Things seem to be going in the right direction. The pressure is off at work, things have been fixed, prayers heard.
I have been working on my art. Here are some updates.
Today started out with a brilliant sunrise. If "red skies in morning, sailor take warning" means anything, I guess it could foretell some snow tomorrow.
I'm loving these sunny days, even if they are super cold. I worked a while on a new idea for a tree-line I want to paint. I drew the trees with fine point marker. My plan is to do a watercolor wash over them, but end up with the trees looking frosty. Wish me luck. I don't tend to choose easy subjects. Here is the photo, my attempt last year, and my WIP this year. The lighting in the kitchen makes the paper look yellow but it's actually white.
We had almost 10 inches of snow and thankfully today the sun came out. Hubby shoveled and we did a little shopping. I had no energy. Chalk it up to covid. I did make some more attempts at watercolor painting and decided I pretty much suck at it right now. I watch tutorials online but when I try it falls flat. I'm not even sharing photos.
That's about it for today. Maybe tomorrow will be better in the art department.
I've been trying to paint some scenes from photos I've taken and I have discovered that I have forgotten any watercolor techniques I ever managed to learn. Good grief! I may need to shift gears and go with pen and ink and just do a wash to add some color.
In other news, it's been snowing all day, and I mean so much I couldn't see across the field. Tomorrow hubby will shovel the truck out so we can go shopping. I guess we have about 3 or 4 inches of snow.
I finished 4 loads of laundry.
Hubby and I watched some YouTube videos. One guy is panning for gold along Lake Superior in some layers of black sand and finding a little bit of gold. And you know how YouTube sends you more stuff, another guy bought a bunch of sand to mix as mortar, so he decided to run it through his sluice. After spending 6 days of shoveling, sluicing and panning, he ended up with $104 worth of gold. He said it was too much work but a fun experiment and it covered the $39 he spent on the sand.
No we are not going sluicing. But I took and magnifier and looked at the sand I buy for my plants and it was only quartz.
That's about it for today. I'm feeling much better. Apatite is back, energy ok, nose not stuffy, lungs clear, no headache.
Last night I chugged two water bottles with salt added. I was able to stop the heart palpitations that also came with covid the last time I had it in December 2022. I was really sick that time, for two weeks. I stayed in bed with a headache, chest congestion and random heart palpitations. My doc said it was good I was vaccinated or it could have been a lot worse.
It seems that covid makes me pee A LOT. It's a struggle to not become dehydrated. Along with all that "flushing" go my electrolytes. Low electrolytes and dehydration cause low blood pressure, and one can get dizzy or even pass out. It's interesting that when I went in the ER earlier this year the diagnosis was dehydration and a bladder infection. They gave me antibiotics and two big IV bags of saline (salt) solution. It took 5 hours! It's also interesting that looking back to the past, I've always been told to eat low salt, but my labs always reported that my blood was low in sodium. Drinking gobs of water without adding electrolytes is not good!
Before bed last night I decided to take a shot of asthma spray, meaning a puff from my inhaler. I have not needed to take it in over a year, since changing what I eat, but the covid was making me a little "tight". Well, asthma spray is like caffeine on steroids. I COULD NOT SLEEP. I was still awake at 3:30 am. I kept getting up and walking around. What else to do? Hubby was sleeping and I didn't want to disturb him.
Then suddenly the lights on the patio popped on! At 3:30 in the morning! Ugh. I had unplugged the Netgear WiFi extender and now my phone could not connect to the 2G network to control the plug. So there I was at 3:30 am with a flashlight, plugging in the Netgear, waiting for it to connect, opening my phone's connection settings so I could connect it to the 2G band on the extender, just so I could push a button in the app on my phone to turn off the lights controlled by the connected plug. LOL
By then I was tired enough to go to sleep.
Earlier in the evening I saw the cutest poster on someone's wall on YouTube. I found the picture! It's now on my Facebook and my lock screen. Love it!
...covid. I had a test on the medicine shelf. Result: Positive. That explains the weird symptoms.
We had a few glimpses of very welcome sunshine. I was able to eat a little. Feeling better. Maybe do a little art now.
