still with this arm

all weekend
ice ice ice
i can almost straighten it out but i still can't really use it
bernie did the chores for the most part.....i did hang the laundry sorta
this morning i cleaned the window on the woodstove (big mistake)
we are still rather puzzled about what actually set this arm off...... it could be lyme despite the 'negative' titers, since i did have that round red rash, my old doctor would have just treated me with the med when i gave him the bottle of that seasons ticks
this new one wants to see the rash, well it didn't last that long, just friday night to saturday......and NO we didn't think to take a picture
so she won't do anything with the negative titers
we are thinking maybe the water buckets, knitting, wood..... exacerbated it, anyway that's what we're beginning to think now.

we made turkey yesterday but didn't get bagels which upset me
(i haven't baked bagels in years)

i did attempt to make some chicks for our spring tree
nothing spectacular, just glued some greenery around the base of these dollar store chicks
and add a ribbon to hang
(and maybe a few handmade roses out of my silk ribbon box......left over from the doll hats)

i have some plastic eggs i want to decoupage with an old book that has bookworms
and some i want to just paint in pastels
i don't know if i'll do very pale chalky pastels or bright clear ones
maybe i'll do both- although i have to prime them eggs with plastic primer.....and it's raining

oh yeah, it's raining...... actually i am thinking noah would be in order here at the moment
i got flooded pens
i probably got a flooded cellar too
and unhappy chickens
*but extremely happy ducks*
i got a waterfall down the drive and down the slope to the back pens.....which are now swimming pools
and i got a caution from bernie not to take the ducks down there

so today i have to take it way easy.......seriously way easy
needless to say
i'm now bored
outta my MIND bored
i really can't do too much either since even trying to lift a bowl with my left arm isn't happening
it's got no strength in addition to pain
so i can't get into a situation where i need someone to 'come right now and hold this'
there isn't anyone handy enough!

ordinarily i would knit or sew the day away
or draw.....
i can't do much of anything
so maybe draw will work?
i do have that photo of amelia with the ducklings i want to draw as well as paint
(she's a feisty little one and is a bit broody right now)
we'll see
til next time