Heh. Since my last entry was six months ago, I figured it was time to update. =]
Mom just had cataract surgery on her right eye yesterday, so I've been busy dripping eyedrops into it since two days beforehand. It really wasn't that bad of an experience, for either of us, though she said the drops the doctor put in at the start of the proceedure did most certainly sting like the dickens! She can see better in that eye already, even though it's still dilated a good bit. She's getting her left eye done on July 6th, and I think both our nerves will be settled down this time.
Our four acres of highly landscaped yard are coming along nicely this year; I hope to have some good pics to put up soon. I still need to find a nursery to supply me with itty-bitty-baby (bare-root when possible) columnar arborvitae, white lilac bushes, DARK red flowering crab trees, full size burning bushes, and ninebark bushes, so I can work on finishing up the labyrinth (maze) I'm putting in on the two acres that used to be pasture. No way I could afford decent sized plants even if I wanted them, which I don't--babies adapt to our windy weather better, and so long as I'm methodical about what plants with what growing rates I put in at what time, smaller gives me more time to get in the next batch that might otherwise be overshadowed and end up stunted instead of growing apace with the rest. It's actually fairly complicated when you start thinking about all the details. Fun, though!
It's kind of like living sculpture...
Speaking of sculpture, sort of--I make a cat ladder-tree. Made from branches that came down in our yard, held together with screws, with three plywood platforms for beds fastened on it. The cats love it! I should have a picture ready for upload in a day or so--I'm having trouble getting images off my camera's card onto my computer. The in-built card reader is dead, and external readers keep crashing the computer.
I've been so busy browsing art on this site and reading fanfiction, I haven't gotten any drawing done! Ack!