It has been a while.

I got so involved in learning how to spin yarn and then dyeing yarn that I haven't gotten back to my blog. So tonight, when I saw something on Etsy about creating an Etsy Mini, I felt compelled to figure it out. It took me an hour...but I think I have done it. We shall see.

In the last few weeks, a lot has happened. We got another dog and then, last night, we had to give Keller back to the people who gave him to us. Keller began to be very hostile toward Cody. Last night he attacked him so viciously that I was in fear for Cody's life. Cody is a beta dog so he wants to keep everybody happy. He's the one who likes to compromise. Keller had intimidated Pippi the cat so much that she stopped going to the bathroom. I had to take her to the vet for a full week before she went to the bathroom again. I wasn't happy with that but I thought it was just part of bringing a new dog into the home. We have done that many times in the past and the animals just worked things out amongst themselves. But Keller began to get more and more dominant - alpha dog-like. Last night I thought it reached the point of being dangerous. So Keller had to go. I cried when they came to get him. I cried a lot.

And then I started a knitting project. The wools and other fibers have taken over my house. It looks like that old Star Trek episode called "The Trouble with Tribbles" where these cute little puff balls take over the ship. My room is filled with puff balls of wool in such gorgeous colors that you'd have to see it to believe it. And I am happier than I have been in years. This weekend, I will get the studio cleaned out so that the puff balls can vacate the bedroom and have a room of their own. Nice.

Well, that is enough for one night. I don't want to feel that writing is another demand. Then I will get stressed out. I have a lot of exciting things to sort out - like getting ready for some art/craft fairs that I have recently learned about...that will wait until tomorrow.