"And it came to pass.....", Yellow Meated Watermelon, and Art! Our Country Wednesday....

I have always loved this verse - actually these MANY verses in the Bible that says.....

"And it came to pass...."

I am so grateful that it doesn't come to STAY!

Louis Dean woke me up at 9:00 to tell me he was going into Waco to buy a tool he needed.

He is trying to blame it on the Great Pyrenees pups - and they do tend to take off with just about anything if you leave it laying around. But it's more likely that he set it down some place and can't find it now. So it was nearly noon by the time we had our reading this morning.

He brought me flowers!

My favorite!

Pulled up by the roots at the side of a country road because he left his pocket knife here.

Better than flowers from a florist!

In return, I fixed him an open faced roast beef sandwich on toast with a side of potato salad.

Since I am celebrating 'Christmas in July' - I served his lunch on a Christmas plate!

He went out to work on the bathroom - he's put a wall up between the shower and the sink and put in a shelf up at the top of the shower to hold his toiletries.

I wrote some more on my book.

Just plugging along at it.

I'm always reading a book and as I was reading today, I noticed how many words are used to describe a simple scene. I suppose writing a novel is a far different thing from telling your story. Or maybe not. I need to join a writer's group. The author I met in Galveston highly recommended I do that. But I am a bit reluctant to have another 'thing' to do. We'll see.

For our afternoon snack - I cut open the watermelon.

It is such a pretty color.

Yellowish orange. I have had some in the past that were flat out plain yellow.

This one is delicious! And it was a HEAVY thing!

Louis Dean took the rinds down to the critters this evening along with a bag of table scraps.

It feels good to know that nothing is wasted here.

I've painted off and on all day.

The front room is warm but not unbearably hot.

This is going to be my Christmas giveaway this year.

It's a 9X12 reclaimed canvas. I had painted peaches on it long years ago and used Easy Off Oven Spray to remove the oil paint, put a coat of Gesso on it and it was ready to paint on.

It doesn't look like much at this point but next week I will start pushing paint around until the details start to show. It is a process. Oil dries so slowly and that's why I work on several paintings at the same time.

Remember that awful Santa I could NOT redeem???

Well, I redeemed the canvas!

And I thought it was fitting to paint something fun on it!

My friend, Christi sent me the link to this amazing artist.

Don't you know that gal is as fun as she is talented??

Our day is done here.

We burned our paper and Louis Dean used that to start our campfire.

Fresh from our showers - I LOVE that we can use the shower now - and ready for a glass of wine and some stargazing.

Goodnight from the country!!