Tuesday and Wednesday......Allergies, Reading and Art....

Our electrical problem is still a mystery.

While we have water now in the camper and front room - the pump, AC, and a string of five ceiling lights plus the vent hood and light are still not working.

Dean (my step-son) thinks there was a power surge while we were gone and it knocked out the controls on the AC and the converter on the camper - which I don't understand enough to explain but it makes sense.

I have been ill with allergies to the point that I have done nothing along the lines of housekeeping or doing more than the minimal amount of meal preparations.

Tuesday I finished this Santa scene.....

This is a small painting - a 9x12 - and I think it will be easy to make it this year's Christmas card.

Then I started on a batch of glass Christmas ornaments.

It's been years since I painted some.

Long years ago I used to paint these by the dozens.

I still have several boxes full of glass balls so I am painting them all up for this Christmas.

It's a three part process......first the background color.....then the design....and lastly the details.

Sherry and I attended our October bee meeting and it was a good one....informative and interesting.

People liked the bee paintings I had for door prizes.

Sherry and I went out to eat after wards at El Quistador and enjoyed that but by the time we were back at the ranch I was not feeling well. Maybe it was the night air or allergies or whatever but I came in, went through all the rituals - netti pot, nose spray, Vick's and hot tea - and went right to bed. 

Alas, at 2:30 I was coughing so much Louis Dean came in and made me a hot toddy of lemon juice, honey and whiskey. That did the trick and I slept until 10:00 this morning.

The dream, though, were not good. still chaos and confusion.

I would wake up and go right back to the dream.

It felt like I made a decision to wake up and stop this dream process this morning.

(But later in the day I took a nap and picked up right where I left off on this troublesome dream.)

Louis Dean was up really late last night working on his music notebooks.

He is organizing them and making a lot of progress.

That's why he was up and getting a hot toddy for me.

 

I made us a satisfying breakfast (about noon) of toast, avocado, and sliced boiled eggs with cottage cheese and more avocado and some cantaloupe.

Then all that I did after that - this whole entire day -was read and paint.

Once the oils have dried up so much you can't really work with them - you just have to throw them away.......

except I used some turpentine to thin them out and based in some more Christmas ornaments.

Then I laid a fresh palette with my all new set of paint.

So many clever ideas for Christmas ornaments of Pinterest!

Still need to add details to 8 of these and the other four will need to dry before I can paint the red trucks and such on them.

Tomorrow I will will go back to the Christmas canvasses.

I called Don - the master electrician - yesterday and he is supposed to come out sometime tomorrow.

I have an update on Linda's daughter and grand baby.

No details but they have both been released from the hospitals and are recuperating at Linda's.

I think they are expecting full recoveries.

In other news - Amber is back from her trip to Nashville!

She looks like a rock star and had such a good time!

Summer is not doing well and may not be able to get down here to celebrate her birthday.

She has an appointment early in November to set out her next step.

I hope I have made some sense of this journal entry tonight.

While I have not even been down to see the critters yet - I did get to see Rufus tonight.

From Facebook....

"My sweet grand dog, Rufus! He came down tonight for a visit and he was in for a treat! Remember the steak dinner at Sherry Schick Adams-Morin back a few weeks ago? We save the t bones from the steaks that night and I have kept them in the freezer until we got down here to the ranch. Rufus is loving one now and I think I hit the jackpot of being the best grandma to a sweet Rufus!!!"

That's it for tonight.

Hope you all have a lovely night's sleep and wake up with plenty of energy for tomorrow!!