You, me and the dogs

Our little home is currently visited by Spootie and Clover, our most frequent guests to Piri's Place.

Is being warmed by space heaters and warm slippers.

And filled with music and podcasts and of course barks, too.

Every year I have a hard time transitioning from summer to fall. It's those first few weeks of the new fall season that makes me sad and moody. This year, we were going through some hectic days and nights with Lady and her incontinence (controlled now thankfully) that I didn't really have time to go through my usual emotions. Although it's hitting me now, perhaps because I have more bandwidth to take notice of them.

I'm thinking about visiting my crafting area again. I broke out my sewing machine to sew together two thick incontinence pads together (pictured above) and thought it would be nice to make something. Something useful for the home. Then I thought about my neglected yarn and knitting needles and thought about making a hat. A simple patterned hat. 

I look back just a few years ago and saw that I was so much more busier with my hands - making and baking and cooking. I don't know where all that motivation went. I feel as though I've been searching for it for the past two years.

Yesterday was two years since Piri crossed the rainbow bridge. I can't help but think again and again that my motivation died too the day we said good bye to him. And I've been desperately trying to find that spark again.

I know it's somewhere.

I'll find it soon.

In the meantime, I think I'll bring back my daily task list again.

I've been doing without them for the past year and came to a realization.

I'm a task-list kind of person.