Hello out there! What, you thought I was dead? That’s okay, I don’t blame you. After all, its been nearly two months since I’ve posted anything. But I have a good reason for that…

It’s my first-ever published android app called Knitty! It is a simple row-tracker that helps you keep your place in your knitting patterns. I know, I know. There are many like it already out on the play store. But this one is mine. I’ve done something I’ve wanted to do for awhile now: publish an app. I’ve held off for so long because I never thought I had a good idea. I used a lot of the tracking apps on the Play store, but I found them either too cluttered or buggy, or overly complicated.

So I’ve been slaving away, writing and testing code. Really. I would come home from work at 12:30, spend some time with the hubbs, and then write code from maybe 3 PM until at least midnight. There were quite a few nights that I stayed up until 4 or 5 AM because I had a brilliant idea, or because I was bashing a square peg into a round hole. But after nearly three weeks and 150 hours later… I have something that isn’t a hot mess. Right now it is free and ad-supported, but I’d like to eventually have a paid version and a free version, and possibly a more advanced version with a bunch of extra features. Maybe Ravelry integration? I’d like to have a version that is simple and a version that is complex — that way, people that don’t want the complex version still have a simple one to use. I don’t know — maybe that, in itself, is overly complicated. (Hah.)

I have great plans for this app. Even if it never makes me any money, I have great plans…

And don’t worry. I’ll have a crafty update for you soon. I promise. In the meantime, try out my app, and be sure to tell me whatever problems you run into!

I can finally share this project with you all! Some of you may recall a post where I started the quilt top for the Blue & Yellow Bargello quilt. After that initial post, I decided to go radio-silent, lest my giftee figured out it was for her — I don’t like to spoil surprises!

So, my mother in law remodeled her kitchen this past year. Nice new granite countertops with yellow and blue flecks; down came the old green wallpaper and up went yellow paint, with blue accents. Her living room (right off the kitchen), has been slate grey-blue with a yellow sofa and blue accent pieces. She really loves yellow and blue, and it looks so classy. When she decided to repaint her kitchen this year, I figured it was the perfect time to make a quilt for her. It’s a twin-size with light batting in between, so it won’t be too bulky for her living room sofa.

Full shot of the front.

Detail of the squares

Detail of the squares. The color is closer to real life in this photo. 

The back has only this detailing across the top. I wanted to keep it simple since the front is so busy.

The patch on the back panel. Leftover scraps were pieced together and then appliqued onto the backing before the entire thing was quilted.

Back & front

So, I saw this post on Lifehacker earlier this week about using a Raspberry Pi and an old LCD to make a central activity center. I don’t have any old LCDs kicking around, nor any Raspberry Pies, but I did have an old Nook Color kicking around. It’s the Nook Color First Generation, so it’s pretty old and set in its ways by now. It’s also been replaced by a combination of an e-ink Nook Glow and an ASUS Transformer Prime. So my Nook Color has sat in a drawer, collecting dust, for about a year.

Now? It’s been ressurected and has new life! A friend of mine tossed on Cyanogenmod, and I automated a schedule with Tasker (which is a FANTASTIC app, by the way. If you don’t have it, I highly recommend getting it. Especially now that the price has dropped — it used to be about $6, now about $2.50) that switches between a weather app and a calendar app. It also plays a notification sound before scheduled events in the calendar between certain hours, and I’m working on a way to use the volume rockers to navigate through a list of apps.

For us, this is incredibly useful. Both the hubby and I keep non-traditional schedules that fluctuate pretty regularly. Instead of asking each other every day “When do you work? What are you doing?” we can take a quick glance at the calendar and already know. It’ll also help both of us keep track of joint events.

I still need to work on some cable management but in the meantime, it seems to be a pretty great solution and a pretty good use of old tech.

We don’t need no stinkin’ cable management!

This was one heck of a fun quilt! One of my close friends had a baby earlier this year (who is absolutely adorable!) and asked if I would make a twin-sized quilt for him. We picked a twin size because it seemed “the perfect” size… Both of us are in our mid/late twenties and both of us have a handmade blanket we use on the couch, all wrapped up in the cooler months, and both of those just happen to be twin-size. Let me tell you, getting to make quilts for babies is the best — especially when it’s the larger size quilts. Just think of all the memories they’re going to create with that qult! From blanket forts to wintertime snuggles, comfort when they’re sick or hurt.. the endless possibilities are just so endearing. I’m shipping it out in the mail tomorrow, and I’m so excited for my girlfriend to receive it! I hope it brings Silas many, many years of warmth and cuddles and love.

The first cuts

All the pieces

Making the pieces for the monkey wrench blocks

Fully finished!

100% Sash-recommended!

“Mom, I don’t want to move!”

Free-motion swirls in the blue boarder.

Stitching; this design is done all along the boarder.

Stitching

Stitching

Stitching

The backing is a flannel sheet bordered with brown flannel. I absolutely love how it turned out. Apparently, Sash does too!

The back — aren’t the colors just wonderful?

Embroidery. Easily one of my favourite parts. The embroidery was done on cotton, and then the cotton was fused to the quilt with no-sew fusing; I then stitched around the edges to give it a polished look.

Matching Pillowcases

Matching Pillowcases

All packed up and ready to go~

Kielbasa Soup

This makes…

• 16 cups or 8 1-cup servings

In…

• 20 minutes prep


• 40 minutes cooking


• 1 hour total time

You will need…

• 5 carrots (optional)


• 3 stalks celery (optional)


• 1 leek


• 1.5 lb potatoes


• 1 lb cabbage


• 15 oz kielbasa


• 3.5 qt chicken stock (or 3.5 qt water and 4 TB chicken bullion powder)


• 1/4 c butter


• 1/2 tsp marjoram


• 5 TBSP flour


• Salt & Pepper (to taste)

In order…

1. Cut butter in half. Set half aside. Melt other half in deep pan over medium heat. If using carrots and celery, roughly chop and sautee in butter 5 minutes.


2. Roughly chop the dark part of the leek, and thinly slice the white part. Roughly chop cabbage. Add both to the pan and sautee until soft.
   
   

   Leek

   
   
   

   Cabbage

   
   
   

   Sautee until soft



3. Add chicken stock to large stock pot. Add in the sauteed vegetables and bring to a boil over high heat. Reduce heat to low and let simmer for 15 minutes.


4. Melt remaining butter in a small saucepan. Add flour and stir constantly until thickened. Remove from heat and whisk in 2 cups of stock from the pot. It should get thick.
   
   

   Whisk!



5. Return this mixture to the stock pot and stir until incorporated.


6. Dice the potatoes and slice the kielbasa. Add them to the stock pot. Also add the marjoram, salt, and pepper. Bring to a simmer for 15 minutes, until potatoes are softened and kielbasa is warm.
   
   

   Kielbasa — cut on the diagonal

   
   
   

   Potatoes

   
   
   

   Simmering!

So, mama kitty has a name now: Dusty. And she’s been officially adopted by us! She was given a clean bill of health by the vet and after a round of vaccinations she’s been cleared to interact with the boys. Dusty & baby kitten spent a week quarantined in hubby’s office while we waited for the all-clear from the vet, and after that we slowly started to introduce her to the boys. It’s been going pretty well — there’s still some hissing, and everyone is still adjusting to their new place in the kitty-hierarchy, but they all seem relatively okay with one another. The only real issue that seems to be lingering is when one of the boys decides to roughhouse or hiss at the kitten — Dusty will jump right in and instigate trouble. But once kitten has a new home, that should resolve relatively quickly. That, and if one of the boys races past Dusty, she’ll give chase — and they don’t like that. There’s quite a bit of hissing and growling when that happens.

Speaking of which… baby has gotten his first round of shots and also has been cleared as healthy. And it’s very possible that this upcoming Monday he will be going to his new forever home! Exciting! But I do have to say that I will miss the little guy… he is such a cute, sweet, cuddly little thing! When I took him to the vet to get his vaccinations, he was such a little rockstar — all the vet techs and receptionists wanted to hold him and cuddle with him. I joke that I have a parrot instead of a kitten, because he loves to perch on your shoulder. He definitely will be missed… but I know that he’ll have a fantastic forever home; it’s looking like friends of hubby’s are going to be the ones to adopt him. So it’s looking like this weekend I’m going to have to get my fill — because once it’s over, he’ll be gone!

There’s something interesting outside!

Sunbathing

Om nom toy!

Oh look, paper!

It’s that sparkly yellow crinkle toy again!

Mine!

What? All the big cats sit in the window!

Mama, play with me!

In my neighbourhood, there are a lot of stray, abandoned, and feral cats wandering around. I also live on a street that has many people that adore cats. My next-door neighbour (we’ll call him Jim) has quite a few cats, most of them rescued from the neighbourhood. For example, take last summer: there was a sweet newcomer stray that my neighbour and I nicknamed “Cali” (she was a Calico cat — we’re so creative, aren’t we?). She had a litter of kittens in my woodpile mid-summer last year, so we made sure Cali was well-fed so she could feed the babies, and then Jim and I found homes for the babies. A friend of his took two of the kittens, and a woman up the street from us took the other two. Then, my neighbour adopted Cali. Next door to the woman up the street is another family that has adopted some of the neighbourhood cats, and the same can be said of a family down the street too. We try and take care of the popluation as best we can: we frequently trap-spay/neuter-release new cats we see in the neighbourhood to keep the population down, but that doesn’t account for the abandoned cats we see all the time.

And there’s a lot of abandoned cats. People get foreclosed on, can’t take their pets with them, and just leave them behind hoping that they’ll “make their way”. Cali was one of those abandoned cats.

So, earlier this summer a new kittyface showed up. She was sweet; she just wanted to be petted, and if you gave her some food that didn’t hurt. At first we thought she was someone’s housecat that had just gotten out, but she never disappeared. I scoped out ads, looking for someone saying “lost cat”, but never came across this sweet little girl. Now, my house has a screen door, with a glass bottom (top is screen, bottom is glass). My boys like to sit in front of the door and look out, since that’s the closest they ever get to the great outdoors. One day, this new kittyface comes up to the glass door and just sits there, staring in. Locke sat on the other side, staring out. He put up his paw, she put up her paw, and BAM! She earned the nickname “Locke’s girlfriend”. Over the course of a month, maybe a little longer, every day she’d come up onto the porch and lay on one side of the glass, and Locke would lay on the other. If she didn’t come by, Locke would get pacy and bounce from window to window, looking for her approach. At the same time, if you had to go in or out of the front door, she’d try her best to slip inside if you weren’t careful.

Locke & Locke’s Girlfriend

So after about four months of her hanging around the house, I went to go talk to Jim and see if he’d been able to find if she belonged to anyone, since my search had come up empty. He hadn’t. Now, my husband has said time and again: no more cats. We have two cats, two geckos, and a fishtank. We’re a zoo already. No more animals. And honestly, I tend to agree with him. So if anything, if we were to adopt this sweet kittyface, she’d be an indoor/outdoor cat. If she wanted to go outside and run around, fine. If someone else decided they wanted to keep her, fine. We would take care of her inasmuch as that meant getting her some vaccinations, getting her fixed (if she wasn’t already), and letting her do her thing. And I agreed. So I packed her up in a kitty crate and called the vet to make an appointment… only to find that they’re booked solid until next Friday. So I made the appointment for next Friday, let her outside, and went about my day.

Early afternoon, my husband had to run some errands. Since I was parked behind him in the driveway, we had to swap cars. When we were done, and I was walking back toward the porch I saw Locke’s Girlfriend in the flowerbed. Aw, how cute. And then… could it be… does she…? It was! Locke’s Girlfriend had a little kitten with her! I waved my husband over and we snagged the little tyke, and hunted around for more. We found where Mama and baby had been nesting, but there was no sign of any other kittens. So we took the two inside and I sequestered them in my husband’s office (it’s being used as storage right now anyway).

Mama & baby

The kitten is probably about 6 – 8 weeks, at best guess. Her eyes are open, and she’s walking, using the litter box, drinking formula, and attempting to eat food. So now these two will remain here for the next week, until their vet appointment. Both of them need to be cleared of anything they could give to my boys (like FeLV) before we introduce them to the rest of the house. We will definitely be finding a home for the little kitten, as I don’t want a house with four cats. Hopefully once they’re cleared health-wise we can convince a friend, or our friends can convince their friends, to take the little one home with them. I mean, I don’t want to sound like a bad guy, but I don’t want a house with four cats. I don’t even really want a house with three cats, but Locke’s Girlfriend seems to have chosen us, for better or worse. If she spent most of her time outdoors and came in to eat and sleep I would be okay with that. But it’s enough trouble to keep my house clean as it is! (And anyone that knows me knows I clean religiously… the last thing I want is someone dropping by and having my house smell like cat!).

So, we’ll enjoy the kitten while she’s here, and take lots of cute little cat videos to remember her by, and then hopefully find a forever home for her. In the meantime, enjoy some of the kitten videos we’ve already taken!

http://youtu.be/48uRcdoIwpg

http://youtu.be/HRAF9CWJwUU

About a year ago, I started a project to make a multi-touch table. It used a short-throw projector and some mirrors, IR LEDs, modified cameras, and specialised software. Once I made the proof-of-concept, it sat in our living room for four months while I was in school. Since we weren’t doing anything with it, I tore it down and stowed the pieces.

A few months after that, my husband and I decided to create a very nice entertainment setup. We cribbed the short-throw projector from the touch-table project, purchased a ceiling mount, and a 100-inch ceiling-mounted projection screen. We also decided to purchase a low-end home theatre system.

So, let me take a moment to explain our home theatre system. We have three devices: A PS3, an XBOX 360, and a cable box. We also occasionally connect a computer or laptop into the system so that we can play games via Steam on the projector. What I wanted to do (eventually), was mount a small television in the kitchen, so that while I’m preparing dinner I could stream Netflix or watch the news without having to turn the living room television volume up to insane levels. I also wanted a setup where my husband could play video games in the living room while I’m in the kitchen watching the news. So it was a key point that we couldn’t just use a splitter: a splitter duplicates the signal across both outputs of the device. We needed something that would take multiple inputs and output two different signals. We also decided that the living room TV and the projector would duplicate displays, since chances were that if we had the projector on, we wouldn’t be watching the living room television.

So, in the end, we settled on a Kinivo 4×2 matrix. It’s a pretty nifty device. It can take up to four inputs and output two different signals. So, for example, if the cable box is connected to port 1 on the matrix, and the PS3 is connected to port two, we could output the PS3 to the living room TV and the cable to the kitchen TV (or vice-versa) at the same time. It’s pretty much exactly what we needed. We called an electrician to install an outlet in the ceiling, and I got started wiring my system together.

Entertainment System Diagram

The only thing that we outsourced was the electrician — I don’t know nearly enough about mains power to be safe. So the electrician ran an outlet, and I ran an HDMI cable through the attic and down the wall according to code; I also ran the speaker wires, and wired all the components together. The setup was pretty perfect… we could play games on the Projector or the living room TV, the surround sound worked fine. Every once in awhile, when I would connect my laptop into the system there’d be tiny little white sparks, but I chalked that up to static cling discharging…

… Until last Saturday. Last Saturday was a trip and a half. Last Saturday, I was in the process of connecting my PC into the system so that I could play some games while waiting for guests to arrive (it just so happened that last Saturday was also our monthly ‘Saturday Night Game Night’). A few guests had already shown up and we were chatting away while I hooked the HDMI cable from the matrix into my PC.

The next thing I know, someone is screaming “Fire! Fire! Sparks!”. I immediately yanked the HDMI cable out of my PC and shut it down. I then shut off the power to the entertainment system and it’s various components, while a friend put out the fire. As it turns out, the HDMI cable that ran from the projector to the splitter caught on fire! There were sparks coming from the HDMI devices that were connected to the matrix, so that was our first culprit. We also suspected the splitter, based on the multimeter readings. Any HDMI port that was connected to the system was completely toasted (except, interestingly, the home theatre receiver — that’s the only device that escaped unscathed). Over the course of the week,  I’ve spent hours talking to customer service about appropriate multimeter readings, ordering replacement parts, getting equipment repair quotes, and setting up RMA orders. In the course of talking to a tech from Kinivo, he recommended we get the outlet checked. So I called up our electrician and had him come out.

So he comes out. A quick test, and come to find out we have a hot/neutral reverse in our junction box in the attic that is connected to the outlet. Why he didn’t catch the issue when he first installed the outlet, I have no idea. This means we’ve had an improperly wired outlet for the past half a year, and every time a device has been plugged in, the neutral has been hot! So it’s very likely that the outlet is our culprit. Considering that it was the HDMI cable that was connected to the projector that caught on fire, and the projector was connected to the outlet that was connected to the improperly wired junction box… (The toe bone’s connected to the heel bone; the heel bone’s connected to the foot bone; the foot bone’s connected to the ankle bone…). If the HDMI ports in the projector are connected to the neutral, that makes it even more likely.

So, in the end, the damages are:

Kinivo 4×2 matrix – Replaced free (under warranty)

Splitter          - $25 (works, but I didn’t like the multimeter readings, so I replaced)

PS3               – $99 RMA repair

Cable box         – Replaced free by AT&T

Projector         – $30 RMA repair (under warranty), self-paid shipping

ASUS Monitor      - Repaired free (under warranty)

New HDMI cables   – $40 (CL3-certified in-wall was $30, shorter generic cables were $10)

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- $194 total cost

So, tomorrow I’ll head down to the UPS center and drop off all the equipment that needs to be RMA’d or repaired. All in all, it hasn’t been a fun week, and it looks to be another week or two before we’re back up and running completely. I’m just thankful no one was hurt, but holy shnikies this is an adventure I don’t want to have ever again… At least it made game night a little more interesting?

IKEA Craft Table

The finished product

So, I started this craft table awhile ago. It’s a mashup of IKEA’s Vika Furuskog table top and two Expedit 2×2 shelves. I needed a large workspace where I could cut my quilting fabric without wrecking my back (a known problem — the living room coffee table, where I’ve been cutting my fabric for the past five years, is definitely too low; our kitchen counters are too high). It turns out that if you put the Furuskog on top of the Expedit unit, it’s almost the perfect height. I’d say it’s about an inch too short — but that’s just being picky. It gave me a bunch of storage, and there’s just enough room in the center for a chair. The Furuskog is unfinished pine, so I treated it with two coats of Minwax Ipswitch Pine and about five coats of satin poly. I used four L-brackets to secure the top to the Expedits. The only thing left to do is to cut a hole and build a platform into the top, so that the sewing machine bed is level with the top of the table; it should make quilting a LOT easier. I’ve also put a little nail in one of the Expedits to hang my mats and rulers; there’s about a one inch lip, because the Expedits are wider than the table… I’m still figuring out what to do about that. I’m thinking that maybe I could build little utility pockets and use the lip to attach them, so that while I’m sewing the things I use most often are within reach. And perhaps on the other side, build something that will hold a little trash bag for all my trash scrap.

Gecko Cages

So, I have two leopard geckos: Mr. Gecko and Ember/Little Gecko. Before we adopted Locke & Sash into our homes, I had modified two 29g long aquarium tanks as their homes; using aquarium tanks is common with reptiles — they’re the perfect size and super cheap if you can get one on sale. What I did was stack them one on top of the other, and affix sliding window screens so that the geckos couldn’t get out. This was great, until the kittens were old enough/big enough to jump up and bat at the geckos — they’d get their little kitty claws into the screen and slide down, effectively ripping the screen and endangering the geckos. So for almost six months we’ve kept the geckos in the office, and kept the office closed so the kittens couldn’t get to them. Meanwhile, I’m racking my brain trying to come up with a solution. I have a decent one for now. Basically, I took four panes of window replacement glass, cut a scant 1/4 inch off the long edge, used clear packing tape along the edges, and fit two panes per tank into the ‘lip’ (where an aquarium top would usually rest). I then took some 1″ moulding, spray painted it black, and glued the moulding in place with some E6000 over the panes so that they wouldn’t fall forward. In the end, I have two sliding glass ‘doors’ on the front of each gecko tank. The only thing I’m concerned about is airflow — while there’s no way this is airtight, I have noticed on a morning or two that there’s condensation on the inside of the glass, so there’s obviously not enough of an air exchange to keep this from happening. This isn’t good, since leopard geckos are not a high-humidity lizard. They don’t like things wet and soppy. I’ve also noticed that the paper towel I have in their tanks for them to mess on often feel damp (whereas they didn’t previously). I’m not sure how to solve this, other than to open the cages and let them air out for a little bit each day.

Old cage with screens

New cage with glass; the right side is open by about 1″

New cage with glass

Little Free Library

So, this is on my todo list… I really like the concept of a Little Free Library. We have a ton of kids in our neighbourhood, and I say the more you can do to get kids to read the better! I’m a voracious reader. I love reading. I love curling up on the couch with a book (be it paper or ebook), maybe a cup of tea, and just losing myself for a few hours in the depths of a great story. I’d have a little bit of everything… books for the young kids, scifi, mystery… remember Goosebumps? I’m sure I could find some of those books at goodwill or a second hand store! And we have the perfect spot out front, a little flower island right at the end of the driveway, next to the street (we have no sidewalks here). It’d be perfect!

*Please note that any products linked to in this post are because I like/use them, and I’m not getting paid to link to them. 

Locke, cuddled up under the blanket and sleeping next to me.

It started innocently enough about four months ago. Locke, our large and fluffy grey and white, would meow at the bedroom door around 7 AM. Cute, right? He knows we get up around 7, and he just wants his cuddle time and food. In the morning, when my first alarm would go off, I’d get out of bed and open the door; both cats would rush in and jump on the bed and cuddle with the humans. Then, when my second alarm would go off, I’d get up and give them their food, and go about my morning.

Slowly, ever so slowly, Locke started meowing earlier and earlier. And he’s not a cat with a feeble, pathetic meow. He’d sit outside the bedroom door, bellycrying, sticking his paws under the door. So I’d get up earlier and earlier, and let him in. Eventually, that wasn’t good enough! He’d continue to meow, even though we’d let him in the room. So I’d get up and feed him. Nope, that’s not what he wanted. Water? Nope. Playtime? Nope. Cuddles? Nope. Petting? Nope! Nothing I could do would appease this cat. We even put him on a leash to take him outside (which he loves, by the way. We just can’t let him outside on his own because the wildlife and other stray cats would tear him to pieces. Not to mention, we’re not exactly suburban. I don’t want him getting hit by cars.)

The past month or so has been pretty unbearable in the early hours in our house. 5:30 AM Locke starts meowing, won’t be consoled. Sometimes, it seems like getting out of bed and sitting on the couch is enough to appease him — oftentimes, it’s not. Sometimes, we thought the birds were enticing him, or a stray cat (or some other animal in the backyard). But there wasn’t enough consistency in what set him off and what consoled him that we had any definitive clue. And we checked the typical things: He’s had the same cat litter since he was a kitten. Had the same cat litter pan, in the same place. His food is the same brand (both dry and wet). He hasn’t been getting any less food in recent months. He has a ton of toys laying around, we make sure to play with him every day. He has “smart” toys (like a little ball that he rolls around to get dry food). He didn’t have anything tragic or startling happen to him recently (or even not-so recently).

Yesterday, he did me in. He cried from 5:30 AM until he cried himself to sleep at 11 AM. Around 8:30 I called the vet and made an appointment for that afternoon because he really just would. not. stop. I mean, there has to be a medical reason, right?

…Apparently not. Apparently, my cat just likes to annoy his human overlords. He has an entirely clean bill of health, and a note that says “exceptionally curious”… mostly due to him jumping around the vet’s examination room like he owned the place. He also “may just be exceptionally sensitive to things going on outside — like birds and animals — and want to play outside, too.” Well, sorry bub, I’m not getting up at 5:30 AM to put you on a leash to take you outside and play for an hour. We need a different solution. The vet recommended kitty pheromones.

Well, it can’t hurt to try, right? So after my second trip to PetSmart in just as many days, Locke now has a kitty pheromone spray and a pheromone diffuser thingy. It’s like a Glade air-freshener, but for kitties. So we’re going to test this stuff out for a month and see what happens. Hopefully it turns my little monster back into the sweet little kitty he was five months ago. While I was at PetSmart, though, I saw something called a ThunderShirt and it (supposedly) works on the same deep-pressure therapy principle that they use for autistic kids. I didn’t pick one up (that’s a pricey $40 right there!) but when I got home I made up one out of some scrap fabric I had lying around the house. I figure it can’t hurt to try it, at the very least. Mine is a clumsy approximation of what they sell in the stores, but if it works I can always either revise my version, or buy an actual ThunderShirt.

And even though I it’s only Day 1, I have to say… today was the first day that I wasn’t woken up at 5 AM by a little meowing buttface kitty! It was almost as if he’d reverted to his old routine… meowing at 7 AM, coming in, and cuddling up right next to me and falling asleep! I actually got 7 hours of unbroken, constant sleep! Now, I’m realistic. It’s Day 1. There’s many more days to come. And if it really is the pheromones that are working, I’d like to get at the root cause of Locke’s issues rather than using the pheromone stuff all the time. Not only is it pricey, but it can’t be good to use it all the time, right? But man, I have to admit… being able to sleep felt really good.

Locke and Sash, laying in bed first thing in the morning.