Almost Over

Our time off that is.  We had yesterday evening and all day today off.  It was wonderful.  It rained off and on all day yesterday.  The clouds kept it pretty cool.  I think some people still managed to have their barbecues, I could smell them when I was walking Sassy.  The wind stopped altogether for several hours yesterday.  Last night it seemed that our whole neighborhood shot off their fireworks (that's illegal in town but people do it anyway).  When I took Sassy out for her last potty break of the evening it looked like the neighborhood was on fire, there was so much smoke everywhere.  It smelled bad too.  It started raining again and that washed all the smoke out of the air.  It was cloudy all day today and rained a couple of times but it looks like it is over for now.

We watched movies all evening yesterday.  We get them for a dollar a movie at Hastings.  Not bad.  It doesn't matter too much if there is a dud in the bunch when you only pay a dollar.  Today we had breakfast at Cracker Barrel.  Then we went out to the Refuge.  There was water everywhere.  All the lakes were full and all the streams were flowing.  I should have taken photos but I didn't.  Everything was green and beautiful.  We ran into a couple of showers too.  Now we're watching the last of the movies that we rented.

My hair is doing weird things today, sticking out in all directions.  The only way to control it is to either cut it super short or put a lot of stuff on it and grease it down.  I'm not willing to do either of those things so I'll just live with it.  I'm pretty much used to weird hair.

We had 4 girls in Sunday School yesterday.  That's more than I expected.  I really thought everyone would be out of town because of the holiday.  I guess the rain kept them in.

Photos of the day, the last two paintings that I did.  The first one is the horses done in soft pastel.  It didn't turn out as good as I wanted but it was good practice.  The second one was done in oil pastel.  I'm really pleased with the way it turned out.  It's based on a photo that I saw in a magazine of a lake in Scotland.

There is one body and one Spirit, just as also you were called in one hope of your calling; one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all who is over all and through all and in all.

Ephesians 4:4-6