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!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 challeng
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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!
wow, shes got talent for sure
Sorry about the snow, ugh!
