Art Evening - Rodeo Morning

It was art all day yesterday. One of my art ladies showed up at 9:30 (class starts at 10). No problema; just let me brush my teeth. Actually, I was up and ready, matting some paintings. Eight ladies showed up for art, which is a lot for my little house. Then we all went to lunch together to celebrate a birthday. Ashley came to the "old ladies" art class, went to lunch with us, and then came back for "young ladies" art class. I think she is a glutton for punishment.

All of the art young ladies left by 5 PM and I packed up my art supplies for my demo at the Art Guild, which was in town. It had been overcast all day, but nothing notable. About the time I needed to walk out the door, the skies opened up and poured forth water as in the days of Noah. I waited for a lull in the rain, but I could not wait too long or my driveway would be impassable. As it turned out, my driveway was already muck, but being a real cowgirl, I drove right through it. At the highway, there was a car in the ditch – don’t know why, but I assume it was due to the heavy rains. The guy was okay and he got out of the ditch on his own, and I went on to town. A mile down the road, the rain quit – the highway was dry. Amazing!

The lady with the key to the Art Guild building was late, and I was early to set up my supplies. She got there about the time the rain did. Jesse showed up to help me and was a great assistant. The lady that I call "the kindergarten teacher" kept bossing Jesse around. I was glad that Jesse did not take her out – leave that to me for later.

My demo/art lesson went off okay. There were several people at the AG meeting that I had never seen before in my life. One lady, whom I did not know, brought her two, young grandsons – I thought that was odd, but what the hey. After introducing myself and talking about the Yupo paper, I started passing out the supplies with the aid of my beautiful assistant. Beforehand, I had cut some white-board to use as cheap paint pallets. When I passed them out, everyone was in awe and asking questions. I kept saying that they were for the paint and that they were just white board or what some people call abitibi or bathroom board or masonite with a white slick side, that I had bought them at the local lumber supply…they were dumbfounded. I finally figured out that they thought the boards were the Yupo paper. I never saw that coming and it threw me for a loop. Although I recovered, I had the thought, "Am I stupid or is it them?"

Who knows what everyone thought of my lesson. I think most of the people had fun and enjoyed the new paper – that was my purpose. There were those anal folks who would not have enjoyed anything no matter what I did, but then I knew that going in to this demo. Jesse and I left the AG meeting about 8:30. It had been raining all evening. I followed Jes who was in her own car. When we got to our driveway, she turned in without thinking and drove out to the muddiest, gookiest part of the driveway. She sunk her little Scion. I waited at the paved road watching her try to get unstuck with no luck. I called her cell phone to tell her to give it up, pull off her shoes, and make her way to my car, which she did – snapping photos as she went. I drove out into the pasture and we made it to the house. It was a long day.

Rodeo
While posting this morning, the dogs started barking. The horses were out. Toby and Jes had already left for work, but Toby was planning on coming home – he has been a bit under the weather. So, it was left to me to walk up and down the pasture with a bucket of feed trying to catch those wild mares. I was glad when Toby showed up. We got the horses caught and penned and the fence fixed – all before 8:30. Yeha!