Sun, Setting on 2025 ~ Happy New Year

 Happy New Year, dear friends.

I am home and each day sees me a bit better after the frightening blast of Flu A. Combined with the iv dose of immune suppressants on December 15, I had no physical resources to create antibodies and fight the flu. I was just in the ER one day, not admitted to the hospital bec as the dr said, he had many other much sicker patients in his tiny make do hospital.

Friends took Mo, who had health issues of his own. But oh how he loved this home's heated floors!

He has been so loved and cared for.

I am trying not to mourn Christmas that Never Was. ''Better days ahead.'' 

I am very blessed with the love of friends and family. 

best wishes to you all.

lizzy

ps comments answered here on blog for now as I recuperate. Check in!

Counting Down

 Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays 

to all my friends worldwide.

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Mo is still opening his Advent Calendar each afternoon. 

My to do list is dwindling: just have to get out the platters and wine glasses for  my Christmas Eve get together, bake a few cookies. I admit I'm struggling a bit post IV treatment and some sort of respiratory illness.  I had one unexpected last min sewing project. A new stocking for Little Friend [LF].

Somehow I lost the one I made a few years ago, after looking at it on the shelf of little quilts for the past twelve months.

Oh well she needed a bigger stocking anyway.

SO fun to fill with Dollat Store junk. Including a tiny felt Pug "learn to sew' kit.

Fabrics are a mix of Christmas prints and tropicals, her family always spend Christmas through New Years in a warm beach resort.

Used this funny giant polka dot for the back and lining. Took me about two hours total.

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We had a horrible scary storm here this morning. 70 mph winds [hurricane force is 74 mph] and I had to gather my courage and go out to retie down the lattice that protects Mo from falling over the edge of the deck. The lattice is heavy plastic and if flung by 70 mph wind, it would break my windows. We'd get brief moments of clearing, then more storms, but the wind has moved to the west and gusts lessened to about 45-50 mph.

The winter solstice is tomorrow. My mother always said there are storms for the solstices and equinox, tho she had no explanation why the Fall storms arere on Halloween not September 21. [Perfect Storm, H Sandy, Halloween Noor'easter  in the early 90s...]

Here's some simple ways to take note. Yes longer days, but despite that hopeful notion, the long cold winter has just begun. Time to be slow annd thoughtful, tea and good books.

Merry Christmas from lizzy and Mo.

Snow Day

 

Hi everyone!\What happened to the WeatherBug forecast of ''dusting turning to sleet and rain?" Instead we woke up Sunday morning to that odd hush of silence that means a big snow is falling.

I do love a Christmas snow but this was unexpected. Again I'm hoping the power stays on. Gale winds and single digit ''feels like'' temps are to arrive this evening.

It won't be a deck sit and sew day, will it. Seven months til summer.

Mo donned his special glo in the dark and in the drifts jacket made for him by my friend Mel

 when Mo was a baby. 

Still fits, still keeps him toasty warm, still dries really fast.

The jacket is easy on, over the head and a wide tummy belt. Very soft too. 

He was so good, I wouldn't want to have to go sit in 8" of snow to potty. Though most pugs actually like snow, they are a double coated cold weather hardy breed.

This week I've been poring through all my holiday season vintage books and patterns. Fun to imagine what to make next t year or even next week if we're snow bound.

I love the Pinecones & Hollyberries vintage books from dear friend Penny in SA. 

I  am attracted to the Sue Spargo version's colors. Usually I don't care for her designs tho I admire her expertise. Love the [unclear in these fast pics] black and white gingham w the reds and golds. Though that Urn block has got to go, ugh.

And this very vintage early 90s Cheri book has darling ideas. This arch is so different. Her Two Hour Christmas projects book is wonderful too, if wildly optimistic or I am very slow.

Yesterday before the snow came, my little friend and her mom  and I made a gingerbread house. LF did most of the decorating, I think she did great for only being 5 going on 6. So fun and my skills still intact. Use of a hot glue gun is essential.

And I delivered her Dolly's Christmas Skating outfit. It fits and looks so cute, I think. 

This is just a check in. We're fine, the HOA has finally cleared the lanes and walkways. I have loads of food* I just hope the power stays on. I have my infusion tomorrow noon. I'll answer comments from this post and yesterday's post as best I can, I love reading your comments, as you well know.

Merry Christmas

love

lizzy and Mo

*The week's food for IV week/ snow storm: hamburger/ tomato casserole, Ham salad, roast beef salad, a green salad w cranberries and parm. I didn't yet make---but later in the week---: Egg salad, apple blue cheese Waldorf salad. And Chewy delivered an extra bag of Mo's pug specific kibble and potty pads. We're all set!

Bad news is, neighbors/ friends are texting me their water is off. Car skidded on ice and broke a hydrant. Hope I m far enough away, but filled pots and bowls just in case.