better but i really don't think i should push it

if i have a liver left after the extreme amount of Tylenol arthritis and aspirin i have been swallowing
i am still in pain but not that excruciating hot burning blinding pain.

i felt so useless for a few days, and indeed i was, as i couldn't draw, knit, hold a book, cook, garden or even dress myself.

figures that the day would have been a really nice day, and that my neglected chores are piling up now.

here are some photos for you all, the shot with the two ducks is in the garden, that's lilli in front and phoebe bringing up the rear. both are border line broody.......a bit squeeky and a bit cranky. oye......next is a very blurry and adjusted picture of momma on eggs in her crate.....sorry about the quality but even that much upset her. i didn't want to use the flash on her....her wings are spread to protect the eggs, and you can't see her (or hear her) but she's warning me off...... yup my sweet little mommaduck is warning ME off her eggs.....i love her so much.

 and last is a bean seedling in the garden. that one is a tendercrop bush bean seedling. i am impressed by it's vigor, now we'll see how it trials as to yield.- if the yield is good then that will be my green freezer bean, as it will yield all at once so i can process it all at once into the freezer. i have a yellow freezer bean that i am trialing and also some for canning. the pole beans i love so much are for fresh eating.  i want to try, yet again, brussels sprouts. as we love them. if anyone is in zone 6 on the east coast please let me know your experiences with brussels sprouts. it would be really a wonderful thing to have at least 5 stalks full this year to put by.

i want to grow a bed of spinach for the freezer this fall, and lettuces in the cold frame.

i had also wanted leeks but i think that it's too late for them now .......

ok since i am tentatively back in the land of the productive again, i am going to start another 'big' black and white drawing of the girls....this time in the garden hunting worms, and following that with momma on her eggs (which if the eggs are viable, they are due to hatch on june 11..mark the calenders)

i may even have at least one of those drawings done by then....

i still want to do egg tempera. i am slowly gathering supplies.

i have to try the watercolor methold at first as i don't have pigments yet.

and i need to get a few grounds

i am keenly aware that with egg tempera you need top quality supplies or it won't work

so it's slow

ok i have to stop typing now

as my shoulders are actively burning