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Fast & Furious
Just kidding. I have a little more hair than that.
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To see more of the mischief my boys have been up to, pick up a copy of Dream Our World. So far, the boys have been running around the local museum for nine months. I can’t imagine what they have been up to while we humans have been locked out.
Dream Our World is available from my shop and from Amazon.
Baldilocks
Recently, Alyssa Milano’s ghost (it had to be her ghost, right? I mean if you catch covid, you automatically die) put out a YouTube video showing her hair falling out in clumps after she had contracted the virus.
My hair has been falling out by the handful since late last summer. Turns out, hair loss is not a side effect of the virus but of trauma. It could be an emotional or physical injury, but it is natural for hair to stop growing and fall out for several months after an extremely stressful incident.
It looks like my Homicidal Boots have found out yet another way to haunt me. Not only did they make my knees swell up and compound my neck injury (the Bell’s Palsy might be in part because of the head trauma I experienced) they have now made me nearly bald.
A friend made me laugh. She said that she had no idea about my hair loss – that my hair always looked so full when she saw pictures of me. The only pictures anyone sees of me are the ones I draw, so yes, I have Disney hair!
To see more of my emotionally supportive pups’ adventures, pick up a copy of Dream Our World. Inside the boys visit the museum of their dreams and view the world of art from a canine perspective. Really, it is a seriously cute book.
Dream Our World is available from my shop and from Amazon.
Qap
I’ve been getting a lot of “Third Eye” comments lately too.
Don’t try to kid yourself. You always look like that.
In case you were wondering, “Qap” is Klingon for “The Bee Sting”. Believe it or not, if you go to Google Translate, you can translate words into Klingon.
For an adventure that needs no translation, pick up a copy of Dream Our World. Inside, my two boys go on an adventure of the imagination in the art museum of their dreams.
Dream Our World is available both from my shop and from Amazon.
Bedtime: Not As Much Fun As It Used To Be
The prolonged heat of this summer has left me with another case of eyes so swollen and sore that I can barely see. Having the air of fans or AC blowing across them – even while I sleep – has caused a serious enough situation that I needed to take action.
I tried a bandana, but that didn’t work.
Not my image
If your eyes are bad enough, there are sleep goggles to keep your eyes hydrated at night. They also make you look a bit like Carrie-Anne Moss in The Matrix. The catch? They are around $60+ shipping, and they only last a few months.
As an alternative, I found someone’s more economical suggestion of using clingy plastic wrap to cover your eyes. I don’t have plastic wrap, so I borrowed some for my nocturnal experiment. That night I put a big blob of what amounts to ophthalmic petroleum jelly in my eyes, wrapped them up and tried to sleep.
The plastic wrap was hot and crackly, but it did clue in to something I hadn’t known before. I had never realized that I open my eyes even before I fall asleep. The plastic crackled every time I did, and I would force myself to close them again. Sadly, the gel and the plastic wrap still did not solve my problem.
Yup, the next step was taping my eyes closed.
I am one of those lucky individuals who has a negative reaction to the adhesive on surgical tape and Band Aids. This led me on a hunt for hypoallergenic tape that wouldn’t cause my eyes to swell shut. (Although that probably would have solved my problem.)
Interestingly, while searching to tape, I found out that the latest fad is “mouth taping”. Seriously. It promotes breathing through your nose while you sleep, and it is supposed to cause you to sleep more deeply and wake more refreshed. Imagine all those logopthalmic mouth breathers all taped up like mummies at night!
I still haven’t discovered a proper solution to my problem, but I’ve found that using tape and plastic wrap over my eyes gives the most comfortable results. (My mom cringed when I told her that. “Comfortable?” she asked. Oddly enough, yes.)
Isn’t there someone out there who would like to adopt a little terrier? I am a good boy, and I don’t bark too much. Please?
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Oil painting of Westie puppy.
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Contemplate
The grip on sanity around here is loose these days.
Am I really stuck in the house with
this crazy woman all summer?
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Oil painting of Westie puppy.
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Of Clowns and Purslane
Dear Diary,
It would appear that purslane turns humans into clowns. Perhaps a more aggressive program of weed eradication might have saved the children of Derry from being pulled into the sewers…
Purslane. (Not my image.)
An innocent afternoon of pulling weeds has left me with eyes itchy and swollen shut. This weed is still a mystery to me. It doesn’t flower, so pollen isn’t the problem. It seems that if it touches my skin, my face swells. I wear gloves to weed, but the coating on the gloves cracked, and I guess I got a dose of plant ichor.
For the next few days I had best not carry balloons lest the children of the neighborhood run in terror from me.
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Speaking of quilts…
After my grandmother passed away, I asked for her nightgowns. I used them to make the hearts on a series of Memory Quilts that I shared with various family members.
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If you would like to have a quilt that I have made – this one perhaps? – I now have checkout at my website!
This Madison House Quilt is 41″ square. It is made of three layers of 100% cotton with the quilting and binding done by hand. You can see more by clicking here.
Friends and Family Helping Out
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Come see what the boys have been up to at The Museum of the Imagination! They have been running loose for months, looking at artwork and having a grand time in Dream Our World (and in a real museum).
Dream Our World is available from Amazon.
My Boys Help Out
I have found that invalid hair and Covid hair are pretty much the same thing. A wreck. So happy to get to look bad two years running!
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I work in a variety of mediums and have something for nearly every budget. Stop by L Bowman Studios and see for yourself.
Coming soon, I will be offering note cards with some of my more popular pictures!
Helping Mommy Walk
Yes, my boys took full advantage.
Now why would I ever want to trip you? Hmm…
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Or you order a copy of Dream Our World.
Inside, Geordie and Toby run unsupervised through the museum of their dreams!
Dream Our World is available from Amazon.
The Adventures of Bitey Dog 