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My birthday present to myself: a just-finished crocheted pullover sweater! It's my first garment as opposed to shawls, scarves, and so on.
It's a very thin yarn but quite warm (as far as I can tell without having cool weather to test it in).
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The power fairy has finally come to our street, waved her wand, and POOF! We haz power!
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Well, we are one of perhaps 2 (?) houses on our little street with power, thanks to our generator. The power company still hasn't restored service here after over 24 hours since it went out in a storm yesterday morning. So, both :-( and ( Read more... ) -
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Since it's been a while, here is one of a pair of fingerless gloves I made yesterday. The wool is very soft though it's hard to work with because it's all kinky (Not that kind of kinky! :-)). My arm tendons were aching by the time I was done! But I think the gloves came out OK.
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Speed's new nickname is Bambi. (See my post about him being mistaken for a deer.) He's got a couple of other nicknames as well: Mr. Pointy and Torpedo Head ( Read more... ) -
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Speed got his stitches out yesterday, then my husband took him to his workplace, the state police post, to run in the K9 field a bit. (K9 field: the fenced field where police dogs are trained ( Read more... ) -
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I guess you know you're really into a new hobby when you find yourself trying out variations of it.
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Poor Speed has had a week. The Fourth wasn't too bad, thanks to his Thundershirt, but yesterday he went to the vet for a teeth cleaning and some minor surgery. They cut out a small lump on his back that we thought was a sebaceous cyst but was actually possibly a (benign, non-growing) tumor. It was about the size of my pinky tip, and he had had it ( Read more... ) -
Another fanfic!
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For Memorial Day yesterday, my husband and I went for a walk in a park called Coxhall Gardens, just north of Indy. Despite the name, there's very little in the way of flowers that I saw there, but they do have two clock towers with bells, and little ponds with fountains in them. Very picturesque, and I have a new phone, so naturally I tried out the ( Read more... )