Friday morning, bright and early I was wheeled into a surgical suite and Dr Nida erased years of pain by straightening my hammertoes. Little did I know that the numbing medicine would hurt so much. See, I chose to be awake during the procedure and just have the left foot numbed. I am not a fan of anesthesia. Never have been, never will. I was out the hospital door and in my car in under 1 and a half hours. Drove home, slept for a couple of hours and was woken up by the numbing medicine wearing off. O.M.G.!! what excruciating pain! Got up, downed 3 advils and grabbed a bag of frozen peas, hobbled over to the couch, plopped down, threw the leg over the arm rest, tossed on the bag of peas and tried to take my mind off of the pain.

Saturday the pain was so bad, it interfered with my thought process. Again, advil to the rescue. (Yes, she prescribed Vicodin, but I do not like how I feel on the pain meds). The dressing got to come off after 24 hours and I did not know there were more shades of black, blue, red and purple than the DMC Color Card.

Today, I acted like an adult and did not go to the race track to do photography. It rained very bad during the night and me hobbling around in muck did not seem like a prudent thing to do. I do not want to risk infection. So today I read a bunch of cross stitch blogs and window shopped at various OLNS. Keyword: WINDOW shopped.

Tomorrow, I have a few things to read for work and I may pull some threads for a couple of stitching projects.

As always, I wish you a good week;
Joanne


Since the foot looks gross, I'll not share a photo. :-)

Father's Day 2011

It will be 10 years this September that Dad passed away.


Copy and paste this if your Dad is in heaven. If roses grow in heaven Lord, then pick a bunch for me. Place them in my Dad's arms and tell him they're from me. Tell him that I love and miss him, and when he turns to smile, place a kiss upon his cheek and hold him for awhile. I miss you everyday...

 Dad and Lucky

The NAVY Garden I planted for Dad

Miss you, Dad

Your loving daughter;

Joanne

Thoughts on a June night.

With all the rain, my garden looks horrid. Spent the better part of 4 hours this past Sunday and only got half of it done. The veggies are in. That's it. Thank goodness I grow perennials otherwise there would be no flowers. There is still a ton a weeding to be done, but when I get home at night, the bugs are already out. In one 10 minute foray outside I got 12 bug bites! ugh! Not a fan of OFF or skin so soft, cannot stand the slimy feeling.

I plan on working outside again come Saturday before I go to my great niece's first birthday party. Should be fun.

Sunday, I am going to my first race of the season. Wonder if I can still shoot cars. Been doing so much flower photography, I hope I can still do my magic with cars. I'll start getting all the camera gear ready Friday, all the cleaning and dusting. (Wonder where I put that can of air....hmmm).

There has been no sewing or stitching but ALOT of reading on the kindle that is on the Droid X.

So that is it for my corner of the world.
Joanne

Flowers photos from yesterday

After going to the big box stores and not seeing anything nice, I went to my favorite local greenhouse. There I found everything and then some. Lucky for me all my birthday presents were for this greenhouse. I had such a good time!

 Bleeding Hearts

 Fuschia

 Single Peony

 Viola

 Johnny Jump Up

After I cam home and drank the Starbuck's Tazo Black Tea Ice Tea, I took a few photos at home.

 Scented Geranium

 Beauty of Moscow Lilac

 Bue Skies Lilac

 Lily of the Valley

Needless to say, my house smells so wonderful due to all these flowers I cut.

Have a great day;

Joanne

Scissor Porn

Have a great evening;

Joanne

Easter

Good Morning and Happy Easter. All the Lamb cakes are baked and decorated. Cupcakes are made. For myself I made a lemon pound cake.

These are the ornaments on my Easter Tree (forgot to get a photo, I'll update later)

The Lily plant on my table.

 The Daffodils in my yard.

Wishing you and yours and very Blessed Easter;

Joanne

Easter lamb cakes and ....

missing Mom. We always made these together and this is the first year I have to do it alone. Makes me miss her so much. It these little things that makes me both happy and sad. Happy that she took the time to instill traditions in me and sad knowing that she is not here.

So to my Mom in heaven, these are for you.

Love you, miss you.