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Knits With Cats @knitswithcats.bsky.social · 1h

Autumn is definitely here and it's getting cold at night - freezing or near. Still some lovely color to be found in the woods.

Woods just off the Currier and Ives Byway. There are many gold and orange leaved trees, probably small sugar maples. The blue sky and shining sun can be seen through the trees.

Some of the trees on this ski area have turned. There are many evergreens as well. Several ski, snow board, and sled runs can be seen on the mountain. There is a wooden split-rail type fence in the foreground.

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Knits With Cats @knitswithcats.bsky.social · 4h

That's a good thing. Thinking of you as you deal with specialists and scary mysteries.

Knits With Cats @knitswithcats.bsky.social · 6h

That's working up nicely! Hope everything is OK with you - waiting rooms are never fun.

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Knits With Cats @knitswithcats.bsky.social · 7h

I had some years ago and they were designed to filter out extraneous noises so speech and voices could be heard more clearly. Cheap-o ear plugs worked better, as long as they don't filter out alarms and such.

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Knits With Cats @knitswithcats.bsky.social · 14h

Thank you! Exciting baseball provides incentives.

Knits With Cats @knitswithcats.bsky.social · 14h

Apparently it varies, depending on the depth on the material. Friends in CA live right on top of the Hayward fault (there's a sensor in their yard) and it was interesting. We lived a mile away and about 1/4 mile east of the fault; sometimes we'd feel one they didn't, and vice versa.

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Knits With Cats @knitswithcats.bsky.social · 14h

I've never felt less than a 4.1, and that was because I was leaning against a fence - the fence sort of vibrated.

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Knits With Cats @knitswithcats.bsky.social · 1d

And sleeve 1 is off the needles, with 1 out to go!

Knits With Cats @knitswithcats.bsky.social · 1d

2 more rows and the 1st sleeve will be finished! Thanks to 18 innings last night and 7 exciting innings so far tonight. Taking a short break to rest and massage my sore paws before knitting a little more. 🧶Color is a rich cinnamon, not the washed out tan I'm seeing in the photo. #ShowMeYourKnits

Cinnamon wool sleeve knitted in double moss stitch. There is a chain of multi-color stitch markers used to track increases in the lower center. It's resting on a yellow fleece afghan.

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Knits With Cats @knitswithcats.bsky.social · 1d

2 more rows and the 1st sleeve will be finished! Thanks to 18 innings last night and 7 exciting innings so far tonight. Taking a short break to rest and massage my sore paws before knitting a little more. 🧶Color is a rich cinnamon, not the washed out tan I'm seeing in the photo. #ShowMeYourKnits

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Knits With Cats @knitswithcats.bsky.social · 1d

A family friend's adult son is on the spectrum and we first met him about 7 years ago (I'd met infant him, but he doesn't remember). He confused both families at his dad's funeral by introducing us as aunt and uncle, and finally explained that I'd known his parents for 40+ years, when they dated.

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Knits With Cats @knitswithcats.bsky.social · 1d

Time to sleep. Not the outcome I wanted, but what a game!

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Knits With Cats @knitswithcats.bsky.social · 1d

Had to stop knitting after the 13th inning because my hands were getting sore! OTOH I almost finished a sweater sleeve.

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Knits With Cats @knitswithcats.bsky.social · 1d

Glad I'm retired

Knits With Cats @knitswithcats.bsky.social · 1d

SO and I are texting about the World Series game from our respective suites like the nerds we are.

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Knits With Cats @knitswithcats.bsky.social · 2d

Watching the World Series and knitting - wow! Supervised housekeeper and yard dude this morning, then had a stitch and bitch session with a weaver. I knit 6 rows on a sleeve while she wove a complete guitar strap! It was fun getting to know a new friend better, and she has a very cool cat.

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Knits With Cats @knitswithcats.bsky.social · 2d

Made my first ever kale salad tonight. I've refused to deal with a vegetable that requires a massage to be edible but a friend gave us a bunch from his garden and SO requested it. Surprised the heck out of me - it was good, and it was easy! I'm still jealous it got a massage and I didn't though.

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Knits With Cats @knitswithcats.bsky.social · 2d

Oh good grief! G A U R A S !

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Knits With Cats @knitswithcats.bsky.social · 2d

All lovely, but I love faults and their fireworks!

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Knits With Cats @knitswithcats.bsky.social · 3d

Can't believe the weekend is over already. Spent lots of $$ getting overgrown rhododendrons and lots of bittersweet trimmed/removed, helped a friend figure out knitting instructions while our SOs unloaded and checked out a wood chipper they found in NY. Would have a finished sleeve, can't find yarn!

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Knits With Cats @knitswithcats.bsky.social · 3d

I did too until I was served tea with milk in London. No choice unless I went to the back of the line and I learned to prefer it.

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Knits With Cats @knitswithcats.bsky.social · 3d

Tacky khakis weren't ever a good look for high tech trade shows; not sure who decided they'd be a good look as part of a football uniform, or why.

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Knits With Cats @knitswithcats.bsky.social · 3d

I drink my tea with honey or maple syrup and half and half, coffee with half and half, so there's not much caloric difference. I just have to be in a certain mood to enjoy coffee. SO doesn't drink either, so I have no incentive to make a pot of coffee.

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Knits With Cats @knitswithcats.bsky.social · 3d

We don't make coffee often - it's been 6 weeks since I made a cup! I have a Keurig in my home office for the rare cup of coffee. I drink much more tea, hence the electric kettles on both floors. Love cotton and linen towels, many from world market and some artists who design them.

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Knits With Cats @knitswithcats.bsky.social · 3d

Let's see... I have a Moka Pot, electric kettle - 2 actually (upstairs and downstairs), pepper grinder, tortilla press, loads of good tea towels. Donated my crepe pan, don't want or need an espresso maker, and have many good knives. Interesting list.

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Knits With Cats @knitswithcats.bsky.social · 3d

And also with you

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