The Grand Opening

It ended up being muggy again.

Gary met his pals for coffee and ran a couple errands while Little Wonder and I got off to our usual slow start.  The applesauce I made yesterday turned out great!

We did go out to the Studio so I could bring in the flowers... as they won't make until the next class.

We have so many veggies from the garden.  Gary will make more sauce tomorrow.

Before lunch I went out to do a little mowing.  Getting a grip on the small pasture now.

Gary worked his butt off around the barns again while LW and I took it easy.

Tonight, a local dentist had a grand opening for his new office space.  It used to be the Senior Center for our town and I spent a lot of time there participating in the chorus and volunteering. I was so impressed with what has been done.  Has to be the Rolls Royce of dental offices.

 A friend's band was playing there and I wanted to grab a couple videos.

There were food trucks and everyone (there were hundreds) could have a meal and a drink.  So generous and so good.  Gary and I had Chicken Kebobs with rice and beans.  I gave him my bread and did not eat the beans so I felt pretty good about it.  Just drank water.

This video is for my friend Hanny, who had been a director at the Senior Center.  I think the first space was her office.

A very special event and so well attended.

Home by 7:30, getting ready to watch the Bills game in their new stadium.

Night all.

 

Samplers

Muggy again and I could feel it.

Another slow start. to the day.  Grabbed a shower and was out in the Studio a little before 10.  Little Wonder was waiting for our guests to arrive.

Anita kept working on her painting from last week

and the rest of the class started on the watercolor sampler.  I showed them mine

and they got started.  First wet on wet....very loose and abstract.

While the sampler's dried, they worked on their flowers and landscapes from the past couple weeks.

Busy Busy and we listened to Chris Wilson's CDs.

I can't wait to see how the samplers are finished.  They can just use paint or add colored pencils, fine marker or......

For several of the students, this was the last class.  A couple will be going to Florida for the winter soon.  5 or 6 will be staying and if there is interest I will add more.

Here is my latest start.  Much bigger.

My friend Alice was here to pick me up before noon as we were going out to lunch.  My first time out and I really made a plan for what I could order.  Picked a chicken salad sandwich on toast with lettuce....had water and stole a couple onion rings from Alice.  Interesting....they are not as bad as French fries.  They gave me chips and pickles but they went home for Gary.

Made a trip to Wegmans for a few things and Gary peeled a ton of apples so I could make more applesauce when I got home.

Took a break and then made dinner.  A Kidney friendly version of Mac and cheese...used Angel hair.  It was very dull and there was enough left for a couple more meals.

Tired.

Night all.

PS

Check out what Scott did to the house today!  Moving right along....

 

Bounty!

47 degrees this morning.  I did not have enough covers on last night and the window was open.  

We were invited to partake of some veggies in a friend's garden so that is the first thing we did this morning.  

Little Wonder went with us.

Talk about bounty...all organic.

On the way home we stopped at Scott's house to see what's been happening.  The entire roof is done.

The sky started to change and I thought we would get more rain, but it did not happen.

Washed all the veggies when we got back and prepared a basket for Jenny.  We picked eggplant, peppers (two varieties), tomatoes, lettuce and some gorgeous carrots.

Did some laundry...changed sheets and took a little time off early afternoon.

At 3 I went out to the Studio and messed around for 2 1/2 hours!  First I had to replace the flowers as they had pooped out.

Then I started working on a sample for tomorrows class.  I continue wanting them to loosen up and this will just be a fun exercise.  We will divide the paper into 4 sections and start applying paint....a little wet on wet.

It may end up looking like something or could be totally abstract.

My favorite is on the top right and I added a beak because it reminded me of a bird.

After much layering....I let them dry and then started mixing up the media.  Left the bird alone, then added colored pencil and ink to the others.  The bottom left drove me nuts as I over painted it

Tomorrow is the 4th class for these students and I will find out how many want to go on for more sessions.  I'm having such a good time!!!!

Still counting by milligrams and am now making a book of meal possibilities.  Tonight we had a grilled turkey burger on a piece of toast topped with peppers and onions along with sauted zucchini with a side of our homemade applesauce (have to make more of that tomorrow).

Night all.