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Weather: Back to warm and humid weather. No rain since I wrote here last. We are still short several inches for the year.

Current projects:

Current Projects:
A Rasta hat for Ryan.
Vest or sweater for Steve out of some gray/tan handspun. If he is a good boy and quits smoking, I'll add sleeves to it and make a sweater.
Socks for me.
Various hats, scarves and mittens. I want to have some on hand to sell at the CT Sheep Show in the Spring.

Projects on hold. I'm bored with these!:

A lace scarf out of hand painted Merino. This is a test project for the business. I might start to sell this yarn. Haven't finished it. Not crazy about the colors. Maybe I'll make it into socks instead.

Charcoal gray alpaca sweater. I have misplaced the instructions. Should be interesting to finish it without them.

No quilts in progress

Look at the time. I've been up for about a hour. Ms. Bailey had to go out this morning to do her business and she decided to come upstairs to wake me. Daddy (Steve) has had a tough week, what with being on vacation and all, so she let him sleep. He's still snoring. I'm on my second cup of coffee. It's going to be a long day.

For girls only: Surgery date has been moved up due to an opening in the schedule. October 11 is the big day to get spayed.

We had a mini crisis of the bunny nature this week. Ruby has been stinky for a while. I bathe her brush her and clip her backend as best as I could see, but it would still get very soiled back there. Wednesday night when cleaning her, I found a maggot. That's right a MAGGOT. She was in the early stage of Fly Strike. That is where the flies burrow under the skin and lay eggs, and the hatching young EAT the rabbit from the inside out. It's a horrible, horrible way for the poor creatures to die.

Steve took her to the vet the next morning and thankfully they found no other evidence of the flies. There was just that one maggot. They shaved her, checked all of her nooks and crannies. She has a couple of sore spots as she likes to bite herself at times. We have ointment for those spots and some for her eyes. Her eyes were a bit goopy too. She seems happy. She's eating like a horse and I let her stay loose in the shed on Wednesday night so she would dry our from the bath a bit more by hopping around. She was tired come Thursday morning and put up little fuss with going to the vet. She's a very good bun.

But this freaked me out enough that I checked Eloise and her backend was a bit stinky so she went in for a bath on Thursday night. It seems like the older buns have this issue. I might have to cut back on their fresh fruits and veggies. Sometimes the stools are a bit loose. Nigel stinks too, but I think most of that odor is from being a frisky old boy.

Sorry. I hope no one was eating why I just described all of that.

Oh, Steve just decided to wake up. It's now 5:35am

I'm not sure what we might do this weekend if anything. We need to get the inventory done. I had hoped he would do it while he was home this week. But we notice that didn't happen.

There are a few choice of things to do this weekend. There is a small fiber fest in Coventry CT. It's at the Farmers Market on Rte 44. on Sunday.

Recently completed projects-most recent first:

		l simple baby jacket out of a rust-orange-putty type color. Sounds weird, but it's nice. It's for a woman I talk to on the phone at work but have never met. She is due to deliver in Oct. It seems like a good color for an Oct baby.
Simple blue watch cap. My doctor requested it.	Earth or Autumn color socks for me	Purple socks for Kathy
A Shetland lace scarf out of baby alpaca spun on Prudence my antique Shaker wheel.	Mittens for a woman in my unit made out of bits and pieces of yarn from the stash	Mittens for my supervisor out of some Noro I had in the stash.
Mittens for Ryanne to match the Shetland lace scarf out of the softest Merino wool	Shetland Lace scarf out of pink angora. I need to block it as it seems to have grown when I washed it. It's now about 8' long! I gave this to Ryanne's mother. She loves it.	A blue and multicolored handspun, multidirectional scarf. I gave this to Ryanne's father as a combo Christmas & birthday present.
Finished a hat out of multicolored handspun from roving I purchased at Rhinebeck last year. It's pretty shades of blues and greens. I made it for the Tamarra the temp that left work and now is in school in NH. I need to make her some mittens too and I will mail them to her.	Finished a Shetland lace scarf in greens & orange hand painted Merino from the NH Sheep show. It's for Ryanne for Christmas	Started and finished a quick multi-directional scarf out of the same green homespun for the other temp at work (Tamarra) who was leaving. She's going to school in NH so she'll need it.
Knit another hat for Ryanne. This one larger and out of green homespun. I added a few stripes of orange to make it the colors of the Irish flag. She's very Irish.	A blue hat with pink embroidered flowers and beads. I gave it to another girl at work for her toddler daughter.	Little basket weave socks for a toddler. I gave the to a girl at work for her 18 month old daughter.
A hat for Ryanne out of some blue Merino. I think it's too small though.	A homespun wool scarf in Autumn colors using a Shetland lace pattern. It's my first attempt at lace and I'm enjoying it.	Socks. Two pairs. One for me and I gave the other to Ryanne.
Made a quick scarf to wear to work out of the recycled silk I purchased on vacation.	Ryanne has the green sweater. I haven't seen it or her for a while. I have no idea what stage it is at. She was lengthening the sleeves (I have very short arms) and adding volume to the neck.	Socks. Blue & green variegated yarn. I gave them to Ryanne
Multidirectional Diagonal scarf out of brown homespun wool and alpaca. I gave it to Jack the Therapist. He didn't have a scarf.	Finished the never ending cardigan turned vest! The buttons are sewn on, I just have to make button holes and block it.	Pair of mittens for a child. They are knit out of Blue Wool-Ease from Lion Brand so they will be washable. I gave them to Chef Dave at work for his little boy Michael.
A multidirectional diagonal scarf for Dennis out of blue homespun wool.	A scarf for the scarf swap at our spinning guild made out of a mohair blend I purchased at Rhinebeck and some blue homespun wool.	Mittens for the girl who lives down the street made out of brown alpaca and a wool in autumnal colors.
Another hat for my chiropractor's baby out of multicolored acrylic..	Blue mittens to match the scarf for Ryanne	A simple gray winter hat. It's from the Border Leicester fleece that I bought last year. It's for LP for Christmas.
A turquoise blue wool and silk blend scarf for Ryanne.	Socks out of hand painted wool in lovely muted, "desert" colors. I inadvertently washed them and the wool felted. I now have slipper socks.	A grass green colored angora & alpaca simple raglan sweater
Hot pink hat for my chiropractor's baby.	A cowl from a blend of Cotswold wool and alpaca.	A glittery scarf with yarn purchased from Threadbear.
Hat for Dennis of homespun charcoal gray Corridale wool.	An ugly brown sweater for Dennis out of a mix of homespun wools. He loves it	Multicolored socks for me.