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First.  What is up with the weather?!  The tornadoes, the storms... we had a huge thunder and lightening storm last night.   In  NEW YORK!  In FEBRUARY!  The woman that fostered Lucky when I went to pick him up got a lot of damage to her roof and barn.  They said in their paper that it was a "micro-burst" not a "tornado".  Really.  Who cares what the heck the scientists call it (no offense if any scientist are reading).  Same outcome.  Lots of people hurt and lots of property damage and homes lost.  Thankfully everyone at Cathy's is okay but what a mess she has on her hands.

I spun up the wool that I dyed the other day.  It's Bluefaced Leicester that I bought at Rhinebeck.  Gorgeous stuff but I have to say I'm not sure about my spinning.  It seems a little stringy to me.  The fiber is very long and I had a hard time not spinning it too thin.  I wanted a puffy, cushy yarn but I think you have to do at least three plies to get that with BFL.  Any tidbits of advice?  It's soft but I'm not sure about the twist.  All that said, it seems much lighter in grist that I usually do so I think it'll be nice and drapey in something light.

I go through phases in spinning.  I'll go months without touching my wheel and then I'll spin like crazy for a while.  It just seems to take me forever to spin a bobbin of singles.  I know... I know... it's not  a race but c'mon!   I'd like to think it wasn't so much work for me.  It just doesn't seem to flow.  Obviously the plying goes much faster but even that I concentrate too much on the twist.  I think I think about it too much.  I'm too anal to just let it flow.  I brought up going to SOAR to Dan since it's in the Poconos this year.   I'm also looking at a dyeing class at the Mannings later this month.   Dan said he was going to give me a day at a local spa for Valentines and I told him I'd rather go to the dyeing class.  We'll see.  I could just use a little break away and I think I'd rather do that with dyes.  I can always give myself a facial in the hotel room that night. lol.

Thanks for all the well wishes and kind notes about Aggie. She was finally completely back to her old sassy self yesterday.  I don't know when I've ever been so scared as trying to get her back to the vet on Saturday.  Needless to say we'll be much more careful about the whole vaccine thing here.  I'm going to ask that they do a Titer test on both dogs.  Here's my girl all bright-eyed and bushy tailed again:

And here's Lucky happy that his Aggie is all better.  Can you believe he looked like this just five months ago?!  He's gorgeous and his personality is really coming through.  He's almost like a puppy just learning.  He gets a tad more frisky each day.  Those big brown eyes just kill me.  I'd do anything for him.

Comments

[Marie Kahn]

What a stressful weekend, glad Aggie is back to her old self now. You take such beautiful photos of Aggie & Lucky, how do you do it? That video of the chair was a hoot.

[monica]

Yay! I'm glad Aggie is all better again. Both doggies are sooooo cute!

[Norma]

So glad Aggie is better, and that Lucky, what a guy. Is it way too much to hope that he will get his hearing back, or is that a sure thing that it's gone? About the "micro burst," we have had a few of those around here, too. Or they call them "wind shears" or something. I think they lie, because they are heretofore unHEARD of in Vermont, and they don't want us to freak OUT. But entire barns lost in a narrow swath, where the house right next to it remains standing? An entire forest turned into match-sticks and picked up and placed on the interstate, and a car picked up and placed in the ditch (and Abigail and I were driving home from Burlington that day and if we had not at the last minute stopped for coffee first before we left, WE might have been the ones in the ditch, because we came upon it mere minutes after it happened.) Freaky. And we, too, have been having winter thunderstorms the past two years. NEVER HEARD OF IN VERMONT BEFORE. It makes me scared.

[Wool Winder]

Glad Aggie is better. And Lucky is turning into quite a looker. I totally understand turning down a day at a spa in favor of a dyeing class. Once, John gave me a fleece for Valentine's Day. My friends (not knitters or spinners) just didn't get how happy that made me.

[Thimbleanna]

Boy, what a change in poor little Lucky. You've done such a great job with him. Both of the dogs are SO pretty!

[Marsha]

Oh my, that just breaks my heart to click on that 'before' picture. Poor thing, just makes you want to bundle them up and give a big ole hug and a kiss on the ear!! (And thanks for stopping by and leaving a comment!)

[Kim]

Soar sounds fun...you should definitely go!! Titers for both dogs is a very smart way to go, given Aggie's reaction and Lucky's compromised immune system. :)

[margene]

You must go to SOAR since it's so close!! Your puppies are just TOO cute.

[Jackie]

Oh my god, that picture of Lucky from a few months ago makes me want to cry. But it is great that he has such a good home now.