After my Close Encounters with ugly people, I got to go re-visit Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello.
Thing 2 had an ear appointment down at UVa, and that, my friends, is a two-and-a-half-hour drive for us. Thing 1 was dragged along. Life was made tolerable by home-made (two of them gluten free) Egg McMuffins.
We toodled down to meet the wonderful doctor who told us that, indeed, Thing 2’s ear canal skin graft had mucosalized (how, you may ask, does a skin graft morph from epithelial, skin-type-skin to a mucous membrane? Because the skin lining your middle ear (past the ear drum) is mucous membrane. It evidently creeped in under the ear-drum-graft! And this is why I dug anatomy class in HS!) which is why he’d had a gooey, chronic ear infection for a YEAR.
Chemical cauterization (without pain! Yes!) and scheduling a check-up appointment in two months and we were out of there! I didn’t have time to finish a single row on the Highly Secret Design for Defarge Does Shakespeare.
UVa is in Charlottesville which is gorgeous. Thomas Jefferson thought so too because his hilltop estate is there, just below the city. It’s both bigger than I remember (in that there’s a visitor’s center now) and smaller (in that the house is, like all from back then) of smaller size than I recall (though bigger than Mt Vernon’s rooms by a long shot. Jefferson was our royalty, after all).
If you’re ever in the ‘hood, I highly recommend a visit. The boys liked it well enough and it gave me a break before heading back home. Next time I go back with the watercolor set.
(I think Thing 2 preferred our whistle-stop last week in Times Square)
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Happy for quick, easy, & most importantly pain-free doctors visits!
I’m glad your appointment went so well, even if the secret knitting didn’t happen. Whatever, it’s not like you need to put *yours* in the mail 😉
{giggle snort giggle}
Heather,
Next time you’re in Charlottesville, please call me. I’m a weaver and have been listening to you for years. First you lived in Tucson, but I never let you know when I was visiting my in-laws there. Then you moved to NOVA and I never properly welcomed you. Now when you visit U.Va. you’ll be in MY town and it will be time to really show you some hospitality. So if you have the time and I’m not working at my day job or in the studio, I’d love to meet by U. Va. or on the downtown mall for tea and a gluten free treat.
–Laurie Duxbury, who is right now in Maine but will be home in another week.
We’ll be back in two months! I’ll let you know. You’ll get to meet Thing 2, as well. Prepare yourself to be flirted with!
I love younger men!