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Marvellous Midsummer!

Tonight the sun won't have time to properly set before it pops right back up again, and tomorrow the days will start to slowly and steadily grow shorter as Winter starts to make its presence known. But now, it is still very much Summer, even if the weather isn't really very summery as of yet.

I am spending this Midsummer at home, on the sofa under a blanket and BooBoo, since I've fallen sick yet again, and doing much anything at all is currently a bit beyond my powers. Luckily I'm not spending Midsummer languishing alone with the cat (J.'s in New York again, so pop by Brooklyn ARTery in Brooklyn to see all the new rag-stuff there now!), as I've a friend over for a Game Of Thrones marathon. We're hoping staying up through the night will be easier when there won't be a proper night at all. :)
I'm also going to visit my parents this Sunday, for our almost-monthly family lunch. Other than that, I'm going to just rest and recuperate, this particular bout of illness has been plaguing me for far too long and I've had it up to here *points to as far above my head as I can reach* with being sick!

May your nightless night be warm and full of magic everyone!

Pigeons and catching up

Oh my, it has been a great long while since I last updated, hasn't it! I had been meaning to make a few blog posts last month, but then I ended up spending most of it languishing in bed, sick with the influenza and unable to do anything more taxing than coughing a lot and running a fever, so now I've lots of things to tell you all!

First off, happy Pigeon Appreciation Day everyone! Lets appreciate these very under-appreciated and much maligned, yet super wonderful and truly amazing avians today. :)
Livia the Pigeon Appreciation Day rag-cat is in the Rag Pet Shop, looking for a new friend to coo at pigeons with.

And to all you lucky Brooklynites (Brookliners? What's the collective noun for people who live in Brooklyn?) and New Yorkers in general, you can now buy Rag Pets and Rag Bags right there in Brooklyn, at the Brooklyn ARTery (which is at 1021 Cortelyou Road, Ditmas Park)!

Other than all those big and little news, I've been mostly spending my time doing what I usually do. I've managed to get totally hooked on making crocheted animals, and even though I'm not very good at it yet so getting anything done takes doing and redoing everything over and over again, I'm super happy with how my crochet adventures are going.

I hope to keep this little blog of mine a bit more up to date now, but as I've discovered, you never know what the future will bring with it. Still, I really am going to make an effort to keep abreast of stuff better. :)