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The New Schedule

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Zoe and I thank you for all your lovely comments yesterday. I had tears in my eyes more than a few times.

Thank you for your support, for your kindness, and thank you for being here. Bless you.

So, we’ve decided the new schedule. I will post on Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday. The weekend day may change – I’ll wait to see how the whole thing feels. I’m sure it will take me a while to get used to it, so for now, I will ‘schedule’ the post in my planner.

Some breathing space is much appreciated. I’ve been suffering from anxiety again after a nice long break from that little monster. I know it will go away eventually. But in the meantime, I’m going to get out my oil paints and see if I can get my mojo back.

I pulled out my pottery paintings the other day and took a photo of them. I’m proud of them.

Still haven’t framed them!

I just need to play with paints for a bit and see where that takes me.

Stay safe.

Happy Sunday,

 

Post Birthday

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It was a quiet birthday yesterday. That’s what Don wanted. I’m always relieved when that’s the request. I’m not the greatest at big events – too much stress. Of course, as you get older, birthdays become less and less of a big deal. I had the same request for my birthday last November. I just wanted to spend the day with Don.

His present? A pair of jeans with a zipper, not a button fly like he’s been wearing for years. Arthritis makes opening and closing those buttons cumbersome. He found an older pair of zippered Levis that are very worn, discovered that they were still making them, sent me the link with the sizes, and voilà! He’s a happy camper!

I decided to paint his birthday card on Friday. With oil paints. Since I haven’t done that in over a year, I forgot that oil takes a few days to dry. So I had to place it on another piece of paper and make sure he didn’t touch the card.

It’s still drying.

It’s pretty simplistic – a free-hand tribute to our coneflowers.

I imagine a kid could pull this off easily.

But I had fun. And Don loves it because he loves handmade gifts. He’s already planning to frame it, bless him.

Painting it sparked a germ of a desire to paint again, so I’m pondering that impulse. If I do, I’ll have to dismantle the half-done puzzle because the kitchen table is the only space in which I can set up my easel.

By the way, it’s rainy and humid here and our a/c unit in the kitchen is broken. It’s only three years old. Until we can afford a new one, we’re using a box fan in the window – just like I had as a kid. Sigh. What goes round, comes round.

More rain coming today – I think we’ll get thunderstorms.

Don thanks you for all of your lovely messages yesterday – he really loves reading them!

Stay safe.

Happy Sunday.

 

 

Getting Ready to Paint

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It’s the third work day of the week and it already feels like a month. Peace and calm today, please.

I brought the easel downstairs yesterday, along with my oil paints and supplies. Everything is ready to go.

Someone wanted to see what was going on.

Perhaps we have a budding artist?

After cleaning the surface of the table, hauling things up and down the stairs, and staging this photo of Maeve, my back was a bit sore. So that’s all I got done for the day. Now I have to figure out what I want to paint. The jury is still out.

We’re slowly coming out of our cold snap and it’s sunny today. Don is off to recycle, I’m writing this post, and all is well. I am SO ready for Spring. I always find this ‘in between’ time difficult, but maybe less so than winter itself because I know that just a little patience is needed on my part. It’s around the corner.

Yesterday, Don went to the store to get some groceries and I was stressed because of that comment  yesterday and when he came in the door, he pulled this out of the bag:

Bless his heart! When we were out and about last week eating fries for lunch, I stopped at the bookstore to get this magazine and there were no copies left on the shelves. I bought the less- interesting-and-less-content-with-several-pages-of-pharmaceutical-ads-smack-dab-in-the-middle-of-the-content Country Living instead. I rarely buy magazines nowadays, but this one – published quarterly – is always a favorite. I couldn’t believe that Don even remembered that this is the magazine I was looking for. I went into the bookstore by myself and he waited out in the car. Half the time, he doesn’t remember what I just said to him two minutes ago!

Anyway, I was surprised and delighted and I love him. He’s a keeper.

I’m loving Bewilderment  by Richard Powers. Absolutely loving it.

Stay safe.

Happy Wednesday.

 

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