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Saturday 8-24-2024

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I started a new piece in my art room yesterday, plus I’m continuing to do a THOROUGH clean-out/clean-up/reorganization up there. I’m stopping when I feel myself starting to ‘stash’ things. I’m taking my time, trying to create ‘areas’ of activity or storage, so I can find things more easily, rather than it sometimes resembling a ‘treasure hunt.’ I’m trying to throw away things I haven’t used and probably won’t use, dried up paint tubes, ‘idea’ pictures that no longer speak to me, and more. I’m SUCH a slob… :0) I AM making some progress, though.

Our son left a picture on our chat program this morning. His friends, who have a condo in the same building, had a baby girl this morning. She joins their about 2-year-old son, so now they’re a family of four. Brian is an honorary ‘uncle’, having a great time being a part of their family and watching their kids grow and thrive.

A wonderful surprise! I found these just a minute ago. I decided to go out to check on the tomato plants, just expecting to see the same – plants with green tomatoes, looking kind of sad. Instead, I found ripe tomatoes! I guess the cooler temperatures of the last few days revived the plants. I had essentially written them off, so it was a super nice surprise. ALSO, I still have ONE tomato sucker plant that is really large now. I have no idea if it will produce tomatoes, but I staked it up this morning and will enjoy watching what happens. FUN EXPERIMENT!

Enjoy your weekend.

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Saturday 7-6-2024

Gregorio Catarino – @gregcatarino1 on X

I’m not sure what came over me yesterday afternoon, but I FINALLY got upstairs to my art room and cleared off my drafting table so that I now have room to experiment with the new wood burning kit. I don’t know when I’ve been so intimidated by trying to learn a new skill. I guess the fact that the first tool I got was hard for me to use and made my hand arthritis act up badly put me off. I’m really hoping that this lighter, beginner’s tool kit will get me over the hump. I have lots of ideas of what I would like to try to accomplish with it.

Our high temperature today will be 94 WITHOUT an excessive heat warning needed, so that will be a very welcome change. I’ll get out this morning and see if we have some ripe tomatoes. My tomato suckers are looking extremely droopy, but are still alive, so I still have hope that I can transplant the roots soon to the garden planter.

I’ve been quite amused by the free downloads of books onto my Kindle lately. I’m in the Kindle Unlimited group which allows unlimited downloads, so I have lots of choices for things to read. I download one, read a bit and then many times ‘give it back’ to choose another. I’m CHOOSING to be amused, rather than disgusted or appalled, by the quality of many of the books. If I find TOO many spelling and grammatical errors (and I give people what I consider a LOT of leverage), I delete. If the main character is so stupid I would embarrassed to meet her or know her, I delete. If the language or content is simply too much (again, a lot of leverage) I delete.

Sometimes I find myself sighing in relief that I managed to find an author who writes something that keeps my interest. :0)

I hope this day finds you feeling good. Make it a fun one.

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