{"id":3158,"date":"2016-05-05T14:44:49","date_gmt":"2016-05-05T19:44:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/?p=3158"},"modified":"2018-01-28T15:27:16","modified_gmt":"2018-01-28T21:27:16","slug":"slow-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/?p=3158","title":{"rendered":"Slow down"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the past week, there has been a radical slow down of any production from me.\u00a0 I have a blown disk in my neck causing stiffness and pain radiating into my left shoulder.\u00a0 This has happened before so I’m familiar with the pain, treatment and exercises to perform.\u00a0 Unlike the past, I don’t know\"SAMSUNG<\/a> what caused it this time.\u00a0 The only unusual activity I’ve done is pick a few dewberries along with DH, denim rug wrestle and hoe weeds in the garden.\u00a0 Shoot, regardless of the cause… the pain is the same.<\/p>\n

DH has managed to pick dewberries twice so I’ve made muffins with fresh berries and froze enough to make four more batches.\u00a0 I love cooking with dewberries and wish I had more.\u00a0 They make the best jelly in the world but because of the late freeze this Spring, our crop is limited and the individual berries aren’t very large.\u00a0 They are still so tasty!<\/p>\n

Until my shoulder pain became too severe, I’ve continued to slowly weave the denim rug.\u00a0 As it gets closer to finished, I’ve\"SAMSUNG<\/a> gotten more and more excited.\u00a0 I love how it looks and am anxious to use it in our kitchen.\u00a0 The design is made of 10 rows of faded, recycled denim (from our own old jeans), then 5 rows of new midnight blue denim fabric from my stash.\u00a0 I’m not delusional that this design will finish evenly so it remains to be seen how the rug will appear when done.\u00a0 It may have a wider or narrower dark stripe in the center.\u00a0 Either will be attractive and the rug will be so fun to use!<\/p>\n

For the next rug, I plan to use the huge stash of rip-stop nylon from my fabric stash.\u00a0 Most of the colors are bright and I will use the rug outside the kitchen door in the carport where it will handily eliminate so much sand from being tracked into the house… at least, that’s my hope!\u00a0 It will be a great way to reduce that space-eating, large collection.\u00a0 It’s time to use it or chunk it and will be so much softer, more pliable and easier to weave than denim!\u00a0 I’m looking forward to it.<\/p>\n

The garden continues to flourish with multiple little veggies on most plants.\u00a0 If the weather holds and we have no hail, I will have plenty of tomatoes to can and gobs of bell peppers to chop and freeze.\u00a0 I use \u00bd – 1 bell pepper nearly every meal I cook\u00a0 so having them chopped and frozen will be very convenient and save much time during meal preparation.<\/p>\n

Jacob and Stormy are planning to visit this weekend.\u00a0 There are problems on our Internet network needing Jake’s magic touch.\u00a0 Blasted lightning!!\u00a0 I’m soooo looking forward to seeing them and have begun planning menus, doing a little cleaning and clutter busting.<\/p>\n

No matter where you are or plans you’ve made, I hope you have a joyous Mother’s Day weekend!<\/p>\n

Shirl<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For the past week, there has been a radical slow down of any production from me.\u00a0 I have a blown disk in my neck causing stiffness and pain radiating into my left shoulder.\u00a0 This has happened before so I’m familiar with the pain, treatment and exercises to perform.\u00a0 Unlike the past, I don’t know what (continue reading…) <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,11,40,27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3158"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3158"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3774,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3158\/revisions\/3774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}