Flowers and some other stuff

Hello Readers!

It's been a few days since I was here last so I decided I better get caught up with keeping up with what gets done.

I've turned a year older since the last time I was here. I've been an old lady for a long time, I just got a little older is all. I don't really feel old in my head. My body, on the other hand, thinks it might be ancient! I'm still alive and kicking though so all is grand in the whole scheme of it all.

Or something to that effect.

Ma baked me a cake.

It was tasty AND cute! The picture is out of a magazine. I include it here so you know what the cake was suppose to look like. I'd say Ma nailed it pretty close. The caterpillar is suppose to have antennae on either end of him. That's how some caterpillars roll to confuse their predators. (Though if a bird pecked off the ass end of a caterpillar wouldn't it be just as dead as it would be should the bird choose the other end?) At any rate I loved my birthday cake! Three of my sisters and Ma showed up for the party. We made quick work of that chocolate chip bundt cake!

 I drew these three little chickens a week or two back. They are all roughly an inch and half high by an inch or so across. They will end up in my glue book. I've added a few more pages to the glue book since the last post.
I emptied the drawer in the desk in the livingroom where I throw all interesting things that come in the mail. Except for mail art, that has its own special spot--and it ain't in a drawer! I used a lot of that stuff to add to the glue book/junk journal, whatever you want to call it.

 I drew some birds on drawing paper. The big sharpie I was using to draw with, I thought was black. It's actually a very dark midnight blue. This one is about  5x7 inches or so. I didn't really measure. It was a scrap of clean paper that I took out of the scrap box by the paper cutter.

 Swirls of color. Markers on drawing paper. About the same size as the birds above. This one will end up in the glue book as background.

 Tulips bloomed. This is the first I've seen of any yellow tulips in the flower bed. I didn't plant them there. Last year there were red tulips in a different spot in this flower bed, but they haven't even set on any blossoms this year. The yellow tulips were a nice surprise. I discovered them on my birthday.  Those are peonies in the foreground of the picture. They don't get enough sun where they are planted. They haven't bloomed for a long time! Like 10 years!! I really need to sweet talk someone into digging them up and planting on the west side of the house where they'll get all the sunshine they need.

 I crocheted Ma a new dish cloth for Mother's Day. She said she would use it for a wash cloth, not a dish cloth. Whatever works for her! It is crocheted with cotton yarn. It's dish cloth sized.

 I played with the watercolor paints three days running. This was the first attempt at iris painting. I am rather pleased with it, though I can see lots of room for improvement. This is painted on manila drawing paper, 3x3.5 inches. I glued it to the front cover of a little book. You'll get to see that little book once I get it sewed together. I haven't cut pages for it yet. Maybe in the next post.

 The next day I tried another iris. I like this one too. It is done on linen textured cardstock. 3.5x3 inches. It will go in a magnetic frame.

 I drew some more fish. Markers on old sheet music.

 The paper I drew these fish on was cut 4.5x4 inches. I drew the fish to up as much space as possible on the page and then cut them out.

 I'm not sure what will happen with all these fish. Book covers, maybe. I just don't know at this point.

 It rained like crazy late on Mother's day afternoon. There was a bit of hail, some wind, some wicked lightning and a tornado the next county over. We all fared the storm at my brother's house. I usually go next door when we are put in a tornado warning. And I always keep tabs on the weather when it looks like it might get hairy out. I don't want to be in my own house if a tornado hits! I'd rather brave it out in the basement next door like a rational individual would do. Though I have to admit, when I was a younger woman, I loved being out in the storms, driving around, seeing what I could see! I was young and foolhardy. I'm still foolhardy at times, just not when it comes to storms.

 We were treated to a double rainbow after the storm.

 I made a few books.....This one is made from pre-cut pieces of a kit teaching kids about different foods. This one is all about pepperoni, cheese and crackers! I don't know why you need a full set of silverware to eat cheese and crackers and pepperoni, but they came with the plate so I glued them on as well. This one is about 6 inches across. It's sewn in the japanese stab binding which I glued the plate over so you can't see it.

This one came from the same type of kit as the other one. The kits weren't to make books. The kits consist of the plate and everything on it, nothing more. I thought they were kinda cool and would make unique book covers. I should have taken into consideration I would have to cut each page separately because of the shape of the books, but it all worked out OK. This one represents sushi. It's sewn in the japanese stab binding as well but I didn't cover up the stitching on this one. They both have roughly 30 pages of copy paper.

 This is the little orange book cover you saw in the last post. This is the backside, showing the closure. It's just a plastic green button sewn on with the same thread used to bind the book. It started out life as a Jello Pudding box.

 It has 9 signatures of 6 pages, giving it roughly 120 pages. The paper is some old forms I dragged out of a dumpster some years back. The bee on the front is a twinchie done in markers on cardstock. I drew it back in 2012, I think. We'll never know the date it was drawn unless we take it off the book to see what it says on the backside of the twinchie. I'm not THAT interested in knowing the correct date so we will just go with my best educated guess of sometime in 2012.

 I crocheted another basket. I show you the close up so you can see the specks of yellow. Yellow stars. They are quite subtle on the basket unless you look closely!

 It's a cute little basket, nothing special really. It stands about 4 inches tall and is about 5 inches across. I crocheted it out of curling ribbon. 

 This is a UFO. I crocheted this earlier this afternoon. It will be the back side of a hot pad mat once I get the front side done. I believe this one will have a day of the dead theme. That's subject to change though once I get started on the front. It will be whatever the muse wants to do at the time. I'll applique felt onto felt and then sew it to this square of crochet. The mat, when finished will be the size of this mat, which is 10 inches square. It's crocheted out some bulky greenish gray yarn I picked up somewhere.

 I finished the crochet cotton crocheted market bag. I used up a lot of half used balls of crochet cotton on this one. I didn't put much of a dent in the stash of white crochet cotton, nor in the stash of green. I did empty a few cardboard tubes of thread though. I keep those cardboard tubes that crochet cotton is wound on and use them in paper mache projects. This bag is about 14 inches from the top opening to the bottom. I wanted to reinforce the handles someway but I couldn't get that to work out for me so I just put a few more rounds of crochet on them and hope they work out all right when someone goes stuffing a bunch of stuff in it.

 I did this drawing of donuts in marker on watercolor paper. Not sure what will become of it. Perhaps a book cover with some sprinkles sewn on? Yeah, I might do some embroidery on this drawing. That thought just now crossed my mind. It's a tad plain at the moment, but some glass seed beads sewn on as sprinkles would sure jazz it up! We'll see what happens with the donuts..... This one is 3.5x4.75 inches.

 I've been playing with my new toys. In reality, only one of them is new. I've had the other one for a few years and didn't really know how to use it despite the fact it has its original instructions to go with it. And the new toy didn't come with instructions, which in turn led me to figure out how to use the old new toy.  In case the picture didn't clue you in that I am talking about flower looms, well, I've been making loom flowers!

 Lots of loom flowers! They are mostly blue because Ma saw them and wanted a few to patch up a pair of pants she has. I don't how they are gonna look on a pair of a pants but if she wants them there, I'm cool with that! I made this first batch (which are included in that picture with the lot of them) 5, maybe 6 six days ago. When I talked to her a couple days ago she said any old color would work, not just blue. So I made a few other colors since then. I made 6 of them earlier today that are included in the picture also.

 I caught Murray asleep on the sofa the day I made that flower and decided I would take a picture of it next to the sleeping cat. She woke up and caught me.....

This is the old new toy. It's called a Crazy Daisy Winder. It's a cool little gadget. This particular one is older than I am, I'm sure. The instructions that came with it has no zip code on the address of the manufacturer and there's a seal on the instructions that I can't read either. I believe it is a Union seal of some sort. I'm thinking 1950s vintage. It is easier to make loom flowers on this thing that it is on the new toy...

 This is the Hana Ami Flower Loom. I can't read Chinese or I would tell you the brand name. This one works on the same principle as the daisy winder. This one makes lots of different sized flowers whereas the daisy winder only makes 2.5 inch flowers. I'm still trying to master the hana ami loom and all its parts.
I figured out the daisy winder in one session with a youtube tutorial. I wouldn't have bought the hana ami loom if I had already figured out the daisy winder. The daisy winder has been sitting on a shelf in my cutting room for at least four years. I didn't realize it was a flower loom until after I had recieved the hana ami loom and started researching how to use it. I ran across a tutorial for the daisy winder and light bulb went off above my head, a ding sounded in the room and I said, outloud, to myself, "Hey! I have one of those! So that is how that works!" I went and got the daisy winder off the shelf and went off making loomed flowers. I suspect there will be more of these.

 I guess you'll just have to look at this one upside down because blogger refuses to let it stay the right way. This is Yellow Kitten Killer....was supposed to be Yellow Killer Kitten but I crossed the L's in killer before I wrote kitten when I was signing the backside. I go with the flow! The stream was a tad crooked at the time. Bad Kitty! Bad Kitty! That Murray cat inspired this painting in watercolor on cardstock. She's always bringing me dead critters. This week I received a sparrow, a couple of little mice and field rat. In her eyes, I am a terrible hunter and I need all the help I can get. She brought the rat in last night. I thought there was something terribly wrong when she came in from outside. She was making the most gawd-awful noise as she headed down the hallway in my direction. I got up to see what the trouble was. She dropped her catch and looked at me. Then she meowed clear as day as if to say, "I brought you something!" I tossed it out in the yard on my next trip passed the front door. It was back in the deskroom doorway this morning. Or maybe, I have gotten two field rats this past week?

Miss Lola thinks I am much better hunter than Murray does. She does sometimes catch mice, but not often! She is such a fat thing! I don't say that to be mean. I say it because it's the truth! LOOK AT HER! She's lounging in the sun ray on the livingroom carpet, looking out the front door at a bird probably. She pays close attention to those birds...not like she's caught one anytime recently though. She had just settled down after having killed that little dark blob behind her on the floor. That's a catnip filled felt fish. She finally lay down, rolled onto her back and took a nap in that sun ray.

 I've added Eric the Rooster's tail feathers to my natural collection. I've added a few other things to it as well. I have a naturally dehydrated frog...tiny little frog that my sister gave me. She found it on the concrete at her Father in law's house.  And there's a new snake skeleton...half a snake skeleton, it's head and maybe a third of its body. Little snake, all of three inches of it. My brother found it when he was clearing out some brush behind his house. All of those bones and such were either found by me or given to me by someone I know. The duck skull is still my favorite, followed by the goat skull with horns that hangs on the wall in the deskroom where the computer lives. Youngest son gave me the duck skull. He found it at the lake. Oldest son gave me the goat skull. One of his buddies gave it to him and he gave it to me. Eric had some pretty tail feathers! They go nicely in the collection. I almost forgot about the vulture feather Ma brought me the other day. She said she found it in the Dollar General parking lot. I didn't have a vulture feather.

And there's Ma herself with Murray who loves Ma!

That's about all I have for you all today. The old body has been in rebel mode so I've not been out of the house since Sunday. I haven't been to town since Friday. Tomorrow is a run to town day...the cupboards are getting bare and I need to get out and get stink blown off! I leave you with a view of the north field.

It appears all we will have this year to look at is an empty field. Not exactly empty...it's full of last years soybeans still...I don't know what's going on with the field. Perhaps he will leave it fallow this year. I can't remember a year he didn't plant something though. Guess we'll have to wait and see!

Thanks for hanging around till the end!
Remember...
Be kind to one another!
It matters!
Peace
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April's Endeavors

Hello Readers!

It's 4 o'clock in the morning. I've been awake since 1:30 when Murray Cat decided it was high time I got my hide out of that bed and fed her. Course, it WAS high time to get out of that bed, I fell asleep yesterday evening around 6.
So here I sit in the wee hours taking stock of what the heck I've done all month.

Better get a cuppa something and settle down for a spell. I've been busy, as usual.

The kids came for an overnight visit this past Friday into Saturday. RJ and Terah went to Hays for the night to celebrate their anniversary. (Hays is about 40 miles south) Annie spent the night with me and we played with paper and glue on the coffee table in the livingroom. I have no pictures of this endeavor unfortunately. It was a gluing good time! I added pages and pages to my glue book and did away with six or seven magazines in the process. Annie glued something on every page in the 20 page notebook I gave her to use as a glue book. We played with stickers as well. Her daddy gave me the 'eye' when he realized I had given the girl a big ziplock baggie full to the brim with stickers! (And didn't put a dent in my sticker stash...) We had bacon and eggs with toast for supper on Friday and then again for breakfast on Saturday. That little girl would live on eggs if you let her. Eggs are easy! She likes hers 'runny'--or as the rest of us would say--over easy.
This was the first time in her six years that she has ever spent the night alone with me. It went very well. I only wish she hadn't woke up when I came back from the bathroom at 6 on Saturday morning. It was almost 11 when she finally went to sleep. She wore me out while she was here! It was a great wearing out though! They went home early Saturday afternoon.

I've seen my other boy a couple times this month also. He's gone back to work in the oil patch so he's a happy camper. RW is a flighty man. He pops in and out at all hours of the day and night. I never know when he's going to show up, but I'm always glad to see the boy. He'll be getting off work here in a couple hours. I may yet see him today.

Eric the rooster is gone. He was tasty. Henrietta is a bit confused with him gone. She doesn't seem to know who to follow. Daisy the duck and Henrietta the hen stick close like they always have but Eric was the leader of that pack. Now Daisy and Henrietta are hanging out with a bunch of young white ducks that look like Daisy. The flock now containing Daisy, Henrietta and five nameless ducks. I suspect they will in time get names. They were just fluffy yellow ducklings a few short weeks ago.

Soon there will be a great flock of fowl fettering around the yard in search of grasshoppers and other bugs. Brother Sammy has four or five more ducklings that are growing and 11 more chickens that aren't quite big enough to give run of the yard just yet. I have no pictures of the little birds. Or the ones running the yard with Henrietta and Daisy. Sooner or later they will all figure out who is the boss and life will continue on. I'm looking forward to the days when the little hens start laying. I will get fresh eggs frequently.

RW, my youngest son, had 11 laying hens. They layed all through the winter. Most hens slow down on laying when winter rolls around. RW was doing something right. The boy had more eggs than he knew what to do with! He brought me fresh eggs almost every week. He's down to three hens that are laying now. He lost all his layers to a hunting dog that showed up and decided killing chickens would be great fun! RW was fit to be tied! The fella came and got his dog and paid RW for those dead chickens. RW bought himself some baby chicks and a few ducklings to replace the dead ones. The boy cracks me up! I don't know what he traded my brother for, but Sammy ended up with 3 little black ducklings from RW. He needed something or other and Sammy had it.

It has been quite rainy for the past few days. My old body has been in rebel mode and I've totally screwed up the sleep patterns again.  That means art happens mostly while the rest of the world is asleep.

It has been about 20 days or so since I was here last so there is a lot that has been accomplished. Let's get on with it!

I made another zine. I've yet to do a first printing. It's on some odd sized paper, not even sure I can print it and get it to come out right. I wrote all the haiku. I have written hundreds of haiku over the years.

I put together some books...

 This one is 4x4 inches, made from paperboard beer coasters that are painted in acrylics. I did the paintings on this one five or six years ago. It is sewn together with waxed embroidery thread in the copic stitch. One inside of each cover is an envelope pocket made from envelopes from the stationary

 paper the pages were cut from. This is the backside. It has quite a few pages--9 signatures of 5-- so around 90 pages. I got the stationary, 5 different colors of it, at the thrift store in Hutchinson. I used green and purple for this red bird book.

 This one is made from a frozen veggie box. I painted it in acrylics and glitter paint. It measures 6x5 inches and is about an inch and a quarter thick.

 I sewed it together with thin cotton cordage in the long stitch. The spine is woven. It has 9 signatures of 6 pages, giving it roughly 100 pages in total.
I really like painting on the box books. Ready made book covers from boxes! I love simplicity!

 This one is made from corrugated cardboard from a box of some sort. I painted it with various layers and then made the fish design in glue and glitter. The book measures 5x4 inches or so. It has various types of paper in it. Mostly scrap book paper, map paper and sheet music. It's sewn with waxed baker's twine in the copic stitch. It has about 90 pages total. It isn't one of my favorites. All that glitter makes it a very rough book to touch. I varnished it well so it doesn't shed glitter but it isn't a fun book to hold.

This is the postcard I sent to my monthly partner over at AFA in the Envie Group. He's done on an antique paperboard photo frame. I drew him on drawing paper and colored him with markers before inserting him between the two halves of the frame. The frame was then embellished with washi tape, striping tape and markers. He was well received!

 Three box book covers in the making. The top two are pretty much ready for paper to be cut. The one on the bottom needs some  more work. The hearts are fingernail polish painted on watercolor paper that I did back in 2014. The bee drawing is markers on cardstock. It is a twinchie. (2 inches square)

 I cut a piece of tartan plaid wool into yarn and crocheted this little basket. It measures about 6 inches across and three inches deep. I still have a large piece of this plaid material but I won't be turning it into fabric yarn. I believe some plaid monsters will come into being from it instead. It crocheted up nicely, worked great for yarn, but it will sew even nicer!

 You all know about the painted newspapers that accumulate from my painting at the kitchen table. I turned some remnants into feathers. Or leaves, if you like. I was going for feathers, but some of them do look like leaves! This is a box book, a jello pudding box to begin with.

 I made a LOT of feathers! Another box book cover. This one a frozen veggie box. I attempted to cut book pages the night before last, but that wasn't going to well. My old brain mucked up the first measurements and I cut the pages wrong so I gave up cutting book pages at that time before I mucked up too many times. I'll give cutting another try perhaps later today. I do have a few book covers needing a page block!

 These three are not painted newspaper like the rest of the feathers. These are drawn on sheet music with markers.

 I like the painted newspaper feathers better than the sheet music ones. I did the designs on the feathers with a sharpie and white chalk marker. The white chalk marker is very subtle, almost not there.

 I've painted a couple of fish. This one still needs his eye completed before I can say it is done.

 And this one just needs to be done!  I have a stack of these fishes all cut and ready for painting. They are cut from chipboard boxes, think cereal and such, and then painted with wall paint before the acrylic goes on.

 And apparently the muse was fascinated with fishes because yesterday I did these spotty fellows on sheet music with markers while I sat here in front of my PC watching Dancing With The Stars reruns.

 A couple of these were done the day before the day before yesterday. And there are two more that have materialized since I took pictures of these guys! They are all done on sheet music from the early 1900s.

 On Saturday after the kids went home, I sat here in front of the PC catching up on my television viewing, making this striped hand on copy paper. It's an outline of my hand. It is going to end up in my glue book. I'll show you all the glue book some day. I really wish I knew where the first glue book I did is. I have no idea where I put the thing! It still has empty pages to fill too.....

Here's a close up of the feathers/leaves, whatever you want to call them.

I've worked on the Kitty Book a bit. No progress to show you though.

I've made four envelopes to send things in. I'll show you all those next time.

I drew three tiny chickens on drawing paper with markers. I forgot to take a picture of those.

I did two marker drawings on 5x7 inch paper. I forgot to take a picture.

I have not finished the crochet project I showed you all last post. Haven't even picked it up since then.

I have cut seven fabric yarn balls out of garments.

I made a pan of peanut butter cookie bars. They were very very yummy! I will be making those again!

I guess that's all I got today! Thanks for hanging on till the end!

Remember....
Be kind to one another!
It matters!
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Peace

Critters, Art and What is to come....

Hello Readers!

Hasn't been too many days since I was here so there isn't a lot of art going on but I'll show you some anyway. 

It's been a busy critter day at my house so you'll get to hear some tales and see some pictures of some critters too.

We'll start off with the critters. If you are here for the art, just skip over all my critter ramblings!

 This Murray cat has been a mess for the last three days. In that time I have received gifts. Gifts I don't really want, but thanks anyway Murray. She brought a lizard in the house about ten days ago and it got away from her. I suspect it is dead under the china hutch where it fled. I haven't seen it since!

No gifts for a few days, thankfully. Then she shows up three days ago with another lizard that got away from her. I found one dead on the kitchen floor. I'm uncertain if that is the one that got away from her or if that was another lizard all together.

I have the front door open today to let the breeze in.....air out the house a bit. I was sitting here at my computer, reading, when I hear that cat coming down the hallway making noises I know mean, "Looky what I got!"  That one got away from her too! It went under the bookshelf behind my desk. I went after it! It came out from under the shelf and I caught him and put him outside under the porch. Murray was still in the deskroom trying to locate the lizard under the shelf! That one wasn't too much the worse for wear other than he'd shed his tail on his flight from the cat. I'm pretty sure he'll live to see another day.

 A couple hours later, here she comes again!  I'm sitting here in front of my computer, minding my own business. Murry's hurrying down the hall yelling, "Looky what I got!" That one got away from her too! I coaxed him out from behind the shelf where he promptly ran right past the cat, down the hallway with the cat right on his tail, and into the cutting room. (Room of Many Abysses!) Murry got confused about where he'd gone. She was headed back down the hall from the way he came. I followed him into the cutting room where he promptly disappeared. 

I thought he was gone forever. Then Murray was hollering that "Looky" noise and she's got him in her mouth. I made her give him to me. She didn't want to but she dropped him. He's pretty beat up. That's him in the picture above, sitting on the porch railing, out of reach of the cat. I don't think he will make it. 

These little lizards are, apparently, quite abundant this year. They're pretty little things. I think they are skinks. They have blue patches on their undersides up by their front legs and along the side of their necks. The biggest of the three I've seen in the last few days was not much more than 4 inches and he got about half as long as he was once he gave up his tail for his life. That tail will grow back so no worry.

 This is the little fella I found dead on the kitchen floor. I have a natural history collection going and this guy is sitting on the porch railing, in the corner where lots of air movement happens. He's mummifying. 

In addition to all these lizards, Murray has gifted me two little mice also. She doesn't announce the arrival of mice like she does with the lizards. She's right proud of those lizards! I really wish she would keep the darn critters out doors where she finds them.

As I said, I had the door open to let the breeze in.

 Eric brought his harem over this afternoon to see if there were any scraps to be had outside the front door.

 Eric and his harem of 2. 

There were no scraps outside the front door. The scraps were outside the back door where I threw them yesterday.

 I do not trust Eric any farther than I can throw him. I cannot throw him at all cause he'd never let me get close enough to get ahold of him! He and Henrietta decided they were going to come up on the front porch. I didn't think chickens would climb steps but I have been schooled that they do indeed climb steps! I stomped my foot on the porch trying to get him to go back down the steps before he got all the way up them. That only made him come one step higher. Every step up he went, Henrietta went as well.

They were on the top step of the stairs when I took this picture. I shut the door behind as I went inside.

I don't want that rooster on my porch. And I sure as hell don't want him in the house. He's tried to attack me in the yard. I can only imagine the havoc he'd wreck in the house! I don't care if he roams the yard. He can have the yard. I'll give him all the space he needs, but the porch is mine!

I know he doesn't like the umbrella so I took it out of the umbrella stand by the front door, opened it up and went back on the porch to scare him off. Henrietta took off running like Wyle E. Coyote was hot on her tail. Daisy Duck took suit and followed after Henrietta. Eric stood his ground atop the stairs and just looked at me. I turned the umbrella upside down and sat it at the top of the steps. He flew down the four steps to the ground and crowed like he was just mortified I would dare not let him on the porch.

I don't like that rooster so much at close quarters! I left the umbrella at the top of the stairs and Eric joined his girls in the back yard.

And Miss Lola Cat could have cared less about all the animal drama happening around her. That cat needs to go on a diet. 

Murray had laid down next to Lola and was telling her all about her finds of the day.

Never a dull moment at my house with all these critters to entertain me!

OK---on with what little I have to show in the art department:

 This is the crochet project I talked about in the last post. It will still be a few days before it is finished. That is all crochet cotton thread. It has taken awhile to do all that crocheting! You'll get to see this again probably in the next post. Hopefully it will be done soon.

 This is the elephant I showed you all last post. I said I didn't know what had happened to the book....well, the book wasn't actually a book yet when I said that. I'm getting senile in my old age apparently. It was in the bag with the rest of the little books that need to be sewn together.

 It is made from a jello pudding box. I learned a new way to do a decorative stitched binding. I love how it turned out! I don't usually put that many holes in such a little book but I do like how it turned out. I probably should have used a different color of embroidery thread to do the binding. I didn't realize just how closely the thread matches the color of the spine. And the stitching along the ends of the spine? That was a total goof up! I tried to fix that goof up by putting a line of stitching across the top and bottom edge.

 It didn't want to stay closed on its own so I sewed a button to the back cover and put a braided string on the front cover. Wrap the string around the button and it stays closed nicely. This book is roughly 3.5 inches tall, 2.5 inches wide. Somewhere around there.

That's about the extent of my arting endeavors since the last post. I did paint a couple of those book covers I showed you all last post but they are nowhere near ready to show off.

I leave you with a clear blue sky this second day of April, 2016! 

I've no idea what will happen with the north field this year. It is the time of year when I should be paying attention to see what the farmer decides.

Happy Saturday!

Remember....

Be kind to one another!

It matters!

Peace

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