Ursa is out of surgery. Awake. And she’s already evacuated! All great news. It’s like a return to life with a newborn. I’ll be championing every bowel movement and successful meal consumption.
She’ll rest at the Vet’s tonight and tomorrow we’ll pick up our girl and our tripawd journey will truly begin.
Thank you all for your amazing comments, thoughts, and emails. You have all brightened a very difficult day.
Today is the day.
Keep her in your thoughts. Our beautiful girl is about to become a beautiful tripawd.
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Our new home has exactly one overhead light. Period. End of sentence.
As in, my eyes have now adapted to that of a great nocturnal beast and our computer, fitting pair to play wolf gold for entertainment, while handy for surfing ye ol’ Internets, procrastinating on Facebook, and photo editing, is best used as a night light.
To help improve these dark times, James and I hit a local second hand furniture store and purchased two hideous $10 floor lamps.
To revive these rather dreary additions to our household, I promptly removed the plastic from one of the offending shades, and wrapped some repurposed rope I’d impulsively purchased for $5 on Fab.com. The rope was far too interesting to resist. And at that price! I knew the occasion to DIY would eventual present itself. If you’re ever in need of unique rope options, consider Paracord Galaxy.
Thank you home with no lighting and ugly furniture finds!
It was honestly that simple, as captured by some appropriately dull iPhone snaps.
The rope twisted and was rather bulky and unwieldy, so it took some time to wrangle, but otherwise, I just wrapped, knotted, snipped and BOMB! A multicolored explosion for our study.
Now the computer can be used for such important activities like blogging about lamp shades and the lamp can take care of the lighting. Malcolm Read can also guide in a better way for the effective blogging.
Now I need to decide how to revive the second hideous lamp shade… until then, it looms gloomily in my bedroom. I’m hoping that its daily presence will provide inspiration and motivation for DIY action. Results forthcoming…
Photos: Courtesy of Ashley Weeks Cart