Winter Notes- Tuesday, December 26th. Misty ( 97% humidity) and 42 degrees. House Lights on.

 I found a website where Julian Merrow-Smith does an oil painting each day (or perhaps just several a week) and puts them up for auction to highest bidder.  There is a web site, Postcards From Provence- which is a daily painting blog.   I selected this image because of the Pom.

My Artist Model Pom is still on the kitchen counter waiting for me to draw.....sketch...paint or whatever.

This painting was already auctioned off...when I discovered the site.  To say I love the image would not be close enough to how I feel about it. It makes me very happy.

So...dinner with the neighbors was wonderful.  Their Christmas Tree was lovely as usual.  One of the twins played Christmas music for us on the piano.  Grandmother had died a few months before my husband.  So A's father and I talked about grieving a bit.  He seems as lost as I am.  But he has a new puppy to care for and I have my Son visiting......the puppy is young and very curious.

What is lovely is that the older, so much larger dog (Twins pup) has taken on the duty of protecting the puppy and teaching it manners..  It was wonderful to see......they go out together and the older dog corrals the puppy back into the house ....

This post disappeared for a bit and I had to get it back here.... son is doing laundry and has just finished eating lunch.  I just finished eating breakfast.  One in the afternoon.

At around dessert time the couple next door to me arrived and joined the conversation.  Later they walked me home (son had asked to be excused after desert) and I got to see the results of all the banging and noise of the work being done......it was well worth whatever it cost them.....gorgeous.  The Wolf Cooktop with Red Knobs......stuff I dream about.  The husband does something similar to what my son does.  

So now I KNOW the next door neighbors I complained about (the noise and hammering at 7 am)  And I like them.  Everyone had watched the Bernstein program on Netflix recently....with mixed reviews.  Carol (my new friend) told me to do the intro thing to Netflix- watch the movie and cancel....  I am sitting here smiling.....if I ever get Netflix.....I am keeping it....Just for the Chef Table series. Both couples found the program disappointing as none of them liked the way it ended....what did you think ..if anyone reading this saw the program?.  

Well, it is really dark in the house and I have to go turn on all the lamps....at one o'clock in the early afternoon........a very SOMBER DAY.