Fiber Arts Friday – Gone to the Dogs
Three weeks ago, I brought a new presence into my life and house. I’d been thinking of adopting another dog for awhile. It’s been over ten years since my dog, Boz, died. I’d fallen in love with Scrubs, my friend Tom Skinner’s PTSD service dog, and began to think that, now that I wasn’t on the road as much as I was in my previous job, it would be good to have doggy energy and companionship in my world again. I began haunting the Eau Claire County Humane Association’s website, looking at dog pictures and reading their stories. I went out one day to see a beautiful year-old black lab. He about took my arm off when we walked and I realized he was too much dog for me at this point in my life. They let me go back into the kennel and get to know the other dogs. Two had come in that weren’t on the website yet, an adorable pug and the little girl on the right. They say she’s Cairn Terrier mixed with who-knows-what. The vet thinks … Continue reading
Fiber Arts Friday – Unfinished Business
My friend Anna at Not Knapping tagged me on Facebook this morning and suggested I jump into the water as part of Fiber Arts Friday, in which a group of people who create with fiber – knitters, crocheters, spinners, dyers, weavers, and so on – blog about their creating. Projects might be in the contemplation stage. They might be just begun, part-way through, or finished. It’s a celebration of creativity, the moment, and shared interest. I’m in. Right now, I have some confusion in my knitting life. Tucked in various corners of my house are a couple of abandoned knitting projects, one in repair, one that feels stuck, one ready to start, and a stash of patterns and yarn waiting to be matched up. I have a gallery of finished projects, most of which I’ve said goodbye to and sent on their way to the people for whom I made them. It’s a metaphor for my life, I think. I’m always running in a few directions at once. There are always so many possibilities, so many interesting and creative things to … Continue reading
