Crazy but true... all these pieces are for your eyes, and the littel one in front hangs from a chain and you hold it up to your eye and look through a beautiful clear gemstone to see a kaleidascope world... very amazing. The one on the left is made of brass and actually telescopes in and out... Don't you think these fine pieces could be in the next Star Trek movie?
My boss Chris, and his sister Audrey...mom of the star Chelsea
Chelsea -proud grad... Beautiful work. The piece behind and to the right is a magnificent magnifier with candles tucked into her personal leaf motif... very beautiful!
Audrey, Chelsea and Tibo, in front.
Emil and I took in the grad show on Friday night, then after our schmozzing, we went to Bogus town for a bite. By then I was starting to notice I couldn't smell anything and my head was feeling quite stuffed... ( not to mention my belly)
We spent the night at our town huse ( Stan's) and that was sure nice... Thanks Stan... We even brought Silky there and she spent the night as well. One thing I didn't count on was the downpour of rain and hail first thing in the morning whe we were leaving... I didn't bother with a coat since it was so pleasant and warm on Friday... Even Silky wouldn't stop in the rain to take a pee!
We spent some quality time in town, had a little A&W breakfast and did some groceries and were back home by noon...in time for me to get down to my garen. The sun had poked its head out intermittantly..enough to give me courage to plant some seeds!
After that, week-end went by in a frenzy, especially once I felt this nasty cold/cough/earache thing coming on... I hope you don't have it yet! Seems like everyone in our neighbourhood has had it, including Emil ,who mysteriously is getting better!
Here is hwat happened to my nice "Stokes" weeder tool when I tried to dig up a nasty dandylion... yep, she snapped right in half. The Stokes folks will send me a replacement free of charge... how nice of them!
Here is hwat happened to my nice "Stokes" weeder tool when I tried to dig up a nasty dandylion... yep, she snapped right in half. The Stokes folks will send me a replacement free of charge... how nice of them!
I worked my hiney off on Saturday in my garden and actually accomplished a ton... planted some salad greens, and fifty gladiola bulbs... Now who was the crazy who bought all of them? Now I have to plant some sweetpeas, which I discovered that I never ordered from Stokes. Thats ok...they will be sent with my replacement weeder. I still have about two thousand dandelions to weed out of my raspberry patch. For some reason they have a knack of lodging themselves right next to or on top of another plant. I already hacked off about five lilies just trying to remove one dandelion... It was a biggy and wasn't the one that broke the tool...just broke my heart instead!
By the time I came in from gardening ,every body part was frozen cold and aching and my cold was worse than ever... I headed for the jacuzzi and some muscle soak and some nice smelling eucalyptus bath salts that Annette sent me.
On Sunday morning , I awoke , feeling much better ...not so achy in the joints!
On Sunday morning , I awoke , feeling much better ...not so achy in the joints!
I cooked up a big pot of beet borscht for John and Ronda, who popped over later in the afternoon. We heard the whole story of Ron's surprise... getting a brand spanking new ATV from his thoughtful wife, Phoebe! Such a nice treat for him... he certainly deserved it!
I called it an early night after dinner with John and Ronda as I could feel my head getting stuffier every minute ( like it is now) .
Thanks to John and Ronda for coming over... always nice to have a little visit with them. We will see more of them this summer as they have some camping and golfing in mind!
Ok... its past my bedtime and Silky has come looking for me to go to bed...
Have a good week everyone and try not to catch this miserable germ. I can't complain as I think it has been well over a year or maybe two since I have even had a sniffle!
"The Creator"
