Every year I see some oak leaves that do this, and every year I take a photo because they seem so weird.

Let’s do some bullets, ‘kay?

• I cooked my right hand in a heating pad on Wednesday night. Thursday morning, as I write this, that hand definitely feels better than the left. Heat FTW!
• Thank you all for your many suggestions on how to deal with the sore thumbs and absence of knitting! Although I suck at taking advice, I still appreciate it muchly.
• I plan to cook the other hand later today — Thursday — and try to lay off the knitting until sometime this weekend.
• Laying off the knitting is easier than it might be because I discovered that I can crochet without pain; fingering weight yarn and a 4.5mm/F hook with a big plastic handle and holding said hook in different ways so as not create a repetitive motion injury.
• The crochet project will be felted potholder. I swatched this particular Araucania yarn years ago and found that it felted beautifully, never mind that the label said superwash.
  
• There may be more felted potholders in my future. Just sayin’.
• On Monday I started to feel a scratch in my throat. By Wednesday I was in full-blown misery with a cold — coughing, sneezing, sniffling, congested, achy. Thursday was better. A friend said she had had this, too, and it lasted 2-1/2 weeks. Me? So far, so good. I seem to be improving.
• Three weeks ago Thelma The Kitten started sneezing and sniffling herself. Emergency trip to the vet and a shot of antibiotics and she was no longer acting sick, although she continues to sniffle and sneeze, albeit somewhat less than at first.
• I googled the symptoms of feline leukemia virus and was reassured that sniffling and sneezing were not listed.
• I googled “kitten sniffle sneezing” and found some bogus stuff about vitamins and cider vinegar. Mainly we are just waiting it out. Sniffle-sneezing symptoms are typically caused by a virus, and there is no cure for that but time.
• Louise The Kitten is thriving. She is the adventurous, active one. Thelma is more of a snugglebutton.

Thelma the snugglebutton. The kittens’ favorite place to sleep is in my sock basket, but they stubbornly insist that there are too many pairs of socks in it for comfort. I keep picking up socks from the floor.

• Okay,  time for another nap. Catch you on the flip side!