Craft Project and Campfires.....Monday and Tuesday

I started a craft project Monday afternoon that I have been thinking about for weeks now.

Back in November I bought this canvas room divider at Goodwill for under $5.

It was really pretty and in great shape but I don't live anywhere near the beach.

I had thought I would Kiltz and then paint on it since it is stretched canvas.

But then I had a better faster idea!

I do love chickens and my friend, Brenda, has gifted me with a Lang calendar every year for the past 12 years. I have kept them all and used a good many of them to decoupage all sorts of things in the camper.

I did one panel last night.

I took this photo before I had even glued on the small strips to cover the canvas.

Our movie yesterday didn't hold Louis Dean's attention as well as some we have watched but I liked it. Amber and I saw this together back in 2015 when it first came out.

I still need to buy a Joy mop!! Amber says they have them at Target.

Late yesterday afternoon, Louis Dean and I went out to sit on the porch and watch the campfire.

I had picked up two wicker chairs a few years ago that I found on the curb.

They were old then but we still got a good bit of use out of them.

However, Louis Dean sat down in one and it fell through!

He warned me to be careful when I sat down in mine - and I was - and it still fell through.

Neither one of us need to take any chances on falling through a chair so we decided to burn them.

That's what country people do. They burn their paper trash and burnables. We take the glass, cans and recycle things back home with us.

Sherry came down to visit a little while after she got off work - she works from an office in her home.

She left to go do the critter chores and then Dean stopped by on his way in from teaching Karate so we had nice visits with both of them. We tend to go to bed much earlier than we usually do when we are at home. We don't seem to get up any earlier, though!

Today has been rather cloudy and cold so we stayed inside pretty much all day.

I did some writing and then I started back on my craft project.

I had to do the rest of it out in the front room and by the time I finished it was hard to get a good picture of it. I need to paint the edges with craft paint and I will do that next week.

Plus I still have the back sides of the divider to do.

I used a quart of Modge Podge!

I used most of my chicken calendar pages so I'm thinking I will do a wine theme on the other side and who knows what else!

Louis Dean built us another good campfire tonight.

I can sit and gaze into the flames and think of absolutely nothing.

That's amazing to me. I have a hard time not thinking and yet when I am looking at the fire, I can't even make myself think of stuff. I love that!

Louis Dean bundled up like an Indian - which he is. 

He is a member of the Northern Cherokee roll in Clinton, Missouri.

Tomorrow we are going to Waco to meet Crazy Horse Family Elder and author William Matson.

Here's the information on the event.....

Crazy Horse Family Elder Floyd Clown Sr joins Author William Matson to discuss and sign their book "Crazy Horse: The Lakota Warrior's Life and Legacy" based on the family's oral history. The photo is of Crazy Horse's first cousin Touch the Cloud. He was called Touch the Cloud because he was around seven feet tall.

We have so enjoyed being down here at the ranch.

Tomorrow I will wind up a few things, vacuum and clean the refrigerators - we have three!

2 small ones and one big one. We aren't taking much more than the laundry, books, our medicines and an insulated bag of perishables home with us because we are only going to be away for the weekend.

We will be here at the ranch for the rest of January and go home for a few weeks the first of February.

When we come back, I'm going to start doing some art and some gardening.

I'm hoping to grow a few vegetables and a small herb garden. I miss having mint, rosemary and my other herbs to use in cooking and teas. It's going to be a trick to keep things growing in both places but I'm going to give it a try.

I've been sitting here typing by the front room window so I can still watch the fire.

It's all played out now and so I'm thinking it's time to close things up and go to bed.

Seems I spend a lot of time in bed when we are here.

It's a good place to read, write in my Country Diary, and pray.

It's 8:15 and I just realized I didn't fix anything for supper.

OOPS!

Guess we will raid the refrigerator and then go to bed!!