80-degrees, sunny, gorgeous… yes the perfect summer day.  We were going to go to the apple place but figures it would probably be very busy on a day like today.  Having crowd avoidance, unless there is wool involved, we opted to take the dogs to a local park instead.  We went on a nice walk and everyone was sufficiently worn out for a long afternoon nap.

Featuring Miss Sophie, who since Coco came doesn’t see to get near enough blog time.

She’s still my big, first baby.

Charlie loves Coco’s cozy den crate.  I caught him snoozing in it last night and when it was time for her to go to bed.  I put her in, figuring that he would budge, but no budging from him.  He was contented to share.

I know I missed both Whisker Wednesday and Dogs on Thursday this week.  I have been running ragged around here lately.  It’s that time of the year where all the cats go for their respective vet visits.  In the last two weeks, I found out poor Tobey has a UTI that I have no idea how long that’s been going on.  Doc has no idea what triggered it, but we also did blood work and other then the UTI is fit as a fiddle.  Tobey is feeling much better and is out and about.  I’m hoping to see mischievous behavior out of him shortly.

Next Friday is the last visit for a while, until Coco goes for her spay and poor Sunshine gets her teeth cleaned again.  It’s going to be soft food only before long with that girl.

The one I’m most concerned about is poor Faygo has a runny eye.  Poor thing has scratched his eye, we believe with his own paw.  He’s needing two different medicines 4 times a day.  He’s nearly 100% blind in both eyes due to cataracts, so it’s always a surprise to him when he gets medicine.

He and I had a little talk about how he needs it and we don’t need an eye popping out.  I don’t thing he would survive a major surgery like removing an eye and I’m not sure that is something I would want to put him through.  He is 18 and a diabetic, so he’s had good quality of life.  I would just like to see this one heal.  It takes him an awful long time to heal anything that’s why unless it’s an emergency I don’t poke him with the glucose meeter.  He gets shots twice a day and I’ve had the vet check and he says he is very well regulated, so I don’t worry about checking myself.  So, if your sending positive thoughts out, a small one for him would be appreciated.

I have yet to make my kitchen the dishcloths it deserves.  However, when I saw this cute pattern for the hyperbolic dishcloth, I knew I had to give it a go.

I’m a completely novice crocheter but was able to get this done with a bit in the morning and then working on it for a bit in the evening.  I didn’t follow the directions exactly, but it still came out super cute.  This one is more flouncy then the ones the pattern makes.

I will probably do some nice plain ones now, as I can always use some nice mindless knitting.  I’m thinking of trying Grandmother’s favorite.

I’ve spent the weekend cleaning and trying to make some progress on some of my older of WIP’s.

First off these Summer of Love Lace Socks… I think maybe a year old.

Next up I’ve been crocheting the border on my Danish Tie Shawl.  Almost done and I’m starting to love it as it’s all coming together.

One of the cutest things about Coco is that little nose.

I always want to give it a little peck as I’m crazy about it.  This is her resting in her little den.

Well, I have two hats half done.  Don’t worry I ordered more yarn on Monday, so it should be here soon.

We’re doing annual vet visits for the kitties right now.  Poor Shadow went in for his shots and had to stay the day.  Poor guy had what looked like a bad tooth.  Well it was acutally four bad teeth.  Poor guy.  He is however right as rain now.

Just a low key weekend around here.  Some spinning and a bit of knitting.  I’m trying to work on the backload or projects from my sidebar.

Over the years we have had had various cat and dog beds.  One kitty who shall remain nameless would sometimes find herself in the position where she could not walk by one of said beds without marking it as her territory.

With that said, we pick up the dog beds each night and get them out each night when are having down time.  During the new bed fiasco there has been some jostling as I may have mentioned with Coco kicking Max out of bed.  However this time Sophie even got in on the action and booted them all out.

There has been spinning and knitting.  I decided to just get another ball of the Crocus to finish up the hat.  I also enrolled in two embroidery classes.

I’m already taking this one with the Cyberstitchers, but I also found out that this one is retiring, so I must do this one.  Finally, I found out that this one was being offered as well this winter and is the companion to the one I’m doing with Cyberstitchers, so what the heck.  I figure if I stitch a couple of nights a week, it will give my wrist a break, which has been really sore lately, and I’ll be able to get them done - hopefully in time for spring.

My poor wrists have to last and the left one seems to get the brunt of the punishment, even my spinning style which is left-hand woolen or semi-woolen, if I’m doing top, seems to aggravate it when it’s aggravated.  So this is why I took up embroidery and now I’m ready to do some more serious stitching.