The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair; and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.
— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
Year: 2003
Molly’s Cat Sense is Tingling!
You know how Spiderman has his spidey sense? Well, Molly has a cat sense. She can be soundly sleeping on the kitchen floor, which is in the back of the house, then three milliseconds later be at the front window barking at a C.A.T. In the process, she scares the wits out of me of course.
We can’t figure out how she does it. Does she hear their footsteps in the yard? Do they telepathically taunt her? She certainly can’t see them from wherever she’s sleeping. At first we thought that maybe she would dream that a cat was in the front yard and wake up to go bark at it, but we have confirmed that there is almost always a cat in the yard, in the street, or in the yard across the street when she does this. Does anyone else have a dog with a mysterious cat sense, or is it just my goofy girl?
Oh, and thanks so far to Carolyn and Cindy for supporting the Walk for the Animals! I may have to up my goal a bit here!
Square Bunny?
So, how the heck does this work?
This is how! I’ve been in a sort of crafting slump since finishing the wedding cross-stitch – finishing big projects that I’ve intensely worked on does that to me – so I needed a quick project. Thankfully, I had a spare skein of yarn and just this morning found the perfect pattern for it!
I’ve also started another cross-stitch. (It’s pretty much impossible to bring a finished piece to the framer’s and not come home with the materials for a new project!) This one’s for me, with no deadline, so it won’t be nearly as stressful.
Walk for the Animals
Ever since we adopted Murphy from Lollypop Farm, I’ve wondered what I could do to help all of the sweet dogs that we didn’t adopt. So, Murphy and I are going to participate in the Barktober Fest Walk for the Animals on October 4th. (Molly and Denis may walk too, but on a shorter course more suited to her hip issues.)
My fund-raising goal is $50 – which would include my $20 registration fee – but I’d love to collect even more than that! I’ve set up a nifty little PayPal button (right above the calendar – yeah, over there, on the left side of the page) to make it easy to donate. The little progress bar doesn’t work in real-time, but I thought it would be neat to see, anyway.
If you want to see more information, you can check out my info page, or go straight to the source. Any donations are greatly appreciated!
Knit-Ball Season
This was me yesterday: Sit & Knit? Football? Sit & Knit? Football? Then I realized that football started at 9, and Sit & Knit ends by 10. Ahh. Sit & Knit and Football! Yay!
Too bad the Jets lost by more than 2 1/2 points. It’s probably not a good sign that my first pick of the season for the “just-for-braggin-rights-family-pool” was wrong. And now I’m paying for staying up until midnight. Is it nap-time yet?
Knitting Power
I got my hair done this morning, and brought my knitting along (of course) for the inevitable waiting. It amazes me how magnetic knitting is. Every single person who entered or left that lobby while I was there had a question or comment about knitting, even if it was just asking what I was working on. (For the record, I split my time between the Kureyon bag and the second Janda sleeve – I got there quite early since my mom and I had back-to-back appointments.)
And to think, each of those women would have been sitting there, bored and silent, were it not for a ball of string and a couple of sticks.
Hooray for Sweater Weather!
It’s a lovely cool 60° out there…time to pull out the long-sleeved shirts and light-weight sweaters! And as soon as I’m done with this wedding gift (soon, very soon) I can pull out the heavy-duty knitting! Yay!
I love September. And October, too. Well, Fall in general is great. And Spring. Actually, I really like all of the seasons, and the fact that we have them – I don’t know if I’d enjoy living somewhere where the weather is essentially the same year-round. Although, if you ask me that at the end of February, when it’s been snowing for months, I might tell you differently!
I Need to Knit
I finally made it to sit & knit last night…and cross-stitched the whole time. I think I’ll be able to get this wedding gift done in time, but it’s going to be close. No knitting for me until it’s finished. <sniffle>
Well, maybe I’ll put in the random row here and there on my kureyon bag and the second sleeve of Janda. I’ll have to set a timer, though, or I’ll end up with a finished bag, a sleeve, and an IOU to give as a wedding gift.
Pirates
I finally got to see Pirates of the Caribbean last night. We tried to go see it a few weeks ago, and ended up in a theater with a faulty projector that flickered…we notified management, but they didn’t fix it, so we walked out.
Anyway. Did I say yet that this was a fantastic movie? Well, it was. And if you haven’t seen it yet (I know, I probably was the last person on the planet who hadn’t seen it) go see it!
Just don’t go to the theater we went to. They had it in the oldest, furthest theater, which smelled like a dirty gym locker. And that’s saying something, since my sense of smell is somewhat diminished because of my allergies. I was afraid to put my purse on the floor, which was unbelievably dirty, and the seats were wobbly. After we had already exited the building, I realized I should have picked up a comment card. Oh, well.
Either I’m getting picky in my old age, or the theaters are really falling apart around here.
Still Here!
My allergies haven’t killed me yet, although they sure are trying! We had a fun visit with our twin nieces and twin niece and nephew this weekend – four kids have way more than four times the energy of one kid…it definitely follows the rule of the sum being greater than the parts. We went to the Strong Museum for part of Saturday with Lisa and Henry, which the kids definitely enjoyed!
I did manage to get a little knitting done, too – I finished a pair of socks, and (you guessed it) started another little project.
I’ve been in kind of a knitting slump lately – I don’t know if it’s just that I’m bored with the projects I have, or if it’s just allergies, but I haven’t been knitting nearly as much as usual. Or blogging, for that matter! Plus, I’ve been pretty bummed about missing Sit & Knit for two weeks in a row now.
The other thing is, I’m actually spending most of my crafting time on my cousin’s wedding gift – he’s getting married in three weeks, and I have to finish stitching it and have at least a week left for framing. The race is on!