Low Fiber Diet

That's what has been happening here - could maybe even classify it as NO fiber diet. And that's what it feels like. I've not been to my sewing/painting studio for a couple of weeks now, other than to use it as an alternate TV room. When I don't like what Mike is watching (Nascar), I go up there and turn on my own tv and watch, and tell myself I'm going to do something while a program is on, but then I don't. And afternoons when I'm home, I tend to be outdoors digging somewhere and/or planting something. Yesterday it was transplants: columbine, zinnias and snapdragons. I think this afternoon I'll seed in more zinnias, cosmos, perhaps some hollyhocks. But the hollyhock package says "shady area for the first year" and the spot they'd be going is full sun. I'd also like to plant my gourd seeds - birdhouse gourds - somewhere that they'll be out of our way but still can be watered once a week. So I guess the fence row out back is not under consideration, tho it would be perfect. I wouldn't relish carrying 5 gal buckets of water uphill all summer, and I doubt I could snooker Mike into doing it.

I ordered and received a nice little assortment of "stuff" the last week or so - two big silkscreens, some various-sized textile squeegies, a 10-bottle set of Golden Fluid Acrylics, three different types of acrylic medium. The screens are for the purpose of attempting the polychromatic/deconstructed/breakdown methods of screening dye onto cloth. I have the instructions for the first two, but not the breakdown, tho I suspect it's similar. Truth be known, I'll likely use the EVANS technique - which will be a combination of all information I can garner. I think I have some of the little fill-up dye pens around here somewhere, and wondered how those might work for transferring the dye to the screen - I'll need to find them, and get some dye mixed up. Now to just Do It.

Last weekend we went to our niece's high school graduation - 4.5 hours away (one way) so I had 9 hours of riding time (well, 6, cuz I drove for a while too) to read, and the book I spent the most time with was Off the Shelf by Sue Beevers. I'd not read the words in the book before - only the pictures and captions. It was interesting to read thru her techniques and musings. And I think I'll try some of them (after all, I did get those Golden LA's) - soon. Very Soon.
But first there are the tomatoes and the peppers and the marigolds and the green beans and the sunflowers and the squash and the melons and the rudbeckia and the petunias and the eggplant and the OTHER petunias........