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May. 29th, 2018 08:49 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dchenesI didn't go to Noank for the parade yesterday, but I did spend some time yesterday thinking about my grandfathers, both of whom volunteered for WWII. Grandpa went to India, building bridges on the Ledo road with the Army engineers and somehow ended up running an ice cream factory, and Pepere ended up in Georgia (USA), teaching the Free French to fly airplanes. (Best story about that: Memere was on a bus with a couple of pilot trainees, who were speaking French to each other and didn't realize she could understand them. One of them was telling the other about how he almost killed Lt. Deschenes in whatever flying exercise they had been doing that day.) I would be miserable in the military, but I'm glad there are some people it works for.
My aunt with early onset Alzheimer's was finally evaluated by professionals last Tuesday and moved into a care facility in Wellesley last Thursday. She turned 56 at the end of April and she doesn't realize she's much younger than most of the people in the facility with her. With early onset, the earlier you get it, the faster you decline. They came to Noank for Easter and it was really hard to deal with the fact that my aunt still looks like herself, but everything that was her personality is gone. I can't imagine how hard it is for my uncle. He wants to get a dog, now that my aunt isn't living at home (she didn't like dogs), and I hope he does.
I'm finally making progress with the embroidery again. My right elbow seems to be the limiting factor these days. It's not that I'm tired of this pattern, and it's coming out gorgeous; it's just that I can't sit there and embroider all day like I used to. And with sweaty-hands weather coming, I should probably take any opportunity I can get.
The next project is the knitting pattern for Persian Dreams, but I'm trying to decide whether I want to do it as individual medallions or as a large repeating pattern. I don't think I want to do both. But I do think I want to do it on tan linen and do a red/orange/brown/green/yellow palette. (Memo to self: look up how many colors you actually need.)
My aunt with early onset Alzheimer's was finally evaluated by professionals last Tuesday and moved into a care facility in Wellesley last Thursday. She turned 56 at the end of April and she doesn't realize she's much younger than most of the people in the facility with her. With early onset, the earlier you get it, the faster you decline. They came to Noank for Easter and it was really hard to deal with the fact that my aunt still looks like herself, but everything that was her personality is gone. I can't imagine how hard it is for my uncle. He wants to get a dog, now that my aunt isn't living at home (she didn't like dogs), and I hope he does.
I'm finally making progress with the embroidery again. My right elbow seems to be the limiting factor these days. It's not that I'm tired of this pattern, and it's coming out gorgeous; it's just that I can't sit there and embroider all day like I used to. And with sweaty-hands weather coming, I should probably take any opportunity I can get.
The next project is the knitting pattern for Persian Dreams, but I'm trying to decide whether I want to do it as individual medallions or as a large repeating pattern. I don't think I want to do both. But I do think I want to do it on tan linen and do a red/orange/brown/green/yellow palette. (Memo to self: look up how many colors you actually need.)
