Daily Notes- November 5th

                                               

I was up in the Magic Attic looking for a scrap of a print fabric and came across this.  It's may be 15 by 24 inches.  I love the gray print border.  This is all I have.  I have it in a blue color way but like the gray with these reds.  I would have liked making it larger. And I do not like the purple.  But now I think I might take the border off. Take apart the patchwork center.  It's no longer relevant to me.  I would do it differently in 2019.

I would do many things differently if given the chance for a "do-over".

That could be my Life Statement.  I feel like I am caught in a life I never actually wanted.

I was interested in all the ways people cook their old fashioned oats.  I haven't perfected the oats to water ratio yet to get the dense but not gummy oats texture that I enjoyed when Riley was still a puppy and me sitting in the desk chair (with wheels) was enough to get him to sleep.  The wheels made noise which he could hear and he would wake up.  I ate my oatmeal in the chair, read books in the chair and posted early blog entries from the chair.  Anything to keep an active puppy sleeping. Now I could set off a bomb and not wake Riley up if he wanted to sleep.

We went to the Vet today- unexpectedly at 8:30 am.  Riley has another fever.  Needed fluids and more antibiotics.  I am thinking he should never have stopped taking them.  I should have expressed my thoughts to the Vet office.  Tomorrow an ultrasound to see what his liver is doing.  He is refusing food.  But with the two massive injections of antibiotics-- he will feel better by tomorrow and might eat then.  He was doing so well- like his jolly old self.  Now........he's very weak.  They think it might be Lyme.  No vaccine for that.

On the bright side- my credit card is collecting lots of points.

Two episodes of Antiques Roadshow last night.  I enjoyed both.  I was sewing little bits of cloth to other little bits of cloth and have managed to make about 6 typing paper sized items so far.  None of them go with any of the others.  They are just hand sewn groups of components.  They aren't going to turn into wishing stars or cats or anything (like Jude's on Spirit Cloth).  I guess they are all backgrounds for something that might happen on their surfaces- someday. Or in 2029 I might decide to unsew them all and make something else?  Like the one up top.  The parts are more interesting than the whole.