Headline for today.......THE CREEK'S GONE OUT. There's water down there instead of ice. When he went to get the mail, Joe brought the truck on up to the gate. We'll snow machine to there until our lane dries out. It's a half a mile instead of a mile and a half.
Today I don't have much to write about so far. So I'm putting in a photo of the painting I'm working on - a 24x30" canvas, a large size painting. This is one of our neighbors down near Boulder. I drove past their place a few years ago when he was moving his horses in a snowstorm and got a few reference photos. This is very preliminary, but thought you'd like to see the progress - the rough sketch and first layer of paint are on the canvas. I was initially drawn to the scene by the figures in the storm, and the almost whiteout conditions. So you can see I've lost that already and it's annoying me right off. It gets lots uglier before it gets "pretty". So at each stage I'll take a picture and you can see how it goes. This larger painting is a progression from the small and mini paintings I've been doing with running horses.
The blackbirds are in full song every morning now. Today is calm and warm with a sunny sky. High is about 42. There is more open ground each day.
Made Joe a batch of 10-Day Buttermilk Yeast Pancakes - they really do last 10 days, similar to a batch of sourdough but easier. Caught up the housework and laundry - AGAIN! Cleaned the oven. I got the motel reservation made for Tuesday in Rock Springs. And ordered Joe's meds from the VA in Sheridan. I like the way they do that over an automated phone call then they come in the mail in about a week. Paying more bills on line today, and straightening up the studio.
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YEA!!! Lynn is doing a WIP! I'm pullng up a chair to watch! Am I going to need popcorn?
Pretty soon you will be fully functional with all the snow gone. Will you miss the snowmachine supply train?
Today there was a flock of Robins in the trees. Geese have been moving around. I always find it a wonder that we have geese that winter here, and move north in the spring. Then there are the geese that winter in the north and come here in the spring. To each his own I guess, and where you were born. Lots of Starlings of course.
Doing stuff on line is so very convenient. I pay most of my bills, and order my monthly drugs through Walgreens on line. I do go to the pharmacy to pick them up, but they would deliver if that is what I wanted. But I figure, hey, I have to get out of the house sometime!
Are my comments coming through to you? Sometime you say things in your comments to my log that make me think you probably didn't see my comments in yours.
Love you ... Judy
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