Under Control
Things are pretty much under control back there. We're waaaay behind schedule....oh well. No real damage done. Everything will dry out, probably by tomorrow, this air will just SUCK the moisture out of everything. I’ll finish the laundry and cleaning tomorrow. C'est la vie.
Managed to get a small bit of painting in and strung a few beads. Husband brought me back actual jewelry wire from Santa Fe and wow, you should see this wire-wrapping now. It actually looks like I know what I’m doing. Nice and tight. I’m working on an opera length string with large rose quartz round beads (15mm), small silver spacer beads (3mm) and grey potato pearls ( 7mm or so). It’s making quite an elegant combo. Picture when I’m finished, with the schedule lined up in front of us it’ll be into next week sometime.
Movie time.
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Flood in the Back Room
Ay-Yi. Got up early, opened gallery early, off to a great start. Many household chores as well as studio chores, much laundry to do. Sigh. Washer broke and flooded the entire bed/bathroom on the first load. Husband is still back there working on it. We believe we found the problem, I think he's testing now to see if the pump still works. I sure hope so because if not, nothing will happen about it until Monday at least. And our guests are arriving Monday!
The biggest painting problem up here (now that I've sorted out the paint drying too fast) is pulling all the flying bugs out of tacky paint. They squash, they smear, they make a mess and sometimes is not possible to repair the spot unless I re-paint the entire area, especially when they land in a blend. I pulled over 20 bugs out of a little 16” x 16” this morning and may have to re-paint the whole background—Adding another 3 or 4 days time to that one.
Yay!! The washer works again. Drill bits do not belong in pockets, pockets should really be emptied before they are deposited in the clothes bin. Pockets should be checked again before clothes go into washer. Drill bits do not make washing maching pumps happy. Not at all.
Now to proceed with the day. And cleaning up the Gawd-awful mess back there.
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Photo Phriday!
Here we are again with this week's episode of Photo Phriday. The first necklace is here, along with a recent snow, a cool adobe in Dixon, and some pix of the famous Rio Leonardo!
See it all here.
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Snow on the Mountain, and Beading Evening
Once the big cloud cleared we saw that our "afternoon thunderstorm" dropped a nice white coat of snow up on our mountain. On 28 July. I love that mountain. I did get both the cats to come in so I could shut the back window. It's still blustery out there. And cold! Wizzy, as shy as he once was, has turned into a real mountain man! On the nice evenings I've given up on trying to get him inside and just leave the window open, hoping he knows what he's doing out there.
I'm spending the evening playing with the new beads. Since I don't yet know what I'm doing I ordered all the wrong sorts of wire for the types of designs I have in mind—wires that absolutely will not work. Fortunately I’m the “chick tool nut” who asked for a Router, router table and Home Depot gift cards for wedding presents (I already had my own table saw, jig saw, scroll saw, mitre saw, drills, hammers, clamps, etc) and so I just happened to have a box of copper wire of various gauges and some galvanized wire (24 gauge, how fortunate, and it cleaned up nicely with a bit of steel wool) out in my husband’s shop that he so graciously went and out in the rain and found for me. (It’s his shop, I have no idea where anything is out there whether it’s mine or not!).
So, it may not be elegant, but it is wire that bends! And it is shiny, at least for now. So I can go on with my project and if it turns out well I will clip out the galv and re-do it with actual, real, silver wire. Dead soft, I believe is the kind. Not “memory wire” which won’t do a thing except what the factory tells it too. Besides, that stuff contains carcinogens, according to the label (Why would they sell that for jewelery making, knowing people will be wearing it? That is just wrong). Sterling silver, I'm pretty sure it's ok to wear that.
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Hellacious Hail
If not for the UPS man some days we’d have no visitors. Today we did have some deliveies (all the bead stuff & art from Pennsylvania) so he and I enjoyed a lengthy conversation on art and politics. Later a photographer from LA came through who makes a point to visit Truchas on his way to Durango or France, or in today’s case, France via Durango. He’s been photographing the residents here for over 15 years. He asked us to pose for a portrait and we gladly obliged--then he made his way down the road to see the folks at Hand Artes Gallery.
Looked at a place this morning that was not in bad shape and affordable but so far off the beaten track it would be useless to even think ‘gallery’.....plus it was up in Llano, just outside of Peñasco, not my favorite spot. I prefer Truchas. No word on the place on 77A yet.
Looking forward to houseguests on Monday, our first visit by friends from ‘back home.’ They are bringing their own camping trailer, good thing as they number 6!
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A Respectable Thunderstorm
At last, we've got our evening thunderstorm! It's coming down! Smells good already--we just got everything put away & brought in when it let loose and now it seems over as abruptly as it began.
We went to look at another place today—it was supposed to be at 146 County Road 77A up on Llano Abeyto (the other side of Truchas). But there is no such number, and if it is, it’s a million dollar place that is definitely not for sale, or a ‘fixer-upper’ either. There was a fixer-upper at 140 CR 77A and one at 154 CR 77A, neither one with a ‘for-sale’ sign though. The one at #140 had 4 of our wild mustangs standing in what was left of the garage. I emailed a person at the website with the property listing but have not heard from them which place it might be. If it is the place at #154 we might be interested. A smallish spot, half an acre or so, but kinda sweet. One giant shade tree. No good for a gallery though, but at that rock-bottom price we could live there and rent a space in town. Maybe we’ll have some news on it tomorrow.
Hmppf. We only had one group of gallery visitors today in spite of that glorious mural.
We did have cops in unmarked vehicles all over Truchas today, though. There were two or three incidents of sirens and 2 vehicles pulled someone over in front of the gallery just before closing and went through their vehicle and duffel-bag, etc. Apparently they did not find any contraband. It’s good to know we have law enforcement around at least once a year or so. Just in case we ever need them, you know.
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Photos of the mural!
Sun tea there back there on the wall.
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Mural! Sun! Visitors!
Yaaaa! Hooks are up, grommets are in, in the morning it goes up! Yes, pictures will be posted.
It was another sunny, beautiful day. They keep saying thunderstorms but we haven't had one for days. It looks rather like we could, but nothing real yet. I wouldn't mind. It always smells so good here after a little rain.
Had more gallery visitors today than we have for awhile. I’m curious to see if the banner brings in any more folks but there’s really no way to tell if there are just more visitors or if more folks stop in because of it. I suppose if the numbers are radically different all of a sudden one could give at least some credit to the mural.
I'll go over to the Anciano center tomorrow with the labels for the High Road brochures, I was going to go today but a friend from California called just as I was leaving and we had a nice long chat instead. She’s up in in the Tahoe area where they’re having terrible fires and many homes have been lost. Her house is still OK, it’s a ways from the fire area, at least so far.
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Internet Radio in Danger!!
Today Pandora (my favorite Internet Radio Station), along with most Internet radio sites, is going off the air in observance of a Day Of Silence. They are doing this to bring to your attention a disastrous turn of events that threatens the existence of Pandora and all of internet radio. We need your help.
Ignoring all rationality and responding only to the lobbying of the RIAA, an arbitration committee in Washington DC has drastically increased the licensing fees Internet radio sites must pay to stream songs. Pandora’s fees will triple, and are retroactive for eighteen months! Left unchanged by Congress, every day will be like today as internet radio sites start shutting down and the music dies.
A bill called the “Internet Radio Equality Act” has already been introduced in both the Senate (S. 1353) and House of Representatives (H.R. 2060) to fix the problem and save Internet radio—and Pandora—from obliteration.
I’d like to ask you to call your Congressional representatives today and ask them to become co-sponsors of the bill. It will only take a few minutes and you can find your Congresspersons and their phone numbers by entering your zip code here.
Your opinion matters to your representatives - so please take just a minute to call.
Visit www.savenetradio.org to continue following the fight to Save Internet Radio.
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Clouds
Dramatic thunderheads in the little phone pole painting. I wanted clouds in the background so I'm painting those first and the power pole will go over the top. I generally do not paint over the top of background, I work everything up together, but this one and the palm trees are just too small to do that way. The paint is cracking though and why is a mystery to me as the thicker, oiler layer is on top as it should be. It looks cool, though and I’m going to just let it crack and go ahead and finish up the painting. I think it could add to the content…it’s a power pole and rainclouds are in the background, get it? You know, dam up the river to make electricity….So the cracks can represent lightening. Or a breakdown in a system…..Anyhow, I like them so far so they’re staying.
Got another box of art in the mail today (the 3rd California box). I’m waiting on 2 boxes of bead/jewelry supplies. When they arrive I’ll have everything I need to make several pieces. Then Leonardo will build a display case. Who knows where in the world it will go, there’s no place in here. Unless he makes it freestanding with a cupboard or storage underneath—now there’s an idea!
Mural: we have the hooks, sprayed it with a UV resistant layer, so tomorrow that puppy goes up! Well, unless we get the storm that was predicted today and we saw nary a sign of. Also tomorrow I’ll work on the oil pump jack painting and Black Horse Lake. Now—there’s one I could use cracks in, as one element of the painting is a dry, cracked lake bed. Hmmmm.
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Toasty Today
It’s a cookin’ day even up here. It really feels like summer--finally! Thunderstorm expected later today, as usual.
A guy from the phone company brought up a tractor and buried our phone line today, he was here about 3 hours. So now we don’t have to drive over it every time we come or go. It was just laying across the driveway and dirt patch we have in front of the house and strung over the wall and all along the back of the house.
I got my mailing labels for both the postcard mailing and the High Road brochure mailing ready this morning. Artwork is on it’s way here from Pennsylvania for the coming exhibition—shipped out today. Already have 3 boxes of work from California. I sprayed the mural with a UV resistant coating & it’s outside drying. Husband went down to fetch hooks for me—I thought I had plenty but they were all eye hooks. Oops. So now it’s painting time.
I finally figured out how to operate the CD player stack the landlady left us with so have tunes on the surround-sound! That’s so cool, speakers in every nook and cranny in the entire place, so we have full-on rock and roll. Just finished a new batch of sun-tea/ice tea. I think we go through about a gallon a day between the 2 of us. It’s unbelievably dry up here—we constantly have to think about keeping hydrated.
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Meeting Some Resistance
Today we were told for a third time (one other person recently, and one from this area last summer) that "There are too many artists up here, we don't need any more." Which is really a not-so-polite way of saying "Turn around and go back where you came from." Today's incident really ticked us off.
For one thing, there's no such thing as "too many artists" up here. Everyone is complaining of not enough traffic. Well, if you have more artists you are more of a destination and you can get more traffic if you work together to market. Plus, no two artists here do the same type or style of work so there is no danger, as some seem afraid of, that by our being here we are taking away from anyone’s business.
I can only say: The sooner they get over it the happier they'll be because we’re not going anywhere.
On a more cheerful note we saw a decent show at the Museum of New Mexico today (formerly the Santa Fe Art Museum—the one that had such a dreadful dearth of exhibitions worth anyone’s while last time) and a world class exhibition at the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum.
It was hot, hot down there and we’re glad to be back up on our (now) temperate mountain.
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Photo Phriday, really late. OK, Saturday Snaps.
Welcome to this segment’s rich and inspiring visuals. We’ve got flora in full bloom, we’ve got nature pictures and threatening weather, we’ve got glorious and nutty attempts by the artist to make a creative self-portrait, we’ve got MURAL pictures.
And we’ve got pictures of some of the outstanding real estate that we are actually considering taking a 30-year loan out on.
These photos are absolutely not to be missed and you can see this week’s edition all right HERE!
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We Played Hooky Today ;-)
All that stuff that was on the list for today? Tomorrow & beyond. We played Hooky today! Sort of. It was that bead trunk show in Santa Fe I mentioned a week or so ago. Clipped the ad, mapquested the (Solana Center—sounded big—at a convention center!). Ha. Solana Center is a strip mall, the trunk show was one dude from Arizona with a bunch of strands of stone beads set up in the local bead shop. There is a bigger variety and better prices on the same stuff from an independent strand stand set up at Jackalope (a pretty cool tourist tchotchke destination). Which is where we ended up, and yes I was only going to “research” but by then I couldn’t stand myself so got a few bits & pieces to play with. Tomorrow I’ll order some other basic supplies from one of the million or so suppliers online and I’ll make my own bead board out of cardboard or foam core (being the handy person that I am).
Found a really good “basics” book at the bookstore (I looked at every single book they had, and guess what? The “Beading for Dummies” was the worst—ok, who’s surprised at that?) and several informative magazines, I chose the basics book (it was the ONLY book the blew the pictures up to larger than life-size so you can actually SEE what happens with that tiny wire and bead and pliers and wire twist) and one magazine. Then we hit the art store, they did have poppy oil in stock, found a big compass for my husband (the kind you draw circles with), hit Trader Joe’s for our weekly supplies and came back up the mountain.
Arrived home to a phone message giving directions to a property for sale up here in Truchas; a friend in Alaska found it and said “go have a look.” Not a bad spot, no good at all for a gallery. It has two adobes on it. Ha, ha, New Mexi-speak. It’s got part of an adobe RUIN on it (the kind you see when you pay $5 to go into a national park or preserve--totally melting adobe) and another one, in slightly better shape, admittedly, but not so close to renovation as one may think. We couldn’t get a close look because it’s been so long since anyone lived there there is no road to the house anymore. It’s as if someone built it in the middle of the pasture. Nice view of the Pedernal, though.
We got the phone number of the place on the hill with the double-wide and after driving as close as we could (we don’t know if someone is living there now or not so declined to go up the private drive of about 1/4 mile and intrude) but it looks pretty good from what we can tell. Nice view of the Pedernal from this one too. Seems like fertile, level pasture land, full of potential. This one has its own well. We’re going to call the owner tomorrow and see where she’s at & if she’ll show it to us. More and more we’re thinking this could be the spot. It’s only about 4 houses up from where we are, it’s on the hill over Hand Artes and Anna Karina galleries.
Still no word on the ancient adobe with the propped up workshop down by Pierre Delattre’s studio on SR 76. (I’m giving you names of all these galleries because I don’t feel like providing links right now, but you can find their websites through a Google, and if they don’t have websites, you’re still going to find info on them if you’re interested. Same with Eric Luplow, our most engaging neighbor across the road and the Cardona-Hine gallery, we stopped in there this morning to pick up the afore-mentioned phone number. Just in case you want to get a bit better idea of the local flavor up here.
All righty then. Happy Friday.
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Trishtown.com as independent domain
Trishtown was a concept cooked up by a couple close friends and I, at a lunch I think (I remember vaguely) after the publishing company I worked for for 12 and one-half years so ingloriously laid me off. Well, yes, it turned out to be the best thing they’d ever done for me but somehow, in a crazy backward sort of way, I’m still rather ticked off. They could certainly have handled it better. Hell, I could have handled it better.
In any case. There we were at this post-layoff lunch. Dreaming. I wished I had enough money to buy a ghost town in the desert and turn it into an art town. Both ways. Little museums, little workshops, camping out, guest houses, a café or restaurant, a B & B…..on and on. It could certainly be done. Well, since it was my dream (no $$ only dream) we decided Trishtown would be a great name.
I still have visions, talent, art, and no $$. BUT! I have Trishtown.com. I’ve been keeping the domain name ever since then, just in case, somehow, it really came to pass. I could have used it for a blog, but I said, “WHY?” when I can get one on Shoutpost for free?
HOWEVER, since Shoutpost has slacked, failed, or otherwise just come up short on tech help and archiving my blogs and I can’t seem to even raise the dead for a tech question I have decided that my ramblings are important enough to me (and to at least some members of my loyal blogees out there) to go ahead and pay for Trishtown.com to be an archive for ALL my mind’s wanderings if it cannot be a spot for my most laudable—and in need of funding—art town for art refugees. (in the future there may be a plea for help for funding the art town or art site, but never for the blog! The blog is free FOREVER)
In any case, it’ll be 24-48 hours until www.trishtown.com is live and then lay off and give me a chance to build (ugh) yet another web site. Why do I keep doing this to myself? At first it was fun, then it was a job, and now it’s just an ugly little necessity.
I will continue to blog on Shoutpost because I’ve made some friends there and I like the vibe of our little community. I will, however, post, embellish, and archive on Trishtown.com. And if I can be clever enough I will build something where EVERYONE can comment without signing up or filling our forms or any of that crap. I know you hate it, I hate it too.
Stay tuned. Film at 11. And please note I did not specify which day at 11, or even which time zone at 11.
Go out and do some crazy, unexpected, nice thing for somebody. Go on. Do it. GO DO IT NOW.
Yeah. there you go.
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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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Missy's Lizard
Missy brought in her first lizard today—and detatched it’s tail straight away. The poor thing ran under the couch and I opened the door from the middle room to the outside hoping it would follow the sun. Those things are QUICK! But I should not be surprised that Missy is quicker. She’s a little hunting machine. If I ever have to survive in the woods I want that cat with me!
Had a bit of a thunderstorm yesterday afternoon and are scheduled for one today. Hope that helps the paint a bit.
A spot of gallery paperwork to do this morning and have a tad more to do later but now I'm back at the little painting. It's not looking bad so far, considering the challenges with paint drying faster than I could put it down.
Two gallery visitors this morning, our first all week! The neighbors say June is dead and it’ll pick up after the 4th. Either that or I’m going to be picking up dishes off tables as in “do you want fries with that?”
Later: Ugh. The little one is drying in the sun. It's too dry to blend paint but not dry enough to paint over. Kind of like painting with glue. The clouds behind the phone pole are looking good though.
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Hot and Dry!!
It is so warm and dry up here I can't blend paint even on a tiny little 16" x 16" canvas. I can barely believe it--The first little bit dries before I get my 2nd color laid down. I'm going to have to wait until it cools down or we get a little moisture in the air--later tonight or early tomorrow? And this is oil paint!
I did come up with a good dead tree though. I went outside and looked up and under the huge tree in the yard and based my imaginary dead tree on the underside branches of this one. It made for a funky little drawing but it looks good in paint.
I guess I'll take an ice tea break under the tree and carve on my walking stick a bit. That project has been langushing in the corner since cold weather. Then I can work on a drawing for another panoramic.
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Early Summer Day
I’ll get an early start in the studio today. I’m going to bring Monument Valley out and get busy on finishing that one up. I’ve got to find a good dead tree to put in Black Horse Lake, the first of the panoramics, and maybe get a couple other panoramic drawings on paper. A bit more work on the West Oakland Palm Trees as well—that little one is looking so intriguing I’m probably going to do a larger version. My husband really loves it as is….so do I, so now the question is—does the fence go in or not? It’s an entirely different painting with or without and it’ll work either way…
In other news our RE agent found us almost 3 acres up in Ojo Sarco (6 miles from here) for a good price but no water rights, I think. We’ll find out if we can sink a well or get access to the acequia which clearly has a course through the property. Right on State Road 76 but people drive by there so fast, not like here where they are ambling up the road. No buildings but affordable, lots of wild roses and some mature trees. Looks like decent soil from everything that's growing there now. Horses OK.
And there’s a fascinating old, old, old adobe for sale by owner here in town, one of the buildings is falling down and propped up by a 4 x 4 out onto the road! My husband was surprised that I liked it but he should know, I like funky. (we have not seen inside and I’d be surprised if we could get a loan on it, it is so funky) but it’s in a great l.o.c.a.t.i.o.n (I have to spell this word with periods--for some reason this particular word will not post and stays invisible without the dots. Weird.) and we may be able to fix up. I called the number but no answer back yet. It may be days, that thing has been sitting there for years and years. I have a picture I’ll post later with some others, including those beautiful red cactus blooms from our recent trip up the mountain.
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Mural's Finished
OK, I'm finished painting it. It's got to dry, I've got to set the grommets, put the hooks in the rafters, etc. I took a couple photos today maybe a couple more tomorrow. Certainly some after we hang it up. Too tired to post photos tonight—maybe tomorrow.
Everyone loves it….I know it’s kind of a quick job but whatever. It’s funny. Sometimes murals go much faster than smaller work. It’s just a different kind of painting.
A couple neighbors stopped by tonight and provided us with some insider information on how real estate works in Truchas. Very small-town, quirky, and who’s brother’s cousin did you say owned that and did you know they also owned the……and you’d better talk with so and so because he’s got the place out back and might want to (or doesn’t want to)…..? You get the picture. Mostly everything can be a special case.
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Summer Weather!
Outside working on the mural today. Took off yesterday and found a spot by Rio Pueblo up toward Sipapu where we picnicked and lounged about for the afternoon. Quite nice. Lots of fishermen.
Today at 4pm is our deadline to respond to the 'counter-offer.' We're going to let it go. We'll look around & see what else is out there. It's not like we must buy now, or even soon. We can wait for the right place to come along. Of course we're coming up with more and more ideas about what we might want to do.
I'm going to wait on ordering the silver beads & pearls for necklace-making. The supplies for 3 necklaces would cost me over $500! So I'm thinking of getting my technique down with something less expensive, then moving up once I know what I'm doing. We still think jewelry would be a great addition to the gallery as well as a good winter occupation, along with pastels, as it is so cold up here in winter we won't want to open any windows for ventilation from the turpentine/oil painting fumes! So I'll be checking out supplies for that in the coming weeks. There's a big bead trunk show in Santa Fe next weekend we might go by if I feel like I can put up with the city for a day.
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Counter-Offer
OK. the sellers came up with a counter offer and they're nuts. They only want to come down 2K from the price and not help with closing costs and not do a damn thing to help improve the property. Like put back in the cook stove or water heater, etc.
They're full of themselves. Our broker thinks our offer was a fine offer and they should have taken it. Out-of-Staters are coming in and driving up the market. Which I can sympathize with—but we’re out-of-staters who came here because we thought we might be able to afford something because we sure as #$&% can’t afford anything in California.
We’re not going with their offer. We may counter offer with even less money and demand that t hey fix everything! I called the great place for sale in Abiquiu, unfortunately it is under contract. But the woman said “you know how these things go” and took our number and sounded genuinely sorry she did not sell it to us. She promised to come by and see the gallery.
Our broker said “yes, you certainly can take the loan approval and shop around” so we’ll see what we can find out there. I’m totally pissed at those people for being so full of themselves. Fine. That place can just sit on the market for another year and a half. Being on the High Road is a cool thing but it is certainly not essential to one’s art career.
You know what I’m thinking about doing? Going back to school to get my own real estate license for New Mexico. I’d probably enjoy it. Well, except for dealing with people like these clueless morons.
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My work is changing
Why are crossroads/realizations changeabouts for just about everything?
Why does everything have to happen at the same damn time?
No matter, I will handle, multitasker me.
Just tell me. Why does everything in our life that's important and raw and real have to happen at the same damn time?
And we think life is a test. We have no F'in idea. Life is a primer. Hold on tight and get ready for the actual rapids.
Patience. Hope. Truth. Charity. Prudence. Prudence.
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Here's what I figure
The place we're looking at is a little expensive for what it is. IMHO. Whatever. We offered. If we get it great, we go ahead with plans. If not, for the same money we could have bought a tiny little WAY fixer-upper adobe on 1/2 acre, we can get between 5 and 65 acres in the greater Northern New Mexico area for 1/3 to 1/2 the price, which gives us plenty o' cash to put up the most awesome straw-bale "adobe" you've ever seen. So. It might not be the worst thing if we don't get it. The view really is awesome though! And I liked the idea of starting from "something" rather than starting from scratch. I mean, even the tiny adobe has a flushable toilet, electricity, and water hooked up. And that's a lot.
And as much as I like the idea of being on the High Road--it's really not at all necessary for having a healthy art career up here. So. One way or the other we'll find our place. Sometimes these things take time. Patience. Hope. Courage. Endurance.
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We Have No Idea What's Going On.
Once again, this is New Mexico. Patience, patience. Last weekend we got a call from our broker on Saturday morning, then nothing else happened until Monday. Perhaps we have to wait until Monday. Perhaps seller & our 2 brokers are playing phone tag. Perhaps seller is preparing a counter offer. Perhaps they were on vacation and could not be reached. Who knows? I initially thought not hearing was bad news but it really could be a million things--even good things. We just don't know. So no reason to be disappointed--good news could come yet.
You'll know as soon as we do. That call will be blogged!
In the meantime, it's Martini Friday, so...Cheers!
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