Seniors
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April 23, 2021 – Moving in Our 70’s in a Time of Covid – Long Day, Almost Finished the Transition to Our New Location
Had hoped to finish with the old place and be set for sorting and unpacking at the new, but too much to do. That and rolling thunderstorms, hail and threats of tornadoes, lol!
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April 22, 2021 – Moving in Our 70’s in a Time of Covid – The Movers Arrive, on Earth Day
Don’t want to tell you what we have ahead in terms of chores (esp setting up new WiFi), but can tell you, as per the top pic, we earned our keep today on Earth Day, moving within the trees 😊 💕 🌳
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April 21, 2021 – Moving in Our 70’s in a Time of Covid – Catching the New Light at the New Apartment
Most of what we took yesterday (Tue, the 20th) were boxed paintings, but one, the acrylic Lady in Paris 1889 which I’d been working on, chosen ’cause the paint would dry quickly minimizing smears & all that, lol, and that one, not too big, at 20×20, was super light, so I just hand carried it.
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April 20, 2021 – Moving in Our 70’s in a Time of Covid – Our 1st Peek of Our New Abode
Tomorrow I’ll try and have some interior shots I took before our car load of boxes came in; another similar round of car loads tomorrow, then the “big” movers come Thursday; but right now, 5 min til 8pm, we’re very hopeful, and we’re calling it a day, quite a day ♥️
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April 18, 2021 – Moving in Our 70’s in a Time of Covid – Stragglers Needing Packing
“I have most my images, prints and originals, paper/canvas/panels, mostly packed now…Somehow I’ve ended up with several stragglers, lol!”
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April 16, 2021 – Moving in Our 70’s in a Time of Covid – Boxing It Up
Stay well everyone, and wish us continued good luck w/our move!
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April 13, 2021 – Moving in Our 70s During Covid – Removing Pictures from the Walls
Yesterday was a small but significant day in our move-prep days, I took down the remainder of our paintings and pictures from the walls.
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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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April 01, 2021 – Aging Gracefully – Through Covid-19 – Paris Painting In-Progress: Lady in Paris 1889, Nearly One Year Later
“…finally, I sat down to paint again. Like I did the day before.”
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April 01, 2021 – Moving in Our 70’s in a Time of Covid is No April Fool’s Day
“…finally, I sat down to paint again. Like I did the day before.”
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March 31, 2021 – Changes in My Blogging Pattern
“…we are preparing for a new day in a new location much nearer town (close to the above pic where we lived before for a long time, but a little more west, closer to Zilker Botanical Garden) and family (grandchildren and children).”
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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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February 24, 2021 – The Old American Artist Twitter Excerpt Series, Number I.2.1 – with Commentary
I’ve no real idea if this is common, a little common, or just plain uncommon, lol, to other artists.
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February 16, 2021 – The Old American Artist Twitter Excerpt Series, Number I.1.2 – with Commentary
Already, at the beginning of the story, I shift from the contemplative metaphysical musings in my prev post to a suggestion of how the artist blends the language and methods of art with his love for this one woman 😊
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February 15, 2021 – The Old American Artist Twitter Excerpt Series, Number I.1.1 – with Commentary
“Maybe now, in my sixties, he thought, my days are like weeks now….”
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February 10, 2021 – Reblog, Dr Mirkin’s “Can You Exercise Too Much?”
Dr Mirkin, “You recover by going at a slow pace for as long as it takes for your muscles to feel fresh again. There is no advantage to time-limiting your recoveries.”
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February 09, 2021 – Excuse My Mess, I’m Sprucing Up Posts While “Trying” My Hand at Aging Gracefully, ie, I Need to Rest a Bit
Okay, I’m finally gonna admit, I’ve been trying to do too much 😊
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February 08, 2021 – Surprise Weekend Visit from the Youngest Grandchild, Pics and Video!
It’s difficult indeed to describe how wonderful a silver lining it is that our remote schooled youngest grandchild (via Zoom etc) is realistically safest visiting and staying with us a couple days than so many other options!
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February 05, 2021 – New Excerpt Series Starting Soon, The Old American Artist, with Commentary
Looking back at older work, like my 80s acrylics or 2000s water soluble oils, can be lots of things : sobering 😂 and, when I spot patterns of motifs or preferences in my work, very helpful for me, enabling me to see enduring patterns of interests. The same, it turns out, even with its own…
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February 04, 2021 – The Old American Artist Twitter Excerpt Series, Number I.10.3, with Commentary
“ …at the far end of the table, across from the side he had chosen to go down….”
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The Old American Artist Twitter Excerpt Series, Number III.21.2
“Closer, they realized the woman and child by their door must be Anna and her mother Nicolette, waiting for them…..”
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The Old American Artist Twitter Excerpt Series, Number III.21.1
“Sloping down, closer to the sea, the dusty road brought their converted fisherman’s hut into easy view under the stars and bright moonlight.”
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The Old American Artist Twitter Excerpt Series, Number III.20.3
“Signora and Anna, they go to your house,” said Santino, rocking. “Why?” asked Arturo….
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January 30, 2021 – Painting My First Watercolor Painting on Paper Printed with My Own Original Pen and Ink Sketch
“There is so much potential in this line of art creativity for me, emotionally and creatively, I felt I really needed to get all this out. If for nothing else, to remind myself later on ☺️ ”
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The Old American Artist Twitter Excerpt Series, Number III.20.2
“She looked around, politely, as if she may have missed them there on the porch. ‘Where is Signora Nicolette and Anna,’ she said, worrying the wind.”
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January 28, 2021 – Yesterday’s Horizontal Art Mess Looks a Lot Better Vertical, Even if Still Not Good Enough
“I’ve been experimenting how to print some of my original pen and ink line drawings onto paper and then paint on them. I was clearly not happy with my 1st painting effort on laser paper yesterday, and then, right before bed, I took another look at the piece, laid it casually down with a sigh,…
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The Old American Artist Twitter Excerpt Series, Number III.20.1
“Nearer their home, the church bells clanging to ten, and chuckling because their hands and elbows kept knocking in the dark….”
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January 27, 2021 – Rushing Creativity Late in the Day When Tired Results in a Learnable Mess, lol!
“I won’t deny it. I don’t really like my painting. But I do see somethings I like — ”
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The Old American Artist Twitter Excerpt Series, Number III.19.3
“When quiet found a moment to be heard, their breaths warmed the scent of salt and moisture on their hands and thighs.”
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January 26, 2021 – When Creativity and Chores Collide, lol!
Well, it’s past 5pm, didn’t get to paint, but sure got more than a couple of handfuls of chores done, plus, a little touch of art.
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The Old American Artist Twitter Excerpt Series, Number III.19.2
“Arturo spread their warm worn blanket, thin but protecting, alongside the fold-out windbreak meant for the winds in winter.”
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The Old American Artist Twitter Excerpt Series, Number III.19.1
“At the city’s boundary wall, they stopped, looked back at the lights of the hotel, held each other briefly with tenderness….”
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January 24, 2021 – Update on My “The Old American Artist Twitter Excerpt Series”, It’s Nearing It’s Initial Run!
My excerpt series from my novella, The Old American Artist, is nearing the end of its initial run!
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The Old American Artist Twitter Excerpt Series, Number III.18.2
“The room around them returned slowly. People approached. Congratulating them. On the show, on their togetherness. ‘Your show looks fabulous,’ Rosetta said to Arturo, ‘Macario came through.'”
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The Old American Artist Twitter Excerpt Series, Number III.18.1
“Arturo caught sight of Rosetta and immediately felt his heart expand. Her legs split the fold in her dress as she stepped….”
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The Old American Artist Twitter Excerpt Series, Number III.17.5
“A brief gust shook the large panes ever so slightly, barely a tremor of vibration. ‘I think it’s her….'”
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The Old American Artist Twitter Excerpt Series, Number III.17.4
“‘I thought food was being served…’ Me too, smiled Arturo….”
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The Old American Artist Twitter Excerpt Series, Number III.17.3
“‘…come! We must present you,’ Macario smiled, wrapping the air with his arm around Arturo as if placing an elegant cloak on his back.”
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The Old American Artist Twitter Excerpt Series, Number III.17.2
“Arturo had arrived along this stretch of the Mediterranean with Rosetta less than a year ago….”
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The Old American Artist Twitter Excerpt Series, Number III.17.1
“Freshly bathed and dressed in the deep blues of the ocean night nearby, Arturo entered the main ballroom reserved for art shows, weddings, graduations, conventions, and political gatherings. Almost anything anyone could pay or trade for.”
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January 13, 2021 – Monet’s Garden April Rain in Giverny, Photo to Oil to Watercolors through Three Decades, Part 5 – (Non-Professional) Challenges Photographing Painting Nuances
Yesterday I posted a couple of my watercolor renditions of my mini-Monet’s Garden series of posts, but was immediately unhappy with how one of the two appeared on screen.
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The Old American Artist Twitter Excerpt Series, Number III.16.2
“At the entrance to the grande fortress hotel, set from the beach to midway up the rough hill facing the ocean….”
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January 12, 2021 – Monet’s Garden April Rain in Giverny, Photo to Oil to Watercolors through Three Decades, Part 4 – Learning Lessons Doing Repetition Variations
Previously, in Part 3 of this mini series, I showcased my 1st watercolor (seen below) keyed off an original oil of 2001, itself keyed off an original photo of the same year.
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