The first pic is her onions, I just think there are funny looking. The bottom one is her potato & sunchoke plants. The sunchokes are huge. I have never had one before, looking forward to trying one.
Monday, July 11, 2011
Cool Art
Babies!
My friend Kathy has a yard full of chickens, geese & ducks. Didn't take pics of all of them but did get the babies in the clover. Soooo cute.
See the baby chicks in the clover?
"CLOVER! Yummy"
"Hey you guys stop drinking my pond!"
(there is actually a pond on the property for them to swim in but at this time they are too little to join the big birds.)
Aren't they cute-ness? They kept running away from me though.
4th of July Weekend
Spent the 1st through the third surrounded by a lovely 40 acres of Nevada country at my friend's Kathy & Paul's house. Its simplly gorgeous out there. No matter how hot it gets out there at night you open all the windows and doors and a lovely cool breeze floats through.
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Introspection (?)
Its been a sort of quiet few days...which is just fine. Though I keep having that odd feeling that I should be going or doing something to...."get ready". Get ready for what I am not sure of lol. I am so used to running around (some times like a chicken with its perverbial head cut-off), that to suddenly have it all stop leaves a blank space that I need to fill. I keep having this sense of urgency come over me as if I have to fill-in that space with something & everything...knitting...art...swimming...gardening...games...reading (oh boy am I reading lol). Its like I am trying to build to the stress level that I live in during the school year. Its so strange. I desperately needed a break from that constant intense stress and now here I am trying to build it back up for no other reason then I am used to it. It get so that I am frozen and end up doing nothing at all which is probably what the cosmos is trying to tell me to do...nothing...to just stop. Stop and feel and breathe...breathe.
I did some drawing yesterday but I kept stopping and starting to wander onto the computer or just wander. I want to create....actually I NEED to create. I know that for me it is the one thing that heals me, calms me...completes me. It makes me feel whole, fills me with confindence about who am, what I know like nothing else can. Math makes me feel smart when I conquer it but it is a stress that makes me nervous because of the hard work that goes into it. Teaching reaches me because of the great responsibility I have with helping my kids. But neither of those makes me whole in the way creating does. Those two things are a small pieces of me but art is the whole of me. I have detached myself from it for so very long and its lack in my life has made me ...hmm made me "un-calm" ...distanced from my true self. I am less able to deal with stress and considering the level of stress we have at our school that is actually not a good thing. Not good for me and definately not good for my kids. Makes me short tempered and angry....it especially makes me less grateful and resentful. Not good...not good at all. I do not want to be that angry teacher that kids remember later in life with a shake of thier heads. I do not want to be that kind of person who is alwyas complaining. Its uncomfortable and its stressful.
Getting off the distraction of this computer and going into my studio to create...something...anything. :-)
I did some drawing yesterday but I kept stopping and starting to wander onto the computer or just wander. I want to create....actually I NEED to create. I know that for me it is the one thing that heals me, calms me...completes me. It makes me feel whole, fills me with confindence about who am, what I know like nothing else can. Math makes me feel smart when I conquer it but it is a stress that makes me nervous because of the hard work that goes into it. Teaching reaches me because of the great responsibility I have with helping my kids. But neither of those makes me whole in the way creating does. Those two things are a small pieces of me but art is the whole of me. I have detached myself from it for so very long and its lack in my life has made me ...hmm made me "un-calm" ...distanced from my true self. I am less able to deal with stress and considering the level of stress we have at our school that is actually not a good thing. Not good for me and definately not good for my kids. Makes me short tempered and angry....it especially makes me less grateful and resentful. Not good...not good at all. I do not want to be that angry teacher that kids remember later in life with a shake of thier heads. I do not want to be that kind of person who is alwyas complaining. Its uncomfortable and its stressful.
Getting off the distraction of this computer and going into my studio to create...something...anything. :-)
Sunday, June 26, 2011
June 25th...Geek Joy
What little joys did I have yesterday? Whatched several episodes of Earth 2 (loved that show), knitted and painted a little...and...here comes the geekiness...saw Saturn! HA! The Honey setup the telescope, which is just a small little thing, and at about 9 or so it was dark enough that he found it in the sky. It was really tiny but we could make out the rings! It was waaaayyyyyyy cool. It was pretty small in our telescope, one because our telescope is not powerful and two it is 1.2 billion kilometers away from Earth. We tried to see if we could get a pic of it through the telescope lens but that did not work. I fould a picture of what we kind of saw on the Theory of Everything Blog. What we saw was a little fuzzier but still this is close to it.
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Cool right? I could tell that The Honey was happy...How? Well he kept saying "I saw Saturn". *grin*
Friday, June 24, 2011
A Challenge.
Just read an article on "Take Part" about a family that is swearing supermarkets for a year. They created a blog and I am intrigued about what they are doing but especially by how they are doing it. Their blog is called "The Hippest Housewife". Check it out.
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