I'm back

On 4 Oct 2005 21:53:09 -0700, snipped-for-privacy@adelphia.net muttered something like:

Welcome back! Grab a needle and get to work! :)

-Bertha

Don`t crack the whip too hard, Bertha - you`ll frighten her away again!

Welcome back!

Pat P

On Wed, 05 Oct 2005 23:01:25 GMT, Pat P muttered something like:

That's not a whip, it's embroidery floss. She'll need it for all the project we'll be enticing her to do.

-Bertha (Enablers 'R' Us)

Actually recently finished (after working on and off for about 5 years) Borgello Fanasty. I am glad to be finished, and wish it had not taken so long to get done. Now am working on Lady of the Flag. Started that about 2 years ago, and now want to finish that. If it looks like a trend here there is, finishing old projects.

Donna

On 6 Oct 2005 12:04:42 -0700, snipped-for-privacy@adelphia.net muttered something like:

"Finishing old projects..." hmm. I understand the individual words, but together they have no meaning...

-Bertha (wading through the drifts of unfinished projects)

Donna wrote ..

I had this image of Lucretia Borgia stitching bargello---probably very suitable. Dawne

Lol - I have done quite a few pieces. They use it a lot in the UK for chair seats but with Bucket around, not for me.

OTOH, a pattern incorporating the colours of Evil Louise, my tortoiseshell, might be the only way to hide all the hair. It would be quite pretty actually---black, orange shades, and cream. Dawne

Those bargello stitches are so easily picked with claws though...

I'm absolutely fascinated that you'd allow such a thing. Formidable to everyone but that cat, eh?

Elizabeth

I have always admitted that he is a spoiled only crat ! I think I must be a bit formidable to him, he doesn't bite me and I can even clip his front claws. A lot of hissing and spitting happens, but no biting.

Now how about Harry and Cash ??? Do they find you formidable and do they always use the correct grammar and bark in the right accents ? Rolling around laughing my fool head off!

They don't claw my furniture, but then, neither does my cat. She's quite good about having her claws clipped, as well. I don't actually allow her to spit at me. She sometimes hisses under her breathe as she's walking away after, but she doesn't hiss right at me. Harry's the brat about his claws, but he doesn't threaten, just won't hold still. We find that grinding them down with a dremel is easier, if only because it doesn't actually require him to hold his paws still as long as the clipper does. And of course, Cash is perfect. Even jumps up on the grooming table for me when I ask him (after I've blocked his escape route). LOL!

Elizabeth

Tears rolling down my face!!!!

Cheryl

I am finding this fascinating! I had to take Dakota to the groomer's twice now (stupid animal didn't know what a skunk is). I try and dry him off - heck no!

Cheryl

Harry got a bath in the tub both times that he got skunked. He doesn't like baths, but will generally hold still enough. Cash is better about it, but he doesn't dislike water the way Harry does. Both boys love to be towelled off. Come running up asking for it, in fact.

But it's also true the Dakota is a visitor for you and you may not be able to do the things that his "dad" can do with him. Or not. Different people demand different things from their pets. One of the reasons that Cash is better about grooming than Harry is that I started younger with him and do it more often, since he has to be groomed for the show ring.

And I will admit to shipping both of them off to the groomer at various times since it's easier than dealing with the amount of dog hair produced by a bath at shedding season.

Elizabeth

You know I am very worried about your cat. I realize I don't know the name of your cat, you just refer to her as 'she'. This poor cat is probably traumatized. Should I be worried ?

You need to plunge him in a tomato juice bath, takes away 99% of the stink. He will still smell of it when he goes out in the rain though for quite some time.

Pat Porter once asked me to describe what the smell (skunk) was like. Perhaps you can describe it for her while it is still fresh in your olfactories lol

As long as you don`t send me a sample, thanks - a good description will do! LOLOL!

Pat P

Tonight, the towel is his friend!

Cheryl