June 7th, 2013

We won’t be using the front door for a while.

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I guess that location worked well for her last year.

June 6th, 2013

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No danger to us, but a fine start to the season.

I’m still trying to figure out what to do about Dish Rag Tag. Response was enthusiastic but not overwhelming in numbers. It’ll take Michael about 30 hours to remake the application. SO. I am considering the low-tech version I had originally planned all those years ago (team list of addresses enclosed in the box instead of a tracking application) is our best bet for a last DRT hurrah. A small race with three teams (cap of 42 players) makes this doable. If anyone would like to weigh in – I’d appreciate the opinions.

May 26th, 2013

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Piggy Feets in my lap.

We spent the night at the new Double Tree Hotel in Montgomery. Ellie is obsessed with Double Tree Hotels (they give you cookies when you check in). When we made the reservation, it was opening day but they tricked us and opened a few weeks early.

We ate at a really great burrito place, went to the Montgomery Museum of Art, had room service for breakfast and I finished up a Pig in the car.

May 22nd, 2013

I’ve been talking to Michael to see how much pain and suffering would be involved in fixing up a new Dish Rag Tag ap. He has conveyed to me that there will be pain and suffering, but not as much as the first time. Before I could secure a commitment, he inquired what sort of interest there is in the Return of Dish Rag Tag.

I said I’d find out. This is me finding out:

Brief note: It’ll be more or less the same as last time, there will still be a nominal entry fee of $1 to offset prizes and ap hosting as well as to discourage dead beats. We’ll register in August and start on Labor Day Weekend. If you have no idea what I’m talking about: Dish Rag Tag is a competitive knitting relay race. Try it, you’ll like it.

May 21st, 2013

Last week was really something. Mom came for a visit, my sister came for a visit the day my Mom left, Michael was sick (which almost never happens). I started and tore out my next project. We got a dog.

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I don’t know why Ellie has a whistle around her neck.

Truman was hit by a car a few months ago – he was a Katrina rescue before that. His people couldn’t afford the surgery on his hip so they were going to put him to sleep. Our vet is getting “soft in his old age” and fixed him anyway. Truman was living at the vet with the clinic animals, Factor (the blood dog) and John Quincey (a cat that turned up in our yard a few years ago). Since he is an old man and indifferent to cats, I really can’t imagine a more perfect dog for us. So here he is. ALL of his fur is here too.

We also hosted a Guest Dog who turned up in the driveway on Saturday morning.

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She has ears, she’s just doing something funny with them.

Guest Dog had beautiful manners and a collar but no tags. So she spent the weekend with us in the garage and the outdoor kennel. We had called everyone local to tell them we’d found her because I was sure her people would call looking for her on Monday. Sure enough, she had just hopped into the truck with our Amazing Animal Control Officer when our vet called saying that her people wanted to know where she was. I like it when our guest dogs have happy endings.

Speaking of happy endings, I’m about to sew that little calico together.

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You would not believe the amount of concentration those spots took.

That little kitty head took forever! Mostly because I needed all my brain to work on her. I don’t get to use all of my brain on any one thing very often. Just see above for why.