Sun Ain't Nevah Gonna Shine Agin!

Last week...

This week.

ME.

In an effort to not lose my ever-loving mind, there has been lots of knitting and drawing going on at Chez B for the last several days. Lack of sunshine and Vitamin D deficiency leads one to do many unusual things...like knit wee sweaters that won't fit anyone. 

Then look at it and think..."I can make a smaller one!" 

So you do...just to make sure it really doesn't fit anyone...except maybe a hamster or a gerbil. And you know that if you had one, maybe a gerbil named Stewie, you would try it on him and if it fit, you'd make him a large wardrobe of knitted goods. You contemplate obtaining a gerbil. This is the only time when impassible roads are a good thing. If not for them, you would have 75 Stewies by now. 

Then you think that maybe it's not healthy to knit tiny things that won't fit anyone except maybe a gerbil named Stewie who you can't get to the store to buy, and decide to just doodle instead. You let the pen wander...let your subconscious go where it will. Then when you finish, you look and you have a squid strewing around his Polaroid collection and you realize that maybe this cabin fever problem is a little bigger than it appears on the outside. 

So you tried to batten down the mental hatches, ignore the outside world, and go to your happy place....There are always dragonflies in my happy place. 

And then you try my new tan tiles and markers that you got at the Artist's Coop in Sturgeon Bay. 

Nothing is really working. I'm still akin the the grumpy robin above.  It's a struggle to hang on to the positivity these days!

There one was positive thing I guess. It was Cooper's 5th birthday yesterday.  We celebrated by lavishing treats and snuggles all over him . The treats he appreciated...the snuggles...not so much. He has mellowed a bit in the last couple of years. My other friends with rowdy cats say that they calm down with age.  Another 15-20 years and he's going to be such a lovey!!! Pray for sun, People! For all of our sakes!