A busy couple of weeks

 It was (finally) time to knuckle under and get some of my personal  "maintenance" items taken care of, meaning follow-up (stitches removal) on the MOHS surgery site for the skin cancer spot, my annual wellness and prescription renewal visit with my Doc, a re-check with the eye surgeon that did my cataract surgery and last but not least a root canal on the tooth that started bugging me in late Sept. Ruh-Roh as Scooby would say. 🥺

I've never had a root canal and I was pretty stressed out about it, but I went in yesterday to have it done and I have to say I was quite pleasantly surprised. It went very smoothly and I've experienced very little pain or discomfort - YAY! I hope that it may continue that way until it's settled down and stabilized within a week or so, then the crown will happen. They prescribed an OTC "pain bomb" of 3 x 200mg Ibuprofen plus 2 x 500mg Acetaminophen 2 times daily as needed. Wow, I never knew you could safely combine the 2 for tackling inflammation & pain relief when needed. I took the combo after I got home and have not needed any such measures since.

Great, and phew. Another item was to tackle getting a new phone. My old one only had 16GB internal storage(!?) and was running Android 9, haha, time to get up to speed. Another Samsung (A15) w/128GB internal storage was on sale & just right plus it was easy to port my contacts etc. over to it.

In process Butterflies - Commission from a Craft Fair visitor

One of the visitors to my booth during the Craft Fair asked me to make her a couple of butterflies, one a bit simpler and one really "beaded-up". Delivered them over the weekend and she loved them. She followed up with an email asking if I'd ever made a hummingbird...humm? I told her I'd look into whether I could develop a good-looking, workable shape.

The weather around here has been nice, in fact we had a bit of a cool snap last week which really felt good, although it was way too breezy for my liking (don't bother with the hairspray). 😳 I used the cooler weather to trim back our crepe myrtle out front. Hate letting all the leaves/berries fall onto the rocks in the yard, then you've got to deal with all the subsequent sprouts.

I had an opportunity to stop into a really nice Big Lots over on the other side of the river after delivering the Dazzlers and found a new baking chip that promises to make my cookie exchange offerings ultra-good. 

A creamy chip with peppermint candy chunks.

I can't wait to use them. I saw one recipe that featured a blonde cookie with coconut plus the chips and finished with a drizzle of dark chocolate to amp-up the pretty factor. That sounded intriguing, although if it's a cookie from my kitchen it's going to have pecans in it for sure. Also, at this time of year I'm anxiously awaiting Ghirardelli Dark Chocolate Peppermint Bark Squares. So, so good, a super nice treat for after dinner.

Love, love!!

The other morning the Boss was up just before sunrise and took this shot from our 2nd story master. Pretty cool, pre-dawn rocket launch with a whoop-tee-doo contrail.

Well, that's about it for us, nothing terribly exciting. Thanks for stopping by though! See you next time.