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<\/a><\/p>\nMonday, Canada Day, we were up early, fed, and off to camp!\u00a0 What a day!\u00a0 There are six of us in our wire sculpture class, all women, and we\u2019re going to make three different sizes of herons \u2013 the first two to familiarize ourselves with the technique and tools in preparation for the \u201creal\u201d reason why we\u2019re there, to end up with a garden heron that stands approx 5\u2019-6\u2019 tall.\u00a0 Chuck, our instructor, had samples set out \u2013 so exciting.<\/p>\n
By 9:05, we were cutting wire and getting started with our first project.\u00a0 I brought close-fitting leather gloves, which were recommended, but after 10 minutes I had to take them off \u2013 I really do need to feel what I\u2019m doing and gloves just get in the way.\u00a0 The only problem with that was, my hands got really, really dirty, really, really quickly. Oh well…<\/p>\n
We moved along at quite a brisk speed, a little too quickly for me and a few others, but by the end of the day, we had not only finished our first heron \u2013 about 15\u201d tall \u2013 we had started on our second one.\u00a0 I left feeling accomplished, exhausted, and filthy.\u00a0 As much as I tried, I couldn\u2019t get my hands clean!<\/p>\n
I named this one Bunky, in honour of our accommodations, and because it\u2019s the smallest of what I\u2019ll produce.<\/p>\n Day 2, more of the same, culminating in the completion of our second project!\u00a0\u00a0Moving a bit too quickly for my comfort and the more I tried to keep up, the more mistakes I made. So, this is turning out to be a bit more frustrating than relaxing, and also much more physical than expected.\u00a0 Despite using the pumice soap I bought last night and shared with the class, my hands are still filthy, plus they\u2019re getting quite sore.\u00a0 I do love my second heron, though.\u00a0 I got to practice my spray painting technique on this one!<\/p>\n I named this one Hali, in honour of our location \u2013 Haliburton \u2013 and because she will be smaller than the third one.<\/p>\n We are really enjoying our bunky. It\u2019s so comfy and cooking our own dinners is a bonus as we gaze out over the lake.\u00a0 Tonight, while relaxing on the deck, we were serenaded by the loons \u2013 what a beautiful sound!<\/p>\n Day 3, we started on \u2018big bird\u201d, aka Burton (I\u2019m sure you saw that\u00a0one coming).\u00a0 My hands were so sore, and so dirty, I finally caved and put my gloves back on.\u00a0 Surprisingly, it wasn\u2019t as difficult to manoeuvre the wire, probably because it\u2019s a much larger scale and I don\u2019t have to get my fingers into tiny spaces.<\/p>\n By noon, I was so stressed and anxious over the TWO mistakes I made and had to undo\/redo, in trying to keep up, I finally allowed myself to work at my own speed.\u00a0 The afternoon passed much more stress-free but I was three steps behind by the end of the day.\u00a0 Seems it\u2019s only my problem.\u00a0 Chuck is very accommodating, though, and patiently repeats what\u2019s required as I move forward.\u00a0 It\u2019s not that I can\u2019t do it \u2013 I\u2019m very happy with my results \u2013 it\u2019s just that I can\u2019t seem to work as quickly as everyone else.<\/p>\n It was mid-week, so we decided to eat dinner out tonight \u2013 chose McKeck\u2019s pub that we\u2019ve eaten at in the past.\u00a0 I had the most delicious Thai Shrimp Wrap with mangoes, Asian slaw, and peanuts.\u00a0 It was huge and cut in half \u2013 enough for dinner and lunch the next day.\u00a0 But 15 minutes into dinner, I started to feel very ill, very quickly, to the point of alarm.\u00a0 I was obviously having an immediate reaction to what I ate, which made me quite nervous.\u00a0 I\u2019m not allergic to shrimp or peanuts, so couldn\u2019t understand what was happening.\u00a0 The more nervous I got, the less communicative I became and, of course, was concentrating really hard on whether my breathing was becoming shallow because I was nervous or because my throat was closing (I was nervous).\u00a0 Then both of my arms and hands started to tingle. Steve was very calm, thank goodness, asked me several relevant questions, and had the foresight to ask a server for a bucket.\u00a0 Her timing was perfect, as I was violently sick at the table \u2013 twice!\u00a0 Long story short, I ended up in emerg for two hours while they kept a close eye on me, then released me to go home and wait the digestive process out.\u00a0 I was able to sleep but at 3:00am woke up with extremely itchy hands and feet \u2013 that\u2019s never happened before!\u00a0 Took a Benadryl, sat up for about an hour until it passed, then went back to bed.<\/p>\n While in hospital, Steve called back to the restaurant and found out it was likely the kitchen had substituted cashews for the peanuts, which would definitely explain the reaction.\u00a0 I have an allergy to cashews, which I don\u2019t knowingly eat.\u00a0 In the past, any ingestion of these nuts has kicked in after about 30-60 minutes, and never so violently, but I\u2019ve never eaten so many of them at one time, which probably is the reason why this was so swift and ugly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Happy Canada Day!!! 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