*hugs* to NRogue, Juri, and Khrome

Through time, I've grown accustomed to having braces (and accustomed to the occasional pain too) so when it's finally over, I hope to look back and say, "wow, that wasn't so bad!"

Faery blessings
Anais

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Anais, you WILL look back and say, "It was well worth it." Can't guarantee you will say, "It wasn't so bad", but you will enjoy the results. We're all pullin' for you...oh my! I hope that wasn't a bad thing to say! 

I did mean to ask, how do you like your heavenly harvest comb? I have the exact one you posted and I love it.

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, novel by Dai Sijie. It's powerful storytelling, and it speaks of human shortcomings, and weird little ironies of life. Two young men, Luo at 18 and the narrator at 17, are put into a Chinese re-education camp (a rather luxurious, humane one at that. I wonder if it's really a re-education camp). They end up doing their own re-educating - making a young mountain seamstress more "civilized" by reading Western literature to her every day. The 18-year-old boy Luo doesn't even like her, while she genuinely cares about his happinesses in return. She's like a trophy girlfriend. The seamstress eventually gets pregnant, the narrator considers pulling an Edmond Dantes (another irony, since they'd been reading the Count), she gets an abortion, cuts off her long hair, and becomes Westernized. She leaves, too civilized to be with Luo anymore.

Heavenly Harvest horn comb. These puppies are very well made. I bought two of them, and they arrived on the 19th. It says "oxhorn" but I think it's actually sheephorn, and the material sands well with automotive sandpaper if anyone needs theirs to be smoother. They already come smooth, as smooth as sanded wood, smoother than any Ric comb, and I wish I'd bought only one Ric comb instead of two because that would have allowed for the purchase of another two HH combs. There aren't "ridges" between the teeth like on the LML, but sort of "matte". After sanding down the edges of the tips (just because I needed something for my hands to do while movie-watching) they are now THE smoothest natural-material combs I own. 
HH also has marvelous customer service (Debra Hampton handled my order personally).
I can't recommend these combs enough. They are now my favorite combs for detangling and I carry one around in my purse. my hobbit looked over my shoulder again and said, "I want one too". And further, they are a beautiful translucent color.



So the strawberries are all dead. Let's give a big welcome to the random sunflower that appeared on the patio! ::applause:: Hokay, I don't know how it happened, besides maybe the Jack Sparrow porch-sweeping issue several pages back, where the upstairs neighbors had a bird feeder with sunflower seeds (which Jack 1,2,3,4,5 don't like) These sunflower seeds get knocked down through the slats to our 1st floor patio, and of course, one of them happened to fall into the planter box. And it grew, grew without anyone noticing (because I didn't go outside to water anything anymore). Then just last week, I went outside and stood staring at it for awhile. It hadn't bloomed yet so it hadn't occurred to me it might be a sunflower. A few days later a little sunflower-like bud developed, and lo and behold, something YELLOW appeared.

Darn those pesky birdfeeders!  Oh well, at least you have something colorful in your planter.  Maybe it will make up itself up to you and give you seeds. 

Cynde

Thank you ladies and gent

Carpal tunnel acting up BADLY for the first time in quite awhile. Real bad. So this will be short. The broccoli seed oil application turned out well. I will probably experiment with going cone-free next week. Took length pictures for September, a few days early. Tomorrow I will probably retake them because I like a direct back shot rather than a diagonal one. It's so long now, I finally see hip length rather than waist length! Off to make tea and read a good book.

Thank you Moonchild (Like my favorite Cibo Matto song) Acupuncture sounds like a good thing to try.

One wrist still hurts a lot. but I don't want to miss the diamond parties either.

Moseying on over!

Your hair is soooo pretty!  Love those sock curls!  I was looking at some Disney pics today, and your hair reminds me of Jasmine from Aladdin. 

Ripples - so calming and serene.  Ducks - cute!

Cynde