis from the broken skin on his legs. I’d tried to get him to have a doctor check out his legs and he wouldn’t go. He had the shivers Monday night and I was able to talk him to going into the ER on Tuesday. They admitted him and gave him IV antibiotics. He was released yesterday. I am totally beat. My knee has been problematic and having to hike around the hospital hasn’t helped. I have an appointment at OHSU next Friday with a rheumatologist and also with my pulmonologist. I suspect I’ll need to have surgery on this knee at some point. But we need to get Lon healed up and I have to start using compression on his legs once they have healed.

Anyway, I did make a lot of progress on my projects.

This is A Hap for Harriet in new, lighter colored yarn. It’s a lot easier to work and I think the pattern is clearer. I grabbed it and my Swift for the hospital visits, so I’ve made a lot of progress. I don’t know what I’ll do with the one I was working on. I hate to throw away that much work, but it is so dark that it’s hard to see what I’m doing.

And my handspun yoke sweater looks like this:

It’s not exactly how I envisioned it. But it will be a nice knock around sweater. If not, I’ll rip it back and make something else with the yarn. I’m almost done with the body and am considering what to do for the ribbing.

 

I have been buying rugs from Esales. I don’t seem to have pictures of the rug and runner I bought for the living room. The hardwood floors are too slick for the dogs and the rug we used to use still looks dirty. The new rug looks old, sort of an art nouveau design. I decided to buy one for the bedroom but Lon didn’t want to use it there. So it’s in the office:

It’s been too hot for the dogs to lay on it. I need to take the kilim I’ve been using outside and give it a good shake. I will be picking up a few more things for the house, just to dress it up. We really want to get this place ready to list. And I should have some sewing to do over the long weekend.