SOME TURNINGS

Since my site on Webshots is no more, due to Webshots selling and the new owner charging ridiculous prices; I am looking for some place to show off miniature items for sale.
So, I'm going to try this.  If you are interested in any of the items in this post,  they are $24.50 each, plus $2.50 postage (in the US).  Just e-mail me:  sheila.jacobson@gmail.com for more information.
These are all 1" scale vases, and turned on a miniature lathe by Harv Jacobson, from acrylic.
I will be adding other types of turnings in the coming days.

HALLOWEEN

So we only had 14 Trick or Treaters last night.  This is the lowest number we have ever had in this house.  (31 years)  Which led me to remember Halloween growing up.

Homes crammed next to each other (although bigger yards than now), one after another make for a
lot of families with kids.  Growing up, my 2 older brothers and I would take off with large grocery bags as soon as it got dark and RUN (seriously run) house to house.  I remember it was hard for me to keep
up.  They were constantly yelling at me to hurry up, since they couldn't leave me.  This probably started when I was 6; and my brothers were 8 and 10.  And it continued until I
was deemed old enough to go by myself, or to be stuck taking my younger brother.  We had those stiff plastic masks held on with a thin elastic band, that were sweaty inside 5 seconds after putting them on, and had tiny eye holes.  So you're sweating, running, and you can't see where you're going.  And you're trying to hang on to a paper sack that's getting heavier by the minute.

We hit as many houses as we could before dinner; and returned home to eat and dump out our bags.  Anything we didn't want or that was unwrapped, we donated to the bowl by the front door to be given out again. After dinner, we took off again until we had hit every house in the large neighborhood.  Blocks and blocks of houses.  When we would get to a front door, there would most likely be 15 other kids there and more coming up the sidewalk.  I know that when I was put on front door duty it was difficult to close the front door because just as you finished handing out candy to one group, there was another bunch.  Typically, we had over 300 Trick or Treaters every Halloween.  The light was turned off when we ran out of candy, or it was decided it was late enough.

Certainly different from today's Halloween.  I can't imagine letting my small children go out by themselves; and for hours at a time.  Now it's politically incorrect to even call the holiday by its
name.  It has become the Fall Festival or some other name; and the kids aren't even allowed to wear
costumes to school anymore.

I predict in 10 years (or less) the door-to-door Trick or Treating will be no more.

PAIN

The pain is so bad today, I just want to cry.  But I know from experience that it won't help.
I need to be calm.  Besides, crying upsets the dog.  But I find myself whimpering a lot.

EGGS

Sometimes I just crave scrambled eggs.  But I'm too lazy, or my back hurts too much to stand
at the stove for 15 minutes to cook them.
(Never install ceramic tile on your kitchen floor.  It's just like standing on cement - very hard on
your back.)
So, today I decided to experiment.  Three eggs, salt & pepper,  and a little milk whipped with a fork.
Paper towel over the top.  Put in the
microwave for 2 minutes.  Lovely!
And easy to eat when your face/teeth hurt with Trigeminal Neuralgia.

"ELEMENTARY"

So, we watched the new series "Elementary" last night on CBS.  TERRIBLE!  It could have been
an interesting show, except for 2 things.

1)  The sound quality was so poor it was unbelievable.
If you wrapped a muffler around your head three times, and then tried to listen it would be about the
same as this show.  This made the female lead very difficult to understand when she wasn't yelling.
We kept turning up the volume; but it didn't help.  That just made it loud and muffled.

Harv and I kept looking at each other.
"Am I going deaf?"
"No, the sound is really bad."

2)  The thick accent and staccato delivery of the male lead made him IMPOSSIBLE to understand
90% of the time.

Obviously, this made for a frustrating viewing experience.  The only reason we watched for the
whole episode was because there was absolutely nothing else on to watch.  (I'm so happy I pay
through the nose every month to my cable service, only to have nothing worth watching!)
A complete waste of 60 minutes of my time.  Next week we'll turn off the TV, and read a book.
I predict a quick demise for this series.

THERE'S GOOD NEWS AND BAD NEWS

The good news is that I have had very few migraines in the last 2 months.
The bad news is that after 8 weeks of a Trigeminal Neuralgia episode, I only had 2 weeks respite before it started up again.

SLEEP OR LACK THEREOF

Having a hard time sleeping these days.  I'm used to sleeping on my side; and right now spine
issues are giving me pain in both upper arms.  So I lay on one side until the pain wakes me.  Then
I switch to the other side until pain wakes me.  Then I lay on my back.  Hmmm, that won't work.
Then I look at the ceiling.  Too tired to get up; but can't sleep.  So then I start obsessing about
things because everything looks worse in the dark of night.  This doesn't make for a restful night.