HORRENDOUS!

The City County building was built in 1955 - it was a decade ahead of it's time.   
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What a beautiful night it was last night! Spitting rain, wind, cold then the rain changing to snow!! AWESOME!!! Jenny and Caydence (who is just the happiest little girl) were over last night and visited to a while. Afterword I played an online poker tournament and after Bo Bo the Monkey Boy sucked me out of the tournament with his moronic play (I flopped a set and even though I raised a LOT, I could not shake his tree hard enough and he hit a back door flush). OH - I HAVE ISSUES!! LOL

So after watching the news I went to bed which felt SO good. Having 4.5 hours of sleep the night before the bed felt really comfortable. Milo had learned that outside was not a fun place so it seemed he wanted to stay inside tonight!

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3:30am

Meow . . . . .I WANT TO GO OUT CAN I GO OUT NOW HELLO? I WANT TO GO OUT I WILL GO OUT CAN I GO OUT I'D LIKE TO GO OUT IT'S TIME GO OUT WHEN CAN I GO OUT I WANT TO GO OUT  

MILO SHUT UP!    So I get out of bed, open the door and Sierra RUNS out and I plop back into bed and am instantly asleep.

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3:40am

I'D LIKE TO OUT CAN I GO OUT NOW IT'S TIME FOR ME TO GO OUT I'M NEXT TO THE DOOR SCRATCHING THE WINDOW TRYING TO GO OUT HELLO CAN YOU HEAR ME?

what? Milo? is that you! CRAP, Sierra must have gone out! DAMN IT. I get up and let Milo out

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4:00am

HELLO HELLO IT'S WET OUT HERE CAN I COME IN I'D LIKE TO COME IN IT'S TIME FOR ME TO COME IN I'M GETTING WET AND AM CLINGING TO THE SCREEN CAN YOU HEAR ME HELLO? I WANT TO COME IN!

sigh!

I get up and open the door, Sierra RUNS in and Milo sits there thinking about the door and how it just seems wrong to come in voluntarily and maybe he does not want to come in after all and that maybe Sierra had talked him into coming in and perhaps he should think about this for a while. hmmm what to do what to do! FU Milo!!! I slam the door and he is forced to stay out until the alarm rings!

You can't really complain about the weather, it's not like snow is odd in April. By next week we will be in the 70's again and this is the bottom of the barrell weather wise as it gets all good after today.

I looked out our back window and even though it looked ROTTEN it was sort of pretty . . in a sick way.

I went to the front of the house where Blake and now Milo were sitting and took this shot.

The snow will be gone by the afternoon!

In Columbus in the last 3 days we have had 2.67 inches of rain and once that sun comes out watch for things to REALLY grow ( like the grass).  The good thing is that my flowers are growing so fast that I can actually tell what is a flower and what is a weed.

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On this date in 1994 Kurt Cobain was found dead.

Thirteen years earlier Omar Bradly died. Bradly was my favorite General in WWII  and was the commander of the 12th Army Group who ensured Allied victory over Germany. His book "A Soldier's Story" is still on of the best WWII books around!! A must read for WWII buffs!

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I have a photo that unless you are on my email list you have not seen yet! Also on the list you already know that I have been accepted for the Portage Art Walk (June 4 and 5) and the Sun Prairie Taste of the Arts Festival (June 12th).

I also received my canopy in the mail yesterday and . . OH MY GOD!! There were like five 7 foot boxes on our porch - each weighting 60 pounds! This is a Trimline Canopy with extra Mesh walls and stabilizer bars and I'm going to set it up every weekend just for practice. 

Some will say I should have purchased an EZ Up Canopy for like $1,500 less but I've seen those catch rain and billow out on windy days at the Farmers Market. It's one thing to get your strawberry's wet in the rain but when you have a thousand dollars of art work inside . . . . . . . .

Oh yea - the photo!

This will be a framed 12x36 panorama!

Have a great Thursday - only a couple days to the weekend - we can make it!!!

And BTW - this whole thing about donating art to good causes and you can "write it off as a donation" thing is a bunch of hoo hoo!  You can only write off the actual cost of the material and then you only get a TINY percentage. Not an asking price.  So if you donate a piece that you would sell for lets say $100 you will only get like $2 in return.

Cheers
Rod