Howdy, It's Your Long Lost Blogger

We love car rides. We went on a hike yesterday with our friends Pete and Fiona. We took Theo even though his allergy issues aren't completely remedied. More on that later. It was a lovely drive out of town on Barracks Road. Soon after you leave the "city" in almost any direction you can see mountains and unbelievably gorgeous farms.
On our way back we walked along the river. I guess you can say we've had a relatively dry summer. Theo jumped off rocks into the cold water.
Here, he checks out some stacked rocks. I think the day went down as one of his favorites.

The update on his condition is that we had to put him on steroids, which has helped. He still gets the urge to lick his paws and manages to lick them while wearing the cone. He is able to hang out without the cone on as long as we are around to catch him when he starts licking every now and then. We are a week into a rabbit and potato kibble diet which will tell us if the continuing allergy problem is from an allergy to his previous food (chicken kibble). With the wearing of the cone has come sleeping in our bed since he can't fit in his crate with the cone. Oh well. I guess we held out as long as we could with that one. I will say that he is quite the cuddler. We like to call him Cuddlefus Rex i.e. the King of Cuddles. It was about time for a new nickname, don't you think?

I am an approved substitute for Charlottesville City Schools and so far I have missed three phone calls. Two during a calligraphy lesson and one while I was volunteering with one of the students I worked with in the spring. One of the ESL teachers contacted me to work with a fourth grader during Math in the morning. This is nice since I think it's good for me to do something productive and being in the classroom environment certainly can't hurt. The automated Subfinder system apparently has some kinks that need to be worked out. It also appears that when you miss a call it moves on to the next person. C'est la vie.

I have started my online felt ornament selling on Etsy. You can see items in my shop on the right side of the blog. I have sold two ornaments so far. Yippee.

I'm almost finished with Calligraphy lessons, I hope. And I'm gearing up for PieFest on October 3rd as well as the Fall Fiber Festival at Montpelier, visitors, and eating donuts from Carpe Donut once it gets really cold. I'm most excited about Michael coming home on Thursday for good until January or February. Hooray!