Hi ho gang! Well! This is a fine thing...hacking the senior sneakers! There are times when I feel like the bad people are just waiting around every corner waiting for us. I am sure that there are ways to deal with this apart from just going away. I use apple computers but John uses a PC. It appears that each of us have things we have to deal with.

This entire Oregon coast dwellers are cranky and tired of the rain and cold. We here on this coast have had over 180 days of rain. Right now there is a drenching rainfall. It is upsetting on a very deep level. Will it ever stop? Will there be huge mud slides? I think I do get crazy at times. However we are all doing the same thing here while looking at the weather forecast and looking carefully at lakes and river levels.

There is always something to worry about. There is also a lot of things to feel good about. John is making me a storage/work space for my sewing. I sew and mend on my painting table. The prep for shortening my jeans can be the reason I tend to roll up the hems. Not too classy!

Oh by the way I bought a very old oil painting at auction. I think it was a study for a WPA project. Maybe for a library. It is dirty and damaged. Will need to find a restorer. I love the dreamy qua
It's if the image. I will send photo as soon as I get it into better light.
Patsy

I lost my days do you think I sould bing it back up to date which I have no ideal how many days it was

Good nite Marie.

Here is the old oil painting that has me obsessed with the artist and what it meant.
Patsy

Anne – Nice to hear your 'bin' garden seems to be working, already have potato shoots. :-) Rutabagas grow well in deep containers, also sweet peppers, eggplant, and broccoli. I wish the hyacinths would flourish here as well as dandelions...LOL! …. Our kids will always be our kids and we Moms will always worry and be concerned.

Marie –Sorry to hear about your sore ribs. I hope your ribs are healing and you have found some comfortable positions.

Lin –Broccoli slaw sounds delicious. ...My son has been waiting for the release of the 'Guardians of the Galaxy2' ...That was a short time (relatively) for your friend. It can be difficult on the survivors not giving them much time to go through the stages of grieving. Hospice should be there to support her and the family through this difficult time. I am sorry for your loss. Prayers for you, your friend and family.

Sandy – Glad you found your earring. It was very nice of Babe to give you the $$$ for your trip. … I agree it is nice to see the days to show how long you/we have been on this site/journey vs how many days actually logged in a row without a break. I would have my good jewelry checked for loose stones 1-2x/yr as a safety. It might be cheaper to stick with costume jewelry and only wear the real pieces for special occasions ….. Thank you for the encouragement. Yes, biopsy showed moderate dysplasia/precancerous cells. I have an appointment with surgeon on May 25th. It looks like I will have a lumpectomy and not need any further treatment, only every 6 month mammograms for next 3 yrs then annually. Good News!

Buzz – Nice that your cousins popped in for a quick visit. Glad you are changing out your mattress and decreasing your chance off falling out of bed. You should get a more restful sleep on the new mattress. Mike will always be in your heart, you are not shutting him out. Glad you had a nice long video chat with your son and that he will be with you to celebrate your birthday!

Jackie -So George is all set for the warmer weather! It must feel good to have the bedroom work behind you, now relax and enjoy it. I love the blue color scheme. You did a great job. Nice pic of George and friends.

Patsy – Yes, it is nice to see some sunshine and get out side and enjoy. Sounds like you have enough to keep you busy even indoors, with painting,writing, sewing etc. Hope there will be no mud slides for you and no flooding for Anne. We finally have some reprieve from the rain, it went from 37*F one day to 77 *F the next and 80's today. You will enjoy having a dedicated space for sewing. Good luck with the 'bread cleaning'. Let us know how it went.

Well ordered a swimsuit on line (horrors!) to use at my sister's pool this summer. I found last summer exercising in the pool was much easier than on dry land. Hope this will help get some stamina back. We finally have sunshine! Yeah! It got up to 81 F today and I took advantage since I was having a good day. I sat on the ground, leaned over the raised bed, hand tilled the soil, and planted some: lettuce, Swiss chard, kale,and broccoli, all from starts and 2 types of peas and wax beans from seed. I also plopped in a couple Marigolds to deter cabbage flies. It took me 2 ½ hrs. to do just that.
The Fence repairman came today and finalized the estimate. I am so glad it came in less than originally stated, so I signed the contract and they should have it done by the 1st week in June. … I am paying my nephew to do odd jobs for me, he got 4 raised beds totally dug out and I have fresh mix in 2 of them (one being the one I planted today). Now that warmer/dryer weather is here he will finish pressure washing the fence and deck. Later he will stain them both. Hope to have a good day tomorrow and will go plant starts/seeds in the Community Pantry garden.
Called the repairman, yet again, for the foundation repair trying to get it scheduled. Doing repairs that have needed to be done and will need to be finished if I have to sell.
Well a bit tired going to call it a night. Good Night/Day Sneakers. MAE

Well it's already 70f here and yesterday it reached the high 80s. We spent the day in the garden. Lawns cut and Darren dug up a load of dandelions. Today I must start thinning the beets and carrots which have shot up overnight.

I was interested in the comments about Patsys find. Different strokes for different folks again. I guess I'm a philistine because I didn't like it at all. I found the figures all of a sameness. What are all the books about? Are they being dug up, studied or buried as the horrified nun seems to suggest. Why the mother and child? I found it disturbing personally which means it's a jolly good thing we are all not the same. However, I am glad you found it PATSY, are enjoying it, and it will be fun restoring it.

Well, must get showered and dressed,
Anne, the art critic, lol.

Only a vague resemblance!!
Jackie

We are going to have sun and warm weather! Yea! I will now finish washing some more windows. Maybe drag down some of the curtains and wash them as well.
More on the interesting painting...a really good friend who taught art history at a university in Washington is helping me with the search for information. She had access to some WPA web sites and we have been madly poking around hunting for the artist and/or the project. The closest we can come up with is that this is a study for a library mural. Some of the murals had content or philosophical requirements. There are some artists statements still in existence. You can not easily see from my very poor photo that one side of the painting has war and despair. Through knowledge and learning (books) a better life on the other side shows religion, love, a way out of grinding hard work showing an idealist world on the other side of the painting. There was also a request for a mural in a medical library that might fit. You can see how much fun this is! How I wish we still had the WPA. We still have a few places with "1% for the Arts" policies.

I did study art history but only as required for my degree in fine art, certainly only scratching the surface. John says he is going to put his foot down on my interest in EgyptIan art. No buying mummies or sarcophagus or pyramids. Hummmmmmm! Don't you think they would make interesting coffee tables? Oh well...
Patsy, finder of lost art projects

Hi, I have burned my palm on my heat gun. Stupid girl!! Wasn't watching how I picked it up.

Might not be typing much for a little while. Otherwise, I am fine.

Hugs.

Lin

I think that painting is a fine example of the era America was trying to exit, the great depression back in the 1930s. Most of you are too young, but I recall people standing in lines just hoping to be handed an apple to assuage their hunger. Franklin Roosevelt promoted The New Deal, of which one program was named The Works Progress Administration . The WPA was the largest and most ambitious American New Deal agency, employing millions of people (mostly unskilled men) and encouraging artists to display in murals the efforts of retraining a huge starving population to various efforts enabling them to earn a living eventually! Perhaps many of your parents suffered through that period and eventually the country prospered and our generations were among the most prosperous ever! Of course, World War 2 contributed both huge numbers of deaths, and tremendous prosperity, and I was recently made aware that our schools no longer focus on history or civics, which is pitiful since future generations will never learn from past errors!
Celebrated the 85th birthday of one of our residents who mentioned at her birthday dinner tonight that she and her husband moved to Edgewater Pointe because of Mike and me! A lovely party, and fond memories of life in our former community. But here I am, barely able to remain awake again! I must be getting..... what is that word? Or condition?
Yes, I agree that JACKIE's mural is much brighter and appears more cheerful. I find both bring back strong memories!
Hope you are all safe in those storms you are mentioning.
Buzz

Thanks for the insight BUZZ. I know my parents had a hard time in the depression when I was a small child. I love these lively discussions we have occasionally so thank you PATSY. My father ended up repairing bicycles in those years, in fact until he died. He was quite a talented artist and I have four squares of some hard material, no idea what, on which he painted scenes of our village with paint used on bicycles. Thick stuff but remarkably done when you consider the materials at hand. Grandson Derek has inherited great grand dad's talent.

We nearly got blown away yesterday but no rain or thunder. It remained further north half hour away in Michael's vicinity. Today much more pleasant after the heat and the sun is just climbing out of bed. It's our long weekend coming up when we all celebrate Queen Victoria.

Hi NOLA, good news for you and I am very happy for you. But poor LIN. I keep thinking of your burnt hand and the pain! Hope it's a little less painful today!
Today is Jill's happy day when Michael hopefully turns up. She loves car riding as well PATSY. Head turning this way and that!
Anne. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️