I was just looking through stuff on Ravelry, and I noticed that the neckline and sleeves of Wendy Bernard’s Opulent Raglan are very similar to Sicily’s neckline and sleeves. However, I was not inspired by this sweater, as I sketched Sicily in February or March of this year… interesting… Anyhow, for those of you who are wondering what the rest of the sweater looks like… that’s a hint! Hopefully R can help me out with a photo shoot this weekend!

Also, my dad emailed me this photo last night. My mom is a creative genius in many ways. I love her deeply. She is so imaginative! I have a painting in my kitchen of three yams on a sheet laying curvaceously suggestively together, titled “Menage A Trois” (I think). Here she chose a different route. May I present, “Yam Session.”

As always, click on the photo for a larger version. I’m telling you, this photo made my day. Maybe even my whole week!  My new pain meds must be working!

I’d say the pain is now back around a 5, which is on the edge of tolerable, instead of through the roof, which is not.  Whew!  I think it’s time for an ice pack though.  I scooped some dog poop (just a little, or, well, compared to what’s out there, what with three 45-60 lb. dogs running around) this morning with our new scooper (the kind with a long handled shovel and long handled rake).  Maybe that was a bit much.  It’s hard to keep a balance of trying to do something without doing too much without doing nothing at all.  Well, tomorrow morning there will be one less dog.  The man who originally rescued Siena from a shelter, who runs the local chapter of Siberian Husky Rescue & Referral oF California, is picking her up and taking her by a prospective home up in San Leandro, since I can’t drive that far, or really at all right now on my new meds. I don’t have a great feeling about this prospective home from talking to the father figure, but it’s worth checking out.  Here’s her ad, if any of you know anyone who might be looking, I’m guessing she will likely still be available, but who knows.  If it’s not a match, the man who’s picking her up will foster her until we find a home for her, because R needs her to be out of the house.  =/   I trust the man who’s taking her, and I’m sure we’ll find her a good home, no matter how long it takes.  I also put an ad up on Craigslist for her and I’ve received two responses so far: one from a woman wishing me good health and telling me I should try to work it out and keep her, which isn’t going to happen, and one from a man looking for a dog to protect his acre of “plant nursery.”  I told him that Siena is an indoor dog and that I don’t want Siena protecting anything.

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