Running around like a chicken with my head cut off–to no one’s great surprise–getting ready for HeroesCon. There is no art show, apparently, so I’ll be selling some small pencil originals at the table. I was planning to bring along General Globberlich, but honestly, I’m kind of attached to him, and tempted to keep him […]
Monthly Archives: June 2006
More goblinage! Let’s just hope that sketch of the goblin schoolgirl stays forever locked within my sketchbook… http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/35507889/
This was one of those paintings that leapt out of the sketchbook, grabbed me by the throat and said “PAINTMENOW!” “Yes, sir, General Globberlich, sir,” I said. (His name is so obviously General Globberlich.) I was so intent on finishing this painting I didn’t notice that it was nine o’clock and I had missed dinner–James […]
A squirrel has been trying to get to the feeder that I had suction cupped to the window by my desk. He can do it, if he’s patient, but he usually isn’t. He has to inch and scrabble along the little wooden crossbars on the window. Usually he gets frustrated and tries to leap for […]
Not exactly a quick sketch, but definitely a sketch… http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/35389833/ I felt the need to pay tribute to my turtle visitor, and then of course, I had to add the obligatory small rodent.
From the department of small pleasures: –The Lysol odor neutralizer wall plug actually works on catbox odors. Due to some peculiar convection of the house, the smell of the catbox would get sucked exactly to the front hall, which is probably the worst place to have it (except possibly the kitchen.) It would smell much […]
Heh, a wildlife heavy morning! I went out to see if the turtle had moseyed off (actually, he’s sulking under the beautyberry bush) and James said “Look! A little tiny squirrel!” I followed his gaze and said “Honey, that’s a chipmunk.” It turns out we have the Eastern Chipmunk in the yard. We are at […]
I found myself awake early this morning–before James! Madness!–and went out and did some weeding, and dumped a few more things in the ground. (From next door, shasta daisies, echniacea, and another indeterminate yellow thing with leaves like a black eyed susan and a head like a marigold, from the nursery black snakeroot and the […]
Well, the total today looks like six daylilies, seven iris, eight echinacea, two wedges of creeping thyme, a dozen mums, a shasta daisy, one indeterminate yellow thing that resembles echinacea, and nearly twenty gladiolas. I also went out to the nursery this morning to get the cow poop and soil conditioner to plant these things, […]
So I live next door to a house that has a wonderful front garden. It’s densely planted with bulbs and shrubs and flowers, it’s thick and tangled and overgrown in the way that established cottage gardens get, and is generally just awesome. The house just sold, and the new owner wants to tear the whole […]