Bichons In Berry Sauce

I'm on the beach, bichonless, but I do have knitting to show. I finished up the right front to my sweater-jacket:

We've spent many hours together, flying on two planes, waiting patiently for a flight in Detroit, watching Shamu jump, and now, she's done. Actually, I didn't do two of the final decrease rows for the top. I put it on scrap yarn instead so if it needs to be longer, it will be easier. I let it block yesterday, and it only grew 1/2 inch vertically, and zero horizontally. So far, so good!

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Leaving tomorrow for California-- the same spot my family has gone for the last 15 or so years. I've been saving my "special yarn" for this vacation, and my stash looks bare now without it! It's for the Jacket with ribbed collar from Simple Living. I did a swatch, I washed and dried the swatch, and my gauge is right on with size 6 circs. Hopefully I'll have at least a half a sweater when I return!

Abby is nice and cool now-- she got a haircut. A really bad haircut from PetCo. They cut her like a poodle, ignoring the directions I had written down for them. Her regular groomer was all booked up, and Abby really needed to be shorn before I left. So now she suffers. I'm remembering how she used to be: a little white ball of fluff that was always zooming around the house.

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Happy Independence Day! We're spending the day making pasta salad, then going to a BBQ/pool party/bonfire at Cary's co-worker's house. And of course, fireworks! Abby can't come.. she's quite wooly now, and with the heat and humidity of upstate NY, she'd be miserable. So she'll be staying at home, probably cuddled up to her Chill-A-Bowl (we found this at Tuesday Morning for 5 bucks! Great deal!).

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