Dog and Sweater

Camden is one sweet but lazy dog. He also hates to get his feet wet. And the way he lets us know he wants to go out is to come and look at us. That made it hard at night, I couldn't tell when he was looking at me when I was sound asleep. Since I wouldn't get up and let him out he would leave me a present on the living room rug.

The rug is now gone, which is a pain, because I loved that rug.

Camden has gotten better. I've learned not to let him up if all he has done is pee, I make him go back down the stairs and try again. The thing that surprises me, is he will go back down easily and poop once I tell him to go back down again, but I always have to tell him to go back down. The draw back to that method is that I have to stand on the back deck and watch.

The making him go down for a second time and closing him in the boys room at night has worked. He only poops outside now. In fact he woke up the boys one day last week, whining to be let out. Way to go Camden, you can teach an old mom new tricks.

I am about a third of the way through knitting my second sweater. I screwed the first one up so much that I hid it away. I had finished all the pieces, but refused to put them together. This one is cute, at least in the book. But in real life, if looks kind of ragged. Some people can do such beautiful work, and mine never is. I am not a detail oriented girl. I can do and redo and re-redo and it still looks home made. Sometimes I don't care and sometimes I do. This sweater is one that I do.