The muddy muddy backyard
It is coming along nicely :)
A Purple Rose~
The backyard is coming along in spite of all the wild spring weather we are getting. Warm and teasing one minute downpours and hail the next.
No more flaming knees :) Matt is kinda half laid up with the healing process. We have discovered some excellent bandages made especially for burns and they seem to work fairly well.
My friend Chelsea had a birthday bash last night and Matt brought up the fact that he had been on fire. Now we were sitting at the far end of the table and there were six men and two women at our end. Three of those six men had all been on fire!!!! ahem none of the women :) So does that mean that 50% of ALL men have been on fire? Fess up boys we've got your number now. One of them had been on fire more than once (he is a welder) I use a torch to melt glass and haven't caught myself on fire yet... Oh wait I have been on fire once. I used to smoke and I had surgery on on my wrist, it was in a sling. We were just leaving the hospital and I was "dyin' for a smoke" so I lit up and the burning end fell off into the sling and it burned in the strangest way, no flames just hot orange embers around the edges of a quickly growing hole. I remember looking down at it and thinking what the heck??? Then I realized I was on fire, it smelled horrible.
So I guess 50% of all women have been on fire too if we follow my rules :)
The purple rose is made from layered glass pulled into individual petals that are kept preheated to prevent thermal shock as they are applied in the flame. Each petal is meticulously hand-shaped as I add it to the core. I also used a hand-pulled cane to apply the green sepals at the base of the rose.