Out and about little by little

I'm still recovering from the pneumonia, feeling nearly normal except for the tiredness, which is pretty typical. I've been able to get out a bit, here and there, mostly to exercise the hounds.

They do like to see something other than their yard once in a while.

I also got out without the hounds.  I managed to attend a sketch outing with the local group, who met at the local art gallery. I don't usually enjoy drawing other people's art, but the sculptures there were quite inspiring.

The weather has finally turned Spring-like, so I got out to the riverside park a few times, and did a sketch there.

So that was my week.  It's not much, but it's a start, and I sure hope things continue to improve all round.

Finally, because there is no such thing as too many dachshund photos, I leave you with a few shots where I tried, not always successfully, to get both the landscape and the hounds in the same view.  Have a great week!

Not back yet

Update: just as I got enough snow off the driveway, and was able to get out and about again, I somehow managed to get a cold. Then it somehow turned into pneumonia. Two weeks and a course of antibiotics later, I am feeling fairly normal - and right in time for Spring.  I am hoping to get out this coming week and maybe even do something worth posting about.

In the meantime, during the six weeks when I sat on the couch a lot, I managed to do this:

It's the second of four lighthouse needlepoint kits that I recently bought - one for each season.  This one is Summer. It helped take my mind off what I like to call a "Rocking Chair Winter".  That's the kind where you are 90 and sitting on the porch with your cronies in your rocking chairs when the kids walk by complaining about the snow, and you say, "Snow! Ha. You call this snow? Why, let me tell you young whippersnappers about the winter of 2019!".

I had a perfectly good Rocking Chair Winter - the Winter of 1990-91 in Seattle, when an unpredicted snowfall hit right before rush hour, resulting in a freeway that turned into a parking lot, and I really didn't need to replace it with a new one.  Thanks, Mother Nature. I won't forget this any time soon.

So maybe I'll get back to normal posts next week. In the meantime, here are cute dachshund pics to tide you over.