Oops and Ouch

I injured myself.  I was moving forward just blasting through my many self imposed tasks and it all came to a super painful halt.  I'm told that I pinched the cartilage in my lower back and then it became inflamed and irritated.  It certainly does hurt and today is my first day back with the living since Sunday.  I was moving around stuff in the house to incorporate the future mister, finally re-working the stairwell (it's looking much better), and doing some test baking, but none of this is done because the pain was immense and I gave in.  What else to do?

This is what the stairwell area did look like.

This is an in progress shot of my little make over.  New paint does a lot.

The kitty rug that is now the side door's companion.  It was over sized, but it looks nice cut down.

Now a look at something I did without injuring myself; I hung a painting by Future Husband in an effort to incorporate him into the house and I did not sustain any injuries.

I'm still on the search for the ultimate vegan meringue and making efforts to bake a decent macaron.  Some of my new kitchen indulgences arrived this week, but I haven't been able to stand long enough to try them yet.  I'll hopefully get to that soon.  Foe now I need to make a follow up appointment for my malfunctioning back.

Well...

Hmmm, it's been a couple weeks and it's gone really fast.  School started for the Lady Bean and dance starts today.  There have been all kinds of things to jam into our schedule and to catch up on.  We have regular temperatures and rain again!  I still have poison ivy splotches (how is that possible?) and I'm back on 'mom duty'.

We had a record heat wave.  There were three weeks (maybe a little more even) of 90 degree or more temperatures.  That combined with the rash pushed me out of the yard.  I'm less itchy now and the weather is mostly back to normal, but my summer is over and my free time is nearly non-existent.  I've been looking at the yard, but not really in it.  There's still one raised bed to build!  I just anticipate that I'll have it in place before there's snow.  Eh...

I did paint the stairwell, but... I can't decide how to hang everything now.  I hope to have a breakthrough soon.  Anyway, here's hoping that I get the last of the plants in the ground, a third bed built, and the back yard seeded... eek, that's a lot!

I love this cotton candy stand.  It photographs really well.

We made the annual voyage to the state fair and this is what cherry flavored shaved ice will do to you... and your insides?


 
Also, I got a few old photos in my email.  My grandmother is the blondie.

xoxo, More content later