Love to watch it snow.
This week was a bit of a bummer—bone graft didn’t take well enough, so the dental implant is on hold, perhaps for good—and the scan to determine same found 3 abscesses. So…back to the endodontist. I was really in a down mood Monday; but hey, it is what it is, and at least we found this damage before it created another problem. And the endodontist thinks it’s likely only 2, recommending a watch-it on one.
Meanwhile we have this lovely snowfall going on, and the world is getting pretty.
So sorry to hear that the dental issues are still plaguing you. Hope they can knock out the abscesses quickly and give you a chance to heal properly. Sending healing thoughts your way. Hope your holidays are warm and bright. Maybe you’ll even have a white Christmas. Hugs to you both.
— Lisa and Randi
Hugs back. The good part is—a root canal done in timely fashion by a person who does it right means that tooth is going to enjoy a long life as the natural equivalent of an implant: it’ll stay put. Which is a lot cheaper than replacing one. 😉
Jane’s doing Christmas baking today. Yum.
We have two little trees up and have convinced the cats that they’re not to be messed with: they’re on table tops, so we can spot transgressors… and we’re just going to have a happy, modest holiday—with cookies.
Just to weird you all out, I took the week off work to do Christmas baking. To date there are 4 dark fruit cakes, ca 15 doz gingerbread cookies and 3 gingerbread houses (still to be decorated), 6 doz shortbread cookies, about 6 doz ice box cookies and 4 doz mincemeat tarts. I still have to decorate the gingerbread (outhouses, you don’t have to worry about windows) and do a batch of lemon squares and a batch of brownies. I still have Christmas puddings left from last year, so the baking is under control. I also got the snow tires on the car (therein lies a tale) but am not as done with the shopping as I’d like. We’ve had enough snow or threatened snow to snarl everything up and confine expeditions to the absolutely essential. My part of the Pacific coast gets very little snow, so when it does come we all go insane.
All this baking is for gifts, the diabetes means I can’t really eat it anymore. Sitting surrounded by the booty isn’t easy.
Are your little trees real ones? I have been debating whether to get one as people keep giving me ornaments and yet I’ve never had a tree. I’ve just hung the ornaments on a garland over the office door
We’re both allergic to evergreens or the mold that grows on them. Even stores with evergreen in the air are off our shopping list, so yes, artificial. I had a ‘cold’ every Christmas of my childhood and was roundly chided for catching a chill or being out doors and ‘catching cold’. Some years I was in bed. Sigh. Then about age 12, we began having artificial trees and my Christmas colds miraculously stopped…unless I visited a house that had a real tree.
The best size to get for a person who doesn’t want to go all-out is one of the permanently lit 3-4 footers, one with ‘ice’ on the needles, not the snow-stuff, which itself can mold in several years’ time. You pop it into a box, put it in the basement or attic, and next year, haul it out with the lights and some of the decoration already done. That lets you do the fun part…the personal touches.
Root canals are no fun, but like you said. I’ve had some of my root canals for 30 years. Maybe when you get the abscesses cleared up that will help the bone graft take (fingers crossed).
Oh, and CJ, how do you feel about autumn colors? russets, oxblood reds, old golds? (I think they’d be pretty on you with your dark hair.)– Your shawl is still on the schedule and I have Jane’s yarn, and as soon as I finish the little pieces I have to do for a charity auction for my mom, I feel a binge watch coming on. . .
I’m good with those colors. I rather like raspberry, too.
The endodontist is good—the last one, I swear the x-ray card-clip they use hurt worse than the endodontistry did…he uses a topical pre-deadening, so the whole process is pretty easy.
Drat those dental issues! Toes crossed that they are solved soon and that you are are antibiotics to clear everything up.
Being blessed with excellent teeth, I never expected the problems that I have experienced of late. (I am probably going to have a tooth pulled early in the new year!)
We may have experienced our first real freeze last night. I still have petunias and snap dragons blooming next to the house. Looking back I see that it is not particularly unusual. We often have winter hit overnight and stay far too long!
We are getting our tree today. We usually put it up for the Winter Solstice and take it down on Groundhog Day.
Teeth really could have been designed better. I just found out that one of my roots (with an expensive crown) is eroding: apparently its some sort of buggered up immune response with no known cause). My dentist -who is super good- said the tooth will at some point break off! Luckily it has a root canal already so will spare me that problem. I just hope that I don’t swallow it or something so I can recycle the gold in it!
Teeth were well designed for their original design brief. Our ancestors didn’t expect teeth to last eighty years plus as they didn’t last that long either. First grinding away on hunter-gatherer food (which bore little resemblance to “paleo diet”), then coarse stone-ground grains, then sugars producing enamel-destroying acids. Teeth have endured pretty well actually. This is small consolation when faced with root canals however.
@Pence — I hear the price of gold is going up, and would believe it considering the results of the recent election. Hold onto that crown!
I had a potted Norfolk Island pine tree for 20 years (named Phred) that was my living Christmas tree. I got him “potted” in a coffee cup with two tiny red balls and foil icicles. I thought he would probably die on me, as the TX panhandle is not a good climate for them but, like I say, I had him for almost 21 years. He had his own little suite of ornaments, and got a new one every year as he had grown. Alas, I made the mistake of repotting him into a pot with no drainage and he is no more, which is probably just as well as he was getting way too big to handle solo. Keeping a NI pine for that length of time in the TX panhandle is no mean feat as they evolved a Pacific Northwest type climate and that part of TX is way too sunny and dry for them. In the first place I had him, there was a white wall about 8 feet away from the window where I kept him, and he got light but not direct sunlight. In the second place I kept him in a north facing window behind sheers and that worked equally well. You have to turn them about 4 inches in the same direction each month so they grow straight. Phred was about 6 inches tall when I got him, and he was going on 4 feet tall when he finally succumbed to my stupidity. I kept about an inch of gravel on top of his dirt and the kitties did not bother him. It also cut down on evaporation. I felt that was an environmentally responsible way to have a Christmas tree.
I’ve also heard of people finding an unusually shaped branch with lots of branchlets, fixing it into a pot or stand, and decorating that.
I’ve felt kind of Atevi on Alpha Station here in my new digs, CJ. Straight shot from front door to back door, everything very straight and in pairs, doors across from one another. I’ve had to strategically deploy my two screens and do what I could to get the chi to meander rather than go roaring through. My mom loves the place — it’s very 1970’s including sunken living room — but it jarred my sensibilities the minute I walked in. I could do with one more screen. Very bad feng shui to be able to see the dining room table from the front door.
Sorry to hear about your toofs, CJ; hope all goes better with them. My mom is allergic to something in the area where my aunt and uncle go to cut their Christmas trees, up above Prescott, AZ. Last couple of years the trip made her sneeze and wheeze, so this year she asked them to get her a tree, but she was staying home. The wicked cold she picked up might also have had something to do with her nonparticipation 🙂
I used to put a tiny string of lights on my bonsai ficus tree, until the cats decided to ‘help’. No more! I also used to build a gingerbread house for our library, but got out of the habit when I moved to a new branch where the holiday parties weren’t on premises any more. Maybe now I’m back to my original digs, I’ll rejuvenate the custom.