Meet Sugarbug.

She’s not a very sociable kitty. She growls and hisses at any attempt to pet her. Despite attempted bribery in a few different forms and doing all my usual “getting to know a kitty” tricks. We have a cat here that fails to understand the purpose of catnip. Not working. She did play with the wand toy a bit which was nice. I’ll keep going in to check on her though. Maybe we can be friends.

It makes me appreciate my cats though. They will do anything to get head and chin scratches (and in Phunq’s case, spanks). They love pets and attention all day long. Especially Phunq. He’s not even shy with strangers. He’ll come right up and start talking…”Merrrrr give me pets! (and spanks!)” Melon and Kurry take a while to warm up to strangers but they’ll be in your lap within about two hours. Love my kitties. Hopefully I’ll get a better photo of Ms. Pouty Sugarbug. She was on the bed on her blanket last night but went back under the bed when the sun came up.

Now, meet Jaywalker

We’re getting along REALLY well. In fact, I’ll be turning her heel today. At the Knitter’s not Quitters group. And if all goes well, I might be finishing tonight? Maybe.

About the Cherry Tree Hill Birches yarn. I didn’t hear about the fading problems with it until after I’d ordered it. I’m going to operate on two assumptions: it was the machine wash and the possible phosphates in the detergent (since she’s in England), and possibly a bad dye lot that caused the color bleeding. So to at least try to avoid it I will handwash them and use my usual baby shampoo. Thanks to KnitterGail’s test swatches I’m fairly confident that they won’t bleed too badly. If they do..well, I’ll just overdye em a different color! Not my favorite option considering that the reason I was willing to pay a heftier cost for this sock yarn was because of the neat handpainted colorway but, hey, I’m just trying to keep it all in perspective. (Yay for that Zoloft Wellbutrin cocktail eh?)