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A pansy emerged from the urn that is currently full of dead leaves. I noticed it yesterday. I love these late in the season surprises. I planted these in the early spring and there haven’t been any flowers for quite a while. That made my day yesterday.

We have yet to get our flu shots. We saw a sign in the grocery store pharmacy the other day saying they were currently overwhelmed by prescriptions, vaccinations, etc. So we held off. We’ll call today and see if anything is available.

And speaking of vaccinations, stay safe. More positive cases in the cast. There are understudies, of course, but the key point here is: these people are careful. Unless onstage performing, they’re wearing masks. The audience is required to wear masks. And still…

Covid is very much with us and it remains a threat. So many times when I go out, I am one of a few people, if not the only one, wearing a mask. No one confronts me or anything like that. People around here don’t seem fazed if you’re wearing a mask, thank goodness. I realize I’m preaching to the choir here; nevertheless, be careful out there.

Lots of work on the puzzle yesterday. Don was writing a new song. Both of us were totally immersed in what we were doing for a long time. Then we stayed up too late watching something on tv and Don kept snoring and I woke up coughing and the result is that I’m not feeling very rested today.

This, too, shall pass.

Stay safe.

Happy Wednesday.

 

Sunlight on Roses

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Sunlight and roses. That only lasted a few minutes while the sun was fully rising this morning.

Don is going to the farmer’s market this morning to take photos. It’s the first time he’s been there in quite a while. He thinks he can handle it since he had that cortisone shot. If it becomes painful, I’ve made him promise to leave early.

I have a lot of laundry to do today. Exciting, right?

I was going to attempt to make a dress for my girls yesterday, but my skills need a great deal of improvement. It’s quite difficult to sew on such a small scale. Plus, my sewing machine is not working right, so that was frustrating. I haven’t tried the Featherweight because I know the tension needs adjusting and the last time I tried to do that, it didn’t work. A very frustrating morning. Plus, I tried to replace some eye chips on one of the girls and I couldn’t get the original chips to come out.

The only thing that did work was an adjustment on Lucy. She has a neck joint that I’ve never liked. It worked for some positions, but every time her head moved backward, it became very wobbly. So I thought I’d take her head apart again and see if I could fix it. Nope. Just as bad. Then I remembered that I had an extra neck joint on hand, so I unscrewed the ball joint from her neck and replaced it with the new one and Lucy is a very happy camper.

So, the score is one success, two sort-of-fails. I’ll try again on the sewing and the eye chips, but maybe not for a while.

BUT, I do have a new puzzle to start today, so that’s exciting.

Stay safe.

Happy Sunday.

Roses

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Surprise roses from Don. They’re really beautiful! It’s so dark here this morning that I had to resort to lots of editing in order for you to see them. We’re going to have some rain today.

We had a low-key day. Don made an apple pie for our little celebration. We toasted each other with sparkling cider. It was just perfect.

And now, on to 25!

Don’t forget, by the way, that the January 6th Committee hearing is today at 1 pm! We will be watching.

I’m officially done with my coaching now. That’s it until January, when I’m supposed to work with Darko, though that has yet to be worked out. A Man of No Importance  is so inventive, so wonderful and funny and beautifully staged by John Doyle, the director. The cast is excellent. It’s filled with love. It’s one of the best shows I’ve seen in a long, long time.

The dialects aren’t exactly where I’d like them to be, but the director is quite pleased, so that’s good. There’s only so much I can do in the amount of time I’m allotted and that’s something I always struggle with – I want them perfect and perfection is a foolish goal.

Mae found an acorn. She’s wearing a hat made by Hilary of Moshi Moshi Studio in Cornwall, England.

Mae was customized by my friend Natalia of VegaDolls. She is so beautiful – she sort of takes my breath away.

What am I going to do for a background when winter comes along? This setting , on the porch picnic table, has been ideal. Do I want the bleak background of winter? Do I want to stand on the porch, shivering, while I take a picture? I’ll have to experiment and see.

Okay, my friends. Thank you so much for your lovely messages yesterday. I appreciate every one of them. As we were getting ready to go to sleep last night, Don said that he thought our parents would be proud of us, of our 24 years of marriage. He’s right. They would be. I hope they’re smiling down on us as we move into our 25th year of marriage.

Stay safe.

Happy Thursday.

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