Happy Old Year. Tomorrow we can have Happy New Year.


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Dave got a shot in his "good" eye this morning. Though now it has become his "bad eye". While I waited for him in the car I talked on the phone to an old friend whose husband is getting chemotherapy for cancer of the pancreas. And getting eye shots too for some other kind of problem caused by having diabetes. Made me think again about "stay in the ( Read more... )

Just woke from a very involved dream about wanting to go to the "southern border" of Two Mile Run Park. I had seen the decorative sign post that was at the northern border so I wanted to see the southern one. David Z was in the dream and I wanted to take him with me but it was becoming a problem. He kept wandering off on his own and I lost him. ( Read more... )

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Back home from art group now. My painting efforts for today. I was just trying to think of how each month of the year makes me feel - a doodle for each month - starting with this month, November, in the upper left:


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Tonight - an ATC sized painting inspired by the cover of a gift catalog laying on the kitchen table - The Awakening of Adonis by John Waterhouse.


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The grandkids just got on the school bus... Yesterday wasn't so smooth in the morning but today everything went well. Yay!

I tried out my oil paint set a bit yesterday - did a color swatch for the colors and organized my palette. I think this is going to be difficult for me, a new way of working, a challenge. I want to not paint so BRIGHTLY and ( Read more... )

Today is the first day the grandboys are going to their new school. Jules drove them (just today) but they should be coming home on the bus (with grammy waiting to receive them) as per our new schedule. The main thing I worry about is getting them ON the bus. I just don't have the patience I used to - and actually I'm not sure I even had that much ( Read more... )