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sharron said:
good morning everyone:frow
today is auction day, also the day son will have his neck operated on, praying the dr does it correctly and son will be ok and have relief:fl:fl:fl
auction might keep mind off of worrying, maybe
:frow
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Oh, let us know how it goes! Praying for him here!

N F C said:
So you're still pretty wet DMC?

We're still waiting to see what our weather is going to do today...supposed to start snowing late afternoon.
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Did you get that wind yesterday? We had limbs off our wonderful, "self-pruning" willows that were more than 6" in diameter and one over 10 feet long being blown off the trees and slamming onto the roof and sides of our trailer! Sounded like Armageddon out there! We have an antique bed with a headboard that is taller than I am against the north wall of the bedroom. The walls of the trailer were smacking against it! Ken said, "Sounds like somebody's having a darned good time in there and it ain't me!" He's been out there all morning picking up limbs and branches.

Neighbor has a wind gauge thingy and Ken said they visited for a bit while stacking limbs and branches. Dennis said that we had a peak gust of 71mph. I went out to get a video, but you can't really hear and see the fury. When I went out to the north side of the house, I had all I could do to hold the iPad and the wind was blowing me off balance, so I shut the iPad down and was just coming up to the deck steps when Ken came out and yelled at me to get inside before I got hit with something. The wheelbarrow that was in the back ended up in the front near the fence! I'm so glad we moved my new van across the street and moved Shrek to a spot between the trees on the north side. Since that's the direction the wind was coming from, everything was blowing away from that side. No precip with it, although Cody and Powell got snow. Today is relatively calm, sunny, and it's already 70 degrees.

I can't remember if I told you or not, but last month Tam needed to find an evening activity for her residents at the Care Center, so she decided that they could easily do "q-tip painting'. It's painting with acrylics and q-tips. So she watched enough You Tube videos to kinda of figure out how to do it, and she got bitten by the painting bug. In one month she's gone from never having painted at all, to q-tip painting, to painting landscapes, and doggone it, she's getting pretty GOOD!! I sent her a photo of a spot up in the mountains and challenged her to paint it. I told her I'd like her to do it a little darker than the photo, so it looked like that time of day when the sun is down but the last little bit of light is still there. Well, when we got home from this trip she brought my painting over. I was stunned! She said it's a little darker than even she wanted, but she was running out of purple! :lau I wonder how old we have to be before our kids stop totally surprising us with hidden talents or abilities! Whooda thunk?? She's certainly been prolific during this past month!
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First ever painting done with q-tips. I did one too, but it ain't up here because the leaves look like Kendra painted them!

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First attempt at a landscape. The grass, bushes and flowers were all done with q-tips.

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First flowers. Background is done with a credit card, flowers with her thumb and pinky.

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She loves this one - it's hanging over her bed now.

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This is the photo I sent her as a challenge.

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She used part of it for starters, then made it her own. The lighting is exactly what I told her I liked.

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I knew she nailed it when I came from the bedroom into the dark living room, and the way she captured that light at the end of the day made the painting pop!
 
Blooie said:
Oh, let us know how it goes! Praying for him here!



Did you get that wind yesterday? We had limbs off our wonderful, "self-pruning" willows that were more than 6" in diameter and one over 10 feet long being blown off the trees and slamming onto the roof and sides of our trailer! Sounded like Armageddon out there! We have an antique bed with a headboard that is taller than I am against the north wall of the bedroom. The walls of the trailer were smacking against it! Ken said, "Sounds like somebody's having a darned good time in there and it ain't me!" He's been out there all morning picking up limbs and branches.

Neighbor has a wind gauge thingy and Ken said they visited for a bit while stacking limbs and branches. Dennis said that we had a peak gust of 71mph. I went out to get a video, but you can't really hear and see the fury. When I went out to the north side of the house, I had all I could do to hold the iPad and the wind was blowing me off balance, so I shut the iPad down and was just coming up to the deck steps when Ken came out and yelled at me to get inside before I got hit with something. The wheelbarrow that was in the back ended up in the front near the fence! I'm so glad we moved my new van across the street and moved Shrek to a spot between the trees on the north side. Since that's the direction the wind was coming from, everything was blowing away from that side. No precip with it, although Cody and Powell got snow. Today is relatively calm, sunny, and it's already 70 degrees.

I can't remember if I told you or not, but last month Tam needed to find an evening activity for her residents at the Care Center, so she decided that they could easily do "q-tip painting'. It's painting with acrylics and q-tips. So she watched enough You Tube videos to kinda of figure out how to do it, and she got bitten by the painting bug. In one month she's gone from never having painted at all, to q-tip painting, to painting landscapes, and doggone it, she's getting pretty GOOD!! I sent her a photo of a spot up in the mountains and challenged her to paint it. I told her I'd like her to do it a little darker than the photo, so it looked like that time of day when the sun is down but the last little bit of light is still there. Well, when we got home from this trip she brought my painting over. I was stunned! She said it's a little darker than even she wanted, but she was running out of purple! :lau I wonder how old we have to be before our kids stop totally surprising us with hidden talents or abilities! Whooda thunk?? She's certainly been prolific during this past month!
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First ever painting done with q-tips. I did one too, but it ain't up here because the leaves look like Kendra painted them!

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First attempt at a landscape. The grass, bushes and flowers were all done with q-tips.

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First flowers. Background is done with a credit card, flowers with her thumb and pinky.

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She loves this one - it's hanging over her bed now.

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This is the photo I sent her as a challenge.

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She used part of it for starters, then made it her own. The lighting is exactly what I told her I liked.

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I knew she nailed it when I came from the bedroom into the dark living room, and the way she captured that light at the end of the day made the painting pop!
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Hey Blooie! Glad y'all didn't catch any damage from that wind! Holy moly!

I gotta say, I think your DD has quite a bit of natural artistic ability! She nailed your challenge, and I also favor the close up flower detail. Nice job Tam!
 
rjohns39 said:
Aww they're just big feathered dogs :love
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True!! I knew someone that had one and he was awesome!! Everyone loved him!! He even brought him to these farm day events they sometimes had, kind of like a farmers market but plenty of animals there too, and he just wandered around and never bothered anybody lol he was awesome! Huge gorgeous white and I think some black tom. Then last year something happened to him. I forget exactly what. I think he got loose or lost or something and got taken by a predator or something like that. :( everyone was sad as everyone loved him and some people even had his babies or siblings. That was a sad day. He was awesome!
 
KDOGG331 said:
I wish I was artistic or musically inclined or anything but sadly I am not. :(
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I read this somewhere and it stuck with me...can't remember the whole poem but this is the jist of it - "Can't is the father of feeble endeavor, the parent of terror and half-hearted work..."

How do you KNOW you have no talents? I didn't know I could knit and crochet until I was 25. I didn't know I could learn to play the banjo until I was 30. Tam is 50 years old and no idea she could paint. So put those negatives in your back pocket and pull out the "I wonder if I could learn that". Look up "Q-tip" painting - it's so easy that Tam learned it in a day and taught 9 seniors (72 years old and up) how to do it in less than an hour, even though not one of them thought they had any talent. Now their paintings are hanging up around the Care Center!
 
Blooie said:
I read this somewhere and it stuck with me...can't remember the whole poem but this is the jist of it - "Can't is the father of feeble endeavor, the parent of terror and half-hearted work..."

How do you KNOW you have no talents? I didn't know I could knit and crochet until I was 25. I didn't know I could learn to play the banjo until I was 30. Tam is 50 years old and no idea she could paint. So put those negatives in your back pocket and pull out the "I wonder if I could learn that". Look up "Q-tip" painting - it's so easy that Tam learned it in a day and taught 9 seniors (72 years old and up) how to do it in less than an hour, even though not one of them thought they had any talent. Now their paintings are hanging up around the Care Center!
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Thank you Blooie!! That certainly makes me feel better!! I just know whenever I used to try to color with crayons or colored pencil it always came out looking terrible and sometimes I broke the crayon because I would push down so hard! But maybe those are way harder than painting!! That q tip painting thing looks really cool!! I think I will have to try that!! To be honest, I have barely put any effort into actually learning stuff and give up after like 2 seconds when I realize I “suck” at it... :oops: did it with knitting, guitar, piano, and drawing. Maybe everybody sucks at first.... I bet if I actually put effort towards it, I might be good at it!! But some people are just naturally good! But I suppose that doesn’t mean I wouldn’t also be good if I tried it!! I think I may have to start actually trying stuff again! I never really try anything new :oops:
 

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