Life is What Happens

"Life is what happens when you've made other plans." 

I'm a fair-skinned person, light-haired, light-eyed, and freckled, too easily prone to sunburn.  One summer, maybe two, during my teen years, I thought I might like to try to "lay out," try to get a tan, but it just didn't work for me. I have endured many many summers of blistering sunburns, starting at an early age, and as I put on a few years, those sunburns began to itch and sting. I'm sure I'm not the only one who has experienced that - it's most unpleasant, isn't it? So now I'm very careful about the mid-day sun, say from about ten to two in whatever time zone I happen to be on any given day. Meanwhile, that fair-skinnedness and history of blistering sunburn at an early age bumps up my risk factor for skin cancers, according to current medical advice.

So I went to see a dermatologist today. Now this is amusing to me: All the spots that were most obvious to me, that were of the greatest concern to me, were "nothing to worry about" - "Benign, benign, benign, skin tag, mole, benign."

But she did see one spot that I hadn't noticed at all. I don't know how I missed that one, but I sure did. "Pre-cancer," she said, and shot it with freezy stuff. Boy howdy, this is why we seek professional opinions, isn't it?

 
 

Yarn Bombing

We had errands near downtown Fort Worth the other day and stopped for coffee at Avoca. After that, we headed East on Magnolia Street to the shoe store and noticed a couple yarn bombs on the way. Next time I'm over there I'll take pictures to post, but here is an example from the Internet for now:

Example of a fairly elaborate yarn-bombed bicycle, with a link to more images, and a link to a how-to page, if you should feel the urge.

My companion had never seen anything like that before, and wondered what the deal was. 
"Yarn bomb! That's a yarn bomb!"
"What the...?"
"It's a creative expression, with sort of a guerrilla twist." I saw him looking sideways at me in disbelief. "No, really!" I asserted, "It's a real thing! Yarn Bombing!"
"Why in the world would someone DO that? and HOW do they do it?" 
"I don't know, but I've seen it before. It's pretty cool, don't you think?"

Yarnbombing! It's a thing!

Now he's worried about me going all lone-wolf yarn-bomby on him. No worries, though - I prefer more sedate, indoor projects for my yarn. It does look like fun, though, doesn't it?