Grandchildren with Grandparents
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October 09, 2022 – Post Surgery : Balancing My Daily Rebalancing Expectations
I was so busy struggling day-to-day for so many weeks – medically, chores ( baths, eating ), art pick ups & deliveries and fitful starts at painting – I never realized I’d ended up so tired + nearly a week’d gone by without blogging!
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August 11, 2022 – Aging Gracefully, Riding the Tide of a Busy Day
Had wanted to write about a well-deserved much-needed Go Fund Me for a gallery I’m showing in ( Primal Gallery ), but….
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August 09, 2022 – Revisiting #FestivalBeachFoodForest with Max the 9-Year Old
And while Max helped with some watering, I asked Karen about a bright berry cluster in a small tree the morning light was glowing on —
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August 08, 2022 – Bingo! At #TheLadyBird’s 55+ Residences #AustinTexas
After a full day of live online SilverSneakers exercise classes, painting…and of course Sheila’s wonderful meals – Sheila and I, plus the 9 year old and his mom, had a good old-fashioned Bingo bash, lol! ❤️
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August 06, 2022 – Discovering / Exploring #FestivalBeachFoodForest with the 9-Year Old!!
Sheila and I had heard there was to be a walk-through and intro to one of the garden areas near where we’ve recently relocated ( The LadyBird 55+ Austin Texas ) this Saturday ( today ) and we also happened to have the 9 year old overnight so… 😊
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August 01, 2022 – Happy Birthday To Our Oldest Grandchild!!
I often write about our youngest grandchild, the now-9 year old, but we have four other grandchildren, and our oldest turned 28 today!
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July 26, 2022 – Aging Gracefully, Grandchildren with Grandparents, Day 2
Another very short post to go with another very long hot day, lol! Sheila and the 9 year old and myself went out early, though temps were already striking near 90, and got a short walk in feeding the squirrels and birds.
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July 25, 2022 – Aging Gracefully, Grandchildren with Grandparents
It’s been a long hot but good day — It’s also very late this evening, so am simply posting we had a full day of chores and the welcome return of our youngest grandchild from an extended trip….
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July 16, 2022 – Aging Gracefully, Downloading Last Year’s Photos, and Discovering Memories
There’s often a space, often noticed, where life is more like what you’d like it to be ❤️
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June 10, 2022 – Showing the 9 Year Old Grandson and His Dad the Piano in the Lobby of Our New Place, #TheLadyBird #AustinTexas
we got to take a wonderful much needed break when the 9 year old grandson and his dad showed up to look over the new place at The Lady Bird ( brand new 55+ community here in Austin )….
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May 10, 2022 – BW Impressionist Abstract 1, Completed!
A few posts back, about a new diptych in-progress, Freedom, in the 2nd 1/2 of the post, I mentioned having another in-progress work, BW Impressionist Abstract 1, that the 9 year old ( our youngest grandchild ) said he really liked, but wanted more “gold” in it, and pointed out where & how much more…
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May 08, 2022 – Remembering and Celebrating Mother’s Day!
Apparently I’ve quite a slew of Mother’s Day posts over the years, lol! And yesterday ( Sat, May 7th ), I got to spend more time with family – other than my own mom’s funeral late last year – than before the pandemic!
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May 06, 2022 – Aging Gracefully : Some Days Are Meant To Be Simple
I struggled what to write tonight for tomorrow’s post. Not because the day was too complicated; but because it wasn’t.
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April 02, 2022 – Aging Gracefully : Flipping a Too-Full Day Into a Happy Ending
…a strangely continuing set of week long days overbrimming into each other….
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March 26, 2022 – Aging Gracefully : A Moment of Creativity ♥️
Blessed are the children, for they are us remembered, reminding us – we are still children also…. 💕
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March 24, 2022 – Aging Gracefully : Now at 71, Another Perspective on Our Younger Selves ♥️
So what’s the point of all this, all these pictures and captions – where’s the perspective part in the title? Well, I’m reaching another one of those inflection points where I….
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February 13, 2022 – The Then-8-Year Old Celebrated His Now-9-Years Old Across Several Seasons in One Day!
The postal workers’ famous motto of “neither sleet nor rain….” is all over these 9 year olds celebrating birthdays yesterday. And yes, it did also sunshine, gust over 40 mph, and finally work itself it night, lol! Unfortunately the chest had to be dragged back out to a truck, but….
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February 01, 2022 – The 8 Year Old Helps with Continuing In-Progress Painting, Walking With the Stars
Back in early January, when I 1st mentioned working on Walking With the Stars, I also mentioned our 8 year old grandson had been ( and is ) a big help in getting this 24×36 complex-textured work along. Now I’m finally remedying that, lol!
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October 31, 2021 – Happy Halloween! For the Kid in All of Us!
Though Halloween trick or treating isn’t til this evening, this handmade (with his daddy’s help) costume for Max has already been to pre-Halloween party last week, his school’s Halloween party a few days ago, and tonight, the big event!
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October 22, 2021 – A Day With the 8 Year Old = Painting His Wooden Sword for Halloween, Circling the Trailhead to Barton Creek Greenbelt, Visiting Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, Celebrating Veterans Art at the Old Bakery & Emporium, and Watching Big Hero 6 on Disney+!!!
This post is long on pictures, mostly because it was a long day from getting up to getting back to bed, lol! But what a good day it was ❤️ Here’s hoping this long post of pictures brings a similar good feeling! First up, above, is a special project Max has had his heart on,…
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August 22, 2021 – Starting the Day with Dappled Light and Love
There was gonna be no pretense about the heat here in Austin today, not to mention the Covid resurge rivaling and in places surpassing the worth of the nearly two years of pandemic. But Sheila and Max and I set out before breakfast this morning, before the sun had shrank away the surprise morning clouds,…
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August 19, 2021 – Sometimes It Just Takes a Leap of Faith (with a little help)
My wife & I both take a lot of pleasure showing & teaching the 8 year old about the myriad mass of cultural and nutritional and miscellaneous details of living nowadays (sometimes as vs when “we” grew up, lol!) – but often enough, he likes to feel he’s returning the favor. He is almost always…
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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 01, 2021 – Some Interruptions in Life are Blessings
Just back from an incredible trip to the Galapagos west of Ecuador, wife & I got the opportunity to have the youngest grandchild over. This is from our mid-morning walk in warm dappled light ❤️ I only wish I’d realized the value of this with our own children more fully…
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July 20, 2021 – 1st Trip in Over 3 Years
Time to wrap up our short but wonderful stay with the 8 year old and other grandparents ♥️ Soon there’ll be another sunrise.
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July 19, 2021 – 1st Trip in Over 3 Years
I’d forgotten the feel of an immense sky above us – that’s the other grandpa in pic ❤️ It was one of the things I took for granted in Galveston, was amazed about in Costa Rica, and very much surprised about along Lake Champlain in Vermont 😊 Big skies!
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July 18, 2021 – 1st Trip in Over 3 Years
So early in the morning, 1st twilight had barely begun, but the lights from homes and boats dotted the night and gave me this lovely unintentionally watercolor-ish night shot from my iPhone 😊
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July 17, 2021 – 1st Trip in Over 3 Years
An aquarium visit proved interesting, fun and educational 😊 Probably the most important being that all creatures, no matter their color, size, or type of life..need connection – love, most of us would say ♥️
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July 16, 2021 – 1st Trip in Over 3 Years
These are short posts with an image or two depending on time computer posting time available. Storyline is grandparents taking the youngest grandchildren to visit other grandparents 💕
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July 15, 2021 – 1st Trip in Over 3 Years
These are short posts with an image or two depending on time computer posting time available. Storyline is grandparents taking the youngest grandchildren to visit other grandparents 💕
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July 12, 2021 – Sunday at the Greenbelt with Grandson and Music
Very quick post late Sunday for today, Monday July 12th 😊 Spent a full day with the 8 year old, at the Greenbelt, putting together an atelier for the bathroom, at the swimming pool, and generally getting worn out having a good time, lol! Grandson & I even got to listen to a little music…
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June 12, 2021 – City of Austin’s Bark Rangers at Barton Creek Greenbelt
….workers and volunteers with the City of Austin’s Bark Rangers were out in gentle but firm force….
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June 09, 2021 – Ending the Day With a Splash
I did do several things needing doing today, including finally uploading a new sports gift writing – Volleyball Kill Poster, but the day was capped by a surprise late afternoon visit from the 8 year old 😊
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May 20, 2021 – Blowing the Day (sorta) in a Good Way
“…most the rest of the day, after mid-afternoon, was basically blown having the 8 year old over ❤️ So it’s only sorta blown, lol!…As has been the case in the past, I have a few shots of the day 😊 ”
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May 10, 2021 – Random (sorta) Pic of the Day, Max Jumping Steps
“…here goes a short quickshot pictorial of my 1st probe of the nearest Austin nature area new to us, one we’ve never explored before; all done yesterday evening at the last moment.”
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May 02, 2021 – Contemplation Sunday : Moving During COVID-19, Exploring New Surroundings, Family, Art
“Sunshine and higher temps broke out after nearly a week of slight to moderate rain and cloud cover…Like most things in life, the cooling off before the big heat of summer was a welcome relief, and the return of sunshine and ability to get around with slip-sliding was also. Variability, in some things, must be…
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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 20, 2021 – Happy 1st Day of Spring! I Slept Late, Fed the Birds ( or Did They Feed Me? ), Pandemic Lunch with a Friend, Visited Family, oh, and Painted!
The Time Change and my wife and I have not started speaking yet. We don’t like the time change thing. And it’s not which 1/2 year version we prefer; no, just pick one….
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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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January 31, 2021 – My Most Viewed Images This Week @FineArtAmerica, Watercolors, Austin and Paris
Newer work almost always has a nice jump on the most viewed count among my images on Fine Art America, but it’s especially nice both my newest watercolors not only topped the list this past week, but with resoundingly good numbers 🙏 On top of that, like a reminder cushion, two of my oldest uploads,…
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January 10, 2021 – Snow in Austin! Ain’t That Like a Snowball’s Chance in, uh, You Know 😊
Last Sunday (see pic below) Sheila and I had our youngest grandchild over and socially distanced a short walk on a trail near us. Being early January, a light sweater was all we needed. Well, not today, lol!
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January 03, 2021 – Yeah, Lots To Do Today, With Resting Maybe the Most Important – Well, For Most of Us, lol!
I included Playing Your Edge, normally a yogic term, in my tag words for this post ‘cause, really, thinking about it, finding and exploring one’s edge in yoga, the arts, love, is really, I’m believing more and more, simply stretching oneself into the moment ❤️
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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 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 01, 2020 – Wedding Anniversary and More
Full Day – 39th Wedding Anniversary, May Artist of the Month w/Creative Arts Society, Saw Youngest Grandchild and Daughter.
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Aging Through Covid-19, April 13, 2020 – Social Distancing with Grandson
Shaking up my art offers 🎨 Today, the first full day not taking antibiotics in two weeks – I changed my pricing on all my prints and gift items, plus my licensing offers – all the items I have control over at Fine Art America!!!
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Aging Through Covid-19, April 08, 2020 – FaceTime Fun With Grandson
Sometimes the remedy a long day alone at home for myself and Sheila is just a little something special. Here’s our 7 year old after reading a chapter from comic novel Dog Man to us 💕
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Adan’s Product Reviews on Amazon – Woolley’s Watercolour Episode 9 Line & Wash – The Perfect Combination, with Peter Woolley (Amazon Prime)
“What I particularly liked about Peter’s presentation of creating with line and and wash in watercolor (beyond finding out the basics to begin with) is how he presented the exploration of the topic to the me, the viewer.”
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My Yesterday in Pictures for, Jan 01 – 03 2020 😊 Art, the Old Bakery & Emporium, and Grandchildren 💕
My Yesterday in Pictures – Jan 01-03, 2020 😊 Art, the Old Bakery & Emporium, Grandchild & I learning about tracing/transfer paper 😂
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