Category: COVID-19
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April 08, 2022 – #Covid19 : Sheila and I Got Our #SecondBooster
Though my Google search for info re getting one’s 2nd Covid-19 booster shot resulted in a variety of articles, some of which admitted scientists were split or mixed re getting the 2nd booster, my wife and I had already decided we were getting it.
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December 30, 2021 – #Covid19 #Omicron Update
Despite have a really interesting reblog / review post on an interview held with a top Abstract Expressionist ( preserved at the Smithsonian ), things have gotten so bad in terms of infections I felt I had to do what I’ve done several times this last two years, bring you current status news about the…
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August 31, 2021 – The Resurgence of COVID-19 : a Week After Our Booster (3rd Shot) – MUCH Better!
Today marks a week since Sheila and I got our booster shots, and I’m very glad to say we seem to have recovered from it (esp me) much quicker and cleaner than either shots 1 or 2!
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August 26, 2021 – The Resurgence of COVID-19 : First Full Day After Our Booster (3rd Shot)
I didn’t think to get a pic of our drive-thru line at our Dr’s clinic, it would’ve been nice, ’cause Sheila and I have been lucky enough to get our Covid-19 booster shot (Moderna version)! There’s several bits of info we learned going through the process of setting up and obtaining our appts for our…
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August 25, 2021 – The Resurgence of COVID-19 : Wife and I Got Our Booster Shots!!
I didn’t think to get a pic of our drive-thru line at our Dr’s clinic, it would’ve been nice, ’cause Sheila and I have been lucky enough to get our Covid-19 booster shot (Moderna version)! There’s several bits of info we learned going through the process of setting up and obtaining our appts for our…
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August 15, 2021 – The Resurgence of COVID-19 : The Austin Chronicle, “ICU Bed Availability Drops to All-Time Low”
The day after a wrenching if beautiful funeral and burial tribute for my 94 year old mom, infected with covid and other ills of being elderly, I read this grim statistic for where we live, Austin; and apparently true for most of the state of Texas…That she lived her life fully belies the somewhat separate…
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August 11, 2021 – The Resurgence of COVID-19 : My Mom Has Passed
A challenge, a pleasure and a remembrance of a woman who while nearly universally proclaimed by family and my friends (from grade school thru high school to college!) as an angel, she lived her life so angelically and seamlessly, I never noticed it happening.
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August 9, 2021 – The Resurgence of COVID-19 : The Hill, “Bars, restaurants move to impose vaccine mandates”
My recently begun series, “Resurgence of Covid-19 Austin 2021” continues with this story from The Hill – “Full-service operators, operators of bars, they want to get back to business and one challenge that they’re facing is labor. They need to have a labor pool they can rely on, they need to be able to expand…
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August 07, 2021 – The Resurgence of COVID-19 : The Austin Chronicle, “Vaccine or Ventilator? You Decide”
A few days ago I posted some dire TV screen headlines via KVUE news here in Austin — Things have only intensified, as even a quick read of the Austin Chronicle’s article will show. The 1st sentence reads, “Only 14 staffed intensive care unit beds were available in hospitals in and around Austin as of…
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August 04, 2021 – The Resurgence of COVID-19
There’s few times life or death issues are so widespread they not only engulf those close to us, but nearly everyone one hears about – this is one of those times…KVUE news, whose images I’m using for this post, has an article title, “‘The choice now becomes vaccination or ventilator.’ 230 unvaccinated people hospitalized for…
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April 05, 2021 – Aging Gracefully – Through Covid-19 – Shout Out to Office Depot: Free Laminating of Our CDC Vaccination Record; Plus Playtime with Grandchild; and New Volleyball Image Upload
Stay well everyone! Good-night! Work and play as able / as needed – it’s our juggling game of life ♥️
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March 28, 2021 – Second Day After Our 2nd Covid Shots – Grandchildren, the Best Medicine
Fatigue plus shortness of breath, more than the aches and pains after our 1st Covid shot, seem to be the main symptoms this time around..Meanwhile, Sheila and I benefited from the best medicine known, family and kindness and love ♥️
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March 27, 2021 – First Day After Our 2nd Covid Shots – Very Weary, But With a Huge Thank-You to Austin Public Health (APH)!
It’s been a very long day, and a very long Covid year so to speak, but yesterday, Sheila and I drove to the north eastern hinterlands of Austin and got our 2nd Moderna Covid-19 vaccinations!
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March 26, 2021 – We Received Our 2nd Covid Shots Yesterday!
It’s been a very long day, and a very long Covid year so to speak, but yesterday, Sheila and I drove to the north eastern hinterlands of Austin and got our 2nd Moderna Covid-19 vaccinations!
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March 10, 2021 – Confusion and Weariness With Mask Anarchy, LOL!
It’s barely 4 in the afternoon here in Austin but I feel like I’ve lived another week of another mass confusion and whiplash.
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March 08, 2021 – New (Interim) CDC Guidelines for People Fully Vaccinated
This is an important update from the CDC today detailing their guidelines for fully vaccinated people – March 08, 2021
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March 07, 2021 – Woke to This! Masks Now To Be Required to Grocery Shop at HEB, Randalls – Opinion, It’s the Right Thing To Do
Sheila came rushing in to the kitchen to ask me to guess who reversed their no-masks-required decision, and I jokingly “guessed” at several of our state’s leadership, but I was wrong anyway, lol! No, it’s more important than that actually – it’s where we shop to buy our food!
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March 04, 2021 – Masks in Grocery Stores in Austin – Back to Mask/Mass Confusion
All I feel I can really do is wish and pray for the safety of everyone in those stores without mandates, whether pro or con re the masks. If we’re in this together, we really need to act like we’re are in this together ♥️
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March 03, 2021 – Why We’re Only Shopping at Sprouts For Groceries (and a few others) Here in Austin For Now, Hint: Covid-19
“… for us to choose to voluntarily restrict ourselves to Sprouts, and a few other stores I’ll highlight hopefully tomorrow, is a big deal. Fixed incomes of the qualifying-for-most-any-level of stimulus cut-off-money work that way 😊 “
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January 23, 2021 – Dr Fauci’s Update on Covid-19 Vaccines, There is Much Hope
The information is relatively basic, but immensely clarifying and reassuring, at least to my wife and I. We’re in our 70s, still haven’t been able to receive vaccinations, and this type of information is crucial in keeping us upbeat and hopeful, committed to continue eating and living healthy as we can ❤️
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January 01.09.21 Reblog – Sketching Outside in Winter with Watercolour via Margaret Hall
Reblog – My first Reblog of this interesting artist in northern (I believe) England, Margaret does a lot of experimentation with various mediums, but I’ve particularly liked her watercolors and work plein air via her local chapter of the international group, Urban Sketchers.
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Reblog – Poetics of Protection via Adam Zucker #FaceMasks (Art and Science)
Reblog – I don’t get to read Adam Zucker’s posts as often as I’d like – also true for many fellow artists I follow & really like — mostly for the fortunate reasons that I’m so busy with my own art, keeping physically active at 70, and have lots of family around — but as…
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Turned 70 Today – A Lot To Be Grateful For!
“Plus… The first family meal, outdoors, socially distanced from other folks, since the beginning of the pandemic!”
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Aging Gracefully During Covid-19 : The Seasons – and Hopefully The Times – Are A Changin’
“Doubts about whether 70 would actually be that major a marker for me, in terms of how hard and how far to push myself, held me back from developing thIs post though, until today!“
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Aging Gracefully During Covid-19 : Approaching 70 – Why It Feels Like the Speed Limit, lol!
“Doubts about whether 70 would actually be that major a marker for me, in terms of how hard and how far to push myself, held me back from developing thIs post though, until today!“
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Aging Through Covid-19, July 16, 2020 – Contemplations During the Virus Upsurge in Austin
Been a Bit Since I’ve Posted Much Anything About Our Covid-19 adjustments and challenges, my wife and I have just continued to clatter down the road of time, grabbing and doing the things we’re still able and allowed to do like two kids walking home from elementary school 😊
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Aging Gracefully – Through Covid-19 – New Paris Painting In-Progress: Lady in Paris 1889, Details One Week Apart
I’ve worked on Lady in Paris 1889 in-between some smaller watercolor (vs acrylic pieces), though a lot of the new touches to this work have been watercolor paint w/matte acrylic medium, basically making it an acrylic, but with some watercolor features, like the particular pigments I really wanted to use 😊
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Aging Gracefully – During Covid-19 – Update with SilverSneakers Stability Class at Gold’s Gym with Curt Holland
Last week I post a more in-depth post, pictures & info, of the SilverSneakers Stability class Sheila and I take with Curt Holland at Gold’s Gym here in Austin, promising to update with a shot I thought I’d taken but, well, didn’t take, lol! That’s the shot above 😊
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Aging Gracefully – Through Covid-19 – Sold My 1st Face Mask, a Paris Mask! @FineArtAmerica!
A quick post to announce & celebrate selling my first face mask! Special thanks to my buyer in Ohio! ❤️
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Aging Gracefully – Through Covid-19 – New Paris Paintings In-Progress: Lady in Paris 1889, Paris Arm Chair View
New Paris Paintings I want to have been finished with these two, lol! But they’ve needed little touches. The larger piece (20×20), Lady in Paris 1889, a true acrylic watercolor mix (a little more on that below) has needed tiny tiny touches to “unflatten” it so to speak. While the smaller 6×6 piece has needed…
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Aging Gracefully – During Covid-19 – SilverSneakers Stability Class at Gold’s Gym with Curt Holland
Recently I uploaded a SilverSneakers stability class post, talked a little about how good the class was, both in terms of social distancing and the instructor, but hadn’t been able to get some pics – but now I have! 😊
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Aging Gracefully – During Covid-19 – The Earth is a Garden: My Most Viewed Image this Week @FineArtAmerica June 2020
I’ve been uploading my paintings since starting watercoloring (late Dec ‘19) recently by completed progression, with The Earth is a Garden one of the more recent. It’s a very pleasant surprise seeing it garnish this much attention vs some of the others I thought my be stronger received. One really never knows, which is just…
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Aging Gracefully – During Covid-19 – Gardening our Balcony: Bird on Camera! ❤️
Just a very quick update post w/pics Sheila caught of one of her suitors, uh, bird visitors 😊
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Aging Gracefully – During Covid-19 – Gardening our Balcony: New Bird Bath and Feeder 🐦 😊
Some things are old, some new, some we got, some either our son or youngest girl and the grandson’ve given us, but nature accommodates most things in the wild, and luckily, so far, on our balcony 😊
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Aging Gracefully – During Covid-19 – Austin Covid-19 Warning re Hospital Bed Capacity by Mid-July 2020
Austin has quickly reached a crossroads of choices that may or may not prevent the city and area from having to shut down again.
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Aging Gracefully – During Covid-19 – SilverSneakers Stability Class at Gold’s Gym Austin
1st Live Stability Class Since March! 🤸♀️ Well, ok, we didn’t do any handstands, lol! But Sheila and I did go to our first stability class since at least early March, if not late February on Monday morning!
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Aging Gracefully – During Covid-19 – Coping with Changes: Masks, Fitness, Entertainment
Just a quick recap of things going on in our lives here in Austin as Sheila and I continue to adjust, adapt, and age through the changes created & necessitated by Covid-19.
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Aging Gracefully – During Covid-19 – My Paintings on Fine Art America
It’s a tough switch for me, picking up brush with paint vs picking up a camera. Switching from the exactness of line and light captured (even if framed by my eye) by a machine, exquisite as it is — to the amorphous shifting intangible (even if more powerfully felt) world inside me.
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Aging Gracefully – During Covid-19 – A New Series, Serial Series’
Am I a Serial Serialist, lol? 😊 Since “way” back, I’ve tried to create a series I can stick with, and obviously, didn’t. The topic would run out of juice. Or more accurately, I would. It was time for me to switch gears to another creative avenue, the way I switch art styles to stay…
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Aging Through Covid-19, June 04, 2020 – Resting From Too Much Exertion
Resting Up From Too Much Exertion, lol 😊 We had a rare patch of extremely nice weather for nearly a week here in Central Texas recently (now heading to near then above 100-107 next 10 days!) and I literally immersed myself in long fresh air walks and extra live online yoga and balance classes and…
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Aging Through Covid-19, May 27, 2020 – Personal Transitions During Stay-at-Home Distancing
Personal Transitions During Stay-at-Home Distancing No BIG in the typical sense of what I tend to think “big” life change/transitions are, but with no blog post for 5 or 6 days, I gave up figuring out the exact # of days, lol, I felt compelled to say a little something.
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Aging Through Covid-19, May 26, 2020 – Be Kitschig RePost
Photo Lessons for Dummies by BE KITSCHIG is a superb humor laden look at the all too common pitfalls and inadvertent mistakes we all non-professionals make with our cameras 😂
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Aging Through Covid-19, May 20, 2020 – Legal Struggles About the Right to Vote
A bit of news out of my home state of Texas. For the past decade, the two main political parties of that state have battled in and out of court in regard to things vote related. Actually seemingly everything vote related, lol!
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Covid-19 Visit to Lady Bird Wildflower Center May 2020 💐
First trip I can think of for Sheila & myself, much less with Max, since maybe pre-Covid! 💕 Short, less than 2 hours, and less than 15 minutes from home, but what a treat! 😊
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Aging Through Covid-19, May 18, 2020 – Article Review of Risk Levels of Everyday Activities
A superb article, mostly for two reasons. One, it covers a huge range of our everyday activities. Two, it differentiates into most the activities, delineating what makes it risky or less so, in general.
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Aging Through Covid-19, May 17, 2020 – Sunday Rest with Review of Art Pieces to Improve
The current work, for now titled Dancing Free, below the Paris painting, shows how the transparent ground “clouds up”, creating the soft streaking across the black gesso.
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Aging Through Covid-19, May 16, 2020 – New Paris Watercolor Art
I think if I had to name one important goal I accomplished with this small Paris work, it’s that I stopped much shorter than usual in re to feeling I overdid the image. Some may say I “way” stopped short of overdoing 😂 but I truly like the white & lighter negative spaces.
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Aging Through Covid-19, May 14, 2020 – New Watercolor Abstract Impressionist Art
“… there was a point, decades ago, I finally realized I had this tug-a-war going on within me : translate an image to paint (realistically faithful to the photo or plein air scene), or go abstract, usually way abstract 😊 ”
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Aging Through Covid-19, May 12, 2020 – Social Distancing
Besides painting and finalizing details for renewing our current rental lease into early spring, we also got to spend a truly lovely afternoon social distant visiting with the youngest girl, her husband, and of course the 7 year old ❤️
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Aging Through Covid-19, May 09, 2020 – New Watercolor Impressionist Landscape Art
Well, I was gonna do a short piece about pollution and Covid-19, but was working on my 2nd watercolor on white absorbent ground yesterday and today and decided it was well enough done to post it and talk a little ‘bout that, lol! 😊
