4-9-2020 Kitty and Fall Leaves

7/4/2006 > 4/7/2020

4-8-2020 Hope and Carrots

4-7-2020 Rainbow Bridge

Barucha died today.

Average life of an indoor housecoat is 12-14 years.

She is/was 14 years old.

Had not eaten for 3 weeks.

Was skin and bones.

Labored breathing.

Incontinent.

Suffering.

Now her suffering is ended.

She spent her last day on earth outside in the sunshine.

We buried her in our yard

after a small ceremony with my daughter and granddaughters.

The granddaughters have know her their entire lives

and I am so glad they came over to say 'goodbye'

and help lay her to rest.

They had painted some rocks a while back

and we put those on the kitty's burial spot as a gravestone.

As my daughter and granddaughters returned home

they saw a faint rainbow in the sky

and knew that kitty had passed safely over the rainbow bridge to heaven.

Tonight is the April Full Moon...

the Pink SUPER Moon...

a time for releasing...

kitty to kitty heaven.

4-6-2020 Tropical Florals and Butterfly Wings

Still practicing florals...

these are supposed to be tropical flowers.

I seriously need a new #2 round paintbrush...this one is smashed!

I had to 'label' the flowers so you can tell what

they are 'supposed' to be! ha.

Butterfly Wings

4-5-2020 Critters

Our kitty Barucha

who stopped eating 2 weeks ago...

She is 14 years old.

A snake seen on my morning walk...

a reminder to shed my old skins when they no longer serve me

because of my growth...

Fuzzbert is a woolyworm that J found last week

and she wanted to make it a home.

We found a plastic container and she filled it with rocks, sticks, and greens.

Now, several days later, it is cocooning!

4-4-2020 Potentilla and Daffodil

Potentilla...

My very first Spring bloom...

4-3-2020 Butterfly

4-2-2020 Pearls and a Rose

Tried painting some pearls

for this month's "Let's Make Art Matter"...

Finished the next patch...

Arne and Carlos's variation of a

traditional Norwegian Eight Petal Rose...

now that I look at the photo

I see a mistake!

Argh!

I hate it when that happens!

4-1-2020 Crayon Box

I love this company!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yHzzKAGkT4

3-31-2020 The Blues

3-30-2020 Quarantine MKAL Progress

3-29-2020 Dear Diary

"Painting is just another way of keeping a diary."

~Pablo Picasso

My painting on day 14 of self-isolation

during the Covid-19 pandemic...

This is an ATC

(Artist Trading Card...2.5x3.5").

Yes, they're a thing.

I've learned about them 

since I started painting in Nov.2019

Starting to add form to my journal painting...

Calling it finished!

Time to move on to may next painting...

an octopus!

It's a Sunday morning.

Normally I would be in church.

Now church is being done over the internet for a while.

Very weird!!!

3-28-2020 Day 14 of Quarantine

...and we're looking at several more weeks

in our area...

MKAL progress...

3-27-2020 Quarantine MKAL - Golden Pothos

Living Air Purifiers

Golden Pothos

3-26-2020 Quarantine MKAL Progress - Hippy Flower from the 60's

I am participating (along with 7,000+ others across the globe)

in the Arne and Carlos "Quarantine MKAL"

https://arnecarlos.com/the-arne-carlos-quarantine-knit-along-pattern/

and have been doing my small

patch a day.

Here's the latest...Hippy Flower...
imagine this painted on the side of a Volkswagen bus...

I'm using the yarns left over from this baby blanket

I made last month.

3-25-2020 SOOOOOOO Happy!!!!

I am sooooooooo happy

to see this card in the mail,

these flags in my backyard,

and these trucks from Metro-net fiberoptics

in my neighborhood!!!

We only have Mediacom available in our neighborhood

and they...suck!!!

Even tho we pay for the fastest download speeds available

from them (X-stream)...

our download speeds are SUPER SLOW.

Everything buffers.

WWW pages take ages to load.

Mediacom had awful NO customer service.

So I'm super excited to see some competition 

coming into the area to offer us a different choice~

3-24-2020 Happy Anniversary!

Happy 46th Anniversary 

to my dear sweet high school sweetheart

and the love of my life!

We usually go out to eat to celebrate

our anniversary

but thanks to the corona virus (Covid19) 

all the restaurants doing ONLY take-out (NO dine-in)

so, we called up our usual 'anniversary' restaurant

and got some take out.

We had to call to place our order,

they told us when the order would be ready,

then we had to drive to the restaurant,

park in front, and call them on the phone again

to let them know that we were there.

Someone from inside brought out the order

and placed it on the sidewalk.

After he returned into the restaurant,

we were allowed to exit our car

to pick up our order from the sidewalk.

Also, my husband told me that

there are clear plastic shields/windows

between customers and clerks

at the grocery stores and at the post office now.

When will this end???

Anyway, happy anniversary, my dear! 

Glad I have you to share this crazy life with!

And thank you, J & E, for your happy anniversary card and wishes!