Worry just never ends

The sore in Mellow's mouth has gotten smaller and less "angry" according to his vet, but still there. Another two weeks on antibiotics, if its not gone at the end of this round Doc will take biopsies to see what else might be going on. He tells me not to worry, Mellow is young and healthy, but can't help but worry anyway. Yeah, OK, overreaction from what happened with Levi I know, from a seemingly happy, healthy dog to so ill and gone in a month, I still can't get past it.

Where is the time going

Just flying by, and not getting much accomplished. Decided to delay the decision on the shawl - start over or rescue, and started another project, a tablecloth from Kintted Lace Designs of Herbert Niebling by Eva Mara Leszner.

The projects in the book aren't named, so call this one Page 23. The pattern has some errors, but pretty easy mostly.

Mellow was at the vet a few weeks ago for his rabies shot, but nothing is ever simple anymore, the doc found a sore in his mouth. He's been on antibiotics for two weeks in the hopes that its just an infection and will clear up, he goes back tomorrow to be rechecked. If the sore isn't gone then we'll have to do biopsies. Infection makes sense though, all summer they've been reroofing around here and all kinds of strange things have landed in my yard, as much as I tried to keep it picked up I could have missed something. Mellow misses nothing, easy to imagine him getting ahold of a nail and puncturing his mouth resulting in infection. So fingers and paws crossed.

AARRGGHH

Scrapping the shawl I think, got lost in the 200th round, no lifelines and I could rescue it a couple rows back but wasn't happy with the way the nupps turned out anyway so maybe deciding to just chalk it up. So much time though, just gone, useless except for the learning experience. Love the pattern, deciding what to do, start this over again or move on to something else, or I may decide to try to rescue what I've done so far, sleeping on it.

Dog days

Finally its hot and muggy summer around here, its been great until now though, very comfortable temps.

Lainie is too cute, even in 90 degree-plus temps, she loves to lay in the sun. The rest are ready to hit the air conditioning again after a half hour or so outside. Two months yesterday since Levi left us, still miss him a lot, Mellow still lays in Levi's old spot under the desk frequently, otherwise I guess we're mostly back to after-Levi normal.

Finally got going on the Estonian Lace Christening Shawl, the nupps really slow me down and the last border has a ton of them so this isn't going to be a quick project, but its really turning out beautiful.