We Made it!!!!

Guillemot Cove hike

Fishies

We're working on koi windsocks. This was the first half..getting to paint two body halves. Next session they'll be sewn together and the kids will need to put the details on...fabric markers...eyes, fins, scales, etc.

future living space:

This is sideways, but to the left is the 3 car garage..I'll get a stall and some shop/storage area so in the middle on the upper side are the stairs to the rest of the place and to the right of the stairs through to the heavy double lines on the right is an area labeled "rec room". It's nearly a thousand square feet of space and I KNOW I can live with that! I'm already downsized to a bed and dresser, some household goods, clothes, sewing stuff, ukulele building tools, a computer and printer, and some paints. I guess I'll need a couch and chair and table, washer, dryer, stove, kitchen sink, bathroom sink..but I'm not sweating it..all in good time. If it were partly finished now, I'd just move the bed in and call it good!

Oxide workshop with Colleen Gallagher

Not that our finished product would look anything like this, but this cobalt blue piece is a small speck of the work this woman has done in this style. I found it very challenging, and intricate. The process is worked the direct opposite to the way I think! You wax the white places so they don't receive any color, you wash areas from lightest to darkest, waxing over each layer. When you think you are at the last and darkest, you incise your lines and cover them with your darkest value. Right now all of us in the workshop have clay pieces that look like they are covered in green wax..and that's because they are! After firing, we will see what we have! Thanks to people who have talent and are willing to teach what they know!! It's a gift; a treasure!

Black Bamboo

Our paperwork for the new place is nearly complete..the design and engineered drawings are also done. Next is the permitting..and always there is paperwork. I need to do a living trust..and we'll be happy to be clearing some ground in August or thereabouts. after that we'll worry about getting things situated before the weather is wet and cold again. I believe that if it's right for us, things will work out..with the challenges and everything.

I hope to plant some black bamboo someplace. Need to find out if it runs......or stays put in clumps.

Hawaiian Petroglyphs

I forgot how difficult it could be to find some sand here..there was some in the yard..I had to sift for it, though. We tried it on rocks too..but the sand is the same color as the rocks! Funny how we are so affected by rocks..today we buried Shadow, a cat that's been in the family for 19 of our human years. We all took turns with the shovel and placed his box in the dirt hole. Everyone told a memory of him and dropped some daisies before helping to cover him up. Then we topped his grave with rocks, hoping they will protect and deter anything from trying to dig the remains up before he's all decomposed.

Next week we're working on leaves..goin on a hike to gather some and then pressing them into rolled out clay slabs and trimming them into a dish. It may be ambitious to think we can do both the hike AND the clay project in the same day!

Koi water color

Omgoodness..the other fishies got away before I remembered to photograph them.