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1/31/2013

I had a busy summer! I haven’t gotten into the studio since … I can’t even remember. Was it April? Whew! What exactly, you might ask, have I been doing with myself?? Well… I was trying to earn a living, fix my crummy old house, and play farmer at the same time. Biting off way more than I could chew. Also: I got something like walking pneumonia, my dear aunt and my mother-in-law both died, my father was in the hospital and then in the nursing home, I broke up with my man friend, and injured my knee pretty seriously. And the damn bathroom! It was the project from hell. It’s still not finished, but I decided to can it until spring, so I could go to the studio.

Here’s some of my former herd of goats, and some of the sheep. After I injured my knee, I realized I couldn’t really play farmer and paint and work on the house and earn a living at the same time. Something had to get crossed off the to-do list. I kept a couple of milkers, and some of the sheep. We’ll see if I can handle those and get something else done.

I hope to be posting regularly, at least until summer comes and I’m too busy again. Next week I’ll post some images of what I’m up to in the studio.

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Renovations

1/31/2013

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Here’s me gutting the horrible 1950s era badly-designed and poorly-executed bathroom. A job I probably would have postponed a little while longer had I known how bad it was going to be.

Thanks to Steve Richards for the consulting work (and helping me get the sill replaced in a hurry when the skunks realized they could come right in!) and Glenn Rose for running the jackhammer, which in no way could I have done, and Roger for coming by and helping me with the sheetrock on the ceiling, which I could not have done by myself, either.

Here’s the ginormous black snake that had been living in the walls of the bathroom for years. I hope I didn’t scare her off entirely, but she just wasn’t welcome in the wall anymore.

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