it's april huh?
soon to be may?
i am starting to really lean towards making my own paints from ground pigments.......i am thinking that with an investment in pigments, i can make watercolors, oils, pastels, and egg tempera.
make sense???
now explain to bernie how i need to find storage for a whole 'nudder bunch of art supplies................?
anyway i have been dangerously close to ordering pigments.......lots and lots of pigments....with the rational that it would save money over the long term... ahem..... (but i just HAVE to have that cobalt blue you know.........) anyway it's better to walk away for a bit..
i flipped that shelf unit over yesterday, and yes it will do what i want it to do......bernie has resigned himself to it as well.
i may also have to add to it and make something else.........
i think he is trying hard to stem the tide of work coming out of the studio.... cause that means even more stuff (like storage for finished work etc)
knitting updates: i am almost done with the second repeat on the leg of the first sock, i am knitting very slow because my arm is hurting so much..but it is an enjoyable knit....i love this yarn from spirit trail (sunna)
MDSW: we most likely aren't going. that would delay the garden by another week....... as bernie won't do anything sunday..... (he'll be too tired)
shoulder: still hurts, aches, burns......all the way down my arm into my hand and fingers so there is some impingement going on i am pretty sure
duckies: momma is laying, lilli is bitchy, phoebe......well phoebe is content to play in her water bucket (sorta like calpurrnia with a leaf in the corner)
cats: thaddeaus is taken to sitting on a pillow behind my chair so he won't be tempted to jump on the budgies...he doesn't like the results when he does that- fawn has taken to sitting ON my drafting chair while i draw.....and of course calpurrnia is calpurrnia....... and the only one who comes to bed when the woodstove is on...thaddeaus and fawn tend to stay and worship the woodstove (you didn't know that the woodstove was a deity did you?.........now you know)
chickens: new baby pullets are getting big, but not laying yet.....soon though very soon (i can't wait)
budgies: ok mrs fezziwig is mature now.....her cere is a brownish tan and captain cuttle's is a nice bright blue..... maybe babies? they fight a lot though. the easter budgies are not named yet.... i don't know for sure if the little bluish one is male or female...... and they have one more month of quarantine to go- which allows me another month to figure out where they will go in the studio to get everyone used to each other (although i am seriously thinking of bringing them down and putting them on the other side)
i have them a kabob toy to chew but so far they are acting like it's a budgie eating kabob..... such is life with budgies
did i miss anything?
i am going to get another cup of coffee, as it isn't too bad this morning, and i am not too awake this morning
anyone care to join me?
Our April is similar. Yesterday it was 75 and very windy, today it was closer to 40, and they are predicting snow tonight. I keep thinking if we can get past this storm, I can plant, and then another storm comes along.
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