{"id":2114,"date":"2012-08-14T16:38:47","date_gmt":"2012-08-14T21:38:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/?p=2114"},"modified":"2012-08-14T16:41:53","modified_gmt":"2012-08-14T21:41:53","slug":"sublime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/sublime\/","title":{"rendered":"…to the Sublime"},"content":{"rendered":"

After my Close Encounters with ugly people, I got to go re-visit Thomas Jefferson\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Monticello<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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<\/em> 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.<\/p>\n

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<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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).<\/p>\n

\"Monticello<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a> \u00a0(I think Thing 2 preferred our whistle-stop last week in Times Square)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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