Crochet Me Crazy

This little sapsucker is DEAD now!


I've lived in the Hill Country for the greater part of my life and I've never been stung by a scorpion. Today was the day! OUCH!! It hurts like Hades and for a LONG time too! I was pretty stupid and was being careless being in a hurry to get a few things done before I had to go to work today. I was moving some pots on the front porch making room for a table and I stepped on him. I didn't realize it at first...I mean I felt a big pain but I thought I had stepped on something sharp and was expecting to see blood. Then I saw the scorpion. I grabbed my toe and started squeezing as I felt the pain getting worse. Squeezing it was helping so I just plopped down and squeezed it and called for Alison. She brought me ice and I sat there squeezing and putting ice on it. It HURTS!!!! My lips and tongue started tingling and getting numb. I had Alison look up what essential oil to use for it on the internet. It said Frankinsence...I have it! I put the Frankinsence and it helped. Then we added another blend of essential oils Alison has and it helped with the pain. I sat for 30 or 40 minutes in ice water. I needed to go to work so I decided the oils helped enough with the pain that I could wrap it up in guaze with oils on it. I limped off to work. It's been almost 3 hours and it still hurts...it's bearable but it feels throbby. I'm sitting her at work with an ice pack on it. What a pain in the FOOT!!

We spent the day moving stuff out of our storage in Leakey yesterday to bring here. Mr. S let us borrow his trailer so it made it easy to get everything we needed. I'm switching to my own bed and got some Alison's scrapbooking hutch and dresser. I got all my yarn and just a bunch of other stuff I need. Especially my vacume cleaner!! I can't wait to get after my house with the vacume! Sweeping doesn't cut it for me.

I finished another hat on Saturday. They still need ribbon weaved through them. Colors aren't right. The one hat that looks pink and blue is actually pink and purple and the one that looks yellow and red is actually yellow and a dark pink!