Best Of

Up at 4 and headed up to my studio after a quick bite. Brewed up a press of Peter's finest and enjoyed that and a Killer Bee. Spent an hour sketching and had an idea for my next canvas. Spent some time at the drill press drilling very small holes in some bamboo rods for a mixed media I am finishing. Sanded 14 bamboo rods to break the glaze so the paint will stick.
Lit out with my walking stick for an hour and a half through the woods. Found some apples on the ground and left them in the woods for the deer.
Back home checked the weather and it seems like Helene is going to give us 5-10 of rain. Spent the rest of the day getting ready. Took a shovel and spent 2 hours digging out the ditches around my studio. Nothing is flat around here so runoff ditches are important. Worked in the garden for a hour and finally checked all the gutters. Had to get the extension ladder out but all are now clear. Will draw up several 5 gallon buckets of water at the house and my studio.
In foul weather in these parts the roads close pretty fast because of the widowmakers that come down. Sometimes we have had sections of the road give way and slide down the mountain. After supper, that I cooked by the way, I had to set this 78 year old body down in front of the computer.

Helene is coming up here. Supposed to be lots of inches of rain and 40-50 mph gusts. Getting ready.

@peter4jc said:
If you had TV at 1am, then you're not old, you're still a ute.

I guess I straddle that fence because I remember the star spangled banner coming on with the jets flying past and then the test pattern and eventually snow but I also remember Mission Impossible and Space 1999 coming on at 3 - 4 AM.

I think growing up within the coverage area of Los Angeles TV stations put us on the leading edge for 24 hour programming. We also got a lot of live coverage of car chases that would break into scheduled programming.

The other day someone explained to me what c-o-c-k fighting really was.

I'm upset...that’s six months of training I’ll never get back.

I knew 2, 3, 6, & 9.

Many people think that number #3 is actually called a flugelbinder; however, that came from a movie and is false.