Knitting and Kitties, Kitties and Knitting

by Mousie, birthday girl and Grammy's little cutiepie.

Good morning, Friends.
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This KITTEN just celebrated her 9th birthday and right up front I'd like to thank all my friends for the greetings, pressies and delightful comments and wishes for me.  You all made my day glorious.  Thank you.  

This all came a day after we got good news about my mummy, Whiskers.  As you know, we've all been worried about her.  She had lost some weight, her coat was kind of rough and she was tossing her food a lot.  Blood work showed her potassium high, sodium low and B12 in the proverbial litterbox.   Well, we don't have a definitive answer to what is wrong but it is thought that she may have an inflamed stomach and bowel.  We hope that's all... as it can be managed with diet and vitamins.  

A course of fluids, B12 shot and some meds to settle the tummy and a new food seemed to settle her down and she was allowed to come home the next day.  Close monitoring, weekly B12 shots, daily tummy meds and her new food seem to be working.  

Her follow-up this past Friday was good...  she gained back most of what she'd lost, is not throwing up, gets tummy meds every other morning until the bottle is finished and gets one more B12 shot with close monitoring over the next 5 weeks until her next checkup.

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Despite all this she is still a wily old girl... and gives Grammy a run for her money as they say.   Anticipating the morning syringe she hovers where she has multiple escape routes and hiding places.  On the morning Grammy only feed her she settles quickly to eat... and has a hearty appetite.  The in-between days she scoots, slinks and scampers around the condo to avoid the inevitable meds.  By the time Grammy wins the contest, and she always does, eventually... both are exhausted.  It's a good thing that giving her breakfast has to wait an hour.  Grammy collapses into her chair, Whiskers into her tent and both take a much needed nap.   

Sweetie and I await our breakfast until we can all enjoy it together...with mummy. The boys, on the other hand, DO NOT WAIT.  Those pork chops, especially RONDO howl and wail and moan until Grammy puts out their breakfasts.  I swear they don't even taste their food as they inhale it.  They so lack the finer graces of Sweetie, mummy and me... well, maybe Sweetie and me.  Mummy eats voraciously too. *giggles*

So, what does all this have to do with Knitting?  Well, with everything that's been going on - Grammy's injuries and healing, Sweetie's teeth and mummy Whiskers' upset - Grammy has been home more than usual and yet, hasn't been knitting as much as she was.  The old dear only managed to read on-line books as a distraction for most of the time but finally picked up one of her projects and actually finished knitting it.  Wow!  We are impressed.  She now has a nice blue sweater for autumn. She's working on another - a white V-neck pullover - but needs two measurements before she can complete it... and awaits those from the person for whom it is being made.   

Dare we tell you how many other projects are started and not completed?   Here goes... another sweater, a shrug, a scarf, a shawl, and a pair of socks...oh and a remake of a pair of slippers.   ALL items starting with the letter S... What's with that?  This isn't so bad.  REALLY! Actually, the list is getting smaller as she works her way through them...  What motivates her?  The long list of things she still wants to make and won't start until these in-process items are completed.

Well, friends.  That's all for this week... slim pickins, I'm afraid but we'll post Grammy's sweater below... it awaits buttons, but the right ones which Grammy hasn't found yet.  The search goes on... for them.

Comments are welcomed. Especially if funny, sweet or cute like me.​

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