These have been a busy few weeks doing other things.
It has taken two further cortisone injections in the fingers of my right hand to get most of the movement back in them. If I overuse that hand it seizes up so I need to rest it for a while and then it goes back to almost normal. I now have no lasting pain in either hand and can again do simple tasks like lifting crockery without dropping and breaking the plates, holding a hairbrush and grasping various household tools – all of which means I am again independent. It has been very frustrating having to remain idle for long periods during the healing process.
Because I now can, I have also spent time working in the garden. When we moved to this house the garden was a wasteland but is gradually becoming a place of beauty.
My pride and joy is a passionflower which has covered two fence panels at the bottom of the garden and has had eight and ten blooms on it each day throughout the summer.
There are more photos to be taken and then uploaded here as I have completed a crochet jacket for myself and now started a sweater for my husband. The sweater I started for my son has been unpicked and reknitted. When I had completed the front I realised that, while it would have been wonderfully warm for a Scottish fisherman, it was far too thick for the few days of (so called) winter in Texas! So it had to go.
I’m hoping to take those picture and place them on here within the next few days.
My Crafty Hands 