I couldn’t find Pandora when I got home yesterday. I looked everywhere, then looked everywhere again. I finally found her on top of the fridge. Now, back when she was younger, she used to perch on the fridge and every other high surface in the house. She hasn’t done that so much the past few years, as she’s gotten more frail and wobbly. Apparently she’s feeling pretty spry these days, though, because she has claimed Mt. Fridge as her own personal queendom.
gel pen in steno pad
9 x 6 inches
This may look familiar. I’ve been working on it through several staff meetings.
Remember waaaay back in 2001? When Bush took office? When he inherited a $128 billion budget suprlus?
That there are Americans out there who actually want 4-8 more years of this horror is mind boggling. What the hell is wrong with people?!
It was 46F when I got up this morning. Hallelujah!
That is all. As you were, comrades.
While waiting for the painters, I played around with making a pinhole “lens” for my DSLR. The results are not exactly great, but it was kind of fun. The first two were done with a simple round piece of cardboard with a circle punched in the middle, then a piece of aluminum foil taped over the hole. I poked a teeny tiny hole poked in the foil, then taped the piece of cardboard over the front of my camera.
These turned out better than the one below, which was done with an adapted body cap. I melted a hole in it with a hot safety pin (candle + pliers), then covered the hole with a piece of metallic automotive tape that had a smaller hole poked in it. I think the hole in this one was actually too small.
So I enlarged it slightly.
Obviously, this is going to require tinkering.
I stayed home today, onna counta crazy allergies and meds that made me unfit to drive and unable to stay awake. And a good thing, too, because at 9am, the drywall guy showed up to patch the ginormous hole in my bathroom ceiling. And then the painters got here this afternoon.
Now that’s timing!
I figured it’d take a few days, because they’d have to do at least two coats of joint compound and each one would need to dry overnight. Apparently not, though. He said they use a product that’s dry to the touch in 20 minutes and sandable in about 30 (depending on humidity).
And now, I get to call Comcast and try to get them to bring me a new DVR, because this one is acting like it’s smoking crack.
Harriet has the right idea. She’s so out of it that the camera flash didn’t even wake her.
In Progress
collage and acrylic on canvas
38 x 38 inches
The background is getting closer to where I want it. I’m doing a lot of scrubbing to remove extra paint, so the stretcher bars are showing through. I’ll have to fix that. And then, I can finally start working on the tree itself.
I stumbled across this on YouTube and fell in love.
I saw this little guy while I was out with the dog. I liked the way he was perched, and luckily, he was still there when I came back with my camera.
We called these daddy longlegs when I was a kid. They are arachnids, but not spiders. Unlike spiders, which have two clear body segments, the harvestman’s cephalothorax and abdomen appear fused. Also unlike spiders, the have peni. Just FYI.
red paper boat 