Keebles World

My little rioter is quiet today, but I went to great lengths to make it so. The new, 41 inch tall gate, all metal with 2 1/2 inch-spaced bars (which is screwed into the door frame) is installed. I think I mentioned to Jo that I have to stop buying things that require two people to install, they are killing me now that I'm older (shout out to Serendipitious Stitching , fyi, whose blog constantly reminds me what a sucky stitcher I am!!). But anyway, Bam definitely ain't gettin' through that! I also left the TV on today. I HATE doing that, but I thought maybe the noise would keep him quiet. It has. He has slept all day like the baby monster he is. To be on the safe side, although I've found no evidence of it, I put out mouse traps (far away from my little demon's reach), just in case. At the very least, if it is a mouse, I can stop a problem before it get's worse. I wish I could say I punished him greatly, but not unlike a "certain" violent pro...

On Monday, I went to work as I do every other weekday, but I came home to a sight...Bam had jumped the baby gate and was staring at me from inside the duck room! In the seven years he has been mine, this has NEVER happened! I couldn't figure it out to save my life! He didn't tear anything up, he didn't have an "accident", he was just sitting there with those big Shih-Tzu eyes like he was the most innocent thing in the world. Satan spawn! On Monday night, I raised the gate high enough that he couldn't get under it, but tall enough that he couldn't jump over it. It was tight enough on the door that he also couldn't push it up. Well, apparently he can flatten himself out like a creature with no ribcage, because he DID crawl underneath it! He apparently did try to get back out by eating through the baby gate, but he couldn't make a big enough hole (or he hurt himself, I'm not sure which). Come Tuesday night when I arrived home, it was the...

Last week sucked. This week ain't much better so far. This country is in turmoil and I am EXTREMELY disgusted. So, when it comes to stitching, it just wasn't in my heart to do it. I stitched one day (Sunday) and only for about three hours. It was more fill-in work in areas that aren't really noticeable. Here is where I left off last time: And here is the pitiful show: I wish I could say I will do better the rest of this week (or even this weekend), but considering the threats made against, not only our national seat, but our state governments as well, I will probably be more glued to my screen than anything else (with chairs against my doors). Supposedly it is going to start again on the 17th through the Inaguration on the 20th. I'm terrified of the behavior of my fellow countrymen last week, it was domestic terrorism, pure and simple, so I am truely fearful of what will happen next week. I don't often go much into politics, but I am really scared for o...

Yep, I stitched this weekend! Not a lot, maybe a total of nine or ten hours over the three-day holiday, but it's more than I've stitched in forever, and certainly for days in a row! I left off on Snow on December 30th here: And, slowly but surely, she's moving along bit by bit: Other than that, nothing new to report! Therapy last week was kind of useless and a waste of time (I'm not sure why we got off on the tangent we did, but oh well, at least I didn't leave it upset, just worn out as per usual), so again, nothing new to report. Maybe this will be 2021, nice and quiet (and yes, I'm aware I just jinxed it!).

Yeah, I'm not even sure why I'm bothering with doing a stitch review, especially since my stitching SUCKED this year, but I'm "calling" it motivation for 2021! But first, let's start with ORTs. You can tell how my stitching has declined since Hotel California compared to all the other year's before it, and even how much its declined even since last year (this was my worst year ever). So, here they all are together (sorry for the glare): Here's paultry 2020 (and maybe the glare helps here...it makes it look fuller than it actually is, but trust me, it's just sad): When it comes to stitching itself, I apparently didn't do an hourly "the road so far" count last year again (I seem to remember being mad at myself for not doing that last year either). So NOW I'm going to mark where I'm at now and at least I'll have a total for how much I stitched this year! I'll just go through each project one at a time, show where...