This little girl, having lost her hair again to chemotherapy, asked her mother to do her hair. The joy she felt when her mother placed a hair clip was priceless.
Little angel seeing beauty in everything despite what she is going through https://t.co/nX4inGYh4J
I’m happy to wave, “Bye-Bye” to August. I’m hoping that September will bring a calming down of the weather, a deep breath of the coming fall, a more relaxing time for us all.
For the past two days, I’ve spent half the day editing items on my Etsy site, HandmadeHavenbyLinda. I received an email from them saying that my stuff would be ‘seen’ and show up in more search engines if I included more pics of each of my items. I don’t have money to throw around, but these changes don’t cost anything but my time, so I’m plowing through, trying to do the editing on one page each day. Laborious, but will hopefully be good for the long run.
I didn’t make it up to my art room yesterday, but I plan to today. I’ve had active dreams lately. The night before last, it was my long-lived standard nightmare of being lost and late, moving faster and faster as the dream progresses, getting more and more frightened. Last night, happily, my nightmare was replaced by me watching myself working on the new wood-burned pieces. MUCH better. :0)
At dinnertime last night our power suddenly went out. After several seconds, the generator came on. Then it went off and it looked like we would get power back, then off again. This happened several times over the space of about half an hour before the public power was restored and stable. I have no clue why we lost power. The sun was shining. I really don’t like it when our generator has to work so hard turning on and off again over and over, but am grateful for our setup.
The power outage was a good lesson for me in another way. My husband said his computer hadn’t been affected. I assumed it was the same for mine, but found out my computer was off, even though I have a UPS (Uninterruptible Power Supply) into which my computer is plugged. It either didn’t work or the power was off longer than the UPS will run. I asked my husband, the former computer analyst and fixer of all things electronic. He simply looked at me and threw up his hands – our new normal.
I rebooted my computer and got a screen I’ve never seen before. It scared me. I finally figured out to hit F1 for setup and then carefully made choices I hoped would get things back to the way they were before we lost power. I did it, with my heart in my throat, newly aware that “I” am now the fix-it person here. :0(
We are due for a somewhat rainy day today and more tomorrow. Hopefully, our power will stay on, or the generator came come on and stay on until the power is back.
I’m feeling a bit like a zombie this morning. I had to get up several times in the night, had real trouble finding a comfortable position, and then had bad dreams. I’m looking forward to a nice nap after lunch.
We’re supposed to have cooler temperatures and rain off and on from today through Sunday. I’ll selfishly take it. :0)
Etsy has a thing new to me where they mark your listings so you can see their suggestions for improving visibility. I have several listings where I only have one image, and they are suggesting that I have more, so I started yesterday editing those listings. It looks like it’ll take at least a couple more days to go through all of them. It could be a good thing.
I worked on two new wood burned pieces yesterday. I’m making plaques with pegs for leashes and such – one for dogs and the other for cats. I got a good start, and am having fun trying different techniques.
I hope you have a fun Friday and a great holiday weekend.
I’m a bit embarrassed to tell you that I’m slow on the uptake every once in a while. I just figured out a few minutes ago that Monday is Labor Day. The main reason that this is important to me is –
My dad used to boast that he was born on an appropriate day – Labor Day – in 1919. It was on September 6th that year, but I think fondly of him every Labor Day, mentally picturing him smirking at his ‘achievement.’ Gosh, I miss him.
We usually drive our trash down to the bottom of our driveway on Monday’s mid-morning, for pickup on Tuesday. Since Monday is Labor Day, Monday’s trash will be picked up Tuesday, etc, throughout the week. So I’ve changed my calendar for us to take the trash down TUESDAY for WEDNESDAY pickup – an important event around here. :0)
This is my newest wood burning effort. I’ve just listed him on Etsy.
I’m kind of disappointed. I told you that our tomatoes started ripening and that we were planning on enjoying fresh ripe sliced tomatoes again. My husband says they taste ‘funny,’ and has decided he doesn’t want anymore and won’t eat them. I’m still enjoying them, but can’t plan them as a delicious side for our lunches and dinners now. I guess I’ll end up pulling the plants.
Right now it’s 84 degrees outside with a ‘feels like’ of 96. Since the actual temperature is due to get to 97 degrees this afternoon, it sounds like it’s a great day to stay inside. (Frying like an egg on the sidewalk is not my idea of a good time.) I do think we’re supposed to get a bit cooler as we get to the weekend. YEA!!!
I’m starting two new plaques in my art room. Each will have two pegs. One will be for cats and the other for dogs. It’ll be fun working on them, and my husband says he’ll help me attach the pegs when the wood-burning and painting are finished. :0)
I particularly love this art because of the celebration of real life, rather than a dramatic representation of ‘sculpture,’ if that makes any sense. The real looking subjects, with bare feet, wrinkled sweaters, slumped shoulders really speaks to me. I just love it.
I finished another wood-burned piece yesterday. The only thing it needs is a protective coat of varnish.
My friend Marsha suggested I make wood-burned sign/plaques for pets with pegs for leashes, etc. I ordered what I needed and plan to start one for a dog and one for a cat today. My husband said he would help me attach the pegs once the designs are done. :0)
My cleanup of my art room is progressing. You can see there are actual counter tops and tables in there now! The work continues.
We have a bunch of quick errands plus my husband’s haircut this morning and then the rest of the day is free.
Good morning! It’s beautiful and 75 degrees F. here in Arkansas right now. The ‘feels like’ will go to 103 this afternoon, but I’ll get out this morning to harvest some more tomatoes and will avoid being out when the ‘hotness’ is at its peak.
I think we have a quiet day ahead, with no real ‘plans’ today, other than retrieving our trash can, getting our mail, and maybe replenishing a grocery or two –
I’m working on my latest wood-burned piece in my art room, and making progress on the big clean up. I started to go through some stuff up there yesterday afternoon, but was quickly overwhelmed and decided to skip it for the day. I want to end up with ‘areas’ of supplies and storage with old, used up or dried up things GONE and what is left organized in a fashion that makes it easier for me to put my hand on things. I hope I can make this a reality.
Today’s harvest
I’m just THRILLED that we’re getting ripe tomatoes again. I really thought we were finished for the year when we went essentially a month with green tomatoes that were showing absolutely no signs of ripening. We are savoring each mouthful.
I hope you’re having a nice morning. We’re back to our too-hot-regular-summer weather here. Our plants are starting to revive a bit. For quite a while there, it didn’t matter that we were watering every day, even increasing the time on the irrigation system, things were just overwhelmed by the ‘intense heat warnings.’ It’s really nice to be back to ‘regular,’ where the tomatoes have started to ripen again, the elephant ear plants are sprouting new leaves, and lilies and roses are starting to bloom again. Ahhhh.
Big Stock Photo
It’s funny. I’m making progress on cleaning the art room, but the progress so far can only be measured by the fact that I have a 13 gallon trash bag’s worth of things I’ve gathered to throw away this week.
If you walked in there right now, it looks like someone needs to clean and reorganize. But that is better than wondering when the bomb exploded… Each day I’m enjoying doing more on whatever wood-burning piece I’m working on and then zeroing in on a table that needs to be cleaned off, or some things that need to be gathered and stored together somewhere. Something needs to be tossed. Something saved, but not ‘here.’ You get the picture. But it IS getting better daily.
Our only ‘have-to’s today are gathering and driving our trash down for pickup tomorrow and getting our mail. YEA.
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