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Me: Most everything is ok, except my new glasses. Like an idiot, I let the Dr railroad me into to getting two pairs of glasses, one for driving and one for distance, and now I hate them both. I can't do hand work and watch TV at the same time, and when I forget the change before a meeting, I can't see the screen. I want bifocals again. I haven't worn bifocals in about 15 yeas, but I'm sure I hated them less than this.
Family: The Labor Day visit to my parents was fun. We went to see the new Chinese garden at the Huntington Library. It was pretty cool. A bit of a long walk, but mercifully they have a new service, an electric cart to drive gimpy people from the main gates to the entries of the various buildings/gardens. Made mom's day a lot easier, and me much less grumpy about the $20/adult tickets. Mom's friends the Pebblies drove, which was nice. I loathe driving in LA. GM's brothers are considering take a vacation together next year, perhaps to Germany. I think it would be fun, but the scheduling is already a little difficult. I had small hopes to go to Italy, but the brothers want to re-trace some of the steps of one of their childhood vacations. Italy will wait for another year. The long-haired cat, for no reason I can discern, is pooping outside of her litter box. If she does not stop soon, I'm going to make her into mittens.
Art: The trencher project is moving along slowly. I've got just over a thousand discreet posies/verses in the database, and the hope of a few more once![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
hyster1a's friend LS manages to get the curators of the Ashmolean to show her more stuff! At least, I hope she can. Looking at the various photos of the trenchers they've put on display, I'm sure they have at least three sets, maybe as many as five. I'm behind on the rest of my art goals for this year. The painted glasses are slowly getting done, and I found some new acceptable-if-not-perfect white serving dishes at Safeway. Soon, I will repair the green dress, and get measured for my new German gown. I'll be teaching dance at collegium, probably entry-level English Country Dance, which does not take much prep. If I taught a class on the trenchers, what would you want to know about them?
Garden: After what seemed like the summer that never got hot, the tomatoes are finally ripening. It's been tomato and basil salad all week, which is (IMHO) the best part of summer. We finally got the Texas Privet tree that I hated taken out. The yard looks much more spacious and airy without it. I may try to put beds along that fence and move the tomatoes over there next spring. After the plum tree was done producing,gormflaithand I pruned it back in preparation for taking it out this winter. I want to get a cherry tree, and she's found a vintage tree seller to buy fruit trees from.
Fun: I still want to go to Santa Cruz and ride the little roller coasters. If I go on Sunday Sept 25, or Saturday Oct 8th, does anybody want to go with me?
Family: The Labor Day visit to my parents was fun. We went to see the new Chinese garden at the Huntington Library. It was pretty cool. A bit of a long walk, but mercifully they have a new service, an electric cart to drive gimpy people from the main gates to the entries of the various buildings/gardens. Made mom's day a lot easier, and me much less grumpy about the $20/adult tickets. Mom's friends the Pebblies drove, which was nice. I loathe driving in LA. GM's brothers are considering take a vacation together next year, perhaps to Germany. I think it would be fun, but the scheduling is already a little difficult. I had small hopes to go to Italy, but the brothers want to re-trace some of the steps of one of their childhood vacations. Italy will wait for another year. The long-haired cat, for no reason I can discern, is pooping outside of her litter box. If she does not stop soon, I'm going to make her into mittens.
Art: The trencher project is moving along slowly. I've got just over a thousand discreet posies/verses in the database, and the hope of a few more once
hyster1a's friend LS manages to get the curators of the Ashmolean to show her more stuff! At least, I hope she can. Looking at the various photos of the trenchers they've put on display, I'm sure they have at least three sets, maybe as many as five. I'm behind on the rest of my art goals for this year. The painted glasses are slowly getting done, and I found some new acceptable-if-not-perfect white serving dishes at Safeway. Soon, I will repair the green dress, and get measured for my new German gown. I'll be teaching dance at collegium, probably entry-level English Country Dance, which does not take much prep. If I taught a class on the trenchers, what would you want to know about them?Garden: After what seemed like the summer that never got hot, the tomatoes are finally ripening. It's been tomato and basil salad all week, which is (IMHO) the best part of summer. We finally got the Texas Privet tree that I hated taken out. The yard looks much more spacious and airy without it. I may try to put beds along that fence and move the tomatoes over there next spring. After the plum tree was done producing,
gormflaithand I pruned it back in preparation for taking it out this winter. I want to get a cherry tree, and she's found a vintage tree seller to buy fruit trees from.Fun: I still want to go to Santa Cruz and ride the little roller coasters. If I go on Sunday Sept 25, or Saturday Oct 8th, does anybody want to go with me?
