All bad things come in threes, or urgent-care twice in one day!

This is a week of injury for me. Yuck! besides the getting all banged up after tripping over the divot in the parking lot last Saturday...I woke up yesterday with a very sore ear, so spent the morning at Urgent Care and got it looked at, with a prescription for antibiotic ear drops. Went about my busy day, working, house fixing, getting ready for Art in the Pearl demo... by dinnertime I noticed that my right arm/wrist was being hard to bend, and that the little scratched place on my wrist had turned all red and swollen and a long red streak was headed up my inner arm! Eeep, I know this is not good, so I manage to make it back to Urgent Care before they close, and I get seen my the same (nice) doctor that I saw that morning. Yes I was here earlier, no this was not a problem then .

They cultured the wound, and I got sent home with oral antibiotics, and instructions for care. Today the arm is worse. I am doing everything that the doctor suggested to help healing. The culture results won't be in till Sunday. It is gorram Labor day weekend and I am supposed to be doing a cloisonne demo at Art in the Pearl on Sunday, which will be damn difficult with an arm that is all swollen and painful. I hope the antibiotic starts working soon, this is actually scaring me, and I wish that I had computer access at home, I'm at the library right now, while out doing errands like picking up more epsom salts to soak my arm, and getting some food for the four houseguests I expect this weekend.

I am not sure why my body has chosen this week to do all this...I sometimes manage to get the message within the occurrence, but what obvious thing am I not noticing, that would generate all this injury. Or is it just the random unfolding of the universe... anyway, if anyone wants to send healing thoughts my way, I would be grateful...

ashes ashes all fall down

On Saturday, on my way home from Mr Plywood, I stopped at the Concordia New Seasons for a snack. I fell in their parking lot, the asphalt was worn and uneven. So instead of finishing the window trim project, I got to spend Saturday night at the ER where the groovy digital X-rays determined that my wrist and thumb were not broken. So I am all wrenched and bruised, but my hands should feel better, hopefully before too long.

I am doing a demo on Cloisonne Enameling this weekend at Art In The Pearl, on Sunday afternoon. Should be interesting, it has been years since I did a public demo. Am expecting Bill, and Jen, and Travis and Molly, down from Olympia, as Bill and Travis are also demo-ing, on Monday.

The hens have started laying again, Hooray!

can we build it, yes we can...

This morning when I was working cleaning the home of my client in Sellwood, the children were watching "Bob the Builder". Somehow I've never seen this cartoon before.... So when I came home to Acorn Cottage, after stopping at the Environmental Home Center, where I found a gallon of creamy white Safecoat no-VOC trim paint in the mistint corner (yay, $8/gallon instead of over $30), I decided to finally get off my duff and start the cutting and putting together of the window trim for the workroom.

I have been gathering useful bits of wood from the Re-Building Center for the last several weeks. And no magic knight on a white horse with a chop saw in his, or her, saddlebags is going to show up and magically transform the workroom. It is going to be me, figuring it out as I go along. (As well as help from my awesome band of friends) But mostly it is going to be me, and today I made a start. Measured and cut and used the scarey saber saw, and the sureform rasp, and cut out the first set of trim, and painted the first coat of paint. I'm going to do the window trim in stages, as I'm not sure enough of how it will all fit together to cut it out all at once. But I've begun. and even though I have done bits here and there with wood, it is not a skill I have a lot of confidence in myself...this feels like leaping yet another hurdle, but in a good way.