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I powered through my knitting and whew - I'm finished with what I needed to get done. Knitted items aren't really finished when you stop knitting; you still should block them to make the stitching relax and look nice. That means soaking the item in a tub of cool water with some wool wash, then wringing it out gently and shaping it, and letting it air dry. Which is not a fast thing in cool weather, but I figured out that if I place the items in my closet and shut the door, it becomes a little warming room whenever the heat kicks on. I'll have pictures to show you of what I've been working on after Christmas...some bloggers do a New Year's Resolutions post, but I do a knitted Christmas gifts reveal post instead.
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We bought a bed for our second guest room so that both kadults will have an actual bed and room to sleep in when they're here for Christmas. The bed was delivered yesterday, which meant that I had to figure out where to place it in the room and shove aside all the boxes of childhood treasures waiting for said kadults to go through while they are here. I also had to let go of getting that room perfectly set up because I don't want to rush it and just randomly buy stuff to make it guest-room-like. So for now, it's a bed in a room. AND I'M OK WITH THAT. Seriously.
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Paco update: I accidentally bought the wrong kind of dry dog food for him last week - I normally buy Wellness Core, but I grabbed the bag of Wellness Core RawRev - the bag is the same color, so honest mistake. We decided to open it and see if Paco liked it - if he didn't, we'd donate it to the animal shelter, but if he did, I didn't have to make another trip to the pet store. Guess what?
Can't talk. Eatin.
We poured the bag into his food can and he shoved his head inside and started gobbling away. Paco is normally a dog who can take or leave his kibble until he's realllllly hungry, but he LOVES this food. It has raw turkey in it along with the kibble, and for the first few days, his bowl was constantly needing refilling. One day I discovered that he'd picked out most of the turkey and left the kibble - that's like just eating the marshmallows from a bowl of Lucky Charms! I waited until he ate the kibble before refilling it. Maybe with this new love of food, he'll put on some weight. His spine has been pretty prominent and he's only weighed about 24 pounds for quite a while - he could stand to put on a few pounds.
It isn't all great in Paco's world, though. Over Thanksgiving we noticed that he had a bunch of bumps from his neck down, and he was yelping if I petted him and touched a bump. Another vet visit with our traditional vet selfie:
Mom. I not lik dis.
And it turns out that our vet thinks he is having an allergic reaction to the antibiotic he was taking for a little mouth and skin infection. She felt so bad about this! He has such a rough time with antibiotics that we tried something different, and it almost cleared up the mouth infection but his poor body is a hot mess. So now we are bathing him with a medicated shampoo three times a week and hoping to see some improvement. As you might imagine, he's not enjoying the extra bathing, not one bit. I'm not either, because when I'm drying him off afterward, even though I'm only patting him with the towel, not rubbing his fur at all, he yelps and cries and then I feel bad. And as a result of that, he's getting a little extra spoiling:
Waitin' for dad to share ice creeem.
We added a round of prednisone to his care yesterday; fingers crossed this does the trick in pushing him toward feeling 100% again. I felt a bit silly when I went to the Target pharmacy picked up a prescription for myself AND my dog, but hey - this is my world, LOL.
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Our marathoners have 20 miles on tap for tomorrow. TWENTY. Our halfers only have 10 miles, which any other time seems like a lot...but TWENTY. I'll probably run 5 miles. I'm enjoying this not training for a big race, can you tell?
Have a great weekend!
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