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A Bag Of Small Things

It's been just a bag of small things that have been going on lately.  

  • Did a couple of new drawings.
  • Getting hearing aids
  • Tried my hand at mat cutting for framing my art.
  • Great weather outside for hiking and fly fishing.

I did a couple of drawings.  One was of the old RICE store on the way to Rocky Fork State Park in TN.  We go there a lot to hike and fly fish.  Very nice place and only about 20min from the house to the north.

Did a 2nd drawing of part of a barn that I liked as it had a "Keep Out" sign on it, but the door is open and you can see through to the other side.  I just though it was funny and typical of old barns here that are wide open and you can see everything inside (nothing inside mostly).

I, like most older men have hearing loss at the high end of our ranges.  I'm fine most of the time but in noisy places I loose conversations, thus the need for hearing aids.  Soooooo, I waited and waited and waited until now.  I hear and read about hearing aids failing, the very high cost and such so for my first (?) pair I decided to go with a brand new OTC (Over The Counter) pair that the FDA now allows for mild loss.  This is from BOSE.  I'll keep you updated on how it goes.

I had ordered a mat cutter to frame some of my artwork.  I'm using existing 8x10 frames and adding a mat to them.  Boy what a difference this makes!  Pretty surprised how well they look now.  I've done a few and I'll do a few more next week but here is a photo of one of them (below).  OK, now I'm feeling better about my artwork after doing this.

The warm days have brought sunny days and this leads to more hiking and fly fishing.  Doing pretty well balancing all of this, but hey, it's warm and sunny outside!

Anyway, enjoy what you can.








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