AEDM-Day 22

I am away from home visiting at my sister's house. She suffered a TIA earlier this week and is in the hospital. Her husband called yesterday to let me know what had happened and that things looked quite good. She is fine and has no residual effects from the incident. They are doing lots of tests and have prescribed a blood thinner and a low dose cholesterol medicine.

Of course, when I found out, as soon as SIL was picked up, I packed a bag and drove over here. It takes about two hours and it wasn't a bad drive since I knew she was alright. When I got to her house I packed up the cribbage board, the Yahtzee dice, and the Scrabble game. We visited and played games until around 10 pm and then I came back here to her house to sleep.

I think I will probably go home later today as she is expecting to be released and I have tutoring to do tomorrow and Tuesday. Meanwhile, when I got back to her house last evening, I drew a kingfisher so that I would have something to post this morning. It is not my best drawing, nor is it my best photograph. Also I don't have photoshop or anything like that on this computer, so I don't know just how this is going to go. I am not totally pleased with this drawing. I think his head is supposed to be wider and more square, but it is what it is.

I used Preview which comes standard with this MacBook and am surprised to find that this version allows you to make adjustments including size. It is true you do learn something new everyday.

That is all I have for now. I will see you tomorrow.

Vicki

Lovin' Monday Morning

Before I retired, I was a secondary mathematics teacher and Monday was my favorite day. No matter what had transpired the week before, it always felt like a new beginning. Now quite often I don't know what day it is, and that is a good feeling too.

I worked a bit more on my "hands" collage last evening. The new parts are not glued down yet and as a matter of fact after taking the picture below I added some round flat wood letters that spell hand in a vertical arrangement along the lower right. I am not sure yet where this is going, but will let it happen later today when I sit to contemplate it.


Most of yesterday was spent rearranging my art room. I moved the wireless printer all the way to the other end of the house in my walk in closet. I have a long counter in there when that used to be my sewing center and I have a small bookcase in there where I took my assortment of printer paper - photo paper, business card blanks, labels, overhead acetates.....

I also took an old table out of the closet portion of my space and moved my work table in there. Now I am not tripping over it. I am hoping to get things organized enough that like things are in the same area so I do not have to do a major search to find things for a project.

I found a couple of things at Treasure Mart when I was there with Nancy on Thursday last week, mostly old buttons, but I did get a metal "umbrella stand" with butterflies stuck on it at a garage sale on the way there. By the time I got home and started cleaning my art space, I decided it wasn't an umbrella stand at all. It was a paper holder. Don't you just love multipurpose accessories??


Last evening when the hubster was making dinner he called to me to tell me that the kingfisher was in the tulip tree outside the kitchen window. It was 90º + so the house was shut up and the AC on, so I had to do my best through a window with a screen on it. I am quite certain that if he heard me sneaking up outside, he would have been long gone. No matter - his profile cannot be mistaken for any other kind of bird.


Gotta go....see you soon!