As previously mentioned, we’ll be off to Columbus later this week to attend TNNA’s NeedleArts Market where most of North America’s yarn shop owners and buyers purchase much of their product for the upcoming fall/winter season.  To us, that means rearranging schedules, packing up models that we’ve had on display from various vendors, getting Busby […]

It’s a cold and windy day in Lansing, Michigan.
Eight went out, but only two came back. We were able to recover four of the bodies, yet two remain on an icy hill… waiting for dusk and snow to hide them.
Poor Busby appears to be very sensitive to the cold, and I—the kind and generous pooch […]

I have the image of Pepe Lepeuw’s feline paramour dragging herself to a mountain cliff… where he pops over the edge, wagling eyebrows and all.  I feel like that cat.
Life proceeds at Chez ThreadBear.  B’s become Busby.  The holidays have come and gone with the retail explosion that comes with them.  And now we prepare […]

Well, we still have a beagle.  Or rather I have a beagle all but attached to me via the woefully tangle-prone extendo-leash that has occupied my left hand for the last three weeks… plus four days.  But who’s counting?  In about six minutes, it will be twelve hours, too.
He came to me with an upper […]

*pant* *wheeze* *pant* *gasp* *sigh*
No, it’s not one of those kinds of posts, I’m just exhausted. Let’s see, though. Four weeks ago Tuesday, we lost Connor. We had lots of grief to work through, and of course, we still had a business to run, so my grand plans of posting on a regular basis just […]

I don’t have anything glib or pithy to say today.  After several days—well, months, I suppose—of poor health, our beloved Connor succumbed to liver failure last night.  Rob had her from the time she was a puppy, and he’s posted quite a nice post about his life with her and her oddly sudden death.  Her […]

Yeah, as a matter of fact, I did miss the entire month of August. Yup, I even missed most of September. But guess what. I got to go see my mom. That made a whole lot of issues seem not quite so important. Love you, Moma!
I’m back at ThreadBear, now, though, and we’ve been through […]

I’ll have to motor through today, but I’m frantic to get a post up. We’ve got company in from Atlanta/Baltimore in our old friend Crystal B (Sister Paul, to those who know her well), and it’s been a busy week to boot.
There’s tons going on at the shop as we continue to bring in summer […]