Since I don’t think anything could have topped yesterday. Wait! Shouldn’t superstition then hit me with the one thing that could have been worse? I mean – there were no accidents, much less fatalities on the drive home. The motorcyclists were actually reasonable and sensible about making their way through the heavy traffic. There weren’t too many large trucks blocking my view of the highway.
So today, I decided that I wasn’t going to go anywhere. Doing something? Well that seemed like a good idea. I do think that my “almost no side effects” of the first three rounds of oral chemo have made their sneaky way into making my life just a bit more miserable. My bright side look today is on the order of – there is NO reason why I can’t have all the coffee….
While I am thinking about it – I finished the Elephant on Tuesday. That makes two/six in the series with #3 being released on the 20th of this month.
He is stitched on 18 ct lambswool with DMC, two CCW substitutions for the Weeks (Driftwood & Pewter) plus some Threadworms #12-1046 for most of the fronds. He actually looks like he is in better shape than most of the elephants I saw in Africa. Val reminded me that those trees are called mopani trees and provided me this picture.
Otherwise – I hauled out Poison Apple and finally started the beading. 250+ beads later – her hair and the hem of her skirt is done. I still have the whole of her skirt and all the berries and glitter on all of those vines. Normally, I like using the matching DMC to attach beads but it is not going to happen this time. Several of those bead clusters have 2, 3, 4, or occasionally five different bead colors. Changing threads that often with all the accompanying starts and stops just isn’t reasonable. So off to find the clear nylon alternative.
and this was after I made serious progress on Treasure Island.
That ragged pirate is done, and much of the hill in the center. Now working on the treasure chest with all its goodies. That leaves me one more pirate to balance on the other side, the rest of the center hill and a parrot to stitch on top of the treasure chest. We will not discuss the island.
I may be going out on a limb, but those trees looks more like a typical Serengeti acacia tortilis or an umbrella thorn acacia, that is until a bunch of smart …. botanists decided to call them Vachellia tortilis.
But what do I know.
given that the trees in the stitching are an artists rendering – who knows. Either could be correct. Certainly the flowers don’t remember much of what I remember from the game parks in those areas of Africa.