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Hit The Pause Button or Do I Mean Paws Button?

7/31/2017

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What makes a great day?  A book I can't put down, knitting I can't get enough of, time with my friends and cooking a great dinner.  Until two weeks ago, I thought that was a perfect life.  Coffee and a great book in the morning, a day of Ann's By Design or enjoying friends in various ways, working on Knitting: A Love Story, an evening of watching Tv and Knitting.  It's all good.  Then enters Miss Tess.

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Meet Miss Tess, our 10 week old Wheaten Terrier.  She is a cutie.  I remember when acquaintances would say, "We're going to have a baby but it's not going to change our life."  Right!  Well, we have a new puppy but she's not going to change our life.  Double Right!  When a puppy comes home, you have to make time for her and something has to go.  
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Knitting and puppies do not mix.  Murphy was eight and pretty much ignored knitting. We had to have Murphy put down and we are very sad. We decided a puppy would brighten our life.  I had forgotten the chaos that happens when a  puppy sees a ball of yarn.  I am currently trying to work on an orange Noni mini-bag.  It is adorable but I have run into some stumbling blocks.  Not the least of which is named Tess.  She has a pink ball, a green ball and a multicolored ball and now she thinks she also has an orange ball.  She also think that the knitted project is something to chew on or play tug with as seen here.
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She loves yarn, knitting needles, knitted fabric and of course fingers.  And she needs so much attention!  From house-breaking to learning "NO" to learning our fingers aren't chew toys, she keeps us busy.  I used to have a good three hours of knit time most nights.  It was my time of day to relax and unwind.  That time now is spent with trips outside, throwing a ball, petting and fussing over this beautiful little puff ball.  Three hours has become the 30-45 minutes when she is in her playpen sleeping.  If you are thinking of getting a puppy, a doggie playpen is an amazing thing.  It gives you a much needed break from all of the commotion that is a puppy.  Needless to say, I don't have much in the way of knitting stories right now.  When I think about finishing the beautiful Dovetail scarf I just started, the finish line is not in the foreseeable future.  
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Some day Tess will grow up and I'll have my 3ish hours in the evening to knit.  Until then I am in puppy heaven and learning to be much more careful with yarn, needles and everything knitting when she is around.

You know I am not a tech person.  I do not know what happened at the beginning of the post with all of the big letters and I don't know how to fix it.  It just magically went away.  Technology is magic to me.  Hopefully, the unwanted big letters won't come back.
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    This blog is dedicated to Mary Helen Growt my first knitting teacher and the woman who changed my life.  The mission of Knitting: A Love Story is to preserve, share and promote the love of knitting.

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