May!

 I've become truly lousy about blogging,


but I am getting some crafting done.  Two new fabric & rope bowls are done and in the gift bin, but much of my crafting time has been taken up by...
a new piano!!! My old piano had been my grandmother's and never had great action to begin with, and then shortly after we moved to this house, it was ruined by a water leak and was essentially unplayable and unfixable.  I have a digital piano, but it's just not the same.  I fell in love with the Essex upright pianos while I worked at the music store, and my mother had always wanted a really nice piano, so we went to piano shopping together and both picked out an Essex.  I love it!  Charlie isn't as sure.



On the one hand, it's something new to climb on.  On the other hand, I think she sees it as a rival for attention and walking across the keys isn't as much fun as laying on fabric when I sew or laying on the computer when I worked from home.  And I won't let her help with knitting,
so she's feeling pretty abandoned right now.  Most of her life, Andy and I both worked from home and she sees nothing good about us leaving the house.  Ever.

 Spring has arrived--sort of.  It snowed and froze on Monday, but luckily all I have right now are bulbs and annuals coming up,



but it has been a cold spring.  As I'm now doing marketing for a local heating & air conditioning company, that makes work just as interesting as yardwork.  It's giving me time to fix some problems with ads not getting changed (for 2 years and listing both incorrect pricing and advertising our former line of equipment), website issues (too many to list), and I've been given 5 direct-reports, so there's lots to do even in our slow season. 

Hope everything is going well in your part of the world!  Happy crafting!

 

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