Showing posts with label COIV-19. Show all posts
Showing posts with label COIV-19. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 7, 2020

Day 2811: Barriers.




"Barriers": junk mail collage






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Click here for Luther Vandross, If Only for One Night.
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A few people have said they are ready for more family updates.
The Superheroes, Grandhunks, and granddogs live 12 miles away, but it somehow feels further now. WW comes by every two days with more wonderful food than I usually eat, so there is a real danger of ending up like this funny 2-minute video. Click here. WW was here again today,  she brought Laker and Zoey, 
to get out on a rainy day. I don't know why I didn't have my phone?
The dogs each had Grandma time since they can't be carriers. 
WW and I could only have a virtual hug which is a sad substitute. 
When they drove out Zoey had her head out and I waved till they were out of sight. Grandhunk #1 is in school and working at home.
Grandhunk#3 is working since he does the electrical installation
and works by himself for a company. Grandhunk #2 is (probably the most physically active) in school at home, but his work has closed for the duration. He is up to 400 push-ups a day and a goal of some astronomical figure by some date. He took the dogs for a walk wearing a 50# weight in his backpack and has used Zoey 
for curls and lunges and such. I need his energy.



















 













 WonderWoman favorite found a toy 
that Zoey had torn up as a baby. 
She said she did surgery in four places and gave it to Zoey, who remembered 
and was so excited. So far she hasn't torn it up 
though she doesn't have a good track record.
From our crazy family to yours, please take care.




Just because:


Blue and Gold Macau by Apeiron Diesirae





A smile for Tuesday ...
















Monday, April 6, 2020

Day 2810: Still here.




"Fantasy Bird": junk mail collage & marker on an acrylic background, PS postcard









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Click here for Bill Withers (RIP), Lovely Day.
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I had an acrylic background on a large sheet of w/c paper.
Just large brushstrokes 7 lines of colors I rarely use.
I folded then tore it into 12 postcard pieces.
 


I have never tried to do a bird, so I started.
Using the given line, I drew sort of a bird shape?


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          I used mainly torn pieces of junk mail & catalog.

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Lots of tiny overlaying pieces.

4.

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6. Final
close-up

The top photo is the above photo rendered in Photoshop. 
Birds are more difficult that people.




2GN2S:

 
image by @joaodmorgado





A smile for Monday ...















Wednesday, April 1, 2020

Day 2805: Showing up.





Cecilia: acrylic, collage, marker on heavy w/c paper, postcard





I completed the postcard started yesterday, today, here,
Yesterday it looked like this when I stopped.
 
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Today I resumed work.

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Click here for Barbara Lewis, Hello Stranger.
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Did you see the movie Groundhogs Day? 
A 1993 American fantasy comedy film starring Bill Murray 
as a TV weatherman who, during an assignment 
covering the annual Groundhog Day event is caught 
in a time loop, repeatedly reliving the same day.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rAyThU_J3I

I got up this morning, made my bed, showered,got dressed,
and all of the normal stuff, in pretty much in the same sequence, 
and I thought of that movie. I didn't put on the tv today, 
it slows me down and I am already slow. Enough for now.
Friends send me Covid19 facts and I've read them but not today. 
I save them all in a Covid19 folder to read if I want stress.


One blog that I follow faithfully is here. 
Carol Mulvenon writes a wonderful, short blog almost daily. 
 Sometimes she shares recipes, or her knitting, projects.
 Or pictures from her walks, and always so good to start the day. 
Carol is a palliative nurse in a Kansas hospital. 
Today she shared her perspective on Covid19.
To me, it was meaningful, concise and actually 
comforting, so I thought I would share, just in case.




2GN2S:

Insightful documentaries, shows and more

 

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2GN2S#2:

Zoo shares adorable pictures of orangutans playing with their otter friends


A zoo in Belgium has shared some amazing photos of a blossoming friendship between a family of orangutans and their otter neighbors. The animals live together at Pairi Daiza zoo in Domaine du Cambron, as part of a the program designed to maintain the primates' wellbeing in captivity.


"The otters really enjoy getting out of the water on the orangutan island to go and play with their big, furry friends," said Goedefroy, adding that Berani and Ujian have developed a particularly strong bond with their neighbors.


"It makes life more fun and interesting for both animal species, which makes it a very successful experiment," he said.




Smiles (10) for Wednesday ...