Finally, I am invited!

I have been waiting for a couple of months to be invited to a knitting and crocheting users site named ravelry.com. You can keep track of your projects, yarns, needles, find or share patterns, chat in forums, get inspired...just what all creative people need! I can't wait to snoop around and take a tour. Already found a few ideas I would like to try. By the way, thanks for helping me with my recent projects mom!

A Few Laughs for Monday Night!

This video cracks me up. I can't wait to hear my granddaughter laugh like this! Turn off the music in the sidebar. While you're at it, look at some of the other hilarious laughter clips!

More Work for the Weary

Soooo...still painting outside. Hmmm...this is getting old. Painted the entryway, which is board after board of windbreak, it's a cool thing and very efficient, but a pain to paint. I'll never get to the studio at this rate..as it calls, or should I say "screams" to me. So here's an oldie and favorite, that I have never posted on this blog.

Belgian, and I don't mean 'waffles'

(Check out the other blog from today to see before and after photos)
If you are an artist (photographers included), you know what I am about to say is what you also notice, as you go through your day-to-day life. Like the other night..I was driving back from town at about sunset and the full moon was already out and it sat right straight over the road as I traveled east. The sky was pink on top and blue near the horizon. Ah, wish you were here! Then there was the field of fading sunflowers as they drooped, heavy with their seeds and stems and leaves curling and dying. The pheasant as she squawked and lifted in flight over the milo field. The pumpkin as it lay in the patch, wilting away, sinking in and shriveling to waste. The large fat brown spider as it spun it's marvelous web in the afternoon sun, on the west side of the house, a perfect pattern only to be gone in a few days leaving me wondering, what happened? The rolling hills with fields of a myriad of fall colors and textures as they become home to one process or another, either disked, harvested, left for fallow, or ready to be harvested. The way the sun catches the greens and yellows turning them to gold! And most of all, the Belgian horses that live in a field that I often pass. They played 'hard to get' at first, but when I decided "Fine, I'll take some pictures of the cows across the road instead!", they quickly trotted over to the fence as if to say, "Oh take our picture, too!" and my camera had a 'hay day'! I plan to do some large drawings/paintings of these two, they are too cool! Yes, everyday is filled with sights that take me to new depths of thought and possibilities. Wish you were here!

Re-Siding Project is DONE!!

Hallelujah! We are done with the north side of this house! Break out the champagne and noisemakers, wooo hooo! As you can see it made a big difference in the looks of our little farmstead house, old look at the top and new look at the bottom. I guess the lady we bought it from was in the area the other day and came by and sat in the driveway, most likely to "ooo and ahh", you see very few abodes around here - taken to this level of "curb appeal". Leave it to the 'Big City Kids' or we guess they sometimes have referred to us as 'greenies'. Not so much anymore. The original photo was taken about 14 months ago. The only thing not on the house yet is the new dark brown storm door. If you view the new look in larger size you can see that the big tree on the left is still trying to "come back", it was devastated by the May storm/tornado. We are working on the south side painting and we will be done with the outside of the house for now. And just in time, G. fell off the ladder yesterday, hurt his shoulder, but is OK, very sore.

Back from KC

As some of you know, this is my favorite time of year. I had a nice visit in KC and on the way out, I thought I would take a photo or two of this house that is down the street from my parents. They decorate it with life size ghouls and goblins. My dad said he can imagine little kids might not want to walk that way to school. (They are probably bussed anyway, the schools are too far away.) But at night there is more, the windows are lit up and ghosts and skeletons are flying in them, you can kinda see that if you select the photo to enlarge it. There was steam coming off of the "dummies" but my photo doesn't show that. Gave it an eerie feeling, even in the daytime.
Stay tuned, the re-siding is done and before and after pics will be posted tomorrow night. Yeah! Now on to the south side - to be done!!
BTW - we gave up on Hughesnet, and have gone with ruraltel. It's Lightning FAAASST!

Hangin' with my Peeps

Hello from KC, been here for a few days to be with my dad who celebrated his 82nd birthday. Having a good visit spending time with my mom, dad, brother and sister-in-law. Pickin' up a few things/materials that I can't get at home, like a true prairie resident; have to go to the big city for supplies sometimes! Hmmm..I think I hear thunder. Weather is changing. Go Broncos, go Chiefs (but go Broncos! when they play each other) and cross your fingers for Rockies! Check back on Thursday for photos! Will have some true "before and after" photos of the homestead when I get back, as I hear the north side is DONE!! Getting ready to take another class with Kaye Franklin, oil and pastel artist from Texas for 4 days. I learned a lot from her last year and hope to glean more from her this year, too!