Dental Genes & Things

My biggest event this week was going to the dentist. Twice. For a total of 2 1/2 hours!This actually IS me with Dr. Wendy bent over my face and Amanda with the suction. Aren't you just embarrassed thinking about how I get all of these photos? I had to have TWO crowns cut off and the decay under them repaired. Richard had put them on really well, and they didn't want to come off. Now I have temporaries and will get the real-deals in a couple of weeks. I had to go back on day 2 to have them smoothed out when I woke up with a raw tongue and cheek. With T.'s current dental crisis, it seems an appropriate time to apologize for the dental genes I sent on to you, even if only half of the crummy ones came from me.
****Come to think of it, I don't think I've heard Linda say much about rotten teeth. Could it be that you got better teeth than the rest of us, Linda? Perhaps the other half of your genes came from someone with great choppers, in addition to huge and gorgeous brown eyes. I do remember the gorgeous brown eyes, I do not remember the choppers -- among other things.
****I finished the birthday present puzzle earlier in the week. Now I can start going to bed at a reasonable hour. There are a zillion wildflowers pictured on it, so it gave me a chance to review my flower names.****Our most recent hot spell passed last night, so I was back in the garden this morning. This is the survival-of-the-fittest garden from which I've already hacked out tons of Barbara's red basil. The hyacinth beans and autumn clematis are particularly lovely in the late summer. The autumn clematis smells wonderful, but it's too far away to enjoy the scent. I think I'm going to try some closer to the deck next year.

It's not all loveliness in my yard, however. Note the brown, brown grass! I'm killing it off in the front yard in order to re-seed it. We've done the same thing in most of Grandma's front yard. Really ugly, but really necessary. The heat had taken a toll on sod that was not in good condition to begin with.
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