{"id":5549,"date":"2014-09-16T19:09:10","date_gmt":"2014-09-17T00:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/?p=5549"},"modified":"2014-09-16T19:10:59","modified_gmt":"2014-09-17T00:10:59","slug":"new-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/2014\/09\/new-things\/","title":{"rendered":"New Things"},"content":{"rendered":"

Let’s start with the loudest, and the cutest.<\/p>\n

I was working at the Macomber late this afternoon, when all of a sudden there at my porch door was someone looking in at me and saying, “Hi! Let me in, please.” After a double-take, I realized I had a visitor. <\/p>\n

\"hungry<\/a><\/p>\n

I opened the door and she didn’t run – sort of trotted to the other end of the porch while Red did his, “Who the heck are you?” thing. I put Red back in the house and kitty came right to me for some pets. Sweet little thing. A medium-hair (not long, not short) Siamese with lovely blue eyes.<\/p>\n

So I came inside and got a little bowl and put a small handful of Red’s food in it (small dog = small bites dog food). She gobbled it up. I gave her another small handful. Gone. A third small handful – gone again. <\/p>\n

I’d made myself some chicken vegetable soup for dinner, so I gave Red about 1\/3 cup of it in a bowl in the house and kitty about 1\/3 cup of it in a bowl on the porch. She ate it all – green beans, zucchini, tomatoes, every bit.<\/p>\n

I made a few phone calls to see if a neighbor knew where she lived. Nope.<\/p>\n

I went back out on the porch, with Red this time, and they calmly said hello to each other. Not a hiss, an arched back, or a growl. I brought out a towel and put it in the wooden box that lives on my porch and showed it to kitty. Not interested. But I noticed when I picked her up that she weighs nothing. Looks healthy enough, but I’m guessing is young. She was happy to have me pet her, fine with me picking a burr-ish thing out of her tail. She was okay with me prodding her front feet to confirm my guess from watching her eat – she’s been declawed. I’m guessing she’s been spayed, too. <\/p>\n

That tells me that it’s not likely that she was ‘dropped off.’ Has happened plenty of times in the past, usually with a very pregnant female. This little girl is not pregnant. I’m thinking something happened that she got lost. <\/p>\n

I’m not going to let her in the house this evening, ‘cuz I’m betting she’s used to a litter box and I don’t have one. If she’s still here in the morning I know my friend M wants her. That’s fine with me. I’d probably keep her myself, but I’d much rather M have a pet than that I get a cat while I’m trying to sell my house. <\/p>\n

After I got kitty fed and made her a bed I came back inside and put the sauce\/salsa I’d had simmering for hours into jars for their hot water bath.<\/p>\n

\"fresh<\/a><\/p>\n

I used a recipe from my neighbor. She calls it chili sauce, but I think it’s more like a salsa. In addition to the usual culprits – tomatoes, onions, peppers, sugar, vinegar – this recipe has fresh peaches & pears in it. Yum!<\/p>\n

Oh, yeah. Remember up top I told you I was working at my Macomber? I’m making great progress on the custom shawl – a silk gebrochene. <\/p>\n

\"silk<\/a><\/p>\n

Can you spot the treadling error? It’s in the third medallion from the top. I didn’t see it till I was at the computer with the photo, at which point I’d already woven much more than you see here. I’m calling it a design element.<\/p>\n

I tried to get a good shot of the underside but didn’t succeed. I think I like that side even better than the ‘top.’ You’ll have to wait till it’s off the loom to see it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Let’s start with the loudest, and the cutest.<\/p>\n

I was working at the Macomber late this afternoon, when all of a sudden there at my porch door was someone looking in at me and saying, “Hi! Let me in, please.” After a double-take, I realized I had a visitor. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

I opened the door […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,4],"tags":[129,495,325,532,381],"class_list":["post-5549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-as-i-see-it","category-weaving","tag-custom-weaving","tag-food","tag-handwoven-shawl","tag-pets","tag-silk","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5549"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5556,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5549\/revisions\/5556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}