Hello? Is anyone still out there?

Holy crap, I can’t believe it’s been over TWO months since I’ve posted here! In my defense, I have been extremely busy the past two months with a bit of a project that will take me around 40 weeks to complete:

Yup, there’s a baby growing in there and we are so excited about [...]

Tropical Storm Irene

Yup, we got downgraded. The big hurricane we were all expecting didn’t hit us and most New Yorkers are having the “that’s it?” feeling after the storm passed. I don’t. As much as we prepared and bought water and food to last through a power outage – and then didn’t even have anything happen [...]

Hurricane Irene

Just a quick post to let you all know that I’m okay and so are the pups and my husband. We are riding the storm out at home as we have NOT been evacuated and should be safe from any flooding that might occur. We are still a little bit worried about the wind [...]

Year of Socks – Sock 6 5

In my haste to share my gorgeous Rhombus socks, I totally forgot about poor Mona! And she actually is very pretty in her own right, so that wasn’t right of me at all!

Mona is a VERY easy Cookie A pattern, though I have to say it wasn’t the funnest one to knit. [...]

Back… again…

The above is the reason I have for going away for so long this time (almost a month? wow!)… poor Hitchcock had another anal gland rupture and had to go through surgery not once, but twice! It was a very long, very arduous month for us with him and although we tried very hard [...]

4th of July Fireworks and a Sick Puppy

The long weekend is over for us over here in the US and although hubby and I managed to have a good time we were largely confined to stay within our home. Why? Poor Hitchcock’s anal gland ruptured once again (the first time happened last year) and although we got him into the vet for [...]