Valentine's Day

I hope you all had a happy Valentine's Day. I sent 350 Valentines to people Joe and I work with-that was a first and that was fun. I really do think my clients are sweethearts. One of my daughter's loved the earrings I got her for Valentine's Day. The 16 yr old was not amused, shall we say. I had a business/social dinner on Valentine's at a new little place with a serious menu and nourishing conversation with the group. Really, the only four interesting subjects are politics, religion, sex, and money. We managed to discuss all four (and my knitting) and not rant, fight, or ramble into ennui.

My mother would and did go walking a couple miles on the icy sidewalks and broke her arm. She had told me last Monday she was going to get a hoe and chop ice. Do I need to carry a hip flask for these pronouncements? Are they lacing her thyroid meds with LSD? Now the little peach is 81, broke her back last year and "liked to have" died: has her third elbow replacement (two were blown out from push-ups) and I had taken all the gardening tools from her already. To say I am feeling powerless to keep her from hurting herself is an understatement. Today, we see the orthopedist about placing a surgical pin in her broken arm.

ONC ( obligatory knitting content) The pink mitts are half finished. The Kroy pink cabled socks are 1/3 finished. I am casting on for an Elizabeth Zimmerman percentages coat for DD1. It calls for 482 cast on stitches for first row and my elbow cramped at about 350.

Work is always there. As I say, my clients are sweethearts. What would I do without them? Gotta run. Living like drinking through a firehose for now. Love ya. See ya later. Bye!