Procrastination

There comes a time in every bloggers life (so I'm told), that a week's hiatus, turns into a month of no-blogging, and then turns into several months of slothful guilt. Then the blog dies. Yes, the silence has been deafening. I have excuses, but they are irrelevant. I got busy, but I'm always busy. I'm over my guilt and am pressing forward as if nothing happened.

So, thanks to the messages from around the world, prodding me into re-starting, and even a call from my husband in Singapore wondering if I was ill or worse because there was no blog to read, I have regained my composure and am ready to tackle the keyboard.

First, there is a new family member. He's on super-secret probation, but it looks as though this stray, found on a rainy night in our dark driveway, may be a keeper. Meet Harry:

Harry appears to be a bassett-beagle mix, about a year old, and just as mellow as can be. Ozzie, who is alternately annoyed and tolerant of Harry's presence, is coming around (though there was a big TO-DO this morning over a stuffed lamb toy's ownership).

Ozzie has turned into quite a good dog after our cross-country adventure and exposure to sister-in-law "Kellie-May." Kellie has a way with animals, so we tease her about being a character in The Beverly Hillbillies. Ozzie is off probation and now that I have his food and flatulence issues resolved, he's my pal.

In other news, a trio of women and I are moving ahead with our plans to open a "Yarn Community," starting April 1 (no fooling!). We'll have a yarn shop, consignment sales of locally handmade goods, a lounge for sitting & knitting, instructional classes, charitable causes to knit and crochet for, plus all the fun, risk and agony of being small business owners. We are hard at work to make it all happen by the deadline.

Check out our website at www.sunnysideyarns.com ! We are so excited. Can you tell?

Today, Heleen and I went on a cross-country secondhand furniture tour and came home with 3 chairs, 3 end tables, 2 lamps, a display rack, a nice ironing board and a side table for the bathroom.

Next week we'll be meeting with vendors, constructing displays, contracting for painting and getting ready for our big membership drive on Feb. 21. The days are busy, the nights full of dreams of things we forgot to do or plan for. Luckily, all four of us have different strengths and weaknesses, and are meshing as a partnership quite well.

Bill is in Singapore again, working on the ship in the Sembawang Shipyard, and sleeping in town at the Copthorne Kings Hotel again. He sounds tired, but only has about 5 weeks to go before he can come home and catch up on his rest.

And for now, I'm blogging again. I'll try to regain the momentum and make it a happy habit.