Daily Notes- February 21

Another snow storm.  Not what they predicted but everything is white and the temps are going higher so--it will all melt during the day and freeze into ice overnight. As usual.  Thank goodness G took the snowblower in for repairs before it snowed.

A surprise found in the newspaper holder out by the mailbox.  My Coffee Date friend left me a bag of 10 or more avocado pits  (for eco dye work) and tea bags.  The weather has kept us apart.  We aren't sure"when" she left them as G doesn't look into the holder--he just picks up the newspaper.  I love surprises like this.

I had enough of the floor mess and got the vacuum out after breakfast and did ALL the floors and baseboards.  Dog hair, dust, stuff collected on our shoes and boots and dog food crumbs.  It certainly collects.  But the work is very hard for me and I am tired now.  Mostly struggling with the central vac hose.

Up top, another page out of the drawing journal.  I see things on the internet and if they are interesting, I draw them into the book.  Later I added graphite since I just found the set of Czech graphite pencils I purchased somewhere in Europe in the 1980's or more recently at the Art Supply in Portland (2000).  Very smooth graphite.  Lovely stuff.  The Magic Attic coughed them up one day a few weeks ago.  The drawings are never used as is--there is just something about the design that interested me-perhaps the layout or the negative and positives of light and dark or the colors. the ideas might be used in something I am working on.  I always need help with contrast.

G has even been using the graphite pencils in his coloring book.  Daughter and I have been giving him tips on contrast.  We are both suggesting darker elements to bring out the mandela designs. Well, more like the designs you get in one of those tubes you turn and the design changes as you look thru the viewer. Snowflakes.  Either way, he enjoys working on them.

I need to get busy with prep work for my March 2nd Seed Starting class at the greenhouse.  And work on the class at the library in March.  The 18th or 19th.  and I need to haul the frozen bags of soil out of the garage and into the vestibule to thaw out enough for me to start my milk jug seeds.  Yes, I was going to do it in January but that didn't happen.