Various bits of good news

 The first is negative good news -- fifth day home and I don't seem to have caught any virus, despite all the people I was being touched and moved around by. I pretty much expected to catch something,  there's so much about, and joy, I'm fine.

Then my healing approach worked again -- pain during the night, pretty much dispelled by another royal related documentary.

It was about those royal warrants the monarch gives to favorite shops and artisans. Very repetitive, low budget, out of date, and better than pills. 

And great news for friends. You know the sock and glove ministry I have? I knit for a special project, send the work to a community of nuns who add it in to theirs and deliver it. Here's their exciting news

I wonder if they'll meet Colin Firth? At any rate, my nun friends are all excited. Even the dog, Jennie -- I've met her on my visits, she's a bit starstruck, I can tell. Me to the sisters to Spielberg, how many degrees!

Happy day everyone, you never know, you too may be discovered by Spielberg.

Sick Visiting, Sock 'n Glove Ministry, stitching

The patio Sunday morning after days of rain and cold.

Whatever is in the hanging pot planted itself, probably an exciting weed, but I'll wait before I pull it in case it's left over from last year's flowers.

K and I visited Gary, and found he's doing better, few more days to be sure before they let him leave. He was no longer on oxygen, and he's being cared for very well. So that feels better to everyone. 

I'm happy I made myself go, pushing through fear of hospitals, anxiety about visiting, reminding myself visiting the sick is one of the corporal works of mercy I'm supposed to live by. And it was fine. 

While we were there, he needed a blood draw, so I left briefly, can't deal. When the technician left he said, okay, safe to go in now!

And the email newsletter from the convent of whose knitting ministry I'm a member at large came out today. The gloves and socks are what you saw here first.

And here's a friend with another friend. The nun  organized our goldwork embroidery workshop, and dog Jennie has starred in We Rate Dogs. I'm famous!

Speaking of embroidery and its power, here's a great initiative for the month.

Anyone who stitches can attest to its healing and calming properties. The reporter didn't enlarge on the stitching, maybe lack of terminology. But just seeing work on a hoop makes a stitcher want to get hooping and stitching.

Happy day, everyone! Push through, it's often okay.

Jennie, and the little cactus that could

You know how I knit socks and gloves for the special project, and send my work off to a community of sisters, to be added in to their work? Here's where it goes! This is Jennie, the convent resident dog, in chapel with one of the sisters. I met her, well, both of them, when I stayed there with a guild group learning gold work embroidery.

She turned up this week in her own right on Twitter, on one of the few accounts I still check in there, a weekly roundup of video of dogs and their stories. And here's one I've met!

left to right, presenter inset, Jennie, Sister.  There's also a black and white cat, and for many years,  a pony, Pony, a real mischief maker, quite a character. There's a book about him now.

And the Thanksgiving cactus is really coming through

I notice that even when a plant is small, it produces full-size flowers. This one's doing well, more buds there. I'm always surprised when the pink buds become bright coral flowers.

I made a freecycle request for yarn, and got a couple of offers, too far away to be practical for pickup, but kind anyway. Meanwhile I can knit partial dolls then add on the faces and hats when I get face-colored yarn.

Father Dowling continues to entertain me, with those huge cars, skidding round corners. I learned to drive long ago in a V8, and have never really got used to smaller cars since. I still  expect half a mile of metal in front of me! My current car could sit on the hood of a V8. 

Happy day, everyone, if your knitting supplies, real or metaphorical, are incomplete in any sense, it's the human condition!

More hostages released in Gaza, and Israel's minister acknowledged it's a Biden truce, not a Netanyahu truce. Take that, people who think he's a weak Presidential candidate!  He's one of the best presidents we ever had. And you know why people whine that he's too old? It's because she's black.