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Fifty Years

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We celebrated our 50th anniversary on June 3. We started the celebration a day early. Translation: we ate at restaurants two days in a row. Fifty years went by fast. I had hoped to take a special trip, but that’s going to have to wait. Until Brady is fully trained, she can’t travel with me. Once she’s my service dog, she flies free, stays in hotels for free, cruises for free. At the moment, I don’t trust air travel. Sure we’re told there are upgraded filters and the air is recirculated. When were the filters last checked? When will there stop being brawls in mid flight? When will we be able to be assured the flight won’t be cancelled at the last minute? There aren’t enough flight staff so flights are cancelled. The airlines blame the traffic controllers. I blame mismanagement and misuse of funds.

Jim bought me roses for our anniversary. I’ve been photographing individual roses each morning.

I’ve been working on a dress. This dress has only two seams because I had to eliminate the center seams in order for the pattern to fit on the fabric. Then, I discovered the V neck revealed far more cleavage than I’m comfortable showing. The pattern has a modesty panel, and I added that. I had to sew the panel by hand and I didn’t want stitches to show on the right side of the dress. I pushed a clear plastic template under the seam for the facing. That ensured my stitches would not show on the font of the dress.

The dress still looked wrong so I added ties to each side. I should have moved the ties closer to the center front. Too late now; I’m not about to rip out and reattach ties. I’ll make changes to the next dress I make.

Although we’re in no danger from the wildfire in the Gila Wilderness, we’re treated to the particulates and smoke from the fire. That’s not a cloudy sky. That’s a smoky sky. The crud in the air isn’t allergy friendly so I can’t spend much time outside.

There are no clouds today and that’s not a cloudy sky. That’s smoke, particulates, and crud from the wildfire.

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I retired from the Public Defender Dept. November 12, 2015 after 16 health destroying years. Now, I'm a full time multi-media artist and writer on a new adventure. As an artist, I create with beads, fabric, fiber, and ceramic clay. Sometimes separately; sometimes in assorted combinations. You can find my on-line store at: www.debthumanart.com.