Yesterday Dave, I and Rigel hiked to Escondido Falls.  It’s one of the few areas that allows dogs so we figured Rigel would like the adventure.  To his great delight he discovered lizards, how to get incredibly muddy crossing streams, and how to scramble and climb like a little mountain goat.
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First, the cats:

(From left and moving clockwise: Obi, Cali and Megs)
Next, Drifting Pleats:

And finally, Rigel:

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Gotta love Ravelry. Someone ‘favorited’ my felted cat bed. Given I have no picture of the knitted and felted item in question…..I’m assuming they find my cats adorable.

Goals
I feel like I could just re-post the March April goals, including the lack of any knitting progress.
What I did manage to do: finish the felted [...]

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Rigel is an English Cocker Spaniel. He is small, about 30#, and short. He is sweet and loving.

He has, however, been seduced by the Dark Side yet once again. Notice the evil glowing green color of his eyes.

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Dave bought a baker’s dozen of bagels Sunday morning. I had one and a [...]

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….that indeedy the Tunis wool DIDN’T felt that well, that in trying to make it felt I felted the hell out of the rest of the bed, and that is therefore really only one or two cats’ worth of bed, not three: after staring at it suspiciously for awhile they all three tried to [...]

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Whenever I wonder if people read my blog, I find out they do!
Regarding Tunis sheep: I don’t blame the entire breed for my bad experience — I do think it was the particular roving I had (purchased off of eBay*). I would certainly try Tunis wool again.
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….is (hopefully) felting in the washing machine as I type this.
I used the Tunis sheep wool I’d spun (hated that wool, it was sticky and I think old and it was VERY DIFFICULT to spin), some of the brown Corriedale, various commercially spun wool odds and ends, and a little of the Icelandic handspun left [...]

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Dave and I did another jaunt to Theodore Payne yesterday. We came home with more Heuchara, various sages, sagebrushes, and more. Hopefully we’ll get them in the ground today.
The native plant garden tour is April 12/13 of next year. I’m hoping (more hope!) that we’ll be able to participate in 2009.
Rigel had [...]

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We got back home yesterday. Waiting for us was Meggie, Obi and Cali; we had to later pick up Rigel from the kennel and Cecie from the vet hospital (just boarding).
And tons of mail, including Rowan 38, some books from Amazon and eBay, my new copy of Charles de Lint’s Moonheart from Subterranean Press (so [...]

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