this week was a whirlwind...just don't remember where everyday has gone...went to the Dr. on Monday...have to go back in a month....I've been recovering from knee surgery, resting,etc...kids were here this week....they had a great party which included a lot of their friends and of course the dogs....seems like the dogs had the best time...grabbing hot dogs and doing other fun things like going into the pond, chasing the zip line and so forth..Moe was so tired the next day that he couldn't wag his tail...just gave it a short flip to say hello...he slept the whole day...Mocha was probably the same..she is a little older but she loves the pond...it's the first place she goes when she comes here...even in the winter....they had tents and even one of Aaron's friends brought his camper...with drinking, they just camped out overnight instead of driving home...at least some of them did....Me..???... I kinda slept thru the whole thing...watched the basketball game and saw the Lakers win, in between, Pat came up to my room to say "Hello" and Liz showed up a few times to see if I was sleeping and ask if they were bothering me...I just turned up the tv and went to sleep...heard nothing from the outside except for the bongo drums going at intervals and lots of laughing...all in all I guess the party was a success and they will be doing it over again sometime later this summer...
I had to pass on my trip to Chicago to see grandson Joel graduate...my knee just would not support all the walking that would have been involved, so I got a credit on my airline ticket...not that I will use it...would cost me another $150.00 to change things, so I guess I'll just say bye bye to it for now...have until next April to make up my mind..my tempory handicap placard didn't arrive either...that would have saved some walking...we could have parked closer to the stadium...
Judy called me last night from the stadium....it poured down rain and they handed out plastic ponchos to everyone...she didn't talk to me too long though..Joel gave up his robe to another student who got soaked and since he was in the program, all he wore was his hat and of course his street clothes... could hear some music when Judy called...I'm really thinking it was a good decision on my part to stay home...now to get a card out to him, means I have to get dressed, go to town and find one, or maybe just do one of my own...I usually do that, not to save money, but to let my kids know that I took the time to do the card in the first place and then get it off to them...will do that next week....
I'm trying to find my muse...she is around here somewhere..I just do not have any ambition to do much creatively although I received a long awaited reference book that I ordered on Amazon...it was a used book and it took a long time to arrive..thought it was lost in the mail, but it came yesterday (Friday) and I saw that it was shipped from England...took almost a month...
it's really supposed to get hot today...
"Arts on the River" is going on today and tomorrow...I had to pass on this show because of my trip to Chicago, but I probably wouldn't have been able to do it anyway because of the knee surgery...It is a really good show for me..Liz really wanted to do it but "sorry Liz" I just had to pass...hopefully we can do it next year...I did send in a cd to Mountainfest ...in Nov....it's down at the Mountainlair at the University in Morgantown...Nov. 4-6...will know the first of July if I got accepted...
in the meantime, gotta look for my muse...I know she is here somewhere....here musey, here musey..of course if someone called me musey, I would hide too......
Saturday, June 19, 2010
Saturday, June 12, 2010
ANOTHER DAY...
It's Saturday afternoon , June 12...had the knee surgery on Tuesday around 8:30 am...was ok on Tuesday until the numbing wore off, then it was kinda really a bad rest of the week. Today I am up, going to take a bubble bath later ..no pain killers today for once..although I didn't have to take any yesterday, only before I went to bed...I'm feeling good today...Kids have called me everyday, and Liz , Leah and Ace were here checking on me on and off all day on Wed. or Thursday, I think ..lost track of the days...just sleeping them away and resting....
Had a little urge to do some art work yesterday, but it left me almost as soon as it arrived...went back to bed and watched the tube, or I should say, slept thru some programs on the tube...read my e-mail, etc...I am really low on energy, ....
will be seeing the Dr. on Monday...took off the pressure bandage because my knee was itching..is that a good sign...it is numb right in the middle of the kneecap. lets hope for better news on Monday...the stitches will come out then....I'm thinking the syn-vest injections may be put on hold...we will see....
I am taking care of some retreat business while I am up...we may keep the registrations open a few more days...this retreat is going to be a sweet one..have lots of things lined up thanks to Mona, Syd and Heidi ...I'm sure as the days go by, my knee will be feeling better...tty all later..A
Had a little urge to do some art work yesterday, but it left me almost as soon as it arrived...went back to bed and watched the tube, or I should say, slept thru some programs on the tube...read my e-mail, etc...I am really low on energy, ....
will be seeing the Dr. on Monday...took off the pressure bandage because my knee was itching..is that a good sign...it is numb right in the middle of the kneecap. lets hope for better news on Monday...the stitches will come out then....I'm thinking the syn-vest injections may be put on hold...we will see....
I am taking care of some retreat business while I am up...we may keep the registrations open a few more days...this retreat is going to be a sweet one..have lots of things lined up thanks to Mona, Syd and Heidi ...I'm sure as the days go by, my knee will be feeling better...tty all later..A
Sunday, June 6, 2010
IT'S A RAINY SUNDAY AFTERNOON
Here it is, Sunday June 6 ,,,I can't believe I was away the whole month of May, or was I...????
Been busy down here in Mt. Morris...Grand daughter Liz asked Pappy if she could do some "potting" out in the barn and once we explained things further, he said ok and started to do some preliminary cleaning and pitching of junk out of the bottom of the barn....
Since I was a potter, a long while ago, I kept ALL my Stuff, hoping that one of the grandkids just may want to play in the mud sometime. I did offer to sell my stuff to a woman down in Fairmont, but didn't hear any response from her, so I just let sleeping dogs lie regarding selling the STUFF. Then along came Liz...some say she is a version of me, and I do see some resemblence at times, but she is her own person and right now she is definitely into the mud...
We continued to clean out the barn and got the pottery reasonably set up...looks pretty good...we have shelves that we brought in from out under the pine trees, Pap did some wiring and got us the proper plugs for the kilns...(we have 2)...we set up the wedgeing table with the plaster surface (to wedge the clay)..shoveled out tons of crap from the floor of the workroom, and I mean shoveled out tons, moved the clay bats onto a shelf within reach , washed off everything that had STUFF on it, found the shimpo potters wheel under a pile of STUFF, ..if I keep saying STUFF, it's because there was an accumulation of it everywhere.....as we plowed thru it, I found things that I thought were gone forever. ...tons of tools, pottery, drawings.....I'm not going to go into that for now, but anyway it was fun having the grand daughter really pumped up about mud. We found a box of clay..50# of it that was still soft and in working condition after laying on the bottom of things for about 30 years....yesssss, it's been that long since I had mud on my hands. Liz did some wedging and we were in business...she happily turned out some pretty neat mugs. One of her friends came down and they played a bit with the mud and so did Leah, who didn't seem to do too bad. Her pieces are still out there on the bats..they are dried by now, so she will have to work a little to trim them, but it can be done.
Liz and I went on a road trip to Standard Ceramics down in Carnegie and picked up more clay,
had breakfast at Pineras and lunch at a neat little restaurant in a building under "Before and More"...a shop that sells used clothing...had a great time there also...(got some Chicos) ....while we were at the ceramics store, we also picked up some neat glazes that we both are anxious to use. We had previously ordered a splash pan for the potters wheel, I worked all those years w/o one, and the woman that managed the store found one in the back that was probably as old as my wheel and she gave it to us to see if it would fit...IT FITS!!!! and works perfectly....so our heartfelt thanks go out to her...I sat down at the wheel on Wed. and played a bit...it was as though I had never left throwing pottery...we both had a lot of fun as I explained a few things to Liz...showed her how to make handles for her mugs, and a few of my techniques that just came flooding back to me as the wheel turned ...I always did like to play in the mud.....
more news....
about 7 or 8 weeks ago I was giving our small horse of a pup a bath and he decided he didn't want to get into the tub, and as I lifted his front legs to get him into the tub, he reared back and knocked me off balance and I twisted my right knee...DAMN!!!!..the pain almost knocked me over and when he saw I was kinda pissed with him, he jumped into the tub and I proceeded to bathe him...he does like the water and stood there while I soaped him down and rinsed him off, then he jumped out of the tub, dripping wet and shook...yeah...the bathroom was flooded as he stood still for a second while I toweled him off...he has lots of fur, so he was really dripping wet....anyway, he finally went out into the house and let me dry him further and then he laid down while I finally got to take care of the knee....I thought I had just pulled a muscle, and took some motrin for a couple of days, but it didn't get any better...not being a wuss, I just tried to ignore it for several weeks, Syd and I went to Artiscape and then to a workshop with Dayle Doroshow and thanks to Aleve, (no motrin )I plodded my way thru things...also I went to work down at the gallery in Morgantown during this time.....finally I realized the pain wasn't going away, only was getting worse, and so I made an appointment with my doctor...another 10 days went by and when I finally had my appointment, he thought I had done more damage to my knee than twisting it....to make a long story short and avoid elaborating on my experience with the could care less office staff at my physicians office, I finally had an MRI...diagnosis...torn miniscus...what a blow....so after another 7 days of waiting, I finally got in to see the specialist and he took exrays of my beautiful knees and found them riddled with arthritis....trying to avoid surgery, he suggested that we do the Syn-vest treatment...injecting this gluton thick like viscous solution made from Rooster and chicken combs into my knee...3 treatments in all...supposed to really help,( I did run the risk of crowing at dawn though).... so, after an injection of cortozone into the knee, I was to come back in 3 weeks and begin the treatment....HOWEVER, my knee had different plans...while going up the stairs, (very carefully) something gave out in my knee and I had PAIN...like never before...oh wait..!!!!...I did have that pain ..back in 2001 when I had my other knee scoped ...this was on a Sat. night, so I lasted thru Sunday, & Monday..(Memorial Day) thanks to drugs and using crutches the whole time...I got in to see the Dr. on Tues...after looking at the swollen knee, he decided that we would have to have surgery after all...so on the 8th, I will be in the OR. at S.W. Regional Center having the deed done on the knee...KNEEDLESS to say, I missed Nathan's graduation and may miss Joel's also if I don't behave and heal ...so for now, thanks to vicodin, I'm dealing with things...not looking forward to the surgery, but to the end of all this misery of not being able to walk...what a shame, I won't be able to play soccor, run any marathons, bike in any races, etc...too bad Annie, just stay off the knee for now....and get better, ...we have our PCCMMRetreat in July that You have to go to.....something to look forward to.....so you better behave yourself.....
Been busy down here in Mt. Morris...Grand daughter Liz asked Pappy if she could do some "potting" out in the barn and once we explained things further, he said ok and started to do some preliminary cleaning and pitching of junk out of the bottom of the barn....
Since I was a potter, a long while ago, I kept ALL my Stuff, hoping that one of the grandkids just may want to play in the mud sometime. I did offer to sell my stuff to a woman down in Fairmont, but didn't hear any response from her, so I just let sleeping dogs lie regarding selling the STUFF. Then along came Liz...some say she is a version of me, and I do see some resemblence at times, but she is her own person and right now she is definitely into the mud...
We continued to clean out the barn and got the pottery reasonably set up...looks pretty good...we have shelves that we brought in from out under the pine trees, Pap did some wiring and got us the proper plugs for the kilns...(we have 2)...we set up the wedgeing table with the plaster surface (to wedge the clay)..shoveled out tons of crap from the floor of the workroom, and I mean shoveled out tons, moved the clay bats onto a shelf within reach , washed off everything that had STUFF on it, found the shimpo potters wheel under a pile of STUFF, ..if I keep saying STUFF, it's because there was an accumulation of it everywhere.....as we plowed thru it, I found things that I thought were gone forever. ...tons of tools, pottery, drawings.....I'm not going to go into that for now, but anyway it was fun having the grand daughter really pumped up about mud. We found a box of clay..50# of it that was still soft and in working condition after laying on the bottom of things for about 30 years....yesssss, it's been that long since I had mud on my hands. Liz did some wedging and we were in business...she happily turned out some pretty neat mugs. One of her friends came down and they played a bit with the mud and so did Leah, who didn't seem to do too bad. Her pieces are still out there on the bats..they are dried by now, so she will have to work a little to trim them, but it can be done.
Liz and I went on a road trip to Standard Ceramics down in Carnegie and picked up more clay,
had breakfast at Pineras and lunch at a neat little restaurant in a building under "Before and More"...a shop that sells used clothing...had a great time there also...(got some Chicos) ....while we were at the ceramics store, we also picked up some neat glazes that we both are anxious to use. We had previously ordered a splash pan for the potters wheel, I worked all those years w/o one, and the woman that managed the store found one in the back that was probably as old as my wheel and she gave it to us to see if it would fit...IT FITS!!!! and works perfectly....so our heartfelt thanks go out to her...I sat down at the wheel on Wed. and played a bit...it was as though I had never left throwing pottery...we both had a lot of fun as I explained a few things to Liz...showed her how to make handles for her mugs, and a few of my techniques that just came flooding back to me as the wheel turned ...I always did like to play in the mud.....
more news....
about 7 or 8 weeks ago I was giving our small horse of a pup a bath and he decided he didn't want to get into the tub, and as I lifted his front legs to get him into the tub, he reared back and knocked me off balance and I twisted my right knee...DAMN!!!!..the pain almost knocked me over and when he saw I was kinda pissed with him, he jumped into the tub and I proceeded to bathe him...he does like the water and stood there while I soaped him down and rinsed him off, then he jumped out of the tub, dripping wet and shook...yeah...the bathroom was flooded as he stood still for a second while I toweled him off...he has lots of fur, so he was really dripping wet....anyway, he finally went out into the house and let me dry him further and then he laid down while I finally got to take care of the knee....I thought I had just pulled a muscle, and took some motrin for a couple of days, but it didn't get any better...not being a wuss, I just tried to ignore it for several weeks, Syd and I went to Artiscape and then to a workshop with Dayle Doroshow and thanks to Aleve, (no motrin )I plodded my way thru things...also I went to work down at the gallery in Morgantown during this time.....finally I realized the pain wasn't going away, only was getting worse, and so I made an appointment with my doctor...another 10 days went by and when I finally had my appointment, he thought I had done more damage to my knee than twisting it....to make a long story short and avoid elaborating on my experience with the could care less office staff at my physicians office, I finally had an MRI...diagnosis...torn miniscus...what a blow....so after another 7 days of waiting, I finally got in to see the specialist and he took exrays of my beautiful knees and found them riddled with arthritis....trying to avoid surgery, he suggested that we do the Syn-vest treatment...injecting this gluton thick like viscous solution made from Rooster and chicken combs into my knee...3 treatments in all...supposed to really help,( I did run the risk of crowing at dawn though).... so, after an injection of cortozone into the knee, I was to come back in 3 weeks and begin the treatment....HOWEVER, my knee had different plans...while going up the stairs, (very carefully) something gave out in my knee and I had PAIN...like never before...oh wait..!!!!...I did have that pain ..back in 2001 when I had my other knee scoped ...this was on a Sat. night, so I lasted thru Sunday, & Monday..(Memorial Day) thanks to drugs and using crutches the whole time...I got in to see the Dr. on Tues...after looking at the swollen knee, he decided that we would have to have surgery after all...so on the 8th, I will be in the OR. at S.W. Regional Center having the deed done on the knee...KNEEDLESS to say, I missed Nathan's graduation and may miss Joel's also if I don't behave and heal ...so for now, thanks to vicodin, I'm dealing with things...not looking forward to the surgery, but to the end of all this misery of not being able to walk...what a shame, I won't be able to play soccor, run any marathons, bike in any races, etc...too bad Annie, just stay off the knee for now....and get better, ...we have our PCCMMRetreat in July that You have to go to.....something to look forward to.....so you better behave yourself.....
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