Monster Party for Saturday

Dancing Starlight has made another post on the Travelling Monster board.  It seems there was a monster party for Saturday before she was shipped out.  Here's the tale.....

Today, April’s monster, Saturday, left our home in frigid Nebraska to travel to Jennknitfer’s home in sunny California. Saturday didn’t stay here long because he is getting a chance to FLY next week!
First, our entire monster family came out to say goodbye to Saturday:

Keldar5’s Makenzie didn’t want Saturday to leave so soon, but Saturday said he had to go. It is, after all, a rare treat to visit Hawaii.

Kara’s Monster had to help us stuff Saturday into his box. It’s a tight fit for him, but we made it work. :)

Saturday enjoyed spending Thanksgiving with us, and he seems to have gained a little bit of weight after eating all of the food that the kids didn’t eat yesterday. Bon Voyage, Saturday!

Pinkie Look-a-Like

Dancing Starlight posted a very quick pic of Makenzie and some new friends.  The one on the far left looks a lot like Pinkie to me.  Pinkie, of course, is the monster I made.  Take a look and see if it looks like mine.

Who knew there would be look-a-likes of the monsters we all make.

Message from Makenzie

Hey, Mommy Keldar5,
MacKenzie attended Matthew’s Tiger Cub Scout meeting on Monday. Matthew was disappointed that the meeting was too short, so he refused to take a “proper” picture with our visiting monster bunny. They did have a little bit of fun, believe it or not! :)

New Friends

After throwing my back out a couple days ago, I needed to keep myself occupied with something.  So I decided that Makenzie needed at least one new friend to play with for when she got back from her road trip.

I also had scrap yarn that I got from Janelle's Poor House yarn collection.  I was suppose to create a monster for Janelle over a month ago but I got side tracked with other projects.  Which turned into another monster.

In the process of making the two monsters, I couldn't decide what to name either one of them.  However, the first monster helped in the naming. 

If anyone remembers the cartoon Pinky and the Brain, that's how I came to name both monsters.  However, neither one of them looks like a mouse.  It doesn't matter to me though because it's just the names that I used.

So here's Pinkie and the Brain........

The purple one with the wonky eyes will be going to Janelle tonight at the knitting group I go to.  Don't ask me how I didn't notice the off-set eyes.  I very rarely put eyes on level.

The purple one of course is the Brain.  And will be the bigger "Brother" to J.J. (Janelle Jr.).  Hopefully, Janelle will like her new monster.

Makenzie's adventure with Doggerham

I've got an update from Doggerham on Ravelry.  Makenzie seems to be enjoying herself at the local yarn shop.  Here's the story....

This weekend, we went to the opening of a new LYS -- Park Avenue Yarns in League City, TX (that’s about half way from Houston to Galveston) Normally, this is out of my area as I live in central Houston. However, my DH works in League City, about a mile from the shop, and he asked me to pick him up on Saturday from work!
So, Arlo, Makenzie and the monster tbnamed all went to visit the lovely ladies at the shop. Here are some photos!
First, we went swimming!

We made a new friend.

Arlo thought this would make a great sleeping bag!

And then we had to refuel a bit!

Viola gets ready

Well, it's time for Viola to move to her next home in Texas, USA.  She's packed and tucked away in her temporary mobile home.  Since I don't live in the US, I don't celebrate the US Thanksgiving but Viola does.  So she's going to get her ticket at the post office tomorrow for the trip out.  Here's Viola dressed and ready to go for her trip.

Viola goes to work.

I thought that maybe Viola needed some extra money to help pay for her trip to Texas.  So I brought her into work today.  I work at a local hospital in Sterile Processing.  That's the department where the instruments that get used in the operating rooms come back to be reprocessed.  For obvious reasons, I didn't take Viola into decontam where the instruments are cleaned because everything is really dirty.

Once the instruments are put through the washers, they are re-assembled in trays. Like this one.......

Poor Viola thought I was going to use it on her until I told her that she was too small for it.  I told her that the tray she was in is called the Stereotatic Arc Tray and that it was used for a neurology case.

Of course, I don't know everything about the trays I have to assemble and have to rely on information on the computer.  Most times the write ups are correct but every now and then one of them is wrong.  I showed Viola the program we use to do up trays.

 Then the trays go into a sterilizer.  Which pretty much "cooks" the instruments. Then they sit to cool  for a couple hours.

 Once they're cooled they get put away on shelfs until needed for surgery again.

That's a day in SPD.  Viola doesn't think it's a job for her, too much heavy lifting.

Makenzie's Adventure........Part two

For the second part of the adventure, I'd like to dedicate it to Janelle (Hemionejelvis on Ravelry).  There is some very interesting friends that she meets........

Mackenzie took a ride on Juno, but Juno wasn’t too sure about this!

Mackenzie found some others of the same species! Here she is telling them about her adventures.

What’s this?

I tried to peek this way,

I tried to peek that way,

But WHO is under there?
To be continued…..

Makenzie's Adventures.....Part One

When I sent out Makenzie, I didn't think that I needed to give her any clothes.  This meant she went out into the world naked. Lucky for me her Monster Momma found something that she could use and I think it looks wonderful on her.  So, here's her adventure in Texas......

Mackenzie’s adventures…
My fridge died on Friday, so Mackenzie was advising me on what needed to be replenished:
We’re good on carrots and apples:

We needed lettuce, though!

Mackenzie got to meet all the other critters that live here:
Mackenzie was a little afraid of the big cat, but Hampton was more interested in dinner.

Mackenzie figured it was safer on the far side of the food bowl.

Wilson & Mackenzie became friends quickly!