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RNmomof2 zone 5
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Pepper's Final Resting Place
Comments (26)I just want to thank everyone who posted - so many of you - with wonderful, kind words. You can't imagine how much a good cry helped (every time I read and re-read it) - or maybe you can since you've been there, too. Friday was the most horrible day, and Saturday was pretty bad, too. Saturday I received a link to the most remarkable piece of writing from dear Jeri. It was like a dose of anesthetic for the unrelenting agony and enabled me to transition toward thinking of him at rest. Sunday night and this morning I got a little teary, so I brought "the will" (see the link below) with me to work because I wanted another dose of the painkiller. Turns out I didn't need it. The photo of Pepper I had put on my desktop at work on Friday (which I couldn't bare to look at then) was a happy comfort today. As I was shutting down to come home, happy thought ("Sweet boy") was followed by profoundly sad thought ("but he's not here"). When I called DH on my way home & asked him what he was doing, "looking for old pictures of Pepper on the computer". Since DH is retired, Pepper was with him all day. There is such a huge hole in our little family. He was a gentle, unassuming fellow who was so willing to patiently wait in line for his kisses when I got home - AFTER his demanding sister, the Brittany - never pushy until he made physical contact. For some reason he loved to stick his head between my thighs and get his hug that way while I rubbed his back. It worked for him! and gave me such a laugh every time. He made each of us feel like he was a daddy's boy AND a mama's boy. What a blessing to have thought to go to the animal shelter that Saturday in 1998 to "see is they have any standard poodles." They did - 3!! He was the only one healthy enough to be adopted at 35 lbs (compared to his normal 58 lbs). So we're enjoying our memories now with occasional tears, thankful for the photos and each other's willingness to share moments from the past and talk about him at length. No stuffing of emotions here, thankfully! Here's his glamour shot after a trip to the groomer - which he sorely hated. Thank you again. You are a very precious group, and DH thinks so, too. He said it was tough getting through this thread. Nice people, he said. Sherry Here is a link that might be useful: Leaving from the pet's perspective...See MoreBubblegum Starghan
Comments (5)I don't have a digital camera. If DD brings hers, I will see if she can post for me. I just use white or colored crochet cotton. You could use baby fingering yarn, but the crochet cotton is absorbent, so that is what I use. I have been making burp cloths about the size of a placemat out of left over flannel (two sides). Just recently I bought prefolded Gerber birdseye cloth diapers at Target. Some are printed, coming in a package of blue prints or a package of pink prints. I bought one of both and a package of white diapers too. I did not buy the thicker nighttime diapers. I figure at about $1 per white diaper and a tad more per printed diaper that I am not too far off the cost of flannel burp cloths, which cost more by my estimation, and I don't have to trim the diapers and sew them together first like the flannel. I have edged them using your suggestion of a blanket stitch in the crochet cotton as the first row, then a row of sc and then the pattern. Shells look nice (sc, skip 2sc, 5dc in next sc, skip 2 sc, sc in next sc-- or make a shell of 1dc, *sc, 1 dc and repeat from * 1 or 3 times) and other edges. Recently, I have been making holes in the edges with a thick and sharp yarn needle, weaving the needle along the edge into about 6 or 8 evenly spaced holes, leaving the needle there, and one at a time exposing a hole into which I sc, ch 1 around the diaper with a size 4 steel hook. Then usually I do 1 row of sc, followed by the edging design of choice, and voila. I wash the cloths before giving them away to remove the sizing, make them more absorbent, and soften up the crochet thread to make it look better. (If they get too wrinkled to please you, you could always iron them before giving them to the new mom.) Hope this helps. Printed cloth diapers are a new product to me. Some gals sell diaper based burp cloths that they embellish with a length of printed cotton running down the center panel of the prefolded diaper and they charge a fortune for them. I like my homemade versions much better....See MoreMy sweet Monkey has passed
Comments (41)like my beloved and first cat, clyde...he and his sister bonnie were my companions thru a divorce, remarriage, and birth of my 4 kids...he was nearly 22, when I knew he needed to finally sleep...my darling dd took him to the vet for me...then there was the posse....3 kitties of a stray mom...they were my main stay thru graduations, 2 bouts of cancer, and marriages and the beginning of the grands...one was lost to ? but the other 2 made it to 15, before they had problems and needed to join clyde. now i'm catless, sigh and still crave the companionship...all I have these days is dh, lol...and while we've had 45 years, he still doesn't purr, or is unconditional.... you're so very lucky to have found another kitty to love and be loved...monkey approves......See MoreWallpaper in attic room
Comments (21)Ninigret.. Thank you it really is a great space, and will be even better once it is done.. There is a larger matching attic room opposite it which will be the next project.. Here are some pics of what we started with.. SJS..the room is 12 X 8 and when we gutted it we raised the ceiling up a bit but as with an attic space you can only go so high. I had considered putting a thick trim molding up on the flat part to help give some definition but reconsidered as I feared it would make it feel lower rather than higher... The first pic is the room we are currently doing, the other two are its longer match which will be next.. Both show how the ceilings and walls used to be.....See MoreRNmomof2 zone 5
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