For those of you who read our SewingBusiness blog, you've probably read about my run-in with poison ivy and that I spent nearly two weeks going to the hospital every day for high powered IV antiobiotic treatments, and the month so tired I could barely do the basics (like get out of bed to the bathroom, then from bedroom to living room).  Boy howdy, the poison (infection) from the poison ivy got into my system within a couple days after apparently coming in contact with it (I never knew I'd touched it or that it was even there), and once in my system really did a job on me.

So, the whole month of September I battled the infection (IV treatments plus 2 additional antibiotics, plus antibiotic cream for the rash itself), and now I'm ashamed of the five measly posts that I did here.  I'm still taking one of the antibiotics and using the cream to try to get rid of the rash around my ankle, but thank goodness I feel MUCH better!!!

I thought at the beginning of this month that I'd better try to double up on the work I'd not gotten done, but then I realized I'm not totally "out of the woods" with this nasty poison ivy, so perhaps I'd better take it a little bit easy for a few extra days.

The good thing is that October starts our fall festival schedule, with the first festival tomorrow.  My daughter, Denise and I work them together, which makes it a lot of fun.  The cool fall weather seems to bring everybody out, so we're anticipating a good and busy day tomorrow -- supposed to be sunny (no rain!), so that's a good thing.

If any of you do any craft fairs, festivals, horse shows, etc, let us know about them and how you did.