On my way back...

[mapsedge]

It's been a bit more than a week since I started feeling bad, and it seems I might finally be on my way back out of it.  Throat is still sore and I have to spend a portion of my night sleeping sitting up until the coughing passes and I can go to sleep, but I'm functioning and the coffee takes good again.  My family, too, is better than they were.  M still coughs violently, but that's improving; kids are slowly getting better too.  Now, if we could just get some sunshine!

With all the rain, it's chilly and miserable outside, but I keep reminding myself that rain today means green tomorrow, and I'm ready for Spring.  Have these vague ideas about what planting we'll do this spring, finishing the side garden and cleaning up around the deck in back.  Looking forward to being outdoors.  If we can keep Seamlyne under control so it doesn't rule our lives* I'll get that chance.

* The purchase of a new machine - a high speed (8000 rpm) overlock - will help there.  Figure that the old machine was max 600 rpm.  I've already used the thing on half a dozen pairs of tights and it's Scary Fast.

Comments

[hurricanedeck.livejournal.com]

Just remember to watch your fingers on those Scary Fast machines!

[billthetailor.livejournal.com]

Strangely enough, I've never caught my fingers on my industrials. Once or twice on my domestic machines, and that was because I was trying to make them work harder than they were designed for. Sort of like using a dull knife to cut something hard - you work harder than you should and end up having an accident.

[purpledumbass.livejournal.com]

With the mention of "Scary Fast" machines as W's new toy, I'm fighting this mental picture of him looking for further things to sew.... So that when he's finished sewing orders for Seamlyne, he starts sewing other things... Including un-natural things... Eventually, items are sewn to the walls, pieces of fabric are sewn onto the cat, etc. ..... Until he eventually sews both of his shirt sleeves together (while he's wearing the shirt), making his own straightjacket with which they carry him away....

:)

Glad you and the family are at least on the road to recovery. I know for me, a nagging cough seems to hang on forever, long after the rest of the symptoms have died away...

[billthetailor.livejournal.com]

With the mention of "Scary Fast" machines as W's new toy, I'm fighting this mental picture of him looking for further things to sew....

Michelle fears that more than you know...

[purpledumbass.livejournal.com]

Well, I was just speaking from my own experience in comparable situations. For Christmas, I got a spiffy-keen soldering iron from my aunt and uncle. So, for several hours I scoured my house looking for projects I could solder on... Heaven forbid if I got a power saw...