Catch Up Time - found camera!

Well, I finally found my camera and have a lot of updates.

First: This weekend I finished the knitting portion of the baby sweater. Here it is before blocking and pinned out after a thorough dunking in cold water:

I've started on the bonnet and will most likely be ready for hemming and sewing tonight if the sweater is dry.

Also, as promised - my new offices! Main office on left. Secondary office on right (corner office with real wood furniture!!

There's even a full blown credenza!

And, I know I bothered a whole mess of you with constant geese stories when I first came on board here, but THEY WERE RIGHT OUTSIDE MY WINDOW doing stuff like this all day!

....Always

I've been dreaming about Minneapolis a lot lately. I moved here to CT[1]about 12 years ago to be with p~. I've never really warmed to CT; now that he's gone, I'm not sure what's keeping me here. I guess it's mostly that he loved our little house and to leave it behind would feel like betrayal.

However, I continue to dream of large warehouse/loft apartments in downtown Minneapolis and pleasant times wandering the bustling streets of Uptown. Occasionally an old boyfriend pops up and I feel guilty.

I know it can't be the same as it was 15 years ago. I know I'm not the same.

But I want it to be; I want me to be.

It's all about loss. I guess that's what the next few years will be all about: loss.

The baby sweater is almost done - pix to follow.

Just had some stuff I had to get off my mind....

d~

[1] aka: "the fifth ring of hell" per Denis Leary in _The Ref_ - and he lives here!

Sometimes...

…I’m convinced I need to leave this place:

Police find pipe bomb stuffed inside chicken
June 10, 2008

FROM THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
SIMSBURY, Conn. -- Authorities in Connecticut are wondering who stuffed a raw roasting chicken with a pipe bomb and left it on a roadside.
Simsbury police Capt. Matthew Catania says a motorist noticed the chicken Monday morning. He says the bomb was large enough to harm a person if it went off.
The road was closed while the Hartford Police Department's bomb squad came and blew up the chicken.
Nobody was injured. No arrests had been made Monday night.