"Turn It Up A Notch!!

Good "it will turn up"Tuesday Morning, all bodies.

Eventually!

Yeh, well, I've looked everywhere and cannot find the fully charged battery to my weedwacker. Guess I'll have to go buy another one, then, for sure, I'll find the original one!

On another subject, my horticulturist friend, Frank Evan, recently harvested tons of green leaf vegetables. We will be eating green gumbo (gumbo z'herbes)for weeks! For those that don't know, core of the dish is a blend of various leafy greens, such as collard greens, mustard greens, turnip greens, spinach, watercress, cabbage, and lettuce. I like to serve it over brown rice. And, we got 'em all.

Oh, by the way, it is Veteran's Day. Say hi to a Vet, thank him or her, and maybe, buy them a second cup!

First cup from yesterday...

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"Prickly"...

Thorny Situation!

 Well, Good "Thorny"Thursday Morning, all bodies.

Just a sketch to "sharpen" my skills. I drew it a while back decorating the wooden fence that surrounds the Giddy Up deck.

I thought about adding color to it, but not so sure about that.

First cup, old GiddyUp cup... a better cup, later!

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"So, What Kinda Mushrooms Are They?"

Not that kinda mushroom!

 Good Wednesday Morning, y'all...

Walking towards the doors of an office building, I noticed a well dressed woman in a business suit with matching purse and shoes attempting to open the door with a armful of tablets, file folders and papers… And a large cup of coffee.

By the time we got close enough to her, she realized that her best solution was to step back away from the doors and just let the doors automatically open. She turned to me, and with a laugh said, “I should’ve just backed away and let the doors open by themselves without having this struggle… I should know better!”

“I almost spilled my coffee."

I replied to her, that with some office doors it is kinda hard to tell exactly how they work, so it’s understandable. When we got through the lobby and through the elevator doors, she pushed the button for the third floor, and I, with a bit of trepidation, asked her to push the button for the second floor, which she did. But, she did it rather awkwardly balancing all that she had in her arms plus her coffee cup.

So I said, “You really got a load there hanging onto all this stuff while protecting that cup of coffee!”

She smiled and said, “Well, it’s a mushroom coffee which I’ve had before and I really like it!

“A mushroom coffee?”

“That sounds really weird…. Do they actually extract mushrooms out of it to make coffee or is it just an additive to the cup?”

She said she liked the taste and seemed ecstatic about the natural benefits that would come from the mushrooms.

And then, Therese, said in her matter fact way, after discussing all the benefits of mushroom coffee, asked, “Well, exactly kind of mushrooms are they?

With a smile and a little bit of a nervous giggle, she said, “That’s a really good question… I don’t know!"

“I guess I better look into that, huh?”

First cup!

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"Whispering Sweet Nothings!"

A Sketch...

Good "sweet nothings" Wednesday Morning, y'all.

Well, it is that time of year when love, once again, is in the air. Or, should I say in the ear!

The "love bugs" (Plecia nearctica) are back bouncing off walls, trees, cars, and being a general nuisance to everyone and every thing.

Three days ago, in the early morning when the bugs are not so "lovey dovey", a couple flew into my ear as I was checking the bird feeder. I pretty much destroyed it getting it out of my ear, but decided to commemorate the incident with a tight sketch.

This is what I came up with...

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"Life is beautiful, and it also sucks!"

A pen sketch of my Rainbow Vacuum cleaner!

Good Sunday morning all bodies!

Life is beautiful, and it also sucks…

And so does a good vacuum cleaner!

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"Cataracting My Age..."

Good Saturday morning, all bodies

Well, last night was the last time I had to put medicated eye drops in my left eye. I thought I’d celebrate by doing a sketch of the eye patch and the little bottle that, believe it or not, actually had maybe one or two more drops left in it. In my last visit, I asked the nurse if the bottle would make it to the end of session and she guaranteed me that it would. And guess what??? It did!.

So on Monday, our anniversary day, I will go and get the last check up to make sure everything‘s OK. In my opinion, the jury is still out. But we’ll see…

Old coffee for now! 

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"Hindu Elephant" Ride Sally, Ride"

Cherried up his ride!

Tuesday Morning, y'all. It's gonna be another wet one... Seemed to be a pretty wet in Omaha last night... Did they ever resume playing?

I call this sketch, because I couldn't find any other influence and the saddle adornment doodily-wops didn't look Oriental.

Anyway, it was getting pretty intense for a sketch, and I was losing interest in finishing it, FAST... but, I did. I actually started the sketch with a Razor Point Pentel... the shading with cross hatching would have drove me crazy.

This was one of the six pieces I did from our Hawaiian stay. All were done from photos I took.

Second cup...old coffee!

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