Wednesday, December 19, 2007

Jack's Almost Brother

Christmas time is always a hard time in the life of a knitting blogger since so much of what I'm doing revolves around Christmas and Christmas knitting is always hush-hush. So in place of finished objects to show off, I will tell you about our latest (and sad) adventure in trying to get a doggy brother for Jack.....

Meet Rusty:

Isn't he cute? We found him and his [very nice, I might add] family through Craig's List. He's a 4 year-old Shih Tzu whose family thought he needed some more love and attention than they had in their schedule. Since we're all about doggy love and attention and Jack needs a brother, we decided to check him out.

We drove out to their house with Jack in tow so the dogs could meet. Jack is working on realizing he's a dog and as such takes a lot of warming up to dogs before they can be friends. Jack was scared of Rusty at first and they still weren't playing after being there for half an hour or so so we asked if we could take Rusty home with us for a few days and see how the two of them did. They agreed and Rusty came to kick it with Team Bonham.

The first night was a little nuts because the two dogs chased each other up over the top of the bed, down the the floor, under the bed and back over the top for HOURS....resulting in not much sleep. After that first night, though, they became inseparable and were never more than 3 feet from each other. They chased each other and played a took dog naps.....so cute! We were glad the two were getting along so well and we really liked Rusty's mellow demeanor so we decided we wanted to keep him.

This is where it gets perilous.....

Our apartment complex requires a "pet interview" for new dogs. They have to be in the rental office off-leash, behave, and take a treat out of the manager's hand without biting. Figuring we'd get the inevitable out of the way, we took a trip to the office for Rusty's pet interview. This is how it went:

Manager: Oh, is this Jack's little friend?

Me: Yeah, he's staying with us for a few days to see how things go.

Manager: So are you thinking of adopting him?

Me: Yup, we're just seeing how things go first. As long as the two of them keep getting along, we'd like to adopt him.

Manager: You know you're only allowed the have 1 dog, right?

Me: WHAT? You're kidding? Joe and I thought we could have 2.

Manager: You can have two cats or one dog and one cat but just one dog.

Me: But Jack counts as a cat, right? He's smaller than most cats.....

It went downhill from there.

So what to do? Joe, who likes to play by the rules, wanted to keep him anyway. He really is a sweet dog and who can resist that little ewok face? So I thought about it. But in the end we decided it wouldn't be fair to keep him. A life of running from the law is too much for a little dog and as much as we like him, he's not worth getting evicted over. So we had to give him back. He did get to keep Jack's striped sweater (the one in the picture above) as a momento of his time in chez bonham.

The happy side of this is that Rusty's original family decided they missed him so much while he was with us that they are going to keep him. We've offered to dog-sit if they need it, so there's the possibility of seeing Rusty again in the future.

Now off to make Christmas cookies.....

Sunday, December 9, 2007

Channeling Austin Scarlett

Jack went to get groomed on Friday but because of all the rain we've been having combined with how much this dog runs around, Jack has essentially felted himself. Poor Jack. :-( So in order to de-felt him, the groomer had to cut his hair pretty short all over except for his face, which she was able to keep longer. When I got him home, I put one of his sweaters on to keep my poor baby warm. His sweater combined with his little scarf he got from the groomer totally make him look like Austin Scarlett of Project Runway fame.

What do you guys think?





Tuesday, December 4, 2007

My first KAL

Not that I've participated in...but the first one a pattern of mine has been chosen for!

My Cupcake Dishcloth pattern was picked to be the pattern this week for the Dishcloth Weekly Knitalong group on Ravelry (sorry....that last link only works if you're already on Ravelry). So that's kind of exciting! People like my pattern enough to get a whole bunch of them together to knit it. Whee!

If you're on Ravelry, you can check out other's knitted dishcloths here.

I'm back!

Sorry for the blog neglect. Last week, I was in hibernation while working on a grad school paper about Pentecostals and environmental responsibility (did you know the founder of Earth Day was a Pentecostal?). As such, I didn't really do much not related to my paper including cleaning my house or grocery shopping so now I'm in catch-up mode.

So what happened in the meantime. A lot!

I won a sweet auction on e-bay for this book:

There's no date but I'm guessing somewhere between the 40's and 50's. It has awesome patterns in it particularly for long stockings (I have developed a thing recently for both vintage knitting and thigh high stockings). If I'm doing my math right, though, the stockings are designed for a thigh circumference of 10." Yeah. That's what I thought, too. My calves aren't even 10" around. So I'm going to need to do some calculating to make them properly sized for modern adults.


Oregon Flooded
Apparently it's the worst storm in decades and there are these signs everywhere (this picture was taken on my way home last night when I had to drive through a road that had turned into a pond).


Oh. Wait. What's that? Dang it. Husband wants the computer (to his credit, he hasn't been on it much since I've been writing my paper) so I guess this is where this blog post is going to end.

Wednesday, December 19, 2007

Jack's Almost Brother

Christmas time is always a hard time in the life of a knitting blogger since so much of what I'm doing revolves around Christmas and Christmas knitting is always hush-hush. So in place of finished objects to show off, I will tell you about our latest (and sad) adventure in trying to get a doggy brother for Jack.....

Meet Rusty:

Isn't he cute? We found him and his [very nice, I might add] family through Craig's List. He's a 4 year-old Shih Tzu whose family thought he needed some more love and attention than they had in their schedule. Since we're all about doggy love and attention and Jack needs a brother, we decided to check him out.

We drove out to their house with Jack in tow so the dogs could meet. Jack is working on realizing he's a dog and as such takes a lot of warming up to dogs before they can be friends. Jack was scared of Rusty at first and they still weren't playing after being there for half an hour or so so we asked if we could take Rusty home with us for a few days and see how the two of them did. They agreed and Rusty came to kick it with Team Bonham.

The first night was a little nuts because the two dogs chased each other up over the top of the bed, down the the floor, under the bed and back over the top for HOURS....resulting in not much sleep. After that first night, though, they became inseparable and were never more than 3 feet from each other. They chased each other and played a took dog naps.....so cute! We were glad the two were getting along so well and we really liked Rusty's mellow demeanor so we decided we wanted to keep him.

This is where it gets perilous.....

Our apartment complex requires a "pet interview" for new dogs. They have to be in the rental office off-leash, behave, and take a treat out of the manager's hand without biting. Figuring we'd get the inevitable out of the way, we took a trip to the office for Rusty's pet interview. This is how it went:

Manager: Oh, is this Jack's little friend?

Me: Yeah, he's staying with us for a few days to see how things go.

Manager: So are you thinking of adopting him?

Me: Yup, we're just seeing how things go first. As long as the two of them keep getting along, we'd like to adopt him.

Manager: You know you're only allowed the have 1 dog, right?

Me: WHAT? You're kidding? Joe and I thought we could have 2.

Manager: You can have two cats or one dog and one cat but just one dog.

Me: But Jack counts as a cat, right? He's smaller than most cats.....

It went downhill from there.

So what to do? Joe, who likes to play by the rules, wanted to keep him anyway. He really is a sweet dog and who can resist that little ewok face? So I thought about it. But in the end we decided it wouldn't be fair to keep him. A life of running from the law is too much for a little dog and as much as we like him, he's not worth getting evicted over. So we had to give him back. He did get to keep Jack's striped sweater (the one in the picture above) as a momento of his time in chez bonham.

The happy side of this is that Rusty's original family decided they missed him so much while he was with us that they are going to keep him. We've offered to dog-sit if they need it, so there's the possibility of seeing Rusty again in the future.

Now off to make Christmas cookies.....

Sunday, December 9, 2007

Channeling Austin Scarlett

Jack went to get groomed on Friday but because of all the rain we've been having combined with how much this dog runs around, Jack has essentially felted himself. Poor Jack. :-( So in order to de-felt him, the groomer had to cut his hair pretty short all over except for his face, which she was able to keep longer. When I got him home, I put one of his sweaters on to keep my poor baby warm. His sweater combined with his little scarf he got from the groomer totally make him look like Austin Scarlett of Project Runway fame.

What do you guys think?





Tuesday, December 4, 2007

My first KAL

Not that I've participated in...but the first one a pattern of mine has been chosen for!

My Cupcake Dishcloth pattern was picked to be the pattern this week for the Dishcloth Weekly Knitalong group on Ravelry (sorry....that last link only works if you're already on Ravelry). So that's kind of exciting! People like my pattern enough to get a whole bunch of them together to knit it. Whee!

If you're on Ravelry, you can check out other's knitted dishcloths here.

I'm back!

Sorry for the blog neglect. Last week, I was in hibernation while working on a grad school paper about Pentecostals and environmental responsibility (did you know the founder of Earth Day was a Pentecostal?). As such, I didn't really do much not related to my paper including cleaning my house or grocery shopping so now I'm in catch-up mode.

So what happened in the meantime. A lot!

I won a sweet auction on e-bay for this book:

There's no date but I'm guessing somewhere between the 40's and 50's. It has awesome patterns in it particularly for long stockings (I have developed a thing recently for both vintage knitting and thigh high stockings). If I'm doing my math right, though, the stockings are designed for a thigh circumference of 10." Yeah. That's what I thought, too. My calves aren't even 10" around. So I'm going to need to do some calculating to make them properly sized for modern adults.


Oregon Flooded
Apparently it's the worst storm in decades and there are these signs everywhere (this picture was taken on my way home last night when I had to drive through a road that had turned into a pond).


Oh. Wait. What's that? Dang it. Husband wants the computer (to his credit, he hasn't been on it much since I've been writing my paper) so I guess this is where this blog post is going to end.

 
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