January and early February

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I hope everyone is having a great 2023 so far, and a prosperous Year of the Rabbit. I know the news is bad to depressing, and it's hard to pay very much attention to that and keep one's spirits up. I find I have to spend time away from it, remind myself what I'm grateful for, and keep moving forward with projects and plans, and pet care.

My pets are my personal playmates, friends, teachers, healing influence, and always my babies. My two indoor cats, Frodo and Persia, will be 12 years old this spring. I can't believe it's that long since we bottle-raised all those kittens we rescued, of which they were the two we kept. I don't know what my life would be like without them. 

I'm working on getting my tax information ready to go, at the moment, and I'm contemplating spring.

I posted a few times on my other blogs since my last post here, so here's a little catch-up:

Swatches Yarns and Frogs (my knitting blog):

How knitting plans change
in which I switched gears from sweater planning, knitting and maybe frogging, to quickly make some fingerless mitts for my spouse who badly wanted some.

Fingerless mitts
in which I shared the finished mitts.

Mystery of a Shrinking Violet (my books and writing blog):

My Year 2022 in books
in which I listed my favorite reads of the year

Valentines Day Jane Austen variations
one of which is a repeat and one a new-to-me book, both featuring valentines

The Journal Project (my journaling blog):

The variety of journals I keep
in which I share most of the journal formats I currently use, and why so many

I'm also now at Instagram, as mysteryofashrinkingviolet .

I hope you'll visit me at my blogs or on IG, or just here at DreamWidth if you wish. Comments always welcome.