A few years ago, our good, and now departed friend Bob Eschrich stopped by the house with an antique chair in the back of his truck.....that he gave me. It was missing the seat and back and it sat in our garage for a couple of years. Then, I moved it into the house where it sat for another year or so. I finally made a template for the seat and back and gave it to Bob to cut them out in wood. About a year later, he got that done and then, again the chair sat at the end of the hallway waiting to be finished. Well, it is now done. The fabric was complements of Emily - some she bought as possible material for her wedding. I treated the wood with some Old English polish. I found the perfect color of braided trim on-line. I am very happy with the results.
Thursday afternoons are my new pottery days and last Thursday I started a new 6-lesson session and collected all the pottery from the past four months work. 16 pieces. I would have had 17 but one got some water damage as it sat on the shelf awaiting glazing. See the yellow pie plate I made in the middle?
The color is not great since I photographed under poor artificial light but the outside of these three bowls is yellow with green interior.
The BIG news of the week is that Trissy is NOT dead......yet.
But, last Sunday, she took a turn for the worse, particularly in walking. Suddenly, she could hardly keep her already arthritic legs from slipping on the wood floors. Tuesday, she stopped eating. She could barely be coaxed through her morning walk. I thought "Oh, boy. she is in pain. Time to put her out of her misery". I made a vet appointment for Thursday morning and Steven, Elise, and Sarah all made accommodations to be there. And, then, Wednesday evening, Steven brought over her "last meal" of chicken tenders - which Trissy devoured. It must have been the miraculous healing powers of that meat because the next morning, she wolfed down her breakfast, she looked more perky than she had in days, she enthusiastically went on her morning walk.
I called the vet and said "never mind". And Trissy has been back to her old, regular 15 1/2 year old self ever since! She has a regular, long ago scheduled vet appointment for tomorrow and we'll see what happens after that....
Speaking of dogs, we are grand-dog sitting this weekend for Sarah. Not good old calm Bones. We have never-stop, full of insane energy, ADHD Lily.
See what we did to keep her from going downstairs.... a combination of highchair and storage box. And, the couch was moved a foot over to be in front of the spindled opening in the half-wall
Oakland Park has a new bench installed by the pond in memory of our neighbor, Walter Shoupe.
This past week, I had two chances to work in storage sheds in Missouri August humidity. Yay. Wednesday it was with Katherine Eschrich as she emptied the last dozen or so boxes from a large storage unit she and Bob rented near their home. Saturday, it was with the missionaries, Kari Bailey, Traci Downs, and Steve in the Refugee and Immigration Services storage warehouse where they keep their donations. It was full of boxes and bags of household goods donations tossed everywhere among the donated furniture so we went through and sorted everything. We got it all done in less than two hours.
Mid-Missouri Community Orchestra had their first rehearsal of the season yesterday afternoon. We have two new musicians - a trumpet player and a baritone sax player! I am back behind the baton because our director from last year (when I got to play viola) had to step down due to crazy life changes.
Movie Report: Midnight Special - a sci-fi movie that, in spite of a very a lame title, was very good.
Love and Mercy - a biopic about Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys. It was very well done and quite interesting.
Lego Movie - I had to re-watch this and it was just as funny as the first time.
Oblivion - Elise owns the soundtrack which we listened to on our trip out west so I had to re-watch it. I loved it the second time.
