more like mâché

in which our plucky heroine tries something new...

I continue to gradually heal from my extensive surgery. Yesterday at suppertime I tried a single dose of CBD for pain (since the OTC meds aren't doing much to help). I was pleased to find that it worked well, and that I was pain free for longer. It had, as I expected, none of the mental effects of the weed of my youth, but merely did what the Tylenol had been unsuccessfully attempting. It is good to have another tool in my medicine cupboard.

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~ creativity challenge ~

I tried it and I liked it. "Spun cotton" is not really spun, but more akin to "cotton mâché". I pulled apart a cotton ball into little shreds, and applied them to the foil armature using an old paintbrush and some diluted white glue. It was easy, and rather fun. Once it is fully dry, the next steps will be to paint it, add any fur/hair, and create a body using the tiny rag doll pattern ...

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Yesterday I walked 6¼ miles. That I'm not completely exhausted this morning is amazing. I'm not going to walk anywhere near that far today, to allow my body to catch up , (and because Wellingtons person told me that he didn't actually need that lengthy amount of walking, and that lil doggo was using his Jedi mind powers to convince me!)

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beauty in the time of isolation:

a charming pink and white anemone
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July SMART goals (x=extra)

#	THINGS MADE	THINGS FIXED	THINGS GONE
1	fox head blank	fabric stash sorted/culled	yard waste bin
2	-	lower L molar surgery	recycle bin
3	-	Nandina painted shoes	big bag of fabric
4	-	removed burned apples	big bag of fabric
5	-	pruned lower apple limb	big bag of fabric
6	x	x	big bag of fabric
7	x	x	x
8	x	x	x
9	x	x	x
10	x	x	x
11	x	x	x
12	x	x	x
13	x	x	x
14	x	x	x
15	x	x	x

today's gratitude - living in the future, where things unimaginable to Past Me are a matter of course. I am thinking about the cannabis dispensaries, and billboards offering various options, and comparing it to the culture of secrecy when I was a young thing...