2008, Frenchtown’s Community Day.. the dunk tank…. And there I was, for 20 minutes, dunked over, and over again…
here’s val….. anxiously awaiting the dunk….
Here I am in the water…. under the water.. casey so very happy…
And here I am wet as a fish….
Add comment July 24th, 2008
It was a struggling cactus, kept falling over. It sometimes pierced curious childrens’ fingers - those children whose mothers would let them wander around the store unattended, making them cry and run into their mother’s arms. (you may read between the lines, here)
“Watch out for that nasty cactus, honey, stay close to your mom so it cannot hurt you!”…
In the summer, it lived outside my store - getting dry like all good cactus should - in the late afternoon hot summer sun. But after taking my daughter away for a short yet wonderful little vacation in upstate New York, it was gone. The cactus that my mother gave me when I reopened my store - was gone. I never even got to name it. Now it is just gone. Stolen. Absconded.
I hope it finds itself in Cactus heaven… And I think Cactus heaven would look this way:
Add comment July 19th, 2008
Do what you love, take care of those you love.. SAVE THE WORLD!
A year ago last christmas, my daughter and some friends decorated cookies for christmas. After decorating all of the cookies, there was a lot of frosting left over. I just could not bear to throw away so much PRODUCT! I had some canvases in my studio that I was struggling to make sense of. So I painted these canvases with the frosting.
The paintings got hung here and there, talked about, hung again, looked at, got a little moldy over the year… Then stored in the studio warehouse building. Eventually, this past spring, a lot of ants found themselves drunk on all that sugar, so it was time to cut the paintings out of the frames, and toss them away.
One morning, before I left for work, I tried to cut the paintings out of the stretchers, my knife blade snapped. So I left them outside and went to work. Well, the frosting melted and was attracting all kinds of happy insects. Early this morning, as I was driving Barry home, he noticed honey bees swarming the painting. We have not seen many honey bees this year, as they are in crisis, dying all over the place and not returning to their hives. We think the colorful paintings, attracted the bees - thinking they could be flowers - and found happiness in the sugar!
So… being a good Civilian, and taking care of your family first, before going out into the world and offering up your services there - is here proving to help save the honey bees - helping to feed the world, (okay, that’s a little dramatic, but you get my drift.)
Do what you love, take care of those you love - & save the world.
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