Drawing foreshortened books is hard for the beginning artist (me). I had just gotten the reference points drawn on my sketch when Cat decided to bathe. She knocked over the top book and I had to start over.
Practice makes perfect, right? Well, not for me, not just yet.
It’s all about keeping clean and warm
It’s a beautiful February day here in central Texas; temperature in the 70s. Weather like this allows us to take advantage of the outdoor seating at the new Whole Foods Market at The Domain.
Sunny and bright
(Photo taken in mid-January, when it was definitely colder.)
I recently completed a quilt top, using the Disappearing Nine Patch pattern. The sewing was easy. The hard part was laying out the blocks and deciding which arrangement to use. Here are a few possibilities that I considered. (I had to move the dog bed out of the way.) I wish I had taken photos of the blocks before I cut them up. Oh, well.
Audition 1
Audition 2
Audition 3
Audition 4, just right
Now, to get it quilted and put on the binding. Don’t wait up.
Time for the bloggers to turn the camera onto ourselves?
Here’s where I routinely spend time and money: at my dentist office. My dentist is Dr. Butcher. One time I suggested to him that he move to Slaughter lane so he could be Dr. Butcher on Slaughter lane. Ha ha ha, right?
Turns out his family used to live on Slaughter lane when he was growing up. And one brother is also a dentist and one is a veterinarian. So three Dr. Butchers used to live on Slaughter lane.
With all these crowns, I should be Queen by now.
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And then without people’s hands in my mouth:
Waterfall
Here is the eastern horizon at dawn, viewed from my back yard. See that little tower off to the left? That belongs to our Internet Service Provider. We were happy when they built a tower closer to us, as that would give us a better signal.
Tower, not so much power
And it does . . . sometimes. Right now, no. The tower, as they say, “has issues” and we have been without our normal Internet access for a week.
Which means I haven’t been posting to my blog, haven’t been checking basketball scores or the weather first thing in the morning. No YouTube videos of Storm Trooper dance routines. No email, no Metropolitan Museum of Art. I’m feeling culturally deprived.
We are using a hotspot as a workaround, and now it’s time to catch up on my blog posts. Sorry for the delay.
