Indoor Fetch, Please

Hello on this Taco Tuesday! (although it's crock pot chili for us tonight).  I hope you're safe and well; we're good here.

As you might suspect, this has been keeping me from making any measurable (and pic-worthy) progress on Casapinka's KAL:

Two things of note: 1) Benson is blurry again.  I wonder why, LOL.  2) Why is it that all dog toys look like dild*s?

Even though he's still blurry, Benson continues to make progress.  Ridgebacks have a cuddly side, so we've been trying to spend what we call "couch time" with him.  He may have learned the word couch already, hard to tell.  Benson does enjoy some quiet time with us, especially in the morning and even during enforced quiet after his meals.  Ridgebacks also have a predisposition for bloat, which has something to do with stomach gases and emergency surgery.  The advice is to avoid exercise directly before and after meal times.  At three meals per day (he couldn't do only two, he would throw up at 4:00), that's a lot of enforced rest.  He thinks we're weird, but I hope he's starting to like us as well.

OK, before you do anything else, head over to Neuro's blog - she's made two blog posts recently and has promised even more!  The most recent one is her recipe for those delicious Fair Isle coasters that she made and felted (and cut the steeks on live Zoom!!!).  I can't wait to try some of my own!!

So, we had some wildlife excitement yesterday.  As we were sitting here at the dining room table (the epicenter of all things work-related and, these days, indoor fetch-related), a buck with full antlers trotted by, very close to the house.  We haven't seen an adult buck around, never mind so close.  It was a little freakish, to say the least.  He was headed right for the woods, no stopping along the way.  Where did he come from, I wonder?


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