It started out as one of those months and I am determined to end it on a better foot. The living room is cluttered from a big yarn sort, garden beds are half turned and there are oddball items in places where they don't belong all over the house.
I came back from a weekend away with girlfriends with a new lease on housecleaning. There is something about staying in a small uncluttered environment (hotel room or in this case an RV) that makes you realize you have too much stuff when you get home.
We took the little dogs, (five little dachshunds) out to Whidby Island to participate in an Earthdog trial. A miraculous weekend where little dogs get to be fierce and do what they were originally intended to do - run through tunnels to reach a cage of bored rats who know the dogs can't get them no matter how much they bark, dig and chew on the bars seperating them from the cage containing the rats. Everyone had a good time. Sonja who has recently been very ill, perked up and started eating again. Kyrie gained another two ribbons for her kennel as she qualified in two levels and Mr. Dog, always excited to go camping, got some good practice in for when he gets his ILP.
Whenever I visit one of Washington's islands I wish desperately that I could live on one and Whidby has extra magic since it seems to be filled with small hobby farms. The property across from where we stayed had llama, sheep, calves and other farmy critters. Sigh.
We headed home on Mother's Day happy, exhausted (and being good daughters, yes we did talk to our Mothers)
May 11, 2009
August 20, 2006
New Arrival
Well! It turns out we have a new arrival in our house as well!
Meet Lucy.
Nowhere near a pound in size, 10 weeks old Maine Coon cat.
And a sweetie.
This is what most of today looked like after we brought her home.
She spent most of the day sleeping on the couch as I knitted. Luckily she shows very little inclination to get overly excited about moving yarn. Together we knitted the cover capelet from Rowan's Big Just got Bigger.
I bought the book because I fell in love with this capelet. I found some chocolate brown heathered wool in the correct guage called Magnum by Cascade Yarns that felt wonderful for a capelet and would sensibly coordinate with most of my work wardrobe.
Unfortunately my shoulders are double the size of the diminutive model so the effect was not as nice on me as I had hoped. After a few minutes of sadness I consoled myself by choosing a pattern for a scarf in the book - I quadrupled the number of stitches to cast on and am now working away at a nice wide throw/shawl to go on the couch and bundle up in when the weather turns... which could just go ahead and happen any day now as far as I am concerned.
Here's a preview of the shawl. Biggest problem? The huge plastic size 35 needles are killing my hands.
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