Monday this 'n that

[susandennis]

I finished January-July!

The inside color of each square is the high temperature for that day and the outside of each square is the low temperature. (The navy squares are in between each month.)



I have August mapped out now on my spreadsheet and may go ahead and do it while I wait for a couple of new blanket instructions to come down the pipeline.

After days of debate on various recliner-ish chairs, I finally decided to get a relatively cheap one on Amazon. In addition to the couch, I have a brown faux leather and the one that my ass is currently in - chairs from Ikea. I'm over them both. So if the new recliner is fine but not whatever enough for every day use, I'll probably keep it and get another more robust one like the one that fflo has.

This is the recliner I bought yesterday. It's being shipped by FedEx which is kind of a PIA. UPS will bring it to my door. FedEx will drop it downstairs and leave me to figure out how to get it up here. (There are hand trucks downstairs that I can borrow, I'm not worried. Just wish it was UPS.) The tentative arrival date is Thursday which would be great. It's only coming from California so that might even be right. (FedEx tracking says 'estimate' "The delivery date may be updated when FedEx receives the package.")

Last July, I left a Yelp Review for that cat behaviorist I paid way too much money for. She left a reply last week. Prompt.

And speaking of Biggie, he's quit sleeping with me. He's gone back to sleeping under the bed. Weird. And, last night, he was on the counter while I was cleaning up and I opened a package of wet cat food and he ate the whole thing! He hates wet cat food. He's actually been eating a lot in the past week or so. Cooler weather? Storing up for winter?

I have two more cookie recipes and a biscuit recipe I want to try but I have cookies in the fridge to bake and cookies in the freezer to eat and biscuits in the freezer. So making more seems kind of silly. But, there is still room in the freezer...

I might pop into Amazon Fresh. I have a return and I could pick up lunch/dinner. And an orange that I need for one of the cookie recipes...

We play Boston tonight. They haven't been great lately and neither have we and the playoff possibilities loom for both of us so it will be an interesting three games.

Comments

[zoefruitcake.livejournal.com]

I'm confident that Biggie will return to sleep with you when he feels the urge

[stainsteelrat.livejournal.com]

Don't tell me, somehow the cat whisperer made it all your fault that she's rubbish?

[susandennis]

pretty much. she did manage to work in that she was filming for Discover+ in her reply which I thought was pretty hilarious

[kensmind.livejournal.com]

That's been our saving grace, that Oakland, Boston and the Yankees have done so poorly lately. (The Jays scare me). Two losses to the D-Backs? Seriously? It's time for the Ms to figure out how bad they really want this.

[susandennis]

it does make you wonder if maybe their personal plans for October are getting in the way

[rsc.livejournal.com]

Even the Rays got crushed by the Jays yesterday. This is getting out of hand.

What's even more out of hand – in a literal sense, really – is the Red Sox' tendency to give away games by making errors that immediately come back to bite them (as in last night, for the second game on a row, and the who-knows-how-many-th in the last three weeks).

[susandennis]

Yeah the Jays need a hook for sure. On the other hand, I don't have a problem with Boston errors.

[kensmind.livejournal.com]

The ball that Schwarber muffed seemed to have a lot of spin on it, but why their bullpen didn't put out the fire is beyond me. They are definitely snakebit.

[rsc.livejournal.com]

It was definitely a tough play, and he's not a first baseman by trade. But it's also true that Red Sox pitchers have had what I assume to be a statistically anomalous failure rate in pitching around errors. (The horror that occurred in the Labor Day game was kind of the other way: it's true that Verdugo's error cost 4 "unearned" runs, but it was Sale who loaded the bases with two out to begin with.)

[kensmind.livejournal.com]

Maybe it's the ghost of Bill Buckner haunting them (aside from the fact that Buckner is still alive).

[rsc.livejournal.com]

Actually, he's not (https://www.npr.org/2019/05/27/727355557/former-red-sox-first-baseman-bill-buckner-dies-at-69).

[rsc.livejournal.com]

Actually, he's not (https://www.npr.org/2019/05/27/727355557/former-red-sox-first-baseman-bill-buckner-dies-at-69).

[amw.livejournal.com]

I absolutely love that concept for a quilt. When did you come up with it? It might've been a post i missed.

[susandennis]

The concept is pretty popular with knitters and crocheters — blankets, scarves, etc — some do a row or a few with the high temp only or one row per day — there are all kinds of combos.

I have not seen one with the high and low temps but I'm sure it's not original. And, I actually copied the color scheme for the temps from another temperature blanket :)

I started a different scheme in January but ended up abandoning it — it just wasn't interesting. I came up with this one in about April. It's so easy to find the temps for every day. After that it's spreadsheet city!

[msconduct.livejournal.com]

I love the part in her response where she says you had a problem with Biggie jumping "over" (sic) your balcony and her recommendation was that you didn't let him outside. Wow. That's some brilliant advice right there. You never could have thought of that yourself.

[onelargecat.livejournal.com]

I love the blanket!! That is so clever!

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Your blanket is both fascinating and beautiful.

[susandennis]

thank you! it is fun to see grow with all the different days.