All That Glitters Is Gold

Dancer made this for her Grandma Joyce for Christmas 2012.

Dancer loves cross-stitch and she's getting pretty good at it.  I don't think she's yet to keep one for herself.  She always gives them away as gifts.  She does the stitching and I mat and frame them for her.  We put this one in a gold frame because her Grandma Joyce loves gold.  Her house is full of it.  She even has metallic gold ceilings in a few rooms.

Yesterday was a lovely day here.  After Dancer finished up her studies for the day, she decided that she was going to go out and work in her gardens and pick up sticks in the front yard.  She filled up two 32-gallon yard waste bins and started filling up a third.  She trimmed back the dead stuff from her flowers and greenery, so that it would be ready to grow and bloom soon.  She's had a flower garden out front for years and last year she added another one.  There's one on both sides of the porch now.  She'll have to leave the backyard for me because I want to eventually start a vegetable garden.

Ballet was painful for her last night.  She's pretty sure she pulled a muscle in her foot at Saturday's performance.  She said that's made her plantar fasciitis flair up.  Dear girl needs to really focus on taking better care to prevent injury if she wants dance to be a part of her life for a long time to come.  Last year on top of the plantar fasciitis, she also had shin splints in both legs, and an issue in both knees.  They all have pretty much healed but she's going to have to take care to keep from reinjuring herself.

I think I finally have all of the small business taxes thing figured out and have all of the paperwork available.  The next few days will be filled with crunching numbers and completing forms.  I can't wait until this is done.  On top of it, I'm out of printer ink, so I can't print out any more forms and have to read tax information from the computer screen.