LOVE!

I'm taking a wee break from posting work from the class I've been taking. Thank you for all of the positive feedback, by the way!!!

During the class I've been using a number of canvases as paint trays. The main reason I do this is because I can't stand the idea of wasting any paint. But another reason I do this is that over time I've discovered that my paint tray canvases make the most amazing, spectacular, and unique backgrounds and I love to paint on top of them.

This one, titled "Love", was created out of one of the canvases I've been using in the last few days while I've been creating all of those faces. This piece was literally born out of that work and it's and expression of how much I've been loving the lessons, the instructor, the challenges, and the amazing group of artists who are also students. I'm being thrown thoroughly out of my comfort zone into a safe place to explore.

LOVE!

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Feels Like Winter

I cut Hazel's hair a week or so ago. Hazel is our big awesome dog for those of you who don't know. Ever since her haircut she's been a little shivery at night as she sleeps at the foot of our bed. So being the nice doggy mom that I am, who also happened to be woken up by Hazel's quivery shivers, I got up, pulled her up to my spot, lay her head on my pillow, got myself in bed, snuggled up beside her and covered us both up.

And I must say that it was the most delightful, cuddly, shiver-free night's sleep ever!

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Thankful

Me: "You have beautiful blue eyes."

Little guy: "Uh-huh."

Me: "You should say, 'Thank you.'"

Little guy: "Why, you didn't give them to me."

Me: "It was a compliment, that's why you should say, 'Thank you.'"

Little guy: "Oh, I thought we were talking about genetics."

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Teddy Bear

And this happened...and it made me ever so happy.

I went shopping first thing this morning and as I was heading toward the dairy section to pick up some yogurt there was this guy. This most amazing guy. He was wearing pajamas, a T-shirt, and flip flops, and was pushing around a kid-size shopping cart. And this guy was not petite! I loved that he went shopping just the way he did.

Made me think I should bring my teddy bear shopping with me next time. Might just make someone's day like he made mine.

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So, Why did the Chicken Cross the Road?

We've had chicken problems lately. Escaping chickens, that is.

More times than not, lately, I've arrived home to find several of our chickens hanging out in the front yard. This means they got over the fence in their chicken run and then over another fence to the front yard. While it's all fun and games for my chickens, this chicken mama was starting to fear for their safety...especially when the little guy and I were leaving on an errand and had to stop a bit down from our house because one of our chickens was, yes, crossing the road. So after breaking quite a sweat rounding her back home, completing our errand, and getting home only to find chickens out again, I decided we had to do something.

On the scene came google and "chicken wing clipping". After I sorted through a number of articles on cooking chickens, I found what I was looking for. And twenty minutes later our birds with the flight risk each had a lovely one-sided trim. Take that, girls!


So, if you're wondering why the chicken crossed the road...well, it's just like the joke always ended...to get to the other side.


P.S. While this painting is of Phyllis, she is one of two chickens who did not receive the trim. My favorite girl would never want to run far from home.

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