Trying to relax like a cat during a hot summer.

It has been a lazy, hot, dry summer. The type of summer when it is too hot to go to the beach. Instead, it is a summer for hiding in one's home. It does not matter if the home has AC. Just to be home with a good book is needed to help forget about the severe drought that were are experiencing.  My gardens are looking very poorly and our trees are suffering.

JWD

Lay Out Pictures

After almost two years of being a member of the Newburyport Art Association, I decide to go to my uncomfort zone and enter a show.

The process was not easy. I learnt to be careful of glass edges while  I cut five fingers and bled onto a few mats. 

I frames two pictures, and then read the NAA rules and realized that I had the wrong type of fames. Bought new frames, along with small D ring, and picture wire.

Play with Frames

Narrow Down  Options

Practiced my choices of signatures, and signed the final two selections





Take a few more breaths. Proceed to clean frames, glass, etcc. Tighten up the back and go celebrate on another new adventure to retirement.

Blood Red Maple

Reflections From A Rose

Job Well Done.  JWD......Update -Reflections did not get hung, too many entries but, I gave it Ginny a great women of advanced age who did a great kindness to me.

My Funny Valentine ...its all about me

Our clu

Photos I Love

The Cats Meow

Meow.  When did I ever say that I listen to what I tell  other people?

Live life in its fullest.  

Haven't, I always said that. How many times did I say that. Thousands of times. Over and over. Millions times.

When, did I stop listening to myself? Did it happen during the ten year period before I retired  when I was forced to work government temp jobs. Jobs from hell each of them. Rude bosses, lots of yelling and screaming, learning new jobs, new policies, and new people. Boy, it was really the pits. But, I don't think that is the time I started to unlisten to myself.

What it The Change of Life??
That fun time of feeling like your body was totally out of control, you know what comes next. The feeling that you are totally out of your mind. I did talk to myself alot during those lovely years. 

Was it being in pretty much constant pain and muscle spasms? Think you are getting closer. I don't like to dwell on this subject. No one knows what it is like when your entire body, section by section is destroying its functions ... like... walking, sitting, standing ...that's a bad one and sleeping....oh yes that is a good one. 

It is depressing when you are out with a friend and you knee stops working like it alway has. It is painful. It is sad.  It is a huge challenge to even the most optimistic people. To put it bluntly, it is a HuGe  Deal!!! It is a deal breaker, a nut cracker, a  strike to inner self.  

Stress Reduction with Hummingbirds Early in the Morning

I have added a new morning routine to my morning. After watching the am news, I take my second cup of coffee out onto our deck. Damn the bugs, mosquitoes, and green heads and full speed ahead. I need to spend my morning time with my hummingbirds.
Faster than a speeding bullet. Flying around my head. These tiny creatures fight for the golden nectar in my hummingbird feeder.
The young males chase away their sisters and harass  the girls nonstop. It is a male thing.
They learn at an early age that their sex is  all powerful and to be obeyed. At times they are cruel, unrelentless, and just plain mean.
Their sex only mates with the females and then their life's work is done. Off to play they go.
They do not help the females raise the babies.
The females make a nest out of small leaves and ties it together with spider's webs.

They are truly nature's miracle. They lay tiny, tiny eggs and raise the babies alone.

Home is Where My Heart Is