It’s true, Mary goes back to school today!
We were up around 7:30 am this morning, both tired from yesterday’s dry run! We had toast and coffee and then got ready for Dianne to visit the homestead and check out the decorations!
Mary checked and rechecked her watercolor equipment before her first class today. Little did she know that I substituted vodka for her water; this should be interesting!
Scout posed for a painting!
Dianne came over to see the decorated house, and I introduced her to “I Spy.” We had an I Spy Halloween on the table! I Spy is a children’s book series with text written by Jean Marzollo and photographs by Walter Wick, which Scholastic Press published. Each page contains a photo with objects, and the riddles (written in dactylic tetrameter rhyme) accompanying the photo state which objects must be found.
You thought it was easy, huh?
After Dianne departed, we got ready for the first watercolor class.
Mary got dropped off, and I headed back home; I had some ideas! The class ended at 3:15 p.m., and her chauffeur awaited her arrival. I was a few minutes late, and Mary was sitting out front tapping her toes!
Headed for the Louvre in Paris!
We went directly to Michael’s, where it was framed!
It shall reside in a place of honor!
From Michael’s, we went to the market to get salad fixings for tonight’s potato and chicken pot pie; yummy! We wanted to get pumpkins for pumpkin carving, but the trunk was too full of artists supplies so we saved that errand until tomorrow. of
We will get them Wednesday before they are sold out!
So, what did I do while Mary was relaxing with her newfound hobby? I WORKED, SLAVED, CARRIED, ARRANGED, UNWRAPPED, STAGED, and made twenty trips up and down the precarious stairway, risking life and limb with every step to what we fondly use to call “the ballroom.”
Mary mentioned she might require a toll to enter the new domain!
Now, it is referred to as “the exalted imperial unapproachable loft.”
It is complete with a wide-screen TV, an Alexa music source, natural lighting from morning to night, and an intercom so that she can shout orders to her sous-painter.
We fixed dinner, and after dinner, we practiced our perambulation by bringing dinner to Jeff. Since it was a little late for him, Mary fixed his dinner, and we watched TB ingurgitate his meal! We stayed and talked for an hour before going to our palatial digs, now complete with a “loft.”
We have a pool shark in the family. Colleen sent us a picture to our new internet connected frame, showing Calhan taking on Minnesota Fats on Mark’s pool table!
I think he is playing pool against the band! He is winning!!
We crashed a little early after I took Mary’s new pillows and covered them. After sleeping on them in the Bar Harbor hotel, the new pillows were her idea. She retrieved the name of the company and ordered two for us.
