Well, I thought I’d have time for an update, but I’m heading to the beach with The Gathering Girls for a four-day retreat, leaving Nolemana at home to mind the fort. After what I’ve been through the past three months, I need this break! See ya when I get back!
Well, it’s been awhile, but remember how I had to leave Kalakoa, the kitten I adopted, at the shelter because she had a feline respiratory illness? Well, it was almost time for her to come home the last time I visited her. Read the rest of this entry »
Well, there was no question about it. Keola wasn’t going to hiss or growl at Noelani, and she wasn’t going to do the same thing to him. There was no raised fur, only friendliness. I was in awe. Read the rest of this entry »
I have a little bit of time so thought I would get an update done. I appreciate everyoneʻs patience while I am in caregiver role big time. Last time I posted, Keola was just about to meet Noelani. So letʻs see what happened. Read the rest of this entry »
I know, I know. I left you in the middle of pōpoki tales. I’m really sorry. But I have a really good reason.
Early Friday morning on February 3rd, Nolemana woke me up, saying he was having chest pains and thought we needed to go to ER. Which we did. To make a long story short, a week later he was in surgery at a hospital in downtown Portland, having a double bypass. In the two days he was home prior to surgery, I gracefully managed to trip over the kitty scratcher on the floor, hitting my upper rib hard on the armrest of a very hard wicker chair and have been in a great deal of pain. Read the rest of this entry »
He walked all around the carrier. There was not a single hiss or growl from either kitty!
Then there was some mutual sniffing.
Then Keola walked around the carrier again. Still not one hiss or growl. It was amazing.
Then he tried to shake hands with Noelani.
And he tried again.
In our next installment, Noelani gets to come out of the carrier. What will happen then? Stay tuned!
Okay, I have a third chapter to this story, and I hope you all will enjoy reading it.
I had a real hard morning on August 23rd, two days after I’d brought Keola home; I had to have an MRI which was pretty stressful, even though it was only on my foot. I am incredibly claustrophobic. Read the rest of this entry »
Today’s post is about the kitten that I had to leave at the shelter so she could get spayed. And there is kind of a wonderful story to tell about her, aside from the fact that I got her. Read the rest of this entry »
Remember the song “Goin’ to the Chapel and I’m Gonna Get Married”? Well…
♪ Went to the shelter and I got me a kitty♫ ♪
♪ Went to the shelter and I got me a kitty♫ ♪.
♪ Gee, I really love him and he’s my new kitty …♪
♫ Went to the shelter of love…♪ ♫
The other day a good friend of mine said she hadn’t seen any new posts lately; I didn’t even know she read my blog. I knew I hadn’t posted recently; my heart hasn’t really been in it since ʻUkulele died. I’ve been having little glimmerings of wanting to update my blog again, and my friend’s words gave me the impetus to begin again.
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Here is a photo of my girl with one of the skeins of yarn that she brought me.
I combined it with a photo of a mokihana lei for my Ravelry ravatar. I thought it would kinda be like the two of us always together.
I miss my girl….
This is a post long time coming. I just haven’t been able to write it because my grief has been too sharp, too deep, too wide, too painful. But now I think I’m ready to do this one. In it, I tell of the presents ʻUkie brought to me during the last weeks of her life. She was so pleased with herself, and every single evening, she’d bring me another prize. It was as if she was saying, “Look, Mom, I have slayed the terrible yarn giants!” She’d meow so proudly and even though she kept getting into my yarn basket, it gave me a smile. Every single time. I put all the yarns she brought me together, knowing that one day I would want a record of it. Read the rest of this entry »
It all began one morning when Nolemana and I went to a store that carried indoor fountains. They were really cool; you could have plants in them, and you could choose your own rock for the water to cascade down. The store also had pet supplies and a few pets for purchase, but all we were interested in was the fountain. We already had two cats and a dog and that was a full house for us. Read the rest of this entry »
It’s been a month. A hard month of grieving for ʻUkulele. I still can’t say her name without wai maka to da max. She was my special girl, the warm, purring presence who snuggled up next to me every night, the pōpoki who followed me everywhere, who lay down next to me while I was spinning, who came up to comfort me when I was upset or cried. Sixteen years with her went by like a flash, and now she is gone from my presence, but not from my heart. Read the rest of this entry »
I get so much wai maka foa rite too much now… ʻUkulele now stay at peace, and like our vet says, her spirit soaring. I wen make dis collage of her and one mokihana lei…
I stay so lonely and sad rite now…
Mahalo nui loa foa alla support…
Sorry I haven’t been posting more photos of da Tour de Fleece… my special pōpoki, ʻUkulele, has been really sick. She is sixteen years old and for the past couple of weeks I’ve been having to give her Sub-Q fluids and meds. She has spent the last three days at the vet’s getting IV fluids and I’ve been going in twice a day to visit her. I’m bringing her home today, then tomorrow she has to have her blood drawn again to see where we are.
One of her favorite things to do is to bring me balls of yarn that she’s “killed”. She is so proud of herself, and I praise her like crazy when she does it. What’s a little cat saliva on yarn, anyway? I hope she continues it when she gets home and rests up; it’s one way I can tell she’s having a good day.
Needless to say, I’m very concerned and everything else has pretty much taken a back seat to taking care of her. She is my special girl, and I’m having a pretty hard time with this…
Ho, I wen fall so far behind, yeah? Now stay pau da Tour de France and I stay playing catch-up! So today I going post da next three days of da Tour de Fleece.
Everyday I tried to get creative with my collages. Some days I had a lot of time, some not so much for that. For Day Thirteen, I thought it’d be fun to have the underneath of my myrtlewood wheel for the background. Joe Jorgensen made several hundred beautiful, myrtlewood wheels; there are several of us on Ravelry who are trying to locate as many of them as we can.
As you can see, the bobbin is getting a little fuller. Spinning a new fiber was a real learning experience for me, but the more I spun, the more consistent I was able to get.
This was my attempt at humor. I’d taken the photo of the Pileated Woodpecker right outside my office window and am really happy with it. I thought this could work well for my Day Fourteen collage.
For Day Fifteen, I did what a lot of handspinners do: put a coin underneath the singles to demonstrate how fine we’re spinning. I’m not spinning major fine, but as you can see, my singles is definitely getting more consistent. And oh, yeah, the bobbin is getting fuller. Hee hee. I took the sheep photo on one of our appraisal assignments near Jefferson, Oregon.
Ho, am I ever far behind! So I will do several photos in this one post to make up for it. Since the Tour de Fleece is almost pau anden! Read the rest of this entry »
On Day Nine, I filled up the first bobbin!! Whoot! So, trying to be creative, I decided to put it on a daylily for contrast. A little bit of the daylily’s pollen da kine got on it; I think it’ll wash out when I ply the two bobbins together, but if not, I kinda like it!
Oops. I neva wen post one photo yestaday… so I stay going post two today. Read the rest of this entry »
