Coffee With Old Friends

I had a great time today. A former neighbor reached out the other day and invited me and another former neighbor over for coffee today. We juggled our calendars and got together in the late morning. It was great. We did a lot of showing off of grandkids and kids on our phones and talked about this and that. All three of us paint with watercolor, we took a class together at the technical school this summer, and are planning a trip to an art gallery and store about 30 miles away after the first of the year. I took bags of English Toffee to share and DT gave us each a little bag. Mine had this tube of sumptuous face lotion in it. I can't wait to smooth it on and look years younger. Or at least not as dry and flaky.

 

But first I went over to Michaels to ask them to frame one of my watercolors from last spring's class at The Clearing. I've looked at it a hundred times and thought, I should frame that. Well, yesterday the decision got made and today I followed through. Of course, it'll be a few weeks before it's ready and it cost half again as much as I thought it would but it's this long skinny painting of hollyhocks. I love the orange/yellow against the teal background. I'll show it to you again when it comes back.

 

Walking to the back of Michaels on my way to the framing department I noticed that they'd moved the drawing books to an end cap near the sketchbooks so I skimmed over them. After I'd signed on the dotted line for my framing job, I went back to look at the books and found this one of step-by-step drawings. I'm much better at copying someone else's drawing than thinking things up on my own. The funny thing is that the book I'm drawing out of right now is called Drawing Cute. The new book is called How to Draw Super Cute. Are you sensing a theme?

 

When I got home the squirrel was hanging out of the square green feeder again today. I was glad to see its furry little face and know you'll be able to see it instead of just seeing the lid of the feeder at an angle and having to trust me that a squirrel was under there.

 

The drawing today is of a Mum & Jack-o-lantern. I don't think the flower turned out big enough but the jack-o-lantern isn't bad. 

 

I got a late start writing today and wrote some more about the arrest of the fleeing, non-paying guests. I only managed 756 words before I lost steam and quit. By then it was dark and I was tired.

 

It snowed overnight. It was supposed to snow this afternoon but evidently it came early. That meant I got to go out and shovel the driveway before going anywhere. It wasn't too bad, kind of crunchy, but on the west edge of the driveway there was a long drift of blown snow that was heavy and hard to shovel away. But I persisted and got the job done and salt spread on the top half. Whew.  

Tomorrow I need to take things out of the freezer to thaw in the fridge. Can't forget or there will be no coffeecake on Christmas morning or meatloaf on Friday evening. I made sure that the places I need to go to on Christmas Eve will be open to pick up a birthday cake and a pizza. Both important food groups.

--Barbara