What a lovely morning. Hope you are doing well. Got Joe's breakfast done, buttermilk yeast pancakes, bacon and grapefruit. He used the last of the real maple syrup the family sent him for Christmas and had to go back to Log Cabin, poor guy. I had tea and oj. I've been putting some of Melita's rose hip jelly in my tea and its a wonderful change from the Farson honey. Just like smelling wild roses - a nice thing in winter.
Joe's already out bringing in his firewood and getting more hay from the haystack for the next several days. He always feeds the horses first thing in the morning before breakfast. He's the early bird.
Thought since we had a deer photo yesterday I'd add a deer painting for the image today. The doe was with a group of deer I saw on the East Fork River and I started it at one of our Tuesday painting group's get togethers.
Yesterday I got a fine start on a large new oil painting of one of our neighbors horseback moving his horses from one pasture to another in a winter scene. I hope to be a little more painterly with it and will see how that turns out. You'll be the first to see it finished, or maybe we could even look at it in stages as it goes along. We'll see. At the moment its a lot of white and gray.
Yesterday I cut Raven's toenails. She's so funny. I have to kind of surprise her and have the clippers ready at hand or she will disappear if she has an inkling what's in store. She shakes like a leaf but lets me get the job done. Sparky had his done earlier. He's very resigned to having it happen. They get a good treat after grooming and toenail clipping. I still have to vacuum up the toenails off the studio floor today.
Tomorrow I'll go in to Pinedale for the monthly Mixed Media painting meeting. It will be at Josie's photo shop and about 15 are attending. Josie had to stop coming to most of our meetings when she bought this new business and we miss her. I think I'll take my pastels, or at least something lightweight since I'll have to carry it all on the snow machine. Will get a few groceries but save the big shopping for Tuesday at Walmart. I'm looking forward to seeing everyone and the usual good time we always have together.
I need to remember to go out to my framers Ruth and Gary's and pick up a lot of prints she has matted for me. They will be ready to go for the Art Show in the Barn next summer. But I'll wait to take new work to be framed until I can drive so something bad doesn't happen to it on the snow machine ride. I really enjoy seeing Ruth. They started their business on their ranch outside of Pinedale some years back, and are doing a beautiful job. Gary builds all the frames and Ruth does the matting and fitting. She's really creative and gives a lot of thought to how the colors go with the artwork. Ruth has horses and does a lot of riding. Gary's family has been in the area since the early days and they still live on the home ranch.
