we put 2 ‘L’s in travelling because we really LLLLOVE this story…
January 22, 2009
November 21, 2008
The TEEPEE “SIGNS”
Ok.. so here we go again.. We are thinking about a teepee display for the Javitz center – something eye catching y’know… and once again – like the phoenix (in this blog) – a sign just happens. There is Barry eating lunch, the same day I asked him to help me build a teepee structure for my display. The wood just falls over,for no apparent reason! from a flat position on the horses and into this teepee structure… here they are . Look at them compared to the teepee structures that I found for referenece… WOW! Guess we gotta make them now!
September 9, 2008
The Frog in the Lawn.
The Frog in the Lawn..... Maybe froggie reincarnated?
My Son was mowing the lawn – good son, yes.. and I was weed wacking.. ok it was a homeowner’s kinda day…and he found this BEAUTIFUL Frog in the lawn… I gotta say, he/she looked just like my frog shirt.. I fell in love.. but Jack, being a good nature boy, brought the frog back to the river….
July 24, 2008
DUNK a CIVILIAN…ok it was really hot, so it was not THAT bad… and it was for a good cause, I guess…
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….
July 19, 2008
in frenchtown… we do not steal each other’s plants… what is this!!!
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:
July 5, 2008
…on honey BEES, decorating christmas cookies, and creating paintings with left over frosting.
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.
June 19, 2008
June 18, 2008
FLICKR
Here you can visit my town through conversations with people here. Frenchtown is a place where people go when the rest of the world takes its toll on them. And then … there are the locals …
http://www.flickr.com/photos/civilianbasicscom/
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