My friend Jody sent this to me. It is full of wonderful points on being creative. Any of us would benefit from this. It helps you cope better and calm down about issues going on in your life.
My class with Carol Bradshaw was good as always. Wayne, my fellow classmate was on vacation, but two women have joined us for some of the flower drawing and painting. We talked about roses, how they are made up to fully understand them. It was fascinating to me. So I should have been working on drawing a rose for my next class, but we have a reprieve since Carol will be out of town this Tuesday and we will not see her for another week. So I have decided to show you a couple of other pictures this week that I have done a while a go. I'll have the drawing of my rose done next week.
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| My Cat Pepper - She Really is a Sweety! |
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| Two Parrots on a Branch |
My grandsons Devin and Kevin go to Junior High next year. Kevin got a nice reward with a trophy for how he did. I know Devin is just as smart, so maybe he will shine next year. Both are now 12 years old. They are growing so fast!
Heather helped me pick out a couple of new pots and plants, and with the pots and plants that I bought earlier put plants in pots and painted bird houses which are not quite done. They turned out very nice. My veggies and herbs have gone nuts. Next time I won't put the squash in the same planter. I will get a very big pot with a cage for it to climb. Below are the two planters I bid on at the last Helping One Woman dinner. My granddaughter Heather added the paint on the orange pot. I think she did a great job!
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| Heather added the extra paint to this pot |
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| Such a cute planter! We put Cacti in it and it looks great! |
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| Overgrown Planters with veggies and herbs. I definitely killed the dill! |
I got the second shot in my back. He said he believed that the pain would reduce by 50%. He said "don't bend your back or lift heavy things." I said "For how long?" He looked at me in surprise and said "For now on. It hurts your back." Huh. It didn't occur to me that this was for ever.
I saw my oncologist and had chemo the following day. My oncologist said the MUGA scan showed blood pumping at 60%. He said it was up from three months ago which then it was 56%. He told me he will make this the baseline in deciding how I'm doing.
When I came home from chemotherapy, I was needing to eat something comforting. As a kid I would have toast with butter, cinnamon and sugar. So I sprinkled what I thought was cinnamon and it turned out it was ground cayenne pepper. Ugh! I didn't want to throw it out, so I loaded it with cinnamon and added a little more sugar. Very strange! It was spicy hot cinnamon toast. Not my style. The taste was not off, just hot. I don't think I'll do that again.
We had a great birthday party for Kevin yesterday. Shelley rented a blowup waterslide and we had it set up in the back yard. Five of Kevin's friends were here with lots of our family. Perfect weather for a waterslide.
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| Kevin with a friend |
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| The Blowup Waterslide |
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| Brianna and her Cousin |
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| Kevin with his friends |
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| Kevin and his mom Shelley |
My granddaughter-in-law, Meagan posted two combined pictures of her and my grandson Billy with each of their sons. Cute!
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| Conner is Just Learning to Use a Spoon! |
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| Zylar (Meagan is using Kason's Middle Name) |
Jeff and Stephanie (My son and daughter-in-law) are coming up to visit today. They thought Kevin's birthday party was today (though it is his birthday today) we had the party yesterday. So we will be barbecuing today, or should I say Jeff and Stephanie are doing this. Looking forward to it. They are getting the food and doing the cooking. I'll have pictures next week of this.
Hope you are doing well. See you next Sunday. Rachel
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