IT'S SATURDAY AND THE SUN IS SHINING...

 Last night as the sun went down...

 TRULY INCREDIBLE!

Almost unbelievable!

 These are

 photos of our studio,

after we tore up the carpet and put down layers of felt.

 This is the flooring that

is going down.

We are hoping to finish in about 2 more days.

Especially me,

because I have a portion of cruddy

art supplies downstairs on the kitchen

table. 

Which I will need to cart back upstairs when we are through

with this project.

THIS

is why I haven't posted anything.

 Here is our fox...

well,

not ours.

He has been hanging around our house for a couple of weeks now.

He must have a den near by...

or 

she?

 And these guys have practically taken over

the neighborhood these last couple of years.

 I should mention here;

we live on 4 1/2 acres.

So officially most might say...

this really is "their" neighborhood.

Last night our nearest neighbors dog

got into a fight with one or more at midnight.

They had to take him in for emergency surgery.

They really have not been so cute I say.

They have become so brazen,

they scratch at our front door as if they'd like to come in and browse around.

Only took one time,

that I opened the door thinking it was our cat.

And there stood a raccoon standing straight up,

growling.

Ai yi yi

I had just started a class

of 

Misty Mawn's

Immigrants.

So I was only able to do one painting, boo hoo.

(Before we started tearing the rest of our house apart.

We have been remodeling upstairs for a year now.)

It has been bitter sweet looking up so many photos on the subject.

Then I started looking up photos

during the depression years, here in the states.

It has made me feel more than fortunate to have

been born after this time in history.

Have you taken a class lately?

This one is quite wonderful and affordable!