Getting Out

This weekend which starts tonight for us, as E has no school tomorrow, we'll be driving over to Minnesota, Minneapolis and get a hotel for the night.  I am actually pretty stoked to be getting out of town and maybe get some yummy food that I haven't had access to in a while, like Vegetarian Indian food or a vegan breakfast spot.  I never thought these things would be so dearly missed by me, like Ethiopian food, there was such a good place to eat in Portland or this goodness and they were near our hood, god I miss yam donuts!!! Or my favorite Chinese restaurant in P-town that was almost as good as Golden Era or Jasmine Tea House in SF, but the brunch was the bestest there and the guys loved my family which was pretty nice.  But I digress, so we'll be going to Minneapolis which is a giant city in comparisions to here, crazy but true.  We'll be doing silly but fun things like going to the Mall of America and hitting up the Camp Snoopy or Legoland.  I'm pretty much happy about doing these new things and if anyone had any recommendations for stuff to do in the lovely city of Minneapolis it would be nice to know...  There are about 5 restuarants in our whole town and very few shops and stores, not bad just what it is, a little ol' farm town called Algona, Iowa.

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Around the house the seeds I planted are sprouting like crazy.  And I am posting some book inspiration and my latest painting I am working on which is a sketch for now.  I am also posting some clay doll photos as motivation for getting the ol' ball rolling on my 'Worry Dolls', it feels like a long time since I have screen printed and I guess I'm psyching myself out a little.  Iris has been coloring up a storm, and she got so into it that after a couple afternoons and nights of working out different colors on the paper she poured juice on it today and ripped it in half!  Yep, anyway take 'er easy and I'll be rumblin' thru soon.

new website

above photo:  my christmas cactus

above photo:  my grandma florence circa 1920s.

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below photo:  the decorah eagles we've been watching.

Hey all!  It's been snowing around here and I have plants blooming and seeds sprouting indoors!  My Christmas Cactus is growing new buds and I am actually pretty stoked to see some bright bold colours up in my kitchen.

 Also, I have a website now so please feel free to give her a look over.

In other news, the decorah eagles our fam has been hooked on watching have become proud parents to two more eggs!  They'll be hatching soon I bet.

Thanks to the friends who've been so very kind and helpful in regards to my newest painting that I just finished mentioned in my previous post.

Have a good nite!

lonesome road

two top images via http://ringoatelier.blogspot.com/

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All done with my painting!  It's about someone I hope to see in the near future.  The painting is entitled 'See you in the next Voyage'.

* Now up in my shop.  Thanks y'all!**

Big Feelings

Hi there!  So I hope everyone is feeling well and ready to have a sweet ol' weekend.  Here are some photos I took of my weekday exploration. 

Another undisclosed location of more piles of things that have been chilling since way before I have lived in Algona or maybe even before Chris was born in Iowa (otherwise I think 90's era objects and 60's).

and more ice...

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Our sunporch where my final indoor garden will be on a somewhat sunny day.

Getting going using a small shallow box.

Below we have thyme seeds on left and black lettece seed on right.

Planting the pansy seed (below).

All done with my rows, even Iris helped.  It was a little dicey but I hope it works out well (below).

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Almost finished with my painting so please excuse the roughness and my crappy photos.   

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I started four rows of seeds in the kitchen and ten are

started in the small mini-greenhouse which I have put in Enoch's room.

We have lettuce, thyme and pansy in the kitchen (on top of fridge).  Oregano, jalapeño and anise basil in Enoch's room.

The small mini-greenhouse (below photos)

Above photo:  Enoch's room/ bookcase with the small mini-greenhouse all set up with seeds and ready to germinate, we'll see.

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I would love if the sun comes back soon!  The rest of my garden is waiting for the sun, cleared the sunroom/ clothesline room for Mid-Spring when I can bring the plantlets out of the house.

eyes for the dreamy

nunta de piatra (the stone wedding), 1972.

more here.  

concurs (1982).

more here.

And an indoor garden startup/ painting update on Friday!  Thanks for being so patient with me.  This cold is the pits and well i can have a tendency to be a major procrastinator, deadly combo indeed.  Also, been feeling a little uninspired lately by my little old town but I did manage to snap a few photos on Tues. (below is a teaser of some of the photos I will post on Fri.), it got me out of the house.  Cheers to that!  

so far i've

1.  helped chris make another round of sourdough bread w/ a new recipe.  

2.  eaten c's mom's homemade veggie lima bean soup.  to help me feel better!

 3.  took some moments finding the light in my rock collection.

4.  enjoyed some awesome days of sunshine lighting up unexpected corners of our home.

*  and yes been healing up the ol' body from this yucky sickness.  and some good old fashioned posting is right around the corner w/ some (hopefully pleasant) surprises.  Yeah!