I’m packing stuff to take with me for a 3-week absence from my house. All the utilities will be cut off while the house is being lifted and placed on its new foundation so we can’t live there. Some friends have generously granted my mom and me temporary sanctuary in their home. They don’t have […]
Nice piece of art thrown up on an electrical box - artist unknown. On the way to work Thursday I glanced up at this box, as I do frequently, hoping to see something on it besides the white blob of paint that covers a previous piece of art. What I saw were two eyes peering […]
I would have posted yesterday but it took me all day to find my way home. I offer belated well-wishes to everyone and hope you have a happy new year.
The next time I think a lampshade is a good party hat, somebody please kick me in the butt and drive me home!
I’m gonna sic my attack-worm on somebody.
I’m always searching for podcasts at work to help relieve the monotony of long hours sitting at a computer. I’ve been listening to something called “Wormwood: A Serialized Mystery” (http://www.wormwoodshow.com/) for a few weeks and I have to say I just don’t get it. The cliched premise started out […]
Now that I’ve reached the age where body parts start falling off, my doctors get to play Frankenstein with me. They prescribe chemicals to make this or that body function work “better, faster, stronger”. They soup up my thyroid. They unclog my arteries. They want to mold me into the bionic woman. What they get […]
Two of three caterpillars that were defoliating my mom’s penta plants yesterday. I think they will become swallowtail butterflies. The green ones will be predominately black and the brown one will be yellow (I think). Today the brown one has disappeared. One of the green ones is still feeding voraciously and the second one is […]
It’s raining today and I’m not going to work. There was hardly anything to do yesterday except to babysit the output machine, so I called in to see if there would be anything for me to do today. There isn’t. I was bored stiff yesterday and didn’t look forward to a day with even less […]
This is a detail from an old railroad car parked on a siderail in Celina, another town I visited for the first time.
Monday morning and I’m trying to wake up from hibernation mode. Rolling thunder crackled and exploded most of the night, accompanied by nearly nonstop lightning flashes. Poor Phoebe! Our sweet puppy is terrified […]
It seems like I’ve spent all week at the dentist’s office. I lost a filling (wasn’t it just the other day an old crown fell off?) and I had to get that tooth and an adjacent one worked on. I got a temporary crown installed yesterday and last night the dang thing fell off so […]
This week’s topic on Studio Friday was a fun one for me, and it has a double meaning, as I’m “beginning” to get back to my blogging routine, which includes these Friday sessions.
I dug out an old notebook I saved from high school and realized a couple of things about my art.
First, I […]