Its been a while...
... since I posted. Been busy with some work (woohoo! income is nice!) and last week moved my web site to a new host. Seem to be in a cycle of two migraines per month that last one or two days. The secret to getting them to go away sooner is to sleep them off. Since I am semi-retired this is a viable option. When I was working "IT full time" (40 to 80 hours per week plus on call 24x7) they often lasted three and four days and taking off a day to sleep often resulted in getting behind in hours causing more stress.

Ling Ling turned 17 on February 18. Yesterday I added some new photos of the birthday boy. He is slowing down a bit and the cat suit isn't quite a snug as it used to be, but he is still quite the fellow.

Geoff now has four dogs. He had thought of putting two up for adoption, but in the process of training them he apparently got more attached than he expected. His dogs are nice and I enjoy when he visits with them.

An added bonus is that he is saving their combings for me to spin. The German shepherd seems to be the best "producer" and her undercoat is a beautiful carmel color. I dug out some knit swatches from yarn I spun from dog hair when he was little in the early 1980's. Sam IV, a friend's Samoyed from Champaign-Urbana IL, provided fiber in purest white. My cousin's tricolor border collie / collie mix Smokey's swatch is noted that I spun it on a drop spindle. I remember it especially because I showed it to an experienced knitter who also had a PhD in biology - they mistook it for camel hair!

I am still working on spinning some cotton and silk blend roving I got around 1993, but maybe this will be an incentive to use my spinning wheel for more than plying yarn.