Plants, and pesky fingers, also brown rabbits

A routine doctor's appointment Tuesday afternoon wiped out my knitting group and Textiles and Tea, though it did show the value of visualizing practice.

As usual my BP was high, then on second try, sitting, a bit lower, but after lying alone a few minutes, when I took the chance to relax and visualize, it dropped clear into healthy numbers. That was a first.

Great health reports all round, and I plan to get my pesky trigger finger fixed at last. It doesn't hurt, just locks then suddenly releases, very awkward for any kind of fiber work. So I'm setting up a hand surgeon visit to see what's what.

Wednesday COVID shot, could have even got in Tuesday evening, but I wasn't up for going out again. 

Then, Gary home again, he showed me a mystery plant that took off in his front yard in his absence.

It has heart shaped leaves and a vining habit like a morning glory, but has groups of small white flowers instead of single blossoms. Does anyone know?

Then neighbor K hauled me across the street to see her marble spider in her web, huge and beautiful. There's another bigger one which doesn't come out in the daytime. She can't clear up her garden for fear of breaking the web! At least that's her story.

Then, home again, I took down the coleus which is looking a bit ragged hanging in the kitchen. It's going on the floor in the living room because it looks much better seen from above.

It needs a bit of pruning but this is better than hanging in the window. So I tried out other ideas for a hanging plant there, most of them too big, get too tangled in the hanging chains. No rush, I expect I'll end up with another philodendron.

And here's some art material drying out.  

Coffeegrounds, to be incorporated into flour and white glue modeling clay. I got this idea from Magpie's Mumblings, Mary Ann's blog and the source of tons of cool art and craft ideas. Go there!

I have to see how this handles,  then decide what to model with it. It might make beads to add to embroidery, or something, we'll see. It will probably be a rich dark color and I wonder if it will smell of coffee. Maybe I can model brown rabbits, instead of the first of the month white ones. 

I like upcycling my breakfast coffee grounds, but there's only so much ground coffee and tea leaves my small area can take. They're good for plants that like acid, but I have very few of them.  Anything's better than the landfill, though, which is quite full enough.

Happy day everyone, watch this space for hats, clay thingies, socks and whatever else happens. It's all good.  Speaking of socks, the convent community where I send the socks and gloves, has acquired a new puppy, Peach! The previous dog died, very old, a few months ago, and the sisters mourned her then urgently needed a new pup.

Here she is, a rescued and upcycled Puerto Rican street dog, who clearly made it big in the world, with an entire community to play with.