Trishtown

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figures.

Posted on Oct 31, 2007
I got the first part of my Real Estate course today so I dug right in.

Of course then the City of Espanola called me for an interview tomorrow (for the 911 database project). As I have nothing but paint-strewn clothing this is another one where I’ll go directly from the fitting rooms of the local dept. store to the interview. Last time I did that I got the job.

Hubby is in town shopping for my birthday which is in a few days. Why he had to pick HALLOWEEN to do it though! We're missing all the fun! I did carve a jack-o'lantern to take to the party. But the lights are off for trick-or treaters! He was supposed to bring back the candy! By the time he gets home it will be too late for that and we'll have to go.



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Happy Halloween!!

Posted on Oct 31, 2007
12:06, it’s Halloween!

I just watched the Haunted History of Halloween and then 2 hours of Nostradamus. So great! Good stuff. I totally love this stuff. Thank us Celts for that! (my family is recorded back to 1050 and you know we were well ensconsed Waaaaaay before that). I’m an actual, originally descended, old-timey Celt. Can’t help that me ancestors got on the boat. Not my fault. We brought jack-o-lanterns. Yes, we did.

It appears both the lost Mayans and Nostradamus believe the world ends in 2012. (that's a bridge of time/worlds for you) There’s some sort of celestial criss-cross that has not happened for 13,000 years and is about to happen again. Plus, the zodiac used to have 13 signs, the extra one hidden between Scorpio (Me) and Sagitarrius (some of my best friends). And that sign—I tried to remember the name of it, I think it begins with the letter “O”) is actually at the center of the universe (as we recognize it now). And the arrow from Sag points directly to the tail of Scorp and the center of our universe is directly in that cross-section.

In any case,if the world ends in 2012--I’m not a shopper but I DO think I would take advantage of THAT fire sale. (and we’re supposed to end in fire. Starting with the West, I guess—Uhmm, I think that’s already started--seen SoCal?)





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I'm a student again ;-)

Posted on Oct 29, 2007

OK, both courses have been registered for. I go to the Framing class in Las Vegas for a week in December (perfect timing--my house/cat sitter will be here by Thanksgiving!).

So I've got the Real Estate course on the way—I can begin on that in the meantime. I can do home study for all but one class which is scheduled over a couple weeks in the beginning of April down in Santa Fe. Ha, the RE class was less expensive than the framing class. Go figure. It is certainly not less complicated!

Now that that is all settled I can charge back to work on my Trout!!

And on study days I can keep the gallery open. Nice.

 



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A Conference and a Decision

Posted on Oct 28, 2007

After a 'conference' with my husband....actually he waited for me to decide and ask him if it was OK, and he said, "thank you for deciding, I approved a long time ago and hoped you’d actually get to it already." (isn’t he great?) -- the consensus is this:

I will go to a Picture Framer's School and once I complete that I will go to Real Estate School.

Our logic is this: I got through private art school at my own expense (approx $40K x 4 years  way back when (meaning when things were 20 years cheaper than they are now.) And it's gotten me a lot of places other than art. Excellent. And I managed to pay off all my student loans. Also Excellent.

Well, Picture Framer School and Real Estate School, plus the exam fee to become certified for both will run me about $2,500 to $3,000 tops. That’s total for both. That figure is to board-certify me for TWO new professions, advanced classes, AND licensing fees. And either one of them will take me a few weeks to a few months to complete. That price would not have been one class in one semester at art school. So you see how it sounds expensive but in comparison it is actually next to free. IN any case any sort of education is always worth far more than the price.

YAY! Because I’m hella tired of making websites for people. I cannot tell you how tired I am of doing that. My own? Fine. Do I want to do it all day and all night? Screeeeeaaaaammm. You know what I enjoy most these fine October days? Loading up parts and parcel of that hella big two cords of wood into the truck and hauling it from the new house to the currently living-in house. Good fall work in the glory of the autumn crisp and weather. The best! PHYSICAL work, outdoors!  not sitting in back of some gawd-awful database/computer inside all day whilst the world passes by  some window you can't see out of. Global warming, you know. When you all finally get outside it won't be there anymore.

I got a great compliment from my husband tonight. I was messing about with the “happy lights.” We used to have the little Christmas lights up all year long because it reminded us of a Mexican Cantina as well as providing colorful, subdued, low-lighting in the evening—in a cheerful way—for TV watching, getting comfy, etc......ANYHOW, I was pulling the lights all out of packing boxes for the season, testing, testing, changing bulbs....and he said to me—“Sometimes I don’t feel like you’re my wife.” OK, that gave me pause. Until he continued-- with “Sometimes I just think you’re some cute chick I snagged that came home with me.” The best part? He REALLY meant it. He’s absolutely not given to sweet nothings or preparing the romantic script.

How great is that? Am I a lucky woman or what? I guess we are lucky together.

Bwa, ha, ha, fortunate then that my first framing class happens to be in Las Vegas. Baby needs the property next door, come on, it’s cold outside!! You know? I am SO LUCKY at craps. Oh, yeah, toss the dice! Gimme Sylvia’s place. Come on, come on. Seven come Eleven. Eight the hard way. No snake eyes for me. You know we’ll do right by it. We were meant to have it......Baby needs new framing space.

Baby needs new framing space. Somebody else can have the shoes.

PS—a little, last, ironic note. The career I have found myself in all of these years—publishing—is the accidental career in which I have had no training in whatsoever. I was just good at what needed to be done. And the most money I’ve ever made was in publishing—note, this was not my average salary, but in my best year ever, I did make, in publishing, $94,000 one year. ($60K was average for me.) I know. Ninety four thousand dollars. Brilliant. Now I hope I can make 14 bucks an hour doing anything at all, including considering waitressing! It’s ludicrous, humorous, inspiring, and ok, SAD. Still it’s my choice—our choice, and it’s a new adventure. And remember, we are way, way, way ahead of schedule. By this time next year I will be both well versed AND board licensed in TWO completely new occupations. 

ROCK ON!! 

 

 



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Busy-ness

Posted on Oct 27, 2007

Opened the gallery today whilst I proceeded to clean house. Sometimes you just have to. My housekeeping standards would be much higher if I had household help. Mid-day I prepared a curry for the Crockpot. Our only visitor walked in just as I was sautéing the onions and garlic. I think the fact that I was cooking in the gallery freaked him out. Oh well. Like I told him--it's a multi-use space.

The curry (a new recipe, part standard, part my interpretation) turned out fabulously! Definitely my favorite of my attempts so far. My husband grew up on curried dishes and I never gave them a thought until meeting him.

Then we ran down the mountain to pick up crating materials for the paintings going out.

Tomorrow husband has a football game so I’ll open the gallery again. Visitors seem to understand a man’s need for his football--they think it’s cute, actually. And I’ll work in the studio! Seems like it’s been awhile.

Oh, the best news! Husband got all of that nasty stuff underneath the kitchen counter at the new place out! Turns out there WAS a slab under there—just so much rotten stuff you couldn’t tell at all! Isn’t he a gem? I thought I’d have to do that nasty part myself! He’s the best!

Remember the gas company we’re having so much trouble with? My landlady went through that with them when she renovated this place and had many, many troubles, leaks, meters that did not work, and a complete unwillingness on their part to deal with it. She switched to another company. So Monday I am firing these guys and going with her company. Actually, I’d already given the new guys a call on Friday as I had pretty much already had it with these other dudes. Like pulling teeth! In the meantime we’ll put the wood stove in. Who knows? We may have gas by spring. Or not.

 

 



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Sparkle Mountain

Posted on Oct 26, 2007

That's not it's real name. But it's not too far from here. We went out for breakfast up the road, went to get the mail down the road, and just fell into play-day. We have not had one since we bought the house. We said, “where does that road go?” and drove up it for only a mile before the turnaround time.

Found another one, said, “Let’s try that.” This one took us up the mountain (not ours, a different, nearby, mountain). We drove and drove. Lots of scrub oak, fall colors, then the trees turned various sorts of pine. Climbing up. We drove through a burned out area (fire about five years ago—so severe that the entire village of Truchas was evacuated) now you can take the leftovers out for firewood. Ironic, huh?

We kept climbing. There were signs pointing to a campground!?! Who knew? We proceeded. I wondered how dangerous the area was as I thought I saw broken glass everywhere—the dirt road was full of it.

NO! We were on (my name) Sparkle mountain! The Truchas Peaks (and obviously this one as well) are completely made up of pre-Cambrian Quartzite. I found rose quartz, white quartz, Mica, mica everywhere in chunks larger than I’ve ever seen...some black, black, fine grained rocks with brilliant little diamond-like sparkles in them.....OMG, this is a place to bring your kids with their favorite fairy-story tucked under arm with a picnic.

The entire mountain glitters. All the rocks under your feet, all the boulders, the very dust you kick up as you walk along the forest dirt road. This is Pecos Wilderness. This is pure magic.

The views from here were astounding, and TRULY!! every single rock, every boulder, every pebble, even the dusty New Mexican dirt sparkled like a pirate’s treasure. I took a couple pix of the view from there, but, duh, none of the rocks. HA! I collected the rocks and I’m going back for more!! I can post up pix of some of the rox I got—hope I can get the glint of the sun. OMG, I want to build the entirety of the walls of my house out of these glitter rocks. Inside and outside. I don't need adobe. I want glitter rocks!

Honestly, it was truly astounding. I’ve never seen anything like it!



 



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Board of Directors

Posted on Oct 25, 2007

I just got voted onto the Board of Directors for the arts organizition up here on the High Road. It was kind of like a car wreck. It was so fast it was almost like slow motion.

On minute I was driving along, looking at the fall foliage. Someone grabbed my arm and pushed it up. Desperate to maintain control, I stood up. Confused, I looked around. Someone was calling my name...saying in an authoritative voice...Trish, Debbie, there is a motion on the floor. I looked at the voice and then the floor. There was nothing on the floor. The next thing I heard were a bunch of “ayes” and then the voice said the motion was passed and that we were Board Members and had to come to all the meetings, forever (actually for a year but you know they’ll never let us go. They’re just saying that so we don’t run.) They gave us a paper outlining our duties for the coming year.

It all happened so fast. It was like a blur. Am I in Heaven? Am I in Hell? I am on the Board of Directors. And just what does that mean? 

 



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employment possibilities

Posted on Oct 25, 2007
Looking around for employment again. Had an “interview” with a frame shop. I have only been trying to get into a frame shop for about 2 years now. I can’t get anyone to talk to me. I know what I am doing, I just do not have professional experience. That is the big hang-up. I have a feeling this one is going nowhere too—and it’s amazing how weak most people’s interview-giving skills are. This was little more than a walk around the shop and a dismissal. Sigh.

No matter, husband and I have decided to open up a framing shop in the gallery once we get it moved in the spring. This will give us time to find the equipment we need and for me to frame up several pieces in various styles as examples. Poo, I don’t need any stinking frame shop, I will start my own!

Dropping off a resume today with the City of Espanola—to create a database of all city addresses—do research on addresses & utilities (in the field) for their 911 database. Sounds fairly interesting....but there I go again...back in that world. We’ll see. Health insurance again, though.

Rancho de Chimayó Restaurante needs wait staff. I am totally not opposed to doing that work except it is one of our favorite places to eat. Working there would undoubtedly change that experience... I’m not approaching them just yet, though. It’s only 8 miles away, the closest work I can hope to find here. Espanola is 16 miles away, anything else I’m into a two-hour commute per day.

In other news a friend of ours from California will be moving up here to Truchas in a month’s time. I gave her a hand in renting an apartment in Tafoya’s giant adobe store. We’ll be a stone’s throw away. She’s very excited about it all. And now I get way extra smiles and waves from the crew down at the store.

We’re going into Espanola today, Leonardo finally has all his documentation together to obtain his New Mexico vehicle registration. This afternoon it’s the post-tour High Road Artisan’s pot-luck and meeting in Chamisal. I’ll take our giant vessel of pumpkin soup—an opportunity to socialize!


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New Pix

Posted on Oct 22, 2007

On TrishTown. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



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Cowboy Pie

Posted on Oct 22, 2007

Snow stayed most of the day. Had lots to get done...must be in Santa Fe at 9:30 am. Ungodly early hour! Well, it's an hour drive and when we wake up here it's 14 degrees, so there you go.

Cowboy Pie for Amos. I told I'd make him an apple pie, and I did but I suddenly got tired of
The same old, same old. So I added raisins, walnuts, brown sugar mostly, rather than white, a secret ingredient and nutmeg, no cinammon. Then for the top crust I used my Cowboy Cookie cutters and made the crust in shapes of steer heads with horns, cowboy boots, and Saguaro cactus! Too late I learned about the cheese crust—because cheese is essential for apple pie! So for Thanksgiving when the guests arrive we’ll have Cowboy Pie with Cheese Crust. Yum.

I made a big pot of pumpkin soup last night—not just all sweet. Carrots, Onions, mucho garlic. Now that is one tasty soup. Tonight I am making maple sausage to go with. Stirred up a little tomato/pepper/sour cream thing to dab in the center—perfect complement of textures/tast/temperatures, plus we sprinkled a few sunflower seeds and kidney beans on top. I tell you, I love this time of year!

This evening I found one kitty curled up in the sock shelf of my armoire, the other one a couple shelves down with the sweaters. Wiz still cannot stand being in, Missy knows the weather. I can’t get her to come to the door to go out!

Gas guy stopped by briefly after just about getting us out of bed and rushing down to the house to dig our trench. Yes, we dug it ourselves, because, ha, ha, their trench tractor is broken. And then? No show. No call. Sigh. He didn’t even leave the darnn tank he brought. I’m giving them one phone call to explain then I’m calling a rival company. It’s been like 6 weeks and we’re barely further than when started. Ok, we are further because WE dug a ditch. Period. That’s ALL the progress. Sheesh.

Still did not get to my fish! There are just not enough hours in one day!



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SNOWSTORM!

Posted on Oct 21, 2007

First snowstorm of the season here in the village. It's been snowing for 2 hours, we are three inches and counting. It does not look like it plans to let up any time soon. Predicted 14 degrees here tonight. Brrr.

Kitties came running to the door at the first flurries around noon thirty. They took a nap, and
you should have seen their faces when they looked back out. Shock and disbelief. They are curled up on the green rug (brought it in for the gallery area a few days ago now that the weather is changing) in front of the fireplace.

I’ve bubble-wrapped all the paintings going to the museum, I’ll figure out the crate with the help of my husband. We learned a thing or two on the last one—this one will be even more sturdy. Heavy too, but oh well.

Got a bunch of great snow pix on my walk in the storm today—I’m going to paint in the studio for awhile and may get some of them posted up later. I’ll give a heads-up if I do.


 



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Sparkling Autumn Days

Posted on Oct 20, 2007
This is my favorite time of the year. Not so cold the past couple of days, beautiful out! Amos brought me some apples, I promised to make him a pie. Yesterday he gave us a WAY cool old antique wagon part—lots of iron fittings and weathered wood---it’s at least a hundred years old, maybe two hundred. We found a couple good size chunks of iron and wood wagon parts on our property as well—they make excellent gallery decorations for out front—what more perfect thing for The Ghost Pony Gallery?

Ordered a two-cord load of wood for Tuesday. That, plus what we have ought to get us to December at least, maybe even Christmas. We’re taking a Tonka-truckload down to the new house as we have no idea what’s going on with the gas there yet. Then I’ve got an afternoon’s worth of dump runs to make.

This evening I need to get back to that trout. Oh, and I think someone in Peñasco is having an art opening today...but don’t know that we’ll make it as this day is getting away from me!



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Winter weather is here!

Posted on Oct 18, 2007

Our mountaintop is covered with snow! It snowed here in the village last night. This morning there was a dusting left on the woodpile and what was left on the roof was melting off in the sun. It's still see-your-breath cold out there. Even the cats, who I can normally never get to come inside, wanted no part of going out. I opened the door and they went right back to their chairs.

Today I've got more website work to do for Hooked on Art, must begin packing up the paintings for the museum show, and work on that trout some more! The cold weather has slowed the drying time of the paint significantly.

Now we're negotiating with the Truchas Mutual Domestic Water Consumers and the title company to gt them to pay for our membership fee for the community water--it's $600. Since we already paid $1500 in escrow for water arrears and hookups, this should be taken care of for us by them. The paperwork all has to make the rounds, though. Then we'll need to go talk with the Mayordomo about rights to the acequia. That's a whole 'nother set of fees/rules and most likely, arrears by the former owners.

 



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Snow

Posted on Oct 17, 2007

OK, we've got our first snow flurries flying through the air today.

On our way into Santa Fe and then (ugh!) Los Alamos, to pick up our new dishwasher, dryer, and a couple of skylights.





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Septic!

Posted on Oct 15, 2007

Woo, Hoo! The septic system is in, inspected & approved, and being covered up as we speak! That is a task we wanted to get finished before the ground freezes....just in time! Now we are moving into the bathroom to remove the old fixtures there, tear up the floor and replace it, and move in our new fixtures. The tub is coming on Thanksgiving but in the meantime we can get the toilet and sink in.

The walls are almost completely down in the big back area, just one little section where the gas heater was. Gas guy postponed again until next week. No matter, he would not have been able to do anything today for the septic work going on and the big tractor back there. Even if it takes him forever to get the gas heat sorted out we can handily hook up the wood stove. That will work, that is, if we can get anyone to actually show up with a load of wood. We had one promised for today but I’ve not seen it yet and doubt if I will today.

Plus, I believe decided on what to do with the Truchas Trout for the Hooked on Art thing. I’m digging into the paint today and will let you all in on it a bit down the road. Husband is taking an art day today too, so we are both happily in the studio after so many long days on the house.






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new pix on trishtown

Posted on Oct 12, 2007
Go there

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New fixture/Raven's Wind

Posted on Oct 10, 2007

Maybe it's a weird thing to post about but we're just so excited about every part of the new place! I went online tonight and bought a brand-new toilet...it's a little old-fashioned looking, should go well with the pedestal sink and clawfoot tub. See a pic of it HERE. Notice the tank lid? Sort of a little shelf thingy. We'll go pick it up in Santa Fe tomorrow or the next day.

Have another large chunk of wall out...Wow, that back part is going to be HUGE...our "quarters.” We agreed we should open the entire thing up, put new floor down, then make our straw-bale step wall/arched opening/adobe benchs...in case we decide to move them around at some point in the future. So there’d be floor everywhere underneath.

I didn’t believe it when, in the kitchen, I saw there was no floor of any sort under the kitchen cabinets. Only dirt. No wonder they rotted through the bottom! Well, that’s how they did it with adobe in the old days. I suppose we should feel lucky there are floors of any sort. The floors in the back part need to come up and new sub floor put down, then (if we do not go with radiant heat) there will be pine planks laid down as flooring. But the boards (normally these would be joists, but again, it’s an old adobe and they did things differently) that run under the sub-floor look to be in good shape, we can go ahead and keep those.

So tomorrow—we’ll call & make sure the toilet is in stock before driving down to SF. Other than that? Get the rest of the walls out in our living quarters and many, many, many trips down to the Cañada convenience (dump/recycling) station where our friend Amos works.

Oh! I nearly forgot...make a note to myself. Leonardo said we could go ahead and order the carved posts for the front! Yay! I wanted to but thought maybe it was a bit of an indulgence but since he thinks it’s OK....I’ll make that phone call tomorrow. There is a guy up in Peñasco that makes them.

And...we’ve named the house. Where Leonardo comes from in Cape Town, South Africa, people name their houses. I think it’s a charming custom. So....our new house is called “Raven’s Wind.” It sits right on the edge of the canyon where these huge ravens ride thermals all day. They sometimes sit in the apple tree out back and soar right over us and play over the canyon all day. It’s quite a sight. Thus, Raven’s Wind. Plus, doesn’t it sound dramatic, like something out of Wuthering Heights?




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Straw Bales

Posted on Oct 10, 2007

OK we kissed and made up. Greywater is going into the septic. Whatever.

Today we went down to Cerrillos to pick up 20 straw bales. We thought we'd only get about
half of them in the truck but Tonka took them all! We were piled high and overflowing the sides but we got ‘em all in there & back home. Tonk likes being a farm truck. These are for making the stepped wall, archway, and "adobe" wall benches in the BIG room. We'll 'build' the walls/benches out of straw bales, cover with chicken-wire, and plaster over the top. Voila! 

David Trujillo got started on the septic today--there is a hole all the way to China in the back yard. He thinks the tank will come tomorrow. Cut a check today for $3400—that’s only the first half. Yikes! Now we have to yank the fixtures out of the bathroom and fix the floor (we’ll have to totally replace it—there’s a giant hole under the nasty old toilet) and find a decent toilet to put back in. A brand new economy model from Home Depot would do, even, they aren’t that much.



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Take it Out!!

Posted on Oct 8, 2007

We've decided what to do with the wall between the office and the bedroom. Take it out! We've decided what to do with the hallway wall. Take it out! Yesterday I took out the hall way closet. We've decided what to do with the bathroom. Make it bigger!

We are going to combine our office/living room/bedroom/hallway into one large space with the woodstove (eventually kiva fireplace) front and center. None of the walls we're taking out are bearing walls. In the original adobe this was all one big space. We will divide the use areas with partial walls/huge arched openings, stepped walls, and adobe benches can curve around spaces as well. (actually, we’ll probably use straw-bale construction for all the indoor, decorative stuff) .We'll leave it open but separate visually with these quintessential southwestern elements.

Being the big fan of curtaining off areas, I'll include a couple wall to wall drapes to let down when we really, really want to separate the areas (like if someone is watching TV and someone is sleeping as is frequently the case—or if one needs to do office work with a client and the bedroom shouldn’t be apparent). Solves our wicked problem about how to provide doorways to all those awkward spaces we didn't want separate anyhow. We’re both happy and ha, ha, I get to knock out a couple more walls!

Today I got paint on the entire backside of the house. And this evening a friend stopped by with a paint sprayer she is lending me, oh joy! Leonardo got the barnwood trim up in the peak on the front of the house. I really wanted to take out a wall too but was spent by early evening. The nice thing is we can call it a day when we’ve had enough. We’ve promised not to work ourselves too hard although it is hard not to! We just want to keep going and going and going.

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Colombus Day

Posted on Oct 8, 2007

People actually celebrate it here. Things are closed, people are home from work. Amazing.

It is really, really cold! We turned on the heater today, Leonardo even got up in the middle of the night to add logs to the fire. Brrrr. A sunny, crisp one again today.

Our gas guy postponed until next week. Which is OK as we're changing things around at the house. The estimate for setting a tank and running a line was more than we want to pay--besides we want to use the existing lines. And if he doesn't feel like doing it we'll call another company.

I've got some work to do on the trout (oh, I should post a picture of this monster, huh?) then I think I'll go down and get some work in on the house. I guess I'll open the gallery tomorrow while I wait for the other gas guy to come here and sort out what's wrong with our pilot light. I've only been waiting for our landlady to do something about this since February! Sheesh! The water heater pilot goes out all the time, often in the middle of showers. NO FUN!

 



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Pix posted

Posted on Oct 7, 2007
Pix posted up on Trishtown.com/blog. Check it out, new house pictures & fall color.

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Studio Day!

Posted on Oct 5, 2007

Windy outside, but sunny. Am going to stay in studio today. Started working on the trout yesterday, much sanding & prep work to do. Have ideas running through my head...hope they keep coming until something brilliant pops up! What I've come up with so far seems rather ordinary...

Also will dig back into Tehachapi Pass & other panoramics today. Depending on weather will get out to make a little drawing or two this afternoon, when the light & shadows are just right.

Sent a resume into a job in Santa Fe, part-time, decent wage, posting up articles on a web site--can telecommute. That would be perfect! I could make $$ & keep gallery open as well.

 

 

 

 



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tblog--RavensRain

Posted on Oct 2, 2007

I forgot to mention, if you go over to tblog, I am known as RavensRain over there. Postings go under Arts & Humanities when the dropdown is actually working.

 

 



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Something Amiss at Shoutpost

Posted on Oct 2, 2007

My latest post went in before my previous one. In other words, they are not appearing in order of last posting. Geez. So scroll down, you probably missed some really important piece of news.

If you get tired of this site, you can read the very same blog over at www.tblog.com which is a sister site to this one and supposedly has all the bugs worked out. It actually does not, but at least my latest blog is my latest one. This week, anyhow.

AND I'll try to get Trishtown updated WITH photos in the next couple of days...so much to do with the gallery tasks, painting (canvases), working on the house (and we'll have deadlines if we go with the heating system) and, UGH! looking for outside employment. Outside employment? How am I going to have time for that? That's just crazy talk!

 

 

 

 

 



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Budget & Attitude

Posted on Oct 2, 2007

The heating guy did show up--he told us more about radiant heat than I can remember, took the measurements and will get back to us in a week or so with some numbers. Egad, between the gas installation and the heat/floors (we also need a concrete guy) and the roof repairs and the fence and some plumbing (hopefully very little) I fear we will exhaust our budget and then some.

Every time I turn around something is another thousand here or six thousand there. Yikes.

I was stewing a bit today about the dude who was a member of the family that previously owned our place--what a damper he put on our spirits--we are not so good responding to that sort of thing on the spot, but give us a minute to think and we recover quite nicely. So, and yes this is related, I got my down vest yesterday. It came with a bunch of paperwork that I didn’t look at until I was clearing things out today so I looked through to see if I needed to save anything. Follows is their company motto which pretty much sums up my feelings on life in general—sometimes we all need a little reminder. It quite cheered me up.

The House Company Motto: “Attitude”

In addition to friendship, attitude is one of the few things in life where we have a true choice. We cannot change what is fated to happen or the actions of events or other people.

What we can change is our reaction to such things with the attitude we adopt. In truth, our attitude can be more important than anything we do. It can make or break families, companies, and nations. It is more important than schooling, talent, looks, or wealth.

How we react is everything and our attitude is the choice we have; it is a choice we make every minute of every day. It is a state of mind that no one can take from us. If we are in control of our attitudes, we are in command of our lives. And that is the best way to live.


So there you go.


 



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