Friday Face Off

 Hi everyone. Happy Friday to you. 

What a crazy week I've had. It was supposed to be a fairly quiet week but ended up a little bit crazy. I knew Miss Maddie pup was scheduled for surgery Monday. She needed some lumps removed and a good teeth cleaning; I'm still waiting to hear back on the lump biopsies. Then Wednesday morning I got a call from my brother that my Mom had had a stroke. Off I go down to Massachusetts and spend the afternoon in the emergency room with her.  While there the doctor tells me they don't think she had a stroke but perhaps some effect from covid which she recently had again. As of this writing, they don't know what exactly is going on with her, but my gut feeling is that part of her brain is shutting down. (So if I don't get around to commenting on your post, that is why.)

And speaking of covid, I know of and have heard of too many people who have caught it lately, including my mother who had it a few weeks ago and my MIL who is just getting over it. I'm sticking with my mask, hand sanitizer and lots of hand washing. Call me cautious I guess. (And yes, I am fully vaccinated too.)

Today I am joining Nicole's Friday Face Off  and Gillena's Friday Lunch Art Date .  I'm also joining Bleubeard and Elizabeth over at Art Journal Journey with their theme of Collage Fodder or Food and Drink or Both because I am using a lot of collage fodder here. 

 Here's a left over page from Halloween, but it doesn't really have to be for Halloween. It has more of a Victorian medical vibe going on with it. It fits in with the way my week has gone.

This page is about the mysterious and fictitious Dr. Black, who was a Victorian forensic pathologist. Only I don't think the Victorians used the name pathologist or even the word forensic. Dr. Black also had some "powers" that allowed him to have X-ray vision. Perhaps that's because he actually isn't really an earthling, but he’s an alien posing as a mid 1800's doctor. That would explain his x-ray vision.

The background is stenciled and painted, and then I added a strip of wallpaper trim (the tan piece with the angels). I've had this roll for several years and originally found it in a markdown bin. I then layered some various images, some paper, some acetate and some on heavier cardstock. Finally I used black cloth tape along the left side as well as adding some punched out black trim.

That's it for me today. Have a great weekend everyone.

Frosty and Bees

Hi everyone. Happy Thursday to you.

This week's Rain's Art and Dinner Date challenge is Frosty, Here's a collage I made using some leaves from the yard as well as some die cut snowflakes. 

I am linking up to Bleubeard's and Elizabeth's challenge at Art Journal Journey. For November their challenge Food and Drink or Art Fodder or Both.

We had our first hard frost the other morning, and I did manage to get a few frosty photos. 

For my dinner date  this week, I have something different. Last week I needed to do much of my honeybee hive winterizing. It was time since some very frosty nights were predicted. This year we've managed to escape the hard frosts until late October, which is unusual for New Hampshire.

One of the first winter tasks with the bees is to make them some fondant food.

Fondant is a food supplement put into the hive so that when the bees run out of honey, they can have some food to stay alive. They say bees in the Northeast need 80-90 pounds of honey in the hive to survive the winter. My hive has honey in it, but I know it doesn't have 80-90 pounds of it because if it did, I wouldn't be able to lift the boxes, which  I can still do. 

I think my bees just like the fondant though. Since October was fairly mild, my bees were still out buzzing around looking for pollen. Yet when I put in a 5 pound patty of fondant early in  the month, it was gone in less than a week. And that happened twice more.

This time I made 20 pounds of fondant and put 15 pounds into the hive. Unless it gets really cold (which means I shouldn't open the hive because it lets out all the heat generated by the bees inside), I will make another 10 pounds and add another 15 pounds to the hive in another week or so.

I needed my biggest stock pot to make my fondant.

Last year I didn't have a candy thermometer and my fondant came out very crumbly. This year I bought one, and it really helped. I knew when to pull the boiling sugar off of the heat.

And here's the final product cooling. Each pan holds 5 pounds of fondant.

Bees keep the inside of the hive heated to around 95 degrees. In warmer climes the bees don't need a lot of winterizing, but here in New Hampshire we can have long and cold winters. If the hive loses too much heat, the bees have to work extra hard to keep the hive at 95 degrees. It can be too much work for the bees and they can die from the cold. ( I think that is what happened to my bees last winter, even though I winterize them. This year I am going to do some extra winterizing, just in case we have another long and extra cold winter like we did last year.)

And here's my hive. 

I slipped on a bee blanket (the black wrap) to help hold in the heat. Around the bottom hive stand, I bagged some raked leaves and am using those as insulation around the base. I could use a few more bags of leaves, which I will add once I finish my raking.

The yellow you see below the top is an insulated box. It helps to keep the heat the bees create from going out of the top. 

My husband (the engineer) has been coming up with a windbreak solution. We still haven't put it up, but that is on the list to complete in the very near future. 

If the weather goes as it normally does, I'll have one more visit into the hive and then, they sit for the winter .

OK, that's it for me today. Thanks for getting this far, and I hope your week ends well.

 

 

Second on the Second

Hi everyone. It is November second, which means it is time for Second on the Second over at Bleubeard's and Elizabeth's blog.

This month for Second on the Second, I thought I would repost  some food and drink related art.  As Bleubeard and Elizabeth are our hosts at Art Journal Journey and their theme this month is Food and Drink or Collage Fodder or Both, I thought these would be appropriate.

I'll start with this  sign which hangs in my kitchen and which I shared after Thanksgiving in 2020. My kitchen seems to be constantly messy lately because I've been having some fun in there, so I thought it would be appropriate.

And here's a page I posted in November of 2019. Since apples are food and since apples grow on an apple trees, here is my painted page.

 

And I have one more food related page today from November of 2017. Here's the original post: Soup.

And since it is November, I am also linking up to Art Every Day Month hosted by Leah. This is day 2, but you can join in as much or as little as you'd like.

I hope the new month is going well for you. Thanks for visiting.

November

 Hi everyone.  Happy November to you. It's month 11 of 2022 already-wow!

I'm here to welcome our newest host at Art Journal Journey. Before I do that, let me once again thank  Elle for hosting last month, and I also want to thank everyone who joined in during her October challenge. 

It's a new month, and time for a new challenge. For November I want to welcome Elizabeth,  one of our AJJ admins and friends. I also want to welcome  her faithful companion Bleubeard. Elizabeth, whom you may know as Altered Book Lover is the clever and talented artist behind the art.

Her theme is 

Collage Fodder or Food And Drink or Both

My first journal page for the month is what I call Favorite November foods. I used some collage fodder and my theme was around food.

I started with red and orange spray inks. Then I layered some papers and images. You can see the apple paper on the left. I also included a turkey image,as here in the US we celebrate Thanksgiving this month. And finally I stamped, colored and fussy cut a pumpkin. I also used a bit of washi tape and some printed tissue paper on my page.

Elizabeth's challenge runs for the whole month of November. Please remember that at Art Journal Journey we accept any kind of art journaling, but we do not accept tags, cards, ATC's, inches, etc (unless they are mounted to a journal page that is). Your art journaling can be in an actual journal or on loose paper; it could be made from fabric, done by drawing, using mixed media or other format. However, it must be journaling.

Also please be aware that the admins of this challenge respond on the AJJ blog page, and if you link up through a form of social media that requires us to log in, we might not be able to comment on your page.

Now that I've reviewed the dreaded rules, let me say that it will be exciting to see all the journal pages for Bleubeard's and Elizabeth's challenge. 

And as it is November, I am linking up to Art Every Day Month. During November you can link up any creative pieces, and you don't have to link everyday either. Thank you Leah for hosting this again. This is year 5 for me, and year 22 for this fun challenge.  

Have a great start to the month, and I hope to see your journaling over at Art Journal Journey.

October Books

Hi everyone. Happy weekend.  

This Saturday it is time for my monthly book post that I write  to help me keep track of what I have read. If you are here for Art Every Day Month, day 6, then skip all the way down to the end for my daily art photo (if you aren't up for reading about books). As many of you probably have figured out,  I love reading other people's book posts, and maybe you do also. If so, here's my latest. If not, don't feel bad about skipping the post.

My first 2 books for the month were read simultaneously. The Inspector Morse mystery (The Last Bus to Woodstock) was for bedtime, or nap time, or just when I felt like something that was “lighter” to read. My second book, the story of DNA, was great if I sat down to for some more serious reading time, even though it wasn't a particulary difficult read.

Perhaps you might remember watching the Inspector Morse mysteries (in the US they were on Masterpiece Theater) back in the day. The series starred John Thaw as Morse and Kevin Whately as Lewis. I always enjoyed them and decided it was time to read at least one of the actual books. 

This book was excellent, but I also found it much darker than I remember the show being. A young woman is raped and murdered; her body is found in the parking lot of a pub. Inspector Morse has just met his  sidekick, Lewis. Morse is as brilliant but as crotchety  as I remember him being on the show. (Well maybe even more crotchety than I remember him on the show as it has been quite awhile since I'd watched the series.) This book was published in the mid-1970's, and it feels 1970's. I'm not sure in this day and age that Lewis would stick  very long with Morse.

The murder is solved with an unexpected twist. I didn't see it coming. I wonder how Lewis and Morse get on in the rest of this series? I may have to read a few more to answer that question.

I picked up this latest  DNA book because I find the story of the discovery of the structure of DNA very interesting. I've read several books about the people and these events, and I have also seen many films on the subject, so I wasn't sure this book was going to tell me all that much new. I decided to give this new release a try anyhow, because  I am really fascinated with this story. 

I was quite wrong about it just rehashing an old information. Yes the story is  there, and yes, there were familiar items, but I learned a lot of other information also. 

This book was one of the best science books I have recently read. It is very well written, so even someone unfamiliar with the story could get a lot out of it. For me, I like how the author introduced all the characters involved at first, with details, but still made the book flow at a really nice pace. If I didn't know better, I would almost think this book was written as a piece of fiction.

I know this may not be everyone's type of book, but if this is something you would enjoy reading about, then I would  highly recommend this book.

My first listen of the month was this freebie on Audible. I read this book back in the 1980's, but I didn't remember anything about it.

A dead man is found in another man's  bathtub, stark naked except for some pince-nez glasses balanced on his nose.  Lord Peter Whimsey, an amateur detective, gets involved on the case. This is book 1 of this series by Dorothy L. Sayers. It stars her character Lord Peter Whimsey. It is set in the 1920's, and this novel was written by Sayers in 1923. 

It took awhile for me to get used to the narrator, David Case, and he did a great job once I adjusted to the combination of his accent and the author's style. (It did mean I had to listen to chapter one twice just to get the flow going.)

Who was the dead man in the bathtub? Could he be a missing famous fanancier? Or is he someone else. I very much enjoyed this book. It ended with a rather long "soliloquy"  from the murderer, even though by then you knew who the murder was. That did wrap up the story nicely, and overall, it worked. I guess that might have been the style almost 100 years ago when this book was written, but is probably different from how an author would wrap up a similar book today. 

My next listen was this true life murder story by Douglas Preston and Mario Spezi.  The Monster of Florence is the name a press gave to the serial killer  who struck in that Italian City between 1968-1985 and who has never been caught or identified.

I've read several books by Preston before (some of his fiction and nonfiction), and he is a very good writer. In this book, he and Italian journalist Mario Spezi wrote  about several unsolved murders in the Florence, Italy area that started back in the 1960’s and that had ended by the time Preston lived there. Preston was inspired to learn more about them because at least one of the murders happened in the garden of the home he was renting. These murders had been  to young couples who were sharing some intimate moments in their cars. 

Spezi was a local reporter who befriended Preston and who wrote about the murders for newspapers from early on. Part one of the book is about the murder and Spezi's reporting of it.  Part 2 is more about the author's life in Italy and how that relates to the murder, but also includes Spezi. .This book has lots of surprising twists and turns for certain. It is not a very straight forward case, and even the authors were accused of the murders while they were investigating it.

Because I was listening, I found it hard to keep track of every lead and every detail of the murders, but the story is fascinating. I like how the author added in some other information about life in Florence as well as Italy also. This book has lots of "characters", some likable, some not. I was listening for enjoyment, so even though sometimes I feel like I need to remember more details from a book, this time I didn't worry about that.

One thing I found strange was how at certain points during the reading, music would just start to play for a few seconds. I am guessing it was a change of story and break in the chapter, but the music was unusual. 

You might remember I read  and wrote about the book Eight Perfect Murders a couple of months ago. In this fictional story, a series of murders  were solved by going back to a blog post, in which the post's author shared what he thought of as 8 books that were the perfect ways to murder someone . Here's the link to that post if you are curious about that book: (August's Reading).

Malice Aforethought by Francis Iles is one of those 8 books. It was originally published in 1931. Right in the first paragraph you know who the murderer is and who he is going to kill. The main character is quite a ladies man who is married to an overbearing wife. I can't say he is a very likable character. I did take me awhile to get into this story, but once I did, I wanted to know what happened.  Since the book was published many years ago, some of it was slightly dated.I thought it would take the whole book for that first-paragraph-of-the-story mentioned murder to happen, but it did not. The author created a story that had several twists and turns as you read through it, especially the ending.

 It took me longer than it should have to get through the book. This is not because of the book, but because instead of reading as much at night as I usually do, I was sucked into some TV on Netflix. I did watched some good shows and documentaries though, so I didn't feel bad that about the TV. And the reality is, some months you want to read more and some months you don't.

With Halloween coming, I wanted to listen or read to at least one seasonal inspired story. I don't know if this book would be classified as Gothic style horror or fantasy (or maybe both), but it was a very enjoyable listen. The narrator,  Katherine Kelligren, was a an excellent and very animated reader.

Ramses the Damned, The Passion of Cleopatra is book 2 in Anne's Rice's Mummy series. In book 1, a Mummy is discovered by an English archaeologist digging in Egypt during  the Edwardian time period.  The archaeologist then suddenly dies, and his daughter, Julia Stratford,  brings the Mummy to her home in England for an exhibition in memory of her father.  When the Mummy comes back to life from an ancient Egyptian pharmaceutical, he ends up eventually becoming engaged to this young woman.  That might sound a bit of a creepy fantasy (which of course this story is), but I really enjoyed book 1. Setting this story in the early 1900's is perfect for the tale, and  Anne Rice wrote a  good story. 

Book 2 picks up where book 1 left off. The story begins and woven throughout it are recaps of book one. That was good because it is amazing how many details I had forgotten in the few years since I had read the first volume. 

In this next installment, written by Anne Rice and her son Christopher, Ramses the Mummy is back, as is the also brought back to life Queen Cleopatra. The explanation of how Ramses, who lived a very long time before Cleopatra, is able to know the last queen of Egypt makes fictional sense. Cleopatra is an incomplete being however, and she is an angry lady. There are also some even older and more magical eternals around also,  giving  life to those who can get their hands on this ancient elixir.  A few of the characters have psychic connections between them as well. All of these characters are woven together in a story that doesn't get boring. If you are looking for a suspenseful fantasy story that will keep you listening, then I would recommend these first 2 books.

I  picked up this Ken Follett paperback at Costco a few months ago, and I've finally got around to reading it.  I've read the first 2 books in this series, The Pillars of the Earth and World Without End. The Pillars of the Earth is about the building of a Cathedral in a fictional English town called Knightsbridge in the twelfth century. It is one of my favorite books. (If you have never read it, it is long but highly recommended.) The second volume in this series, World Without End, takes places about 200  years after the first book, and it was also good, but I thought not quite as good (for me) as book 1. There is a third book, A Column of Fire, which I have not yet read.  My latest reading book, The Evening and the Morning, is a prequel to the first book, and it is set in 997 CE, just at the end of the Dark Ages. 

Since this book is just over 900 pages long and since I started it late in month, I haven't finished it. (I definitely need to find some extended reading time!)  It is not a hard read however, and it is a very good story. I am really enjoying the time period it is set in. There are Viking raids, robbers hiding out in the woods, both a corrupt church and  ruling lords too. Follett is  great at making villains you really dislike, which adds to the story. So far (and I am just a bit more than half way through), I am giving this book 5 stars. 

 

My last listen for the month is this novel, based on the real life socialite spy Nancy Wake who was one of the most decorated women  during  World War 2 and also a British spy. She was also one of the most wanted women by the Nazis. Two of my friends recommended this novel to me.

This historical novel pulls you in right away. It starts with Nancy jumping out of a plane, and quickly moves on to her being at an Adolph Hitler rally in Berlin. Nancy Wake was a reporter with Hearst newspaper in Paris at the start of the war. An Australian by birth, she was married to a Frenchman. She also trained with the British to work in espionage. There is so much more to this novel, and I don't want to give it away, but if you like World War 2 books and haven't read this one, then I highly recommend you do. I had a hard time not stopping everything just to listen to this story.

My last book for the month is this one.

I've had this knitting book for a few years now. I was looking through my pattern collection because I had the urge to knit some mittens. Something pretty, something faster than a sweater, and something that I could make while watching TV at night. Plus, I wanted to use some yarn in my stash and not have to buy any. 

Do you see the red and pink mittens right above the SH in the author Shirley A. Scott's name? That's the pattern I chose. 

And for AEDM, here's how my knitting is coming along.

You can see instead of pink and red like on the book's cover, I chose brown and turquoise for colors. By the time this posts (since I'm writing this Friday afternoon), I might even be done with the right hand mitten. I just need to do a few shaped rows at the top and finish off the thumb.

The best part about this yarn is that I bought it when I visited Iceland in 2016. Not only is it fun to make mittens, but it's some nice trip memories too.

That's all there is for October's books.  I love recommendations. I hope you maybe found something that might interest you.

Thanks for visiting.

 

Not Impossible

Hi everyone. It's Saturday, and this morning I am heading out for a trail walk with my work lady friends. We have been meeting as a group  once a month for an outside dinner, but then covid got too out of control as well as the temperatures getting too cold to eat outside, so we decided a walk would be safest route to go.  There's 4 of us, and I haven't seen most of them since early October, so I am looking forward to doing some catching up and getting some calorie burning exercise after eating all that Thanksgiving pie. Smile.

 I know I owe some of you visits. It's on my agenda for later today. I'd hope to be more productive this morning, but time has gotten away from me. 

My daughter left last evening (Friday) after we spent yesterday chopping our tree and then even getting it put up. I'll show you some photos tomorrow.

As November starts to wind down, I thought a cheery bird page might be the right thing for today. 

 It is already day 28 of  Art Everyday Month. 

It took several steps made the pink part of the background. The toucan is a stamp and I dressed him up with some accessories. The flowers are punch outs from a Studio Light booklet, and the feathers are stamped and fussy cut. I also stamped the quote. I then cut around the edges of the page and attached it to some black watercolor paper. To finish it off, I added the white dots.

I am also lining up to Wendy's bird challenge at Art Journal Journey.

That's all for me today. Keeping this short since we are meeting at 9 AM to walk and I have a solid 45 minute drive to the trailhead. 

Have a great start to your weekend!

Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving to all of you who celebrate today. And a very happy Thursday to those of you who don't.

Today is the 4th Wednesday of November and a day (in the US) to take stock of things and give thanks.

 I watched a show on the Pilgrims who celebrated the first Thanksgiving on PBS (The American Experience: Pilgrims) the other day.  

The Pilgrims chose to celebrate not because things were absolutely wonderful, but because they were the ones who had survived, been able to reap a harvest  and been able to keep the colony/settlement from falling apart.  They had lost around 50% of those who had settled with them only about a year earlier (lost to diseases, not enough food, and other causes).  I can't image having left so many of their group behind in Europe, and then sailing to a place which was not the one they had planned on but the one they ended up at. They didn't sail at the best time of year either, leaving England in the autumn and arriving in New England in early winter. Then they spent that winter watching so many they travelled with dying.  They robbed graves  (since many of the native Americans in that area had died from probably a smallpox outbreak not all that long before the Pilgrims arrived. This plague was brought over by European fishing fleets out in Georges Bank on the hunt for cod).  They put their dead/dying in sitting positions up against trees with guns to scare off  other Native American  communities that were not so friendly.  That must have been hard.  

So they celebrated what they did have.

 I found this show fascinating, and it put this year's Thanksgiving into a different perspective for me, especially with our current national and world situation with covid.

Just something to consider.

My art today  for Wendy's bird challenge at Art Journal Journey and also for day 26 of Leah's Art Everyday Month celebrates one of the stars of this American holiday, the turkey. Or in this case, the wild turkey.

 

Wild turkeys are definitely a success story. 

In New Hampshire not all that many years ago, there were no wild turkeys left . According the the Fish and Game webpage: Wild turkeys totally disappeared from New Hampshire 150 years ago because of habitat loss and the lack of a fish and game department to regulate hunting seasons. NH Fish and Game began transplanting wild turkeys into the state in in 1969-70 (this initial effort failed), then again in 1975. 

Now there are over 25,000 birds roaming my state. We have several rafters or flocks in my town, and it is not uncommon to come across them. I probably see them at least once a week either when I am out driving, out walking or sometimes  I even see them in my yard and underneath my bird feeders.

Here's a few photos taken in June of 2017 when one of the flocks  that live around me wandered through my yard with their little poults or babies.

You can see how little that baby is compared to the adult in this next photo. 

And from December of 2017.

Every time they visit my yard, the dogs bark if they are aware of them. (The dogs are in the house because the turkeys don't come up into the yard when the dogs are out.) That of course sends the turkeys back into the woods. They were here  just the other day, but because of barking dogs I didn't get any photos.  I just saw them walking away in between the trees.

I've thought about putting out corn for them, but unlike songbirds,  Fish and Game doesn't encourage the feeding of wildlife like flocks of turkeys. Probably smart, but it must be hard for turkeys to get enough food when the snow covers the ground.

There is turkey on my menu today , but not wild turkey as there are no hunters in my house.   And I am grateful I get to interact with these interesting birds, among other things too.

Hope you are are thankful for something today and that you also have a wonderful day!

Thanks for visiting!

T Stands for What a Monday

 Hi everyone.  Another T day has rolled around. Not much new with me. I've been busy with normal daily things, as well as planning Thanksgiving. Like so many people, mine will be small. Just my husband, my daughter and myself, but I am looking forward to having my daughter home for a couple of days, making a couple of pies and probably going to chop our Christmas tree on the weekend.

I have been making a lot of art . Thank goodness for being able to amuse myself as the weather gets colder and having to be home so much more because of covid. 

 I want to share this owl piece for both  Wendy's bird challenge at Art Journal Journey  as well as day 23 at Art Everyday Month.

I'll also share this surprise I found this afternoon in one of my bird feeders. 

Can you see the red squirrel? I had to take a pole and lift the top to let him out.  He decided to grab onto the pole and use it as he escape route. All I saw was the squirrel running towards me, and then I told him no in a loud voice, and he turned around and went flying onto the ground and running faster than any squirrel I ever have seen. I'm sure he wanted to escape not only me but the dogs who were watching the whole adventure from a not to distant vantage point also.  And he did get away.  I think the dogs were more interested in what I was doing over the squirrel .

That got my heart pumping. This all happened after spending almost an hour and a half on the phone trying to get my hive biologic injection shipped out to my doctor. You would think the fact that my insurance had approved it and the pharmaceutical that produces it has had me on a grant to keep my co-payments low would be all I needed, but no, the pharmacy that mails the injection to my doctors office didn't have any info and couldn't  seem to get it without me making phone calls and sitting on hold.

I really needed a nice afternoon cup of tea after these adventures.

This is my drink reference for T this week. Be sure to stop by Bleubeard and Elizabeth's blog  and see what the T gang is up to, and please, join us. 

That's all for me. Thanks for visiting and have a great Thanksgiving if you celebrate! And if you celebrate or not, have a wonderful week.

The Dreamer

Hi everyone. Another Sunday is here. Hope you weekend is going well. 

 More covid cases are here too. In my state they seem to be getting higher and higher every day. It is really scary.

I am still surprised our governor put in a mandatory mask order starting the other day.  He's been holding off, and even  though I must say when I do go out,  most people are wearing masks., it is good to know everyone must now wear one. 

 

My page today began with a hand carved stamp that I made back in September. You can see it stamped in the rusty brown around the border of the page. It is my abstract take on a seedpod. 

In the center of the page, I glued down some of the shavings from my carving project. I glued these down on a blank piece of watercolor paper when I carved the stamp.

Obviously it took me awhile a while to figure out what to do with this page. I finally added some pink ink over the shavings and stamped the stars. I also added some beige paint in the center of each of my hand-cut seedpod design.

The lady looks like she is thinking about something so I added her, and also the bird stamped images.

I am linking up to Wendy's bird challenge at Art Journal Journey.

I am also linking up to day 22 at Art Everyday Month.

 Finally I added the Alison Bomber quote.

I think this lady named Gladys is hoping that the covid vaccine will be available sooner rather than later so she can take that trip to Hawaii she has been dreaming about. Of course  even though I told her that this vaccine is being produced in record time and hopefully will start to be quickly distributed as various governmental leaders determine. The process of making this vaccine is quite amazing, but Gladys told me that she isn't interested in all the microbiological details and just wants to sit under a palm tree drinking a mai-tai with the man of her dreams. Even though that sounds nice, being such a geek I am fascinated by the science behind the vaccines.  I do, however, understand why Gladys is ready to go out into the world again. Hawaii or home, I miss seeing friends, going out to eat, and doing all those normal things Gladys is dreaming about. Maybe I am that lady with her head in the clouds.

Happy Sunday. Enjoy what is left of your weekend. And as always, thanks for visiting.