Back on March I posted about a problem I'm having with this man and his giant dog chasing after me and my pups on our morning walks. It happened again today, and to get away from him I had to go into the neighborhood next to ours, walk through two back yards and climb through a broken fence with Beau, who was terrified and resisting me almost the entire way. So now I'm going to document it every time it happens and send a letter to the HOA because at this point it's harrassment.
My guy kindly bought me my favorite Chinese take out the other night, and my fortune cookie offered up an interesting story starter: This sounds sweet, right? Only the first thing I thought of was an old love coming back from the dead . . . . must be October. In other lovely news, my favorite hand-dyed thread artist, Lorraine from Colour Complements , is moving her business from Etsy to her own web site. Many of my favorite sellers on Etsy are leaving due to the whole "free shipping" coercion debacle, which has also soured me on the site. To show support I did a little shopping at Lorraine's web site and got in these: I love her threads and trims; you simply can't buy anything like them anywhere. Her work makes my specialty thread box look like a treasure chest: At night I'm spending just as hour working on quilting the scrap project runner, and I'm making slow progress: I'll keep quilting the runner while I try to decide on a design for t...

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I would ask around to see if anyone else has been hassled like this. A unified front carries more weight.