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Picking up where I left off

1/31/2013

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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. 
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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.
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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.
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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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    Jennifer Cox is an artist working in Rockbridge County, VA. She shows her work regionally, sometimes nationally, but not that often. She works in virtual isolation, so if you want to leave a comment, please do! Just try to be kind.

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