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Thank you soo much for that. I like to think that all the good wishes he has gotten so far for this has helped him out. The vet called and said it wasn't an abscess, it was a swollen sore spot, I guess like a pulled muscle or something, but that there wasn't anything to drain. They gave him a mild sedative for the exam to calm him down, and after that they gave him an anti-inflammatory and sent him home with some painkillers for the next few days. If he doesn't get better within a week we have to take him back in, but I think he'll be okay. He freaked out in the carrier until I got him to the car, where he calmed down. I guess he knew he was going home, hehe.

Awww poor thing! I will light incense for it. It is waytoo hot here to light candles, even tea lights.


I have decided that the gift that is going to take me longest to finish is the toboggan hat, so I am going to try and get as much of that knocked out today as I can. Even if I can get it a fourth of the way through, that will put well beyond where I start decreasing and it should easier every time after that that I work on it. Except the mittens, because I think I want to put some Celtic knotwork in them, if not for that they would be nothing more than a couple of pair of easy socks. I will get busy on those next. I try to keep one bigger project going and then some easier smaller things to work on as well. Most of the rest are crocheted, except the wombs. But the lady who's pattern it is says they only take about an hour. I want to do 7 of them.

So the hat is easy enough to do and interesting. My friend was complaining last year about not being able to find a cool (in her weird opinion) hat. So I am making it with red heart black held together with some some kind of accent yarn. So far I have used a shiny blue, a furry burnt orange and now I am starting on some rainbow accent yarn that is more dense than the burnt orange, but as not as long. When I am done, I am going to use all the scraps to make a long scraggly tassel. I don't know how long it will be when finished, but I am hoping there is enough accent yarn to make it at least 4 feet. The body will be mostly the rainbow with another stripe of the burnt orange, and then it will finish off with the blue, that way the point of the hat will not be covered in fur and it will more easily seen. Really yucky in my opinion, but I think she will love it.

Idea! I can do two cowls, one in a chunky lace pattern and a mobius pattern one! biggrin Still need help find a mobius pattern though. So if you guys know of one, either knit or crochet, though I prefer crochet, let me know.

lol oops, I meant I prefer knitting. sweatdrop But I'm sure that's only because I learned it first, so for me it is more intuitive. But having said that I still like crochet a lot. I found a way to knit a moebius cowl in the round, a method by Cat Bordhi that I really like, I just don't have the circular I'd need for it and no way to easily get my hands on one. So I'm still looking. But I did find a couple knit moebius patterns I really like, I had to buy them on Ravelry but that is okay, they are only a couple bucks and really pretty so it was worth it.

I started slacking off of knitting for a while, but visiting with my aunt re-inspired me. biggrin I usually knit a lot anyways as I'm home all the time and don't have anything else to do, heh.

I think I've decided on the Moebius cowl design. I think I'm going to do a double crochet rib stitch, because that way there is no front or back, up or down. The symmetry of most of the other patterns I found was bothering me (with the exception of Cat Bordhi's moebius knitting technique), but that I can live with, lol. I'll let everyone know how it goes.

That's why I wanted to do crochet, as you can find more patterns that are reversible in it than knitting, the problem I was running into was up/down. It was bothering my sense of symmetry, but I figure a nice simple, straightforward stitch will work fine.

WOW Geomorphology? What is that all about? It would be interesting to know how Australian flora differs from the flora here. I have lived in three different areas of the US and the flora differs from area to area. I was listening to a podcast the other day and an Australian was talking about how the deserts in the States are so flat and plain compared to the ones in the Australia. He made them sound quite beautiful.