Sad news at home

Hi everyone! I am so sorry that I have not been around these past couple of days, but our pet rabbit Einstein died this last Thursday so I am really sad. He was with us for 11 years. He died in my arms. I do not know what killed him but I am supposing old age. I don't know of too many rabbits that have lived that long. So I have had to bury two of my best friends this year. My dog died this summer.  We had two pomeranians, brothers, so the one brother (Sparky) is doing great and I pray he stays with us for a very long time and well Sparky was so sad after losing his brother that he would do nothing but set by the door waiting for his bro to come back. Needless to say we were all very sad for him. So I decided it would be best to get a cat which we did (Sparky does like cats) so Sparky would have a little friend to keep him company. Not that we could every replace his brother, but at least he doesn't sit by the door sad all the days & nights away.     I did have a break-thru with me crocheted lengths and I was correct in suspecting that my yarn was stretching so I deducted an inch and am crocheting 7 " chains on my hook and it stretchs to the 8" it is supposed to be, so that makes me happy to have that part figured out and I have crocheted 3 more squares! Well I hope and pray all of you lovely folks are doing fine and are in good spirits!!! Happy knitting and crocheting :0) Shalom,Pamela