It is SO good to be back home, though our trip to California was a good one, this time.  kateslover 's dad is home after more than a year in hospitals and nursing homes (still needing 24/7 care, but HOME), and it was good to see him.  We had more time with less angst this time, too, and not always feeling rushed, pushed, pulled, tugged, overwhelmed--turned ( Read more... )

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...from our 10-day trip to California, with a quick side trip to see my sis and brother-in-law, and I'm too wiped out to scan any of them.

Sketching helps keep me sane, or what passes for it.  My poor exhausted husband and all the emotion surrounding illness in the family, plus the stress of travel and business hassles..he's catching the rehab- ( Read more... )

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...I just blew back into town a couple of hours ago, and have dozens of photos to download and lots of sketches and paintings to scan...manana!  LOVELY trip to the Shenandoah Valley--not what we'd planned, but what we needed, I think...except for the bad fall
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