I’m home alone again at the moment.  J’s been gone for just over a day, and luckily will be back tonight.  Which, of course, means I need to feed him, and I’m just NOW getting my tail into gear.  I’m smelling a grocery-store run in the very near future.

For the record, we’ll be out of town this weekend, so I haven’t wanted to battle the grocery store when we’ll be gone for four days anyway.  Plus, the past two days, we’ve been dealing with a lot of stuff with our little visitor-dog.  Apparently, she’s microchipped, but the owner?  Total garbage.  Said he was coming to get her and didn’t show up, and since she was injured last weekend and needed vet care, this was A Very Bad Thing.  According to the laws of the land, apparently, if we got her vet care, not only would we not be able to recoup our losses if the former owner DID show up, but we’d also be open to being SUED for doing anything to his “property”.

What kind of world is it when you find a creature that needs help, get them help, and lose your pants in a lawsuit?  So not fair.

So we are going through the proper channels to make her ours so this never happens again.  She’s at Animal Control right now, and in five days, we pay the ransom..er…fee, and pick her up again.  Her microchip will read *us* as the owner then, rather than the guy who obviously dumped her off.  At least we’ll know she’s safe.

And it’s another step on the road to becoming a ginormous pack of dogs in general.  Four??  Like I need more dog hair around here.  My husband sheds badly enough….

I’m looking forward to three uninterrupted days in the hotel, though.  I have some knitting I want to get done  (I knit.  A lot.  And I’m a joiner, obviously, so I’ve now joined two different shawl-knitting challenges.  Two.  Because I have eversomuch free time.), and I plan to, well, do some planning.

Over at this new site I found, Reclaiming The Home,  she’s posting her to-do lists.  (She’s also a knitter/creative type.  I like knitters.  And creative types.  They’re just my type of crunchy granola with a side of wool.)  I’m still planning on posting mine over under that “About the Project” link, when I can sit down for three minutes and come up with one.  Possibly tonight.  And there may be a few posts in here tonight, as well, when I can locate the camera cord.  I’ve been a nutjob for work the past two days, and haven’t had much of a chance to do the things that I WANT to do for my home and family.  I really need to re-examine my priorities, I think.

There’s a cold north wind blowing in, so I should let the furchildren inside and close up the house.  (I was airing it out — it gets very musty in here, what with it being a giant metal box and all.), but there will be more later.

I’m really, really enjoying connecting with all these people who value the home and family as much as I do.  I was beginning to feel just a bit like an isolated breed when I started this blog.