Drive-By
I needed to go into town after gallery this evening for special food for Missy, she's got her little problem coming on again, means time to lean on soft food, switch out the dry food, and wait it out. This time I caught it early and both kitties LOVE the new crunchies, surprise, surprise, so let's hope all will be well sooner rather than later. (It has been diagnosed as a chronic condition that will flare up now and then and this is the vet's recommended treatment. It does always work, when I finally hit upon the right combination of foods for "this time around.")
Anyhow, before we went in we drove by that place for sale, the one acre, its own well and double-wide for way cheaper than the half-acre & the dumpy adobe. Whoa. DW or not, it looks like it could be very sweet. And since there’s a place to move into (OK, we have not seen inside, we heard something about awful renters) it could really work. It’s off the road a bit, but still quite visible from the road, would still work well as a gallery venue. Only about five or six houses up from where we are now. We’d build the gallery & studios & workshops first, then tear the DW off the permanent foundation and build a real straw-bale back there. We hear it’s got a killer view.
So……we’ll take Leonardo’s new bicycle and my old one and go for a ride in the morning….stopping by the neighbor’s who told us she’d pass along the seller’s number so we can go check this one out. At 40K less than our offer on the other one. For twice the space and a liveable place. I know, I said that already. If the weather fluctuates up here so does one plot's price and amenities from another. And like the weather, it makes absolutely no sense whatsoever to mere mortals such as us.
Will tomorrow be Photo Phriday? We can only wait and see….'cause we picked up the grommets in town tonight and tomorrow just might be mural-hanging day.
That little problem with paint drying has been improved by changing my medium mixture from 1/3 each dammar, turpentine, and linseed oil (standard mix and it usually works for me, except of course glazes which are thinned out with more turps) to 1/3 each stand oil (much thicker, dries slower) and the addition on top of that with poppyseed oil. Oil painters will know that, wow, that should do the trick! Both the stand and poppy slow the drying time. Yeah, well. In this climate, slowed it down about 15 minutes. Had time to blend. Small areas, very, very quickly. I am a long, drawn out, slow painter. I like to fuss with blends for a long time until they are PERFECT.
Leonardo will be making a Santa Fe run tomorrow. He’s going to pick me up a BIG jar of poppy oil. It’s going to take more than what I've got and this weather will be around until September at least. Maybe I should have him pick up 2.
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