because I can’t

I think it’s because I can’t bead right now, and thats whats making me want to!  Actually I can bead, but I’m glad that I’m not.  We’ve finished up the majority of the woodwork now.  There are two coats of poly on the hand railing and one on the wood in the kitchen.  The railing needs one more, and the other needs two, but that won’t happen for a while.  The real reason beading’s not happening is that so far this week we’ve both been fighting off colds or the flu or something funky.  Beading while sick or not feeling well is not productive for me.
 
I’m hoping we’ll both be better by the weekend.  We’ve rented a cabin in southern Illinois down at Giant City State park.  We plan to do some hiking in the Shawnee National forest, and then taste some wines at the wine trail down in that area.  I’m really excited to check out the wineries, March is Vintage Art month on the wine trail.  So each winery is displaying art from local artists.  It’s been a while since we’d done anything art related so it will be fun to check that out.  Unfortunately the weather is supposed to be cold, we were hoping for it to reach the 50ies but we’ll be lucky to get 40ies.  But then they also said we’d get snow this week…I’m still waiting.  I think I’m going to stop watching the weather man, I don’t like what they say the majority of the time, and when I do they’re wrong.

Here’s another picture from last June.  It’s of Mom’s clematis, she has several really big beautiful clematis growing up a trellis in the back.  The entire plant is covered in blooms in June.  I’m thinking I might get one for my yard, its too bad they’re awfully spindly looking when they first start out.  I think Mom’s is about 15years old.  I love the center of this flower.  It’s so unique, and when the flower is done, the petals drop and the center kinda spreads out a little into a globe. 

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