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What was your fasting blood glucose? (full on chat)

@geefull Thankyou for your compliments re my art, sorry you are also feeling the melancholy, I am through it today but aware it is lurking in the background. The scary bit I saw I actually enjoy the emotion and darkness but also realise I have to pull out of it or I could slip away into some very fark places, music to match the mood works for me I cant listen to happy or brighter music when in this mood, on the positive side I am usually more creative when the Black Fog arrives.

Your seascape is very good again, those hills once more hold so much detail, you are certainly mastering seascapes and shore lines, like it very much.
 
Krystyna23040 said:
What a lovely pastel drawing of your daughters dog. So sorry you cannot get your eat sorted until next year. Surely it must be urgent if there is a possible infection.
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Thank you, I didn't win the challenge, grandaughter had made a dog campfire, her paw patrol pups sat around a model camp fire she had build complete with spit which held a marshmallow over a night light candle which actually toasted it.
Regarding my ear I think I will end up paying to go private, against my moral fibre but sometimes needs must.
 
Good Morning and 6.3 for me today.

A day that's going to be spent making a start on emptying MILs bungalow. Poor Mrs MC keeps having nightmares that once bungalow is sold an ambulance turn she up at ours with Mom saying she is now back to normal and you can take her home. Hard times.

Keep safe and I hope your day runs smooth and enjoyable.
 
Muddy Cyclist said:
Thank you, I didn't win the challenge, grandaughter had made a dog campfire, her paw patrol pups sat around a model camp fire she had build complete with spit which held a marshmallow over a night light candle which actually toasted it.
Regarding my ear I think I will end up paying to go private, against my moral fibre but sometimes needs must.
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Your granddaughter is very talented - obviously runs in the family. What a lovely idea to build a dog campfire.

I think that going private is a good decision - even though it goes against your moral fibre. Too risky to delay dealing with it until next year.
 
Muddy Cyclist said:
@gennepher and @dunelm more excellent Zen work, like the experiment with backgrounds and that's a fine chrysanthemum.

My ear problem is set to continue. Phone triaged by nurse, can't see me, takes my word for it no wax, won't give me antibiotics and put me on referral to ENT but says it could be next year before I get to see anyone. :banghead:

Anyway here is today's effort, Pastel drawing of daughters dog. family creative challenge is Dog, I'm also going to sing and play a rocking version of Hound Dog a song I have never performed before, might even try the hip girations.
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Thank you for your kind comments. Not very good being put on the ENT list of fantasy. Great dog challenge result, wonderful dog portrait and well done pooch for sitting still.
 
geefull said:
good evening all :)

was 4.5 yesterday and 4.5 today

out to the charity shed yesterday all masked up and sanitised to within an inch ... you know the drill ;) when we got there it was to discover that they had been so busy the week before that they are back to normal opening hours this week.

Not mr gee and I though, I'm out of practice, we arrived a bit later than we used to and I was still tired by mid afternoon. We went for a walk after we got home and halfway round the village I started getting shaky, think I overdid it, perhaps a touch of electrolyte depletion too. It was very hot and humid here yesterday. So I just ate dinner and read for an hour then went to bed early :sorry:

I'm another one who's feeling a bit anxious and 'melancholy' just at the moment @Muddy Cyclist but even though I sang in a madrigal group in my 'youff' ( 8 of us as a split from the full choir), I can't take them when I feel that way. I try to listen to some 20's /30's dance band music.

Anyway, today we were requested to take Mum for her pension but we weren't out long and then came home and have been strimming in the sunshine, boosting our vitamin D :)

@jjraak - hope the glasses are on the road to recovery ;)

@dunelm - lovely little bird, very fluid and your chrysanthemum is very stylish :)

@gennepher - very finely balanced and evocative artwork of your masked lady, and it's interesting to see how the paper choice influences the aspects of your landscape :)

I'm finding the law mandating mask wearing here has helped enormously. But I do wonder how stressed we'll all feel when they start to come off again :sorry:

@Muddy Cyclist - wonderful stand of silver birches MC, there are many of these lovely trees in our area :) I particularly like the way you've silhouetted them against the sky and the textures in the path in the foreground :joyful: Your dog is very characterful and the eyes have worked really well :)

art bit -
I'm just starting to try out the 'inktense' pencils a bit, either alone or in conjunction with a bit of watercolour. They'll be in the next batch to be scanned.

this is just a quick watercolour inspired by the calm misty view of the Firth as we passed by.
I think the striped bit of the tower is too big in comparison to the rest of the platform now I look at it, perhaps because the colour was bright even on a misty morning it made more of an impression :sorry:

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Thank you for the compliment about the chrysanthemum - a word that the autocorrect keeps reminding me has the letter ‘e’ before the ‘mum’ bit. Must be my northern twang to spell the ‘the’ part as ‘tha’.
Great atmosphere in your watercolour and the colour and detailing in the tower gives such focus to the gloom of the day.
Sorry to read that you are feeling a bit down in the dumps. Please don’t let it go - perhaps talk to someone and find some distractions - the inktense pens may offer that in some small way
 
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My painting in ZenBrush2 this morning on my iPhone.

I hurt my wrist in the night getting out of bed. My hand palm bent right forwards to my wrist. I thought I had irreplaceably damaged it. It was painful. I think the tendons or ligaments are overstretched, because of the hand, almost dislocating from my wrist/arm. Witch hazel liberally applied. Then a cream analgesic a bit later. I have now put a wrist support on it so I cannot bend it too much accidentally.

So I decided the twisty bendy plum tree and blossom might be the best bet this morning. Because there is not so much control in my right hand this morning.

Little finger wasn’t obliging in painting strokes this morning. It wasn’t painful, it just couldn’t do it. So, first finger had to do the painting.

This will be a quickie I thought. No chance. The whole thing has taken me just over an hour. I was totally engrossed in it. I just went for it, completely out of my head, imagining I was in Cathy Wu’s Calligraphy class in the 1990’s, with her berating us in Chinese (well I am not sure what she was berating us in because I asked the Chinese person next to me what Cathy Wu was saying, and she told me she had no idea, I was the only non Chinese person in that class)

My hand and wrist did not hurt at all during that hour it took. I was completely engrossed. It blinking hurts now though!!!!!

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Great,
You guys amaze me! Your so very prolific painters and must live extremely full lives.
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gennepher said:
My painting in ZenBrush2 this morning on my iPhone.

I hurt my wrist in the night getting it of bed. My hand palm bent right forwards to my wrist. I thought I had irreplaceably damaged it. It was painful. Witch hazel liberally applied. Then a cream analgesic a bit later. I have now put a wrist support on it so I cannot bend it too much accidentally.

So I decided the twisty bendy plum tree and blossom might be the best bet this morning. Because there is not so much control in my right hand this morning.

Little finger wasn’t obliging in painting strokes this morning. It wasn’t painful, it just couldn’t do it. So, first finger had to do the painting.

This will be a quickie I thought. No chance. The whole thing has taken me just over an hour. I was totally engrossed in it. I just went for it, completely out of my head, imagining I was in Cathy Wu’s Calligraphy class in the 1990’s, with her berating us in Chinese (well I am not sure what she was berating us in because I asked the Chinese person next to me what Cathy Wu was saying, and she told me she had no idea, I was the only non Chinese person in that class)

My hand and wrist did not hurt at all during that hour it took. I was completely engrossed. It blinking hurts now though!!!!!

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Good morning everyone from an overcast start at our little house on the prairie in the dark and dangerous north

The wonder wheel of sliced meatloaf screaming ‘bat out of hell is bad for your health in Hunan” came in at 5,2 this am.

Meditations - Thirty minutes this morning, taking advantage of the silence, just laid on the floor, head on a cushion, eyes closed, ticking clock consigned to the fridge for the duration. Then:

Such a wonderful find - a brand new cafetière and a fresh can of Illy classico to start the day. I like to get a can of Illy koffy every now and again. Decent koffy and the can makes for decanting those bags of koffy from supermarkets and sometimes those posh koffy roasting emporia that are now starting to reopen.

I decided to fiddle about a bit more with my chrysanthemum (there you go, got the spelling right this time).

Have a wonderful day, you know it makes sense. Must plunge this koffy.

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