The hearing journey, and art will save us all

This is the entrance of the building where the ENT has his offices, and where I had my preliminary appointment this afternoon.

 Just a lovely covered walkway with plants in the earth and in pots, ficus, fiddle leaf figs, crotons, draecena, shrubs, very calming. I wouldn't mind going there just to sit and weave. Anyway all the way down there, his suite door is among the greenery 

He took a history, a lot I had sent online ahead of time, looked in my ears and mouth and wrote it all up.  

Then he set me up with a hearing test followed immediately by another visit with him with results and recommendations. Late May. 

Scheduling both him and an audiologist together is the trick, and this is the earliest. I guess I can wait a bit longer, now that I've got my nerve up.

Then I left by the nearest exit. This turned out to be the entirely wrong side of the complex, of course, my usual leaving a building performance,  and entailed a lovely brisk walk until I finally found my car. I rationalized it was exercise, anyway.

So art definitely had a place in the day, here a new square, yarn and wire together, manipulated into a shape.

And set with the earlier parts. And that square I made with pins in cardboard I wove wire into, then shaped it to add to the group.

There's another, larger square in this turquoise yarn, which I plan to thread with wire tomorrow, as another, bigger, component. Then we'll see.

Right now this is all unconnected pieces until I decide how and if they'll work. Then I'll see how to join them, and what more is needed. 

There's a lot yet to think about. I might make plain unrelated yarn squares while I think.  Mouse blankets.

In other vital news, I find the earthquake may have jolted a couple of things, such as the water pipes,  outside faucet suddenly running. 

It's always open all winter, the pipes emptied and the shutoff valve shut. But the valve may have been jolted open a bit. It's in an upstairs closet, but it's bone dry, no leaking. So I retightened it, checked the outside faucet,  still dripping a bit, so I shut it off, no freezing concern now. 

And my clothes dryer, situated close to the shut-off valve I'd tughtened,  has lost the sensor function, though I was still able to get it going on the manual timer. 

I'd run about checking the circuit breaker, check, the upstairs plugs, switching out to check the plug worked, check, concluded it was the dryer.

I wonder if the shaking could do that. I have a feeling that's an expensive repair which I may opt not to worry about. 

Always something! But that green walkway at the ENT office just lifted my nervous spirits a lot.

Happy day everyone, weave on and keep your pipes working..