Merry Christmas to All

 

Merry Christmas to everyone.  May your holidays be loving, blessed, and fun.

Last drawing of the year . . .

This is the last drawing of the year.  I’m waiting on my customer to call me back to answer some questions about the windows.  I’m not pleased on how the drawing has turned out.  Still more to go on it though.  ■  Cold!  Dang, it’s cold out.  -5º  yup that’s minus 5 degrees.  Too cold for me.  And in this weather we have to watch out for Zoe.  ■  I got my Kindle up and running and am reading a book.  I like it.  Easy to see and use.  ■  Time for bed.  ■

Christmas is near . . .

Almost Christmas.  Am I ready?  Not really, but then I’ve got 2 days to go.  ■  The sketch on the right is a preliminary pencil sketch I did for a pen & ink customer.  The actual pen & ink is below. ■  The customer emailed me and said she loved it.  Always nice to get compliments.  ■  Got one more drawing to get done before Christmas.  Got up early to start – and – finish it.  ■  It’s going to be very cold for the next few days.  Burrrrrr.  The older I get the colder I get.  I’m beginning to understand why older people need to have the heat on higher.  My mother used to have the heat set at like 75º.  It was way too hot for us younger folks.  ■  We’re in the early stages of planning a trip to Florida.  We want to see Holly’s sister and one of my old high school friends when we’re down there.  ■  Back to my drawing.  ■

First snowfall.

Another drawing to do . . . . .

Another drawing to do.  This is one home in Cary that I’ve been wanting to do for some time.  The house has been the home to a few businesses – real estate, web design, party planners, and probably a few more.  The person that lives there now won a pen & ink drawing of her new home at our chamber’s “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun” night back in October.  ■  Got to take an hour or so and do some clean-up around here.  ■  More later.

Rosemary sleeping . . grandpa working . .

That’s new little Rosemary sleeping on grandma’s lap.  ■  I’ve been working on some drawings.  Got one shipped yesterday.  I’m also working on our Christmas card this year.  Got to hurry up and finish it so we can get ‘em in the mail.  ■  Back to work.

Here’s one I just finished

I just finished this home in Houston.  I had done one last year for them, but that one was a gift.  For this new home the order came from them.  ■  Next drawing is of a farm.  Gonna be tough to lay that one out, but I’ve got some ideas.  ■ 

The newest member of the clan . . . .

Rosemary  . . . the newest member of the clan.  Born on Thanksgiving.  Isn’t she beautiful?  Yes, she is.  ■  Finished one drawing today – ship it tomorrow.  Have started on the next one due.  ■  Playing as much square neck dobro as I can.  Never seems as it’s as much as I want, or need to.  ■  More tomorrow.  Time for bed.  ■

I’m back.

Been away from this blog for awhile.  Things just got busy and I guess I got a little lazy about posting.  ■  The picture to the left is of me playing my Weissenborn (look it up) guitar at our friend’s daughter’s wedding.  The gentleman to the right is Ray, the vocalist.  What a voice.  The song we did was “Storybook Love” from “Princess Bride.”  ■  Our daughter and son-in-law will soon have their next child.  Only days to go.  Grandma – Holly – is all packed and set to drive down to Louisville as soon as she gets the call from Libby.  ■  Had our first snow of the winter today.  We actually have a small accumulation on the ground.  And it’s cold out to boot.  ■  Let’s see, since I last posted I retired from my job at the music store and Holly lost her job is a divisional consolidation.  It’s going to be a struggle.  ■  And, good night.  ■

Now two weddings to play for . . .

Steph’s is September 1st and the song is “Always Love.”  Devin’s wedding is in October and her song is “Storybook Love.”  Always Love is done in Open G and Storybook Live in Open D.  At least that’s the plan.  Lots of practice left to go in order to make it perfect for both of them.

Looking forward to Steph’s wedding

Our niece, Stephanie, is getting married in September.  My son and I have been asked to play a song for the father-daughter walk-down-the_aisle part of the wedding.  We’re very honored to be able to do so.  I’ve been working diligently on the song for the past 3 months.  It’s not a hard song to do, but I’ve had to arrange it for the wedding.  It’s a rock song that has to be done elegantly.  And – it’s time for bed.  ■

Yeah, we had a lot of rain!

Rain – yup, we had a lot of it.  Over 6 inches.  And we had some water in our basement.  Not a lot, but enough to ruin some of the carpeting down there.  Went out and bought a wet/dry vac and a blower.  The basement’s dry now.  We’ve decided to take all of the paneling and carpeting and dropped ceiling out down there.  We think the house will sell much more easily if the basement is a blank slate.  ■   Back to work.

Zoe’s doing better.

Our Zoe is doing much better.  The doc put her on some pain meds and over the past couple of weeks she’s like a new pup.  She’s back to laying in my office with me which she hadn’t done for a few weeks.  Abby has also taken to laying in my office.  Nice to have the company.  ■  I have a drawing that I’ve got to finish tomorrow, so bed is calling me . . . ‘night.  ■

Zoe . . .

Took Zoe to the vet today.  Not really much he can do for her.  He gave us some pain medication for her.  I hope it’s helping. 

Zoe . . .

Zoe is still slowing down.  Likes to stay in her hidey-hole.  Hard to get her out of it – have to pull her out by her collar.  But she’s a fighter.