Last week

Next week on this day I will be at the skin doctors right now. How very exciting. Find out the status of the skin cancers on my face. Remove or watch. Then at noon, to the hospital for my surgery. Another really exciting thing......NOT. And it seems to be coming fast. The days are just flying by.

I am still off work until Thursday. And then I only work Thursday and Friday and am off until who knows when. Wednesday I get my pre-op work done and I hope to get my hair trimmed sometime this week.

Sylvan Lake


My sinus infection is gone but I am having an unpleasant side effect to the medication. I still have 5 days to go on it. I think the side effect will only get worse and worse. And of course my doctors office is closed today. Now usually they won't have you stop a med just because of a side effect, but sometimes the side effect is really nasty and they will let you stop. I am hoping he will let me stop.

I had planned on going on a photo shoot yesterday and getting some shots for a sept photo hunt I joined but we ended up spending most of the day getting the pool down. What a mess that was. The inside was slimy because we hadn't used it for 2 weeks and I wasn't scrubbing it down and the pump was off. The outside was dirty. It took hours to drain the water and getting all the air out of it. Then the tarp over the grass, or I should say dead grass had to be unstaked and rinsed down. I am going to get seed and replant grass this week. It was worth it for all the use we got out of the pool and fortunately I am not obsessive about my lawn. Then I cleaned out Chesters cage. I let him outside to eat some grass.

He was so cute. Usually he is already starting to chew before you even set him down and then he just sits there eating the entire time hes out. I decided to take him to the side yard where some tender new grass was growing. Since he never moves I decided to do it without the cage. So he's eating away and all of a sudden, fat little piggy legs pumping away he scurried across the lawn to the woods. Sheesh. I have never seen him run. He's pretty fast. Hey little pig I said as I scooped him up, you would be a very tasty treat for the barn owl in the woods or the hawks. Since I assume he as always lived in a cage I am pretty sure he wouldn't last long. But he did seem to enjoy his little burst of freedom and was purring when I carried him back to his cage. Chester's big adventure. After that excitement he took a long nap. Happy little piggy.

Today my son is having us all over for a cook out. Lovely. I don't have to cook. After the fantastic meal we had last night, grilled shrimp with garlic cloves, steak, potato skins, and corn on the cob with a nice bottle of Zin I don't think I can eat for a week. Plus my little side effect from the med has taken away my appetite. But it will be nice to just visit and relax. Hard to believe it has been a week since we were at the cabin. Just went by too soon and wasn't long enough.

The cabin



Oh and one other thing. I went to the art splash. There was some great photography. I was not happy with my shots this vacation. Lots of over exposure. So I decided I need to learn how to really use my camera. After a year....procrastination. I bought some tapes from a company that are specific for my camera. It is like taking a class but on DVD's. They go over all the features and teach you how to use your camera for every type of shot. So I can watch that and have my camera right there to learn as I watch and rewatch and practice. They have these tapes for every camera practically they make and since I hate reading manuals this might work better for me and is cheaper then a class. That one class I took was a dud anyway. So hopefully my photo's will be getting better soon. It will give me something to do while I recover from surgery. Time to stop being a point and shoot photographer. I have been using more of my creative settings but not to their full scope.


Well, enough of all this. The photo below was from on top of the mountain looking down. I hate heights but love the views.