Part 1 A Rainy FINALLY Sunday!

So far on this wet Sunday; I have made many stretch bracelets for my shop. Customers love them, the price is a true bargain and my imagination roams free while I use up odds and ends of glass beads. Here is just one bracelet for now. Maybe another note later, Lois

I Give Up!

I tried, believe me, I tried to get the duplicate photo off this blog entry but I just can not do it! I either delete the wrong picture or add more or maybe the dang thing is just possessed! And I need a new camera; this one that I found a year ago in the street is just sooooo.... needs replacing! Oh well, next time. Lois

Like Greased Lightening!

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This kitten moves so fast - it is like trying to catch lightening with your hands and just as dangerous! HA HA, Lois

Yesterday

I was going to post last night but after my first L-O-N-G day at work since Phil had his kidney stone last week; I was just too tired! But .... I wanted to write down some marvelous things about yesterday.

First a customer that has been shopping with me for all 16 years I have had the shop and is now an old bent man stopped in to have me make up a pair of lapis earrings for him and when I told him the charge was $ 1.65, he gave me a ten and said keep the chnage. When I protested he said I've got it now you get it!

Then my friend Marlene stopped in for a visit and ending up bying me lunch after a great conversation. What a treat! A little bit later a customer stopped in with her husband, they have actually been customers for many years and we had time to talk. It turns out that her brother, who recently passed away much too young, was someone I always regarded as a hero for my family and me. Years ago, maybe 1989, during a horrendous storm in Port Townsend, when I lived with my ex husband at Beckett Point; our cousin's bulkhead at the cabin next door washed out during the storm surge. If we could not get heavy equipment in there to put in some rip rap; we would have lost our home. All the local contractors said no, including Jerry. When things became even more bleak, I called him back to ask why and that's when he admitted he needed a babysitter, his wife went shopping. So I said, I'll be right over. Wait, he said, I don't know you! Yes, I said, you do because you have known my inlaws forever and went to school with my then husband. He said ok and we switched places and he did the work and saved our home! My hero! When I told his sister this story yesterday, she cried a bit and said he was her hero,too! That absolutely made my heart swell! We grasped hands and were instantly bonded in our love and admiration for Jerry!

Finally, Jim from Ichikawa, called. ( It's the best japanese restaurant ever !) and asked if I would be around for a couple of hours. I said sure so about 3 hours later he comes to the shop with a bag of bottle caps he'd saved for me and sushi with grilled prawns! I gave them to poor, stuck at home Phil and he lapsed into a coma from how delicious they were!

All in all, this is a long post especially without pictures but it was such a sweet. loving, wonderful day. Ahhh, makes a girl glad to be alive! with love, Lois

Oh That Jacob!

I couldn't resist swiping this photo of Jacob kayaking with Andrea from her blog and posting it here. Jacob looks so sweet, smug, happy and excited to be kayaking. I know he was worried about his dad so this was a great relief to have Andrea take him for the day. Thanks girlfriend!! Lois

Recuperating!

This is a photo of Phil recuperating and resting in my studio. I could have him near me and still work. He almost looks comfortable!

Our lawn was definitely getting over grown. In our area, the grass stops growing as soon as we get warm dry days and these yellow flowers come up everywhere. Our yard was a beautiful, waving sea of yellow! The leaves on this flower-weed stay green and the yellow flower face closes up tightly as soon as dusk comes. I know it isn't a lawn in the traditional sense but I just love it! Good night now! Lois

Phil's Home!

It is amazing to me that the hospitals can perform major surgery and then manage to send you home 7 hours later! We didn't think that Phil would be able to come home as we couldn't get his temperature down. Finally, he was so crabby that the hospital hung another bag of antibiodics on his IV and when it was done sent him home. He actually ate a popsicle and has been sleeping ever since. He has a tube in his body about 3 feet long exiting in a medium size snap on his side. Ick! It is in for 10 days and he is out of commission for all of those days. The doctor, Dimitri, a russian immigrant that only goes by his first name, said he could sit and tube beads only! He said when this is all done and the tube is removed; we can go to a vascular surgeon for the AAA.

Some people do not like our PT hospital but I like the smallness of it, the fact that I know many people there and that I can count several nurses, the anesthesioligist, the cleaning women, the cafeteria ladies and some of the ER staff among my firends and customers. It was so quiet to this non patient, non medic person today. And the views! Looking over the water filled with sailboats and the ferry today was spectacular. A priceless view and surely the best in town.

I am so glad he is home and feeling better. Maybe even I will get some sleep tonight! Grace abounds, Lois

( the stone was huge, we have pictures of it inside him being nearly half the size of my thumb and surprisingly tulip shaped. Beauty in a very weird place. )