slowly she turned

Whew! This week was a rough one. Last Saturday started out so lovely, and ended with leaving a cook-out abruptly to visit an urgent care clinic. I had a bad urinary tract/kidney infection that apparently had been “cooking” for some time. This one affected my kidney so I had painful cramps in my kidney and it scared the bejeebers out of me. Anyway, so Sunday was a total wash, mostly sleeping, and I was on Cipro for five days, and its side effects for a few days longer, and now I am feeling normal again.

The good news is that I sold a couple of books at the gallery, even though it has not opened yet. I was supposed to work there last Saturday and last night. We need a website so I am developing one on WordPress.com that I like so far. I’m considering moving this blog to WordPress.com but I do like the freedom that I have to fiddle with my code by hosting my own blog. It seems like an unnecessary expense to pay hosting fees these days though. I played with my old blog at Blogger but I left there because it always seemed to be having problems and I heard a lot of frustrated howls from bloggers this week. The truth is that I no longer have the desire to keep up with web design technology and I’d rather let somebody else do it for free.

I bought some plants last Saturday at the Greensboro Farmers’ Curb Market from Handance, Weatherhand, and a couple of herb farmers at the Herbfest outside. Now I have a decent culinary herb garden again, and several varieties of hot peppers. My department head and his wife will eat the hottest peppers imaginable – I grow habeneros because they are pretty and then I give the peppers to them. Sandy’s tomatoes are growing like crazy. I have loads of black-eyed Susans that volunteered from last year so when they bloom I will definitely have to take some photos.

Some critter dug up some of my pepper and basil plants yesterday, but I was able to replant them with no problems. Mama Robin is now sitting on her eggs. I petted a dying bird yesterday morning and buried it yesterday evening. So it goes.

I made a small amount of paper in a burst of energy on Monday evening, but I think that I’m going to wait to make any more until it is less rainy and chilly outside.