Not a day at the beach...

This weekend was sure a change from the weekend before. Long gone were the sunny skies and gentle surf at the beach. This weekend we had heavy cloud cover, wind, periods of rain and choppy waters. So not a weekend to spend playing on the beach.


I spent most of Sat. messing around on the computer looking for personal information. I found more than I expected and am now putting the pieces together, trying to make sense of things.


Sunday I played in the studio, finally feeling a spark for Mike's blues collage.
I started painting strips of sheet music, using Golden fluid medium to thin the paint.




And I even got one layer of paint on the aging bathing beauty nude.

I also spent some time rough housing and playing with Isabella to try to keep her mind off the weather in between storm squalls. She loves to chase me through rooms, hide around the corners and wait for me, and then she changes the rules and I have to chase her and hide. I can only keep up with her for so long before I'm wheezing and coughing- right about the time she's just getting warmed up. I bet she and Emmy wish they had younger and healthier humans-LOL


I don't know how much Bella will feel like playing during this coming week.

After an unusually quiet hurricane season, we went from having no named storms to suddenly having 3- Claudette, Ana, and Bill. I listened to the Sat. 11 p.m. weather and at that time, Claudette didn't have a name, she was just a tropical wave. And they said there was very little chance she could turn into a named storm. Just before going to bed about 4 a.m. Sunday morning, I checked the National Hurricane Center and was shocked to see that Claudette had been born. At that time Claudette was moving up the Gulf and was a little south of us. Isabella was freaking, so I gave her a xanax and went to bed. All we were getting was a stiff breeze and heavy clouds.


At the moment, Claudette is moving into the panhandle area where she will dump a lot of rain. Actually Claudette would have been good for my area- we could used the rain. And now we wait to see what Ana and Bill decide to do. The current prediction is that Bill will start to turn north and stay out in the Atlantic. I don't think I'll have to run out and buy hurricane supplies in preparation for Ana and Bill, but hurricane season is far from over. I'm sure I will have to stay close to home for Isabella's sake. She will be sensing all these storm systems- fronts, low and high pressures or whatever the hell it is she reacts to.

(The pink X is my location)


To those of you that made suggestions about the wc paper- yes, I intend to buy a lighter weight of wc paper and trying again. I've also been looking at printers that can take heavier papers and print larger images than the standard paper size. I really don't need a new printer, but I couldn't help looking, dontcha' know? ;)


I hope you all had a great weekend, regardless of the weather.

Peace-

Linda Fleming