The lip’s still a bit sore because it got so shredded a week ago, but the cold sore lump is gone, and so is that feeling you get when one is ripening. I took a couple of extra L-Lysine capsules both days, and it works its usual magic. The label claims it strengthens the immune system, and maybe that’s why. All I can say is that it works for me on cold sores.
Since I couldn’t think of a relevant photo this time, I’ll post another of Bill’s creations: his lead-filled baseballs. He just finished another. For the first ones, he made cores of lead shot embedded in silicone, but apparently he didn’t think they weighed enough. Now he casts cores of molten lead. The covers, as always, are leather cut to a standard baseball pattern. He sits in his recliner, watching TV and stitching them two-handed with curved needles, in a proper baseball stitch, like somebody doing their knitting. They weigh about 4 pounds each, I think. When done, he dips them in wax, then shines them. In the photo, the back two have been dipped and are dry, and the front one has been polished. He signs and numbers them, too.
Ann Dickinson Sargent 