A Small Setback

Well, trying to get back into the swing of writing more often and so here I am again. :)

It was a pretty productive weekend although a very good portion of it was spent on figuring out our taxes. Luckily we are getting a nice sized refund this year - though that will go to paying off our kitchen probably. It's coming due soon and I'm not looking forward to that bill, I'll tell you!

Otherwise I spent a very good amount of time in the backyard pulling out mini trees. I hate maple keys. I literally never thought I'd say that but with 4 maple trees on our property, the ground is littered with them and by this point in the year, we have a small forest attempting to grow less that 3 feet away from the house. Some years back we put a lot of gravel in the walkway behind the house to aid in water run-off and such. Who knew that maple keys would grow in such a strange environment. Somehow, they manage to get their little roots through 4 - 6 inches of rocks, the weed resistant fabric layer to the soil beneath. So every year, I have to go out there and pull them all one by one to prevent the mini forest from taking over. Sigh... it's a losing battle with mother Nature, I'll tell you!

Strangely here's my setback for the weekend, yesterday when I was out weeding, I hurt my right knee while I was sitting cross-legged pulling weeks. Minimal pressure, no pain at all during and I didn't bend my legs funny or anything. But when I came back inside to make dinner, I could barely stand! I thought maybe I pulled a muscle or something and put some Icy Heat on it to ease the muscles and I hoped when I went to bed that it would be better by morning... but nope! It's actually worse today and I'm more bothered because I don't even know what I did! Luckily I have a trainer (who rocks) who helped me with a workout that didn't put too much pressure on it. I hope it doesn't last too long but for now Advil and a Tensor bandage is going to have to do it's best.

I got back into designing this weekend! Yay!  I thought maybe I'd combine two of my current loves into one - stitching and skylanders and I created some elemental drink coasters. :)

Which I will now share here because, hey, why not?

Obviously I still have more to do, and I also finally decided what I wanted on my Iphone cover - which will be a beaded Spyro the Dragon! :) He's so cute - I just wish I knew what I wanted in the background!