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I will try designing t-shirts and buttons to put the word out.

It’s not my kind o’ thing. But at least I know how it’s done.

but I need to think up some shady little spready plants that don’t mind being trodden on.

Outside the back door there are peas a-sprouting! They’re about 10 inches high now, and beginning to twirl around their supports. I’m a few days away from being able to harvest enough mesclun lettuce for a petite salad or so.

Still waiting…..for heirloom tomato, pole bean and charentais melon seedlings to sprout.

In the front garden, the grape popsicle-coloured tulips are blooming and it looks like the pom-pom juniper made it through the excruciating Canadian winter. Today, before the excruciating Victoria Day weekend begins its downpour, I will underplant with wee purple annuals and hang up charming Arts & Crafts inspired hanging baskets. All are welcome to stop by and say hello and offer counter suggestions!

Hellfire at chef’s stove
What was that thing that he made-
Hen in a pumpkin?

I like to be calm and serene. The best way to achieve this for me is to have calm and organized surroundings. I want to distill the things I have decided to keep and make space for them to be enjoyed properly. After that- yard sale?

The main floor and the second floor and my studio are all newly organized. I took apart all the loose photos and sorted them into appropriate boxes. The kitchen is now properly streamlined. Next stop: craft room and garden room in the basement and sewing room on the third floor.

...could be a nice cottage industry! I could imagine a line of little softies on Etsy. A new goal, perhaps?

The idea was to get the thing started and not to worry about the form or content. I suspect I should begin to worry about the form and content.

...is up!
Goal accomplished!

I don’t think playing Wii tennis counts.

has alternate dialogue. The first is in English, the second is in Scottish dialect- though not as salty as Irvine Welsh. An inhibited Irvine Welsh.

Yes, yes dear and this goal includes proper grooming. Artists tend to walk about with nasty paint-smeared fingers, and I suspect they get a kind of thrill from it, too, as if it entitles them to a grand respect from the masses for the muse hitting them.

I am learning, as a summer project, a very fine study by Fernando Sor. I have a recording of Julian Bream playing this and I’ll use it to listen and learn. It’s frustrating to be a slow learner.

The aerial pink
Flutterdown from stark branches
My Japanese friends

I moved the painting out of the studio upstairs so that I could picture it in situ, in the main room. A lot of time has passed and I have not been able to make the move to finish. I keep thinking of whimsical ideas, or ironic “punch-lines” to complete it- but that’s the illustrator side that won’t go away.

It crept like low tide
Blue stain, rorschach of dolor
Is the new normal

I don’t know why the last few challenges have turned up as ‘failed’ on the past challenges list. They were not failures in the slightest. I must have failed to press the right keys to log the successes. What cheek to suggest failure to an overachiever!

Awheel with wobble
And kneepads, his foot pushes
Pedal defiant.