The good stuff

That my dear friends is STR 2007 yarn club yarn in the colorways; Titiana, Monsoon, and Rare Gems.

My friend, CrazySockLadyCarla (or BloglessCarla, depending on whos blog you are reading) is one of those lucky bitches that got into the cool kids club and is a member of the Socks That Rock 2007 sockyarn club. But she didn't particularly like these three colorways and offered them to me. Doesn't that qualify her for sainthood or something? (Regardless of that non-catholic/not particularly religious thing.) I still haven't 'paid' her for these beauties but we're going to work out some kind of deal. (I don't really need two kidneys right?)

More Socky Goodness

This is my finished Diagonal Cross-Rib Sock from Favorite Socks in Sophie's Toes 'Jean Jacket'. It fits perfectly and I love it. No fear of SSS with this one because I want them done so I can wear them.

Unfortunately the new kitten is also a big fan of Sophie's Toes. She found the second ball I had wound and had her kittenish way with it yesterday. I just now got it rewound back into a nice neat little cake (that's it with the finished sock.)

This means of course that I will now have to add sock yarn to the list of things to keep hidden away from the animals, along side the hemp twine and yarn.

The gals at Friday Knitting have heard the Hemp Dog story but I don't think I've shared it here.

Two years ago about this time you would've found me sitting at home waiting for the vet to call me to tell me that Heid's teeth cleaining was finished and she was out of sedation etc. Instead the phone rings and my vet (Dr. Sarah) is on the other end with a sound of shock and awe in her voice that I've never heard from a medical professional before or since. She proceeds to inform me that she will need to do major abdominal surgery on Heidi because she discovered a string wrapped around one of Heidi's molars that went down her throat and upon x-rays, ended in a large "mass" in her stomach. The string had luckily gotten caught around her tooth which prevented it from moving any further along her digestive track and had also absorbed a lot of fluid and expanded to the size of a professional janitorial mophead. All the time this was inside her she had proceeded to eat and behave normally.

What it turned out to be was a ball of hemp macrame twine the Mess Girls had been using to make Friendship Bracelet out of over spring break. We figured the hemp smell gave Heidi the munchies and she couldn't resist. When I purchased my Hempathy for my lace tank I vowed to keep it far away from the Bernese Mt. Goat.

Heidi also received some notoriety for this culinary feat from our vet. Some months later Dr. Sarah related to me that she had gone to a reunion with her Vet School friends and they had sat around one evening sharing stories about their practices and especially the stories that begin, "You won't believe this one case I had...." Well Heidi the Hemp Eating Berner bested them all.