...8.5...and just like that...I'm back...

...but you'll notice that I'm no longer affectioknit...I'm now affectioknit2...and hopefully everything else will remain the same...

...thank you all for the emails asking if everything is OK...it is...except for this pesky blogger problem...and I've spent hours and hours trying to figure it out and make things go back to "normal"...but alas...affectioknit as I knew it is no more...I have a lot of theories about the problem...but nothing definitive...and I seem to have a workaround now...but...if at some point in the future I again drop off the interwebs...it will probably be some sort of the same problem...

...I was really loathe to lose this blog...I've been blogging almost daily since 2006...thousands of posts...and many thousands of photos...and there are a lot of memories here...and I've made a lot of friends here too...some that I've even met in person...so hopefully things will chug along for a while longer...

...all-right-y-then...let's catch up...

...we had COVID...

...that's right...even as careful as we are...and with a mix of Moderna and Pfizer...we still got the virus...

...but because of those four shots we had very mild cases of Covid...we were lucky...I'm well aware that not everyone makes it through...and we are thankful...

...my symptoms were:
Day 1...a scratchy throat...not a real really sore throat like I get with every cold I've ever had...but just a scratchy throat...enough to let me know that I was catching something...
Day 2-5...a low grade fever...general achiness...a slight dry cough...no congestion at all to speak of...a slightly runny nose...
Day 6-7...no fever...no achiness...just a little bit tired...which continued for a few days...and I have no residual effects...

...so that's about it...so thankful for the shots...and the immunity response that gave us...we've definitely been a lot sicker than this...like way back in 2009...when we all came down with Swine Flu while we were on vacation...

...and...I had a birthday...

...the kiddos sent these beautiful flowers...I love them...

...and there was lots of yarn-y goodness too...

...this skein of tan cotton...I'll probably use for socks at some point...actually called "hazelnut"...

...and this is a whole pile of bamboo needles...

...one in every size you could possibly need...

...this was such a fun package to open...the Man knows how to thrill my knitter's heart...

...another skein of cotton...probably destined to be a dishcloth or two...pretty colours...the Man knows I like anything purple...

...and then...more black thread than I'll probably use in a lifetime...I already had a white one like this...

...hey fam...remember the cones of thread like this that Mom used to sew our clothes...throughout our entire childhood...and never even made a dent in it...haha...

...and then my sweet sissie sent a package...the book is of Christmas music...

...with these adorable (vegan) sandals...they are so comfortable...I had noticed the ones she was wearing at the reunion...and thought they were so cute...and I'm happy to have a pair just like them...

...and a new puzzle...I can't wait to get started on this one...

...and we got so much garden goodness as well...Jack-Jack inspected and approved...

...tomatoes, squash, zucchini, cucumbers, and green beans...

...and a whole bag full of delicious sweet corn...

...and we watched a lot of YouTube while we were sick...you know...as you do...haha...and one of the channels we watched was Glen and Friends...I veganize a lot of his Old Cookbook recipes...and this one was supposed to be the very first "Brownie" recipe...and it's not got any chocolate in it at all...

...from a screenshot of his show...

...and it's really good...not like a brownie as we know it at all...but a really nice sort of tea cake...muffin-y thing-y...

...and then...I think the only other thing of note was that our (probably half-a-century) old washing machine finally kicked the bucket...I went out to the laundry room and there was a cloud of acrid blue smoke...yikes...

...but the Man and I managed to haul the spare (leftover from the W.V. move) up from the basement...and now it matches the dryer that we also replaced a couple of years ago...

...I'm so happy to be back in the Blog-o-sphere...now I'm off to see if I can actually comment on any of your blogs...I could see them of course...just not comment...

~Have a lovely day!