Wound Update

It only took 4 months, but Jim's motorcycle wound has finally healed over. So Bette and Vinnie, your boy is in the clear. If you are really brave you can scroll down to see each month's progress from the beginning. Julie (Jim's daughter) don't look! LOL Sorry about the glare on that top pix.

For Those of You Who Asked.....

A Sophia update and a wound update. Brace yourself for the boo-b00, it's still pretty gross. Above is Jim's daughter Julie who flew in from New York on Xmas Day where she lives with her husband Mike and their 2 pups, Misha and Puck. She looks so young, certainly not old enough to be an old married lady. LOL But I think she and Mike have been together now for 5 or 6 years. Sophie was such a pill to Julie when she first got to our house, but by the time she left they were best friends as you can see. We enjoyed her visit so very much.

One morning during Xmas break I woke up to find Jim and Sophie fast asleep on the floor, forehead to forehead. Both were so out that neither woke up when I made noise taking their picture. Sooooooooo cute. Jim loves that dog!! On the wound front, it's finally beginning to show progress of real healing, so much so that the surgeon has discharged Jim telling he he won't need him anymore, and the wound clinic that he has been going faithfully to once a week for the last 2 months have also told him to take a hike. What I'm thrilled about is that it's still healing in the shape of a heart. :)

Playing Hookey

Took the day off from teaching on Friday to attend the Annual Artistic License Art Fair in Costa Mesa. And what a beautiful day it was down there, the weather was perfect. In the first booth I found my dear friend Lori Lawson of Capistrano Fiber Arts. I have known Lori for years and she has been a mentor to me. She is a self taught fiber artist, who weaves, spins, dyes, knits and so much more. In fact she just recently taught me Nuno felting so I could teach the technique to my students.

There were several new artists at the show, so I was able to get lots of new ideas as well as some great new examples to teach with. A show favorite is Barbara Kincaid (below) a fiber artist. Within the first hour most everything in her booth was scooped up. She has been doing this show for at least 35 years now. I try to buy one of her pieces every year. But sometimes I'm too late and she has sold out. Not this year though, got there bright and early LOL!

Then early in the afternoon, I took my man to the doctor. His motorcycle wound where his bike had fallen on him wasn't healing right, so the doctor had to cut out that huge chunk he's holding with the tweezers. Jim was so brave, he was able to handle the pain with only a local. At first I wasn't going to peek, but the nurse looked so fascinated that I just had to take a look see. As you can see, it was pretty bad. I've never seen anything like this before, so of course I asked Jim if I could blog it. He thought I was nuts, but here it is.

Late that same afternoon, took the pup for a walk so I could take pix of our view from the road leading into our complex cuz it wwas really looking like fall. The sky was amazing, a storm was coming in and we got rain overnight.

We don't get much in terms of season changes, but if you look closely below you can see one lone tree changing it's colors. Was so pretty.

And then the sunset that night was a beauty as the storm was rolling in below.