Life moves on
First, I want to thank everyone for their kind comments about Jake. It’s amazing how an animal can work it’s way into your heart. But 19 years is a long time and it’s going to take a while for me to get used to the fact that the old man is gone. But I will and hopefully I’ll find another animal that can fill the void.
Yesterday turned out beautiful and I managed to put about 12 miles pedaling around Portland. Raining tonight, but I can hardly wait for summer to return and I plan on putting on many more miles, both in the city and on a few country back roads I want to explore.
Spent a couple of hours today before I headed to work, working on the Gansey Sampler and managed to *nearly* finish one sleeve. Still need to finish binding off, but I think it’s turning out kind of nice… Now I need to find a teddy bear to fit it, and maybe find a new home for both.
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Molly Bee wrote:
Gorgeous, Jerry! Did you get any geocaching in yesterday?
Posted on 08-Mar-07 at 7:14 am | Permalink
stonering wrote:
so I don’t have a size perspective for this, aside from not-for-a-person. Will it fit a teddy bear when it’s done?
The idea of doing a gansey at that size seems much less intimidating than at full size.
Posted on 08-Mar-07 at 7:18 am | Permalink
Jerry wrote:
No geocaching yet, but I intend to get back at it when the weather gets better. I’m mostly a fair-weather cacher…
And the body of the sweater is *about* 6 inches across. I’ll see if I can find a teddy bear that fits it.
Posted on 08-Mar-07 at 12:05 pm | Permalink
Sheila wrote:
The teddy sweater is very nice, but my mind is running more toward the cat department. A pair of litter mate are particularly cute, and in my family, we find that the sooner we have gotten distracted with a new puppy (in our case), the more quickly we can laugh again. It’s not that we have ever forgotten anyone we lost because our pets, or whatever term one might use, are an integral part of our family and our lives. The are family and their loss is not taken lightly. But a new puppy or kiten can sure brighten a day.
Posted on 08-Mar-07 at 12:48 pm | Permalink
Charlotte wrote:
Teddy bears have big heads in proportion to their bodies. Another kind of stuffed toy might fit the sweater better. When I knit my little gansey (in Beth’s class), I ended up making a doll for it using a doll head intended to make a doll from an air freshener thing. The arms were ice maker tubing. I stuck the head in the top of a bottle and filled it with bird gravel to weight it down so it would stand on my sideboard.
Posted on 08-Mar-07 at 4:30 pm | Permalink