Daily Notes- March 14th

Another drawer full of really cheap wooden and plastic beads I got at Goodwill over a period of months.  I have these wire forms that are put around the root balls of trees.  At the greenhouse where I worked--they threw them into the dumpster and I pulled them out.  Upside down they have a crumpled lampshade look and I thought I could wire strings of beads to them and other dangling sparkling things and hang them from the big oak tree and let them tilt in the breeze and sparkle and with some bells--even make some wind music.  Now all I need is to buy some wire that is soft enough for me to bend with my hands.

There was a show on PBS about The Healing Machine made by an uneducated loner.  He created mobiles and wind driven "healing machines" and after his death the entire collection was sold to an art museum.  It's a beautiful thing.  His entire family of 8 had died of cancer.  He was the sole survivor in early adulthood.  Imagine carrying that?  I keep the recording of that PBS show on my TiVo and watch it whenever I am thinking about building my little lampshade machines.

I got my hair cut today and my stylist and I discussed seed starting.  She has celery seeds up about an inch already.  I haven't started any.  I don't know if we'll garden again this year down in the raised beds.  Neither of us is too keen on the weeding and cleanup necessary.  I am wondering if it is depression or what.  It all just seems like work that is way too hard.  Or is this the way old people feel?

My jaw pain has transformed into a terrible headache on that side of my head.  Well, not terrible--it's just a constant dull ache and the constant-ness of it wears me down.  It's there when I wake up and it's still there when I go to bed.  Tylenol--my daily two capsules--does nothing.  And now my sinuses have decided to start acting all stuffed up.  And my eyes are sticky.   On the drive to get my haircut-the sun was way too bright.   And I annoyed a bunch of people by driving real slow. I haven't been out driving in a very long time.

Sigh. Well I've bored you long enough.  I am going to finish my coffee and then look for some paperwork I need for our taxes and then sit on the couch with my heating pad and rest my eyes.