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Seeing February go always makes me a bit sad.  It's a quirky little month, isn't it?  Fewer days than all the other months, every now and then getting an extra one. . .   February is also our last best hope for Winter. Yes, we've had snow here in March in the past, but, let's face it, with each day that passes, the chance for Real Winter gets slimmer and slimmer. You see, I don't like Spring.  I dislike Summer very much.  Sunny, chirpy days do nothing for me except make me miss grey, cool-to-cold ones.  Fall and Winter make me feel cozy and they comfort me, and they bring life to my speed.  Spring and Summer are warm-to-boiling and people are rushing around like they will never have another chance to do anything warm-weathery in their lives. The only plus to Summer in my life is rather Athens-centric.  In Summer here, traffic disappears. And yet, it's sometimes so hot that I don't leave the house anyway. When you ad...

Working very hard not to be envious of my daughter for starting a week-long cruise today. (You all probably know by now that that's her on the right.  The Most Photogenic Person EVER.) Working sporadically on a sweater my cousin sent me to finish.  It had been started by the mom of a friend who died very suddenly, cast on for the father.  He died unexpectedly just before Christmas last year.  It isn't complicated --- a ribbed-and-cabled V-neck, but I'm having a difficult time with it.  I can't explain why, but it just isn't fitting my hands.  Does that make any sense? Colt, a service dog I was lucky enough to name for  ECAD , has found his working home: I also named his brother, Cherokee, who has been paired with a family, and even went to DisneyWorld!

This variety pack of wet cat food was my other Chewy.com product this month.  If you've read any of my Influencer posts in the past, you know that my cats will heartily consume just about any food set before them.  There wasn't any reason to think this brand would be any different. Wrong. It may very well be that Riley and Erin (and Madeleine;  she sneaks bites when I'm not looking) have become used to / spoiled by the  Weruva  from a while back.  Or maybe they wouldn't have been crazy about this anyway.  But they just haven't taken to any of these flavors.  A bite or two, perhaps, but not a cleaned dish.   Though I will still try other brands of cat foods, if they are offered, in the future, I suspect that Weruva will be our go-to from now on.  Sorry, I and Love and You. . . Chewy.com  allows me to try products each month for free, in exchange for my honest reviews.  No money is exchanged.

Rupert is proving to be hard to please when it comes to trying products from  Chewy.com .  This month, I asked to give Whimzees treats a chance. He likes rib bones, so I thought these stick shapes might interest him more than other snacks.  He sniffed at each of the three "flavors," spending a little more time on the natural-colored one than the others.  Still, though, he never actually chewed one. I'm going to continue making them available to him --- maybe he'll change his mind yet.  For now, though, I'm sorry to say these were a no-go. Each month, Chewy.com gives me an opportunity to request and try products.  I promise to provide honest reviews of the products.  There is no money involved on either end.

When I got the notion to try a "Classic" version of Knitters' Hunk and Knitters' Chick, I didn't have a clear idea of who might win the women's edition.  I was fairly sure, though, that Cary Grant would win among the men.  Just a hunch.  I would have been able to use this photograph, which, if you ask me, is heart-stopping. If not Cary Grant, then probably Paul Newman, I thought.  It's still overwhelming that pictures of the two of them together exist. Rickman never occurred to me.  I still don't think of him as "gone," maybe.  When he was nominated, though, I suspected he'd win.  There's a bit of loop-closing there --- first KH, first two-time KH winner, first KH Classic. Katharine Hepburn's victory makes me very happy.  As I say, I nominated her myself.  Hannah's middle name is "Katharine," for her, and we are very hard on that "a"-not-"e" thing.  I know that we probably shouldn...

The first Knitters' Chick Classic, and winner by a large margin: Katharine Hepburn. The first Knitters' Hunk Classic, by the margin he indicates, is Alan Rickman. Thanks to all of you for getting involved --- nominating and then voting.  Congratulations to Amanda, for nominating both  winners.  (I also nominated Hepburn, but will forego sending myself any prizes.)  Several people nominated the runners-up, and will be receiving second place prizes: Jorene (my cousin!) and Grace nominated James Garner.  Jorene (still my cousin!), Lora and Vicki nominated Grace Kelly.  Everyone watch their mail!

The first Knitters' Hunk Classic should be KH Classic The first Knitters' Chick Classic should be KC Classic