It is to Laugh...
Jul. 5th, 2022 10:14 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lydamorehouse
Image: A bright blue spiderwort blooming in a literal sidewalk crack.
I sent in my Lawns2Legumes reimbursement request for the pocket habitat that I spent a couple of hundred dollars on, and, lo, in a literal sidewalk crack on the side of my house, a bright blue prairie spiderwort, native to not only Minnesota, but specifically Ramsey County, where I live, has volunteered and bloomed. Rather than consider this THE GREATEST IRONY OF ALL TIME, I shall imagine that this lovely native bloom is a thank you gift directly from the Goddess.
Because it's either laugh or cry.
In other news, we ended up spending a fuck ton of money on Willow, our Void, who had been throwing up a lot. Because this is the self-same cat whole swallowed an actual needle, I did tell the vet to go ahead and take x-rays just to make sure that she wasn't barfing because of some insane (insane intestine!) obstruction or another. Willow was perfectly clear, though the vet did see a lot of gas and whatnot in her intestines. The best guess was, in fact, a bout of stomach flu, or some kind of minor bowel infection. The vet prescribed some antibiotics, but Willow has been deeply resistant to the squirt (to be fair to her, is smells like that fake banana smell. Why? Why not, I dunno, tuna~!) and has taken to hiding under the bed for a lot of the day. It might be the humidity? But her hiding is not very like her and so now I'm all worried again. Does she have an actual infection? Should we be more aggressive trying to get the medicine in her? Or is the medicine what she's hiding from??
I wish she could tell me.
Other than that, we spent the 4th hiding from the fireworks, ourselves. I've started another "ugly" Christmas quilt, though this one I like quite a bit more.
Image: red and green and white quilt, my second "ugly" Christmas quilt
Here's a close up on some of the fabrics:
Image: Close up on some of the fabric in the quilt, there are a lot of snow persons and creepy Santa clones.
And, yes, I did notice after I got this section together that the army of Santa clones are kind of all bunched together. At this point, I kind of don't care? It's visually (from a distance, at any rate,) more about the green and gold star bowties and the solid red bowties.
Tell me what you think (so long as it's a compliment! I'm not in the mood for critique of my stitching or fabric choices right now, sorry!)
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Date: 2022-07-05 05:33 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2022-07-05 06:37 pm (UTC)Healing thoughts to your void kitty.
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Date: 2022-07-05 09:52 pm (UTC)I like a couple of things about your holiday quilt. First, I like the pattern of green and red and white fabrics and that it's consistent throughout the quilt. Kind of a nice framework for building on.
Also, I like the pattern choices for the lighter squares. A nice diverse collection of prints, and not too matchy-matchy, nor relentlessly fucking cheerful. (I think that some holiday things just try too hard for perfection or cheer or something on an emotional level. I may not be phrasing this properly. But I like that yours is festive and, I dunno, lower key?)
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Date: 2022-07-07 03:09 pm (UTC)And, Void is doing so much better. She is, right now, sitting in the porch window watching squirrels.
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Date: 2022-07-06 01:12 am (UTC)Celebrating the spiderwort. I hope it leaves seeds for you to add to your habitat!
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Date: 2022-07-07 03:12 pm (UTC)And, yeah, the quilt is in the vein of an "ugly Christmas sweater," and not all of those are truly ugly either.