My life, under the microscope...

Sunday, December 31, 2006

Happy New Year!

Yup, it's New Year's Eve and I'm in here alternating between updating my website (still nowhere near done!) and drawing chickens. I have no life, but you already knew that... Just thought I'd write a quickie blog and wish everyone a wonderful 2007.

I took a bunch of pics today:

Gwen, Dusty, and Shylah

Dusty and part of Gwen

Shylah, with Gwen in the background.

Dusty's normal expression ("hey, whatcha doin?") He was informing he was done with breakfast and ready to be let out. He eats sooooo slowly that I have to pen him up alone when I feed him.

Feeling his oats.

He's going to be going home soon. I am happy with how he is now, he's a good horse to ride. I never did get the gaiting consistent, but with me having no gaited-horse experience and him just not being inclined to do it anyway, I think that aspect was doomed to fail. I am going to miss him, he's been fun to have around, and I definitely plan to go visit him and ride him where he lives (it's only about 15 minutes away) and I hope to get him AND Shylah out on the trail some time.

Gwen, the grand grump. She was actually rather sociable today, I was impressed.

Shylah can be hard to photograph, because she wants to be rather close. She's so fuzzy!

I set up all the tables and chairs for the shindig tomorrow, and walked into the room to discover that Olin had decided to make a centerpiece out of himself. Good thing he's cute! :-)

Friday, December 29, 2006

Large Red Pyle Old English Games

Large Red Pyle Old English Games
8x10 inches each
colored pencil, graphite, ink
on tan paper
for the American Standard of Perfection

Large Red Pyle Modern Games

Large Red Pyle Modern Games
8x10 inches each
colored pencil, graphite, ink
on gray paper
for the American Standard of Perfection

Thursday, December 28, 2006

back home

I am back from the annual pilgrimage to the homeland... In other words I'm back from San Diego. I've been there every Christmas in my life except for one. Most of Mom's side of the family lives there. I was born there, lived there til I was three. I remember bits and pieces of things (going to the zoo a lot, some things about the house, little earthquakes, seeing my relatives a lot, and that amazing cake at Anthony's restaurant!) I wouldn't want to go back though, not to live there. It's nice to visit but there are way too many people down there, and I could never be a beach bum.

Some pics:

Southwest planes are very photogenic aren't they?

The ocean, quite mesmerizing to watch.

I feel like this right now too (maybe even look that way as well)... too many sweets in the last couple weeks (harbor seals in La Jolla at the "Children's Cove." I played there when I was a kid, now people are not allowed, it's a big controversy).

So I'll be back to work officially next week but hopefully also fitting in some time over the weekend. OMG I so wanted to be done with the SOP stuff before Christmas. *sigh* I'm going to start a bunch of new things next week anyway or I'm just going to drag my heels forever. Wish me luck....

Sunday, December 24, 2006

Merry Christmas everybody!

Whether you celebrate it or not, I wish you a Merry Christmas. May the season bring you joy, and may the new year treat you well.

Big Dog Paintings!!!!!

Okay yay, I can post them now, since presents have been opened and people have seen them! :-) These are portraits of my "dogs in law" as I call them (dogs belonging to my brother and sis in law). They were done as Christmas gifts, but also as a way to show the painting style, which is pretty vastly different than the drawing style.

These are not shown to scale. I should have photographed the two together but I didn't think of that. Well, I can still do that some time, it's not like I'll never see these again! The photo quality is not great (photographed indoors, problem with glare on paint) so I will be getting these professionally photographed some time down the road.