Great, hairy greetings! Welcome to another bit of fluff combed from my beard on a Friday evening here in the liver of Europe. I've got a few of my drawings for Inktober to share along with a few atmospheric photos from my week.
I'm still picking away at the Inktober challenge. It's one of those little annual internet games people play. Each October artists are encouraged to drag out their bottles of ink and do an ink drawing each day. Each day of the month comes with a prompt, a key word to spark creativity and make things into a bit more of a community challenge. I didn't get started until the month was about half over and October is gone and November is fleeing. Perhaps by the end of November I'll have this October challenge completed. In December I may try regrowing my beard for charity.
It's been a bit of a busy week. Mrs. the Werelynx was off in Amsterdam attending conferences nearly all week. A bit of extra cleaning and cooking and a generally mopey mood to make the tasks all the merrier.
My fabulous mother-in-law needed some help getting a replacement for her lost ID card so I spent a morning with her getting that figured out.
This week also saw the start of physical therapy for my wonky foot and elbow. Two sessions so far. Mostly it's a foot massage and strengthening and stretching exercises followed by me being led off to a curtained off alcove where I rub a little ultrasound emitter on my heel and elbow.
I've been glued to the news and newsy pundits as the Impeachment process rolls along.
It's been a week of contrasting weather here with fog, rain and a touch of soggy snow interspersed with bright sunshine.
This morning I hopped out to the grocery store for a few extra onions to go into a big pot of Czech potato soup I made. I also fried up a couple of cheeseburgers and took them along with some of the soup over to my fabulous mother-in-law's apartment so she'd have something special for lunch. Well, she'll also have leftovers for much of the weekend I'm sure.
Finished off Pride and Prejudice and am avoiding Sense and Sensibility for the time being. Getting back into one of my favorite contemporary Czech authors and a novel about people who've enrolled in a training course to become executioners in preparation for an expected change in Czech law which would legalize the death penalty. It's a dark comedy.
Next week should be interesting with a nephew celebrating his birthday and expected visits with old friends. Plus, we're slowly gearing up for Thanksgiving— you know, collecting cubes of stale bread for the stuffing and buying huge celeriacs.
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