Quilt Mags and Westies for Medicine!

Three wisdom teeth extracted this morning. They were not making me any smarter, so I had them yanked.  LOL

Thank you, Lord, for nitrous oxide and antibiotics and Tea Tree Essential Oil and healing salt water and snuggling Westies and caring hubbies!

Sweet Gordon just returned from running errands with new quilt magazines to focus my mind on happy things (instead of the unhappy gaping holes in my mouth! *grin*). 

Daddles, Annie, Lillibeth and Elvis have slept on or against me all afternoon, giving generously of their unique blend of comfort and pain relief.

Gas may be over three dollars a gallon, but Gordon and I are still zipping here and there for programs and speeches and errands. 

Annie even went with us to Grenada last week while we ran errands and had the van serviced.
That little outing was a special treat for both Annie and me!  We had some special time together, and Annie had an adventure. 

The "ooohs" and "aahhh" and admiring attention Annie drew at every stop gave me an inkling of how parents feel when their two-legged children are praised!

The little shopping trip also reinforced to Annie that this farm is her Forever Home.  She still goes through initial anxiety every time we take her somewhere in the van.  Then she settles down and has a grand time with all the sights, sounds and smells!

Annie lounged on a pillow in my lap while Gordon drove or while we waited somewhere. She even let me sew on my Robyn Pandolph Botanika Block of the Month, using her as a model when I wanted to spread the block out and look at my progress.

I'm stitching on Block #3 now.  The first picture of this blog post is Block #2.  Not much time to stitch with so many porcelain orders to fill, but even five minutes a day is valuable therapy!

The maple tree photo shows you how beautiful the Fall has become here in central Mississippi!  This Fall season is evolving slowly, allowing us to enjoy the delicious cool weather and get caught up on some projects outside.  I adore this time of year.

Here is one of my "Through the Passenger Window" shots of pallets of cotton lined up beside a harvested field of cotton, awaiting transfer to the local cotton gin. 

All of the cotton on our farm has been harvested and moved out of the field.  We all breathe significantly better when the crops are harvested and transported to their appropriate market each year.

There has been so much lately that I want to share with you, but I'll have to catch up one topic at a time.

For now, I think Hubby needs to do some pampering to help my jaws feel better.  Back rubs are a proven scientific treatment for wisdom teeth extractions, right?  *wink*

Comments

[Junie Moon]

Wisdom teeth extraction is no picnic, that's for sure. "Laughing gas" became my best friend to get me through it, too. I hope you feel better soon. Love all your pictures!