Deanie Days and Country Days.....

My sister started the 'Deanie Days' back when she was struggling so hard with her health.
Thankfully she doesn't have to take as many of them as she did back then.
Now all of us call a day when we more or less stay in bed and barely have the energy to do what's absolutely necessary a 'Deanie Day!' And I have had two in a row!

Late yesterday (Thursday) afternoon, I came out of the camper where I had been holed up all day  in the Girl Bunk - which, by the way, Deanie also has a Girl Bunk - napping, reading and playing Scrabble and Words With Friends.

The horses were out there in the front yard and I fed them some celery stalks.

They are so beautiful and are letting me pet them more and more - even when I don't have food for them.

This is the boy horse and his eyes are blue and look kind of spooky but he's actually very gentle.

My attempt to show you how things are set up out here.

The shop is the white building behind where Louis Dean is building our utility room.

Once we get things done, we will paint the camper white to go with the new additions.

Also, after the Bee Keeper comes on Monday evening to take the bees, we will need to put up new walls as he will have to pull that one off to get to the huge hive inside.

I call this our front yard!!

Across the fence line is Mr. Jackson's cows.

Next week I'm starting a landscape of cows, pasture and will add a couple of big trees because that's what you can do when you paint!

Since my art was already out, I set down at the table and worked for an hour or two.

Painting is something I can do no matter how I feel.

It can even take my mind off of aches and pains.

It's a wonderful thing to be able to lose yourself in something.

Art and reading do that for me.

I went to bed at 8:00 last night. as in lights out and everything.

I just didn't think I could push myself one more inch.

I am chalking this extreme fatigue to a very low thyroid.....even though I do not actually have a thyroid gland. I had thyroid cancer 29 years ago and have been on medication ever since.

Once the new dose starts to kick in, I'm pretty sure I will get some of my energy back.

But not yet. I'm glad to be here and not at home where I would see so many things I need to do and places I need to go and people I need to see.

It was 10:30 when I woke up this morning.

I thought I was going to be more 'normal' but that didn't last long.

We read and had coffee and then I went back to bed and back to sleep.

Once again, it was late afternoon - 6:00 - when I came out here to the front room and started art again.

The Paris Texas Eiffel Tower is done.

I will continue to look at it for a few days and then if I'm still satisfied with it -

I'll glaze it, let it dry and it will be ready to give to my former sister in law, Sherry.

I think Summer and I are going to take a day trip up to Paris, Texas to deliver it to her.

Then we can see the Paris, Texas Eiffel Tower in person.

I finished Buddy this evening.

This is painted on fabric that is a reproduction of a feed sack.

They were popular back in the 80's and they were printed with the purpose of painting on them.

I'm a pack rat and have had them for years and years.

I eventually get around to using my arts and crafts supplies or I finally donate them.

The old license plate is hanging in the front room.

I also pretty much finished this piece.

While still not my favorite style, I like it a whole lot better than I did!

Sabrina painted one like this in art class back in 2002 and she wants me to paint a companion piece for the guest room there in Puerto Rico. 

I packed up the art table tonight so I can do some denim whacking tomorrow.

Plus I want to do some housekeeping out here.

It's not easy to keep house while you are still under construction!

I built the campfire tonight.

It is one of the most relaxing things in all the world - just to pull up your chair and gaze into the flames. Louis Dean told me the fire is nearly out. I'm writing at the table in the front room so I can still see it. Now it's time to go out and do a last sit and watch as it dies down.

Louis Dean has been getting a lot of things down!

There is one wall UP in the utility room now.

Since I have been lying low, it's been a good thing for him to have things to stay busy with.

His beloved Ellen passed away after a long illness so anytime I get the least bit down - he worries.

Sitting and chatting together before we go to bed is the best thing we can do to make sure we sleep well.