The Easter Bunny did find mom on Sunday, but it took a while longer than usual as she has moved to a new address.

I put mom in an assisted living facility last week. It was not an easy decision, but a necessary one on my part. I’m hoping she will feel better about the move when her new, freshly renovated, apartment becomes available. In the meantime, we are figuring out just what she needs and getting used to new schedules.

Brindy has already visited a number of times. Of course, everyone at the facility loves her.

Added these crepe paper flowers to brighten up the lobby in my building.

Happy spring (or fall) to you all!

Petals are made from double-sided crepe paper, the rest from fine crepe paper.

Saw the eye vet specialist today and Brindy’s cornea has finally healed. Two more weeks of once daily drops to mitigate the irritation, but no more cone. I was told that once it happens in one eye, it often happens in the other, so we will be keeping careful watch. Meantime, I have one very happy dog.

Brindy got some new medications to take and goes back for a recheck this coming Friday. We’re all hoping the eye is a least getting better or else she may have to have a little surgical procedure done. Meantime, she does, at least, seem to be less bothered by the eye.

Here is her latest interpretation of the command “Get in your bed”!

She is, after all, touching “her” bed.

I know it’s just midwinter, but the urge to clean out and reorganize my panty just couldn’t be resisted. These types of moods strike so rarely, that I always try to take advantage of them. Threw out a bunch of old spices, but still have more than enough for the amount of cooking that I do. Here are “during” and “after” photos.

Unless they move, coyotes blend into the scenery incredibly well. These were taken right outside my door when I took Brindy out for her walk yesterday morning. We did not stay out long.

Generally, when I am making flowers, I do one variety at a time. This means my working space can be somewhat contained and I usually manage to scrounge out enough space in my office for whatever needs doing. However, this month I have been taking an on-line class that started out working on 5 flowers at once. That means 5 different kinds of petals, 5 different stamens, 5 different leaves, etc., etc. To make it more unwieldy, I didn’t make just 1 of each flower, I actually ended up with 3 tulips, 4 cosmos, 4 clematis, 8 cosmos, and 7 stems of sweet peas with 7 flowers per stem.

This amount of materials and equipment was just not capable of fitting in my little office space. So here’s what the kitchen/dining room counter has looked like for 2 weeks:

I finished up all the pieces yesterday and was able to get my counter space back. Today I hope to finally assemble the flowers.