The Project - Update

Okay! The back and side of the house are finished. Only the front remains. Here's the link to a set of photos showing the evolution of painting a "patchwork quilt" house. The best and easiest way to view it is to open the set and then look in the upper righthand corner and click the "slideshow" link. And then choose (in the lower left) the "fast" speed, because slow and medium take way too long.

As for Everything Else, well, the loft deal should close on Halloween Day; and this morning I'm in the middle of compiling Round Robin favorites (just taking a break from that to do this blog post); and Olivia threw up at 7 a.m. but doesn't appear to be sick; and I still don't know if I'm going to be able to negotiate a new lease at the Berkeley Writing Salon site (it's looking less and less likely; I'll probably know by the end of the week); and I'm procrastinating on scheduling another expensive MRI that will cost me $1500 again (my deductible), but I have to do it because it has been a year and a half since the last one; and I doubled my dose of Vitamin D3 from 2000 IU to 4000 IU because more and more studies are showing a connection between Vit. D defiency and breast cancer; and the thermography report was pretty good: right breast fine, left breast slightly hyper-vascular, which could be a sign of a recurrence or, more likely, a result of damages and scarring done by the surgery (lumpectomy) - I'll have another one done in three months; and meanwhile, the hormone balancing continues - it's a slow process but well worth it. . .

. . . and what else? Will is doing well (currently performing in Toronto); and my friends are all doing well (Toby, for example, has a great new job; and Kerry did her "glass pumpkin patch" extravaganza in San Rafael yesterday, of which I took some photos that I'll post tomorrow); and this morning my sister Jill in Idaho sent some old photos of my mother, which were sent to her from my sister Alacia in San Diego, which were sent to her from our cousin Lisa in Washington D.C. Lisa, by the way, saw Will perform in Washington D.C. a few months ago, and then met him after the show. She sent me photos from that show and also one of her and Will together, after the show.

Lisa, if you are by some chance reading this, I only JUST REMEMBERED that although I did respond to your last email with the photos, I didn't send it; I saved it as a draft and then forgot to go back and finish it, and then, much later, mindlessly emptied my Drafts folder when I was trying to get more memory in my email program. Duh! Cliff Notes Summary of what I said: Thank you for sending those photos!

And thank you, too, for sending THESE:

First pic: My Mom on the left (Mom died in 1999 of ovarian cancer, at the age of 66), and my Aunt Loretta (Lisa's mom) on the right:

Second and third pics: My Mom on the RIGHT, my Aunt Loretta on the left:

Comments

[harlan lewps]

Wow, that second photo is really wonderful. I can't say I see you in her face -- do people say you look like her?

[me]

No, I take after my father more than my mother, as did my brother Scott.

[Lisa Browning]

Hi, Jane. I AM reading this, and I'm glad Alacia forwarded the pictures to you. I have another I just thought of that you might like. You may already have a copy, but...I'll send it to you and see what you think!

[Jill]

I am about to upset your world.........I have seen "Mom" in pictures of you (the few I have) more often than I have seen "Dad"!! But I have definitely seen them BOTH in you at one time or another.