I got a letter addressed to me personally from the Bank. Seems a site of a “nationally known businesss” got its datebase hacked and my Visa check card # was in there. So they’re sending a new card.  The odd thing is I don’t use that card for purchases online that much. Somewhere I read that you have specific rights with credit cards and goodies like fraud insurance, but “debit cards” are a grey area so now I use a regular credit card. Although in the past, I think I might have used the Visa debit for things like airline tickets. I did see a weird charge last month and called the bank right away. I looked up the name of the company and it was a firm that sold laboratory equipment. The charge was reversed in a couple of days. Now I’m imagining a young mad scientist financing his crystal meth operation with hacked credit cards!

The Dogs :  Tesla  has been having a lot of digestive troubles and Vera definitely has allergies, so I’m going to vary their diet more. For a few months they’ve been eating a venison/rice kibble. Then I  read a distressing article that said sometimes that “venison” is road kill! Silly me- guess I thought there were  deer farms raising venison for the  pet industry! Doh! So, I bought a small bag of a lamb/rice formula (with no obvious bad components- like corn)  to see how they do with it and mixed it half and half with the other kibble.  Tonight for their evening meal they’re getting chicken stewed with barley and peas & carrots. So many dogs now (like ours) have allergies. Also, it seems like pets get cancer has much as people. The crap they put in their food has to have something to do with this.  On a happier note,  I offered Vera some plain yogurt and she really likes it!

Knitting: Sock # 1 is well on its way. I’ll probably start making the heel later today. I won’t take a picture to show you until it really looks like a sock!

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