Baby cardigans and Bryan Adams (dogs, too!)

Let's start with baby cardigans.

I cast on for Lion Brand's One-Stitch Baby Cardigan, because I need to use up my two skeins of Cotton-Ease. It's the first time I've knit with cotton, and so far it's going good. The yarn split a few times, but it didn't catch on the needles like acrylic does. Okay, so Cotton-Ease is actually 50% cotton and 50% acrylic, but hey, it still counts as knitting with cotton....right?

Next, my silly dogs. Smiles, Teddy and Lulu were outside in the pouring rain. This is unusual for Lulu because she doesn't like getting wet, but the reason she was out there was because there was a squirrel on our neighbor's roof. Thus, three soaking wet dogs needed to be dried off. Drying them off is actually fun, because they don't mind being dried off. Smiles loves it - if you throw a towel over her head, she has a blast. Teddy tends to go over to the big dog bed and roll around like a kitten, so now there's a huge wet spot on the dog bed.

And now, about Bryan Adams. I went to the library the other day (yesterday, I think) to pick up Monster Ballads Xmas, and while I was there I thought I'd look through their CDs. I found Ray Davies's newest, which is called Working Man's Cafe, and Bryan Adams Unplugged. I was going to check out Bruce Springsteen's Devils & Dust, but I figured I shoudl listen to the Springsteen album I'm already borrowing first. I listened to Bryan Adams Unplugged last night, and wow. That album is going on my Christmas list. I love it. The unplugged versions of Summer of '69 and Cuts Like a Knife are works of art. I also found out that Heaven is one of his songs.

Here's the original video for Summer of '69...