a bakers dozen or.... with 13 you get a coven

and brooms!
let's see
first off some of my art supplies came today!!! yeah!!! the watercolors and the micron pens so i am going to be finishing up that drawing.
i stopped and did a fast color chart with the watercolors....... wow are they saturated color... hugely saturated i am totally amazed.
they are worth what i paid for them
i got pigment stained fingers now
and i also realized i am missing an orange based red.....i would prefer a transparent.
i may just go for an orange we'll see
and a cold blue....... i will probably need either a sap green or hookers green to round things out


i did more research on egg tempera and i would like to get the opportunity to try it..... i don't know how though without spending a shit load of cash on the pigments and muller
it's the muller i am worried about, they cost about 60 bucks
that's a lot of paint i could get just for that price.....
i wonder if i could use some of the techniques with watercolor...after all it's just pigment, bing

tomorrow (which is your today.....so TODAY) i am getting more chickens... a sussex X buff orpington cross..... WOOHOO...... loves me some heavy english breeds.......
i adore the orps but i think the speckled sussex crossed on to the orp will end in EXCELLENT laying ability. and i am so needing eggs....them two pullets i hate are toast....their days are numbered and they are going into the stock pot...... i have spoken!

*** btw, i have to tell you folks, i been answering you all in the comments, so if you make a comment most likely i am answering there...... but i SWEAR lately i am a ditz so don't hold me to it***

bernie is still in a daze from last week, he's glad he's home though. he even missed the chickens....... i came down during the night to stoke the stove but he snored on undisturbed.
and no longer will thaddeaus have to fill in for his daddy and fart on my head...... BERNIE is home to do that now.....and whatever he did eat down there was obviously RANCID CABBAGE
oh man...... even the cat slept elsewhere

calpurrnia has the runs...(since apparently we are discussing 'digestive' issues) so she got her first full and unwanted dose of Fastbalance GI
that stuff works wonders...... 24 hours
she'll get another dose tonight and two tomorrow just for insurance
she's been gifting us with piles all over the place... GREEN ONES
i think she's eating the lemon grass plant
we gave her a second dose tonight and fawn one as well......thaddeaus is ok and doesn't need it.
i think calpurrnia is feeling better and i haven't seen any more green piles around

i made rice pudding again....this one wasn't bad at all .....two eggies some left over rice....milk, sugar and vanilla

i soaked the cooked rice in sweetened vanilla milk
then added the eggs and cooked/stirred over the stove heat
it's creamy and i like it!
it is missing something....i am not sure if it's cinnamon...nutmeg or what. (could be salt too)
but it's the right texture and it's ALMOST right

i just got up from more work on the ducks
i am up at the top now, i'll be finishing off lillianna soon and then the last of the background.
now i want to redo the polar bears and the killer whales.
and speaking of the ducks, momma duck again took a sort of ice bath... lilli wouldn't and she also was thinking of trying to fly down to the day pen, but we had to stop her just in case i can't get her back up from the bottom of the yard.
phoebe was in as was lilli today
tomorrow is phoebe and lilli's turn out i think- falstaff and momma can stay in
momma is an interesting duck.....she loves me as much as i love her but she also has no problem giving me a hard time...... i got duck dilemmas... yup duck dilemmas oh man

now as to the chickens, tomorrow (which is today when you read this) we are going for chickens........ so we'll have babies soon and be in over our heads in eggies in about a month
i love my chickens... next series of pictures i think will be chickens

tomorrow (today) we are also going to have roast turkey and parsley tators and asparagus, i was to have gone to the art supply store today or tomorrow but the time is off for it to happen
oh man... and tomorrow is the last day of the 30% off sale

oh and bernie tried to get the RX that the doctor supposedly called in.....ahem.....she didn't call it in....... oye

ok you all still with me? i still owe you folks some pictures i may just wait for this drawing to be done now...it really is that close to a finish