Northward / Acrylic painting / just stuff

Gus the Weather Dog has a sour tummy today.  My brother and wive came down to Columbus Tuesday and stayed over night.  They thought the weather was WONDERFUL.

They live almost on Lake Michigan in Kewanee and they had not really seen ANYthing even near 70 yat. I think "warm" was low 60s if that.  So 80s and humid was WONDERFUL!    They have two dogs so Gus had play friends.   I always have bully sticks for the doggies who love them.  Gus is not very fond anymore - however- of other dogs like them he will eat as many as he can. 

THUS - sour tummy Thursday.

Stacy (wife of brother) has been dabbling (an appropriate word) in Acrylic painting and I need to show this off.  VERY cool stuff and she is getting very good at it.

Awesome right?

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But meanwhile Wisconsin really went backwards exactly 2 weeks after the GOP opened up the state.  record infections, record deaths.  The argument is that with more tests there will of course be more infections.  Makes sense.  But the counter argument is that this means there are MANY more infected people that are not being counted yet.

 WHICH MEANS every time we go out there are infected people out there serving us and comingeling.  The pandemic is not over.   

BUT - at the moment the Columbus Independence day festivities are all GO!  Not that the City Council has put any say into it.  The Committee has yet to come forward with any plans on how to keep people safe.

Can you image the crowds that will come idf Columbus is the ONLY community in a few hundred miles to have anything?    One estimate was on a normal holiday 5000 extra people are in Columbus.  This year?  I would not be surprised at 15,000 extra.  YEA - that would be safe  LOL

In other news there is something brewing  businesswise in Columbus that I am not privy too.  I have a tiny idea as "I" was contacted a few months ago by an outside group wondering who they would contact about an exciting project.  Actual professional businessmen, not two guys with a hammer.  We shall see.

I won't get any hopes up but my spidey senses twerked for a second when they contacted me. Not sure if it's the same people but . . . . .

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I have to laugh when someone comments they don’t need a mask because they are not afraid.

But they own a gun because they are afraid of getting robbed in one of the safest states in America.

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I'm a fan boy of Floor Jensen  the most powerful female voice in metal. I was looking at her background and and then at Tarja's background (a famous symphonic metal vocalists - she basically invented symphonic metal).  FASCINATING

In Europe is is not uncommon for be in more then one band at once. WELL - I found that Floor, in 2007 teamed up with Jørn Viggo Lofstad for a solo album and had 12 songs ready to record.  Problem is that they have been so busy in the last 13 years with tours they never had a chance to record the project.  It's out.  The "band" is called Northward.  WOW - ROCK AND ROLL.

Floor Jensen the most versatile vocalists on the planet

https://youtu.be/bAiPeSsqD-4

They will never tour, never have a live event.   It's REALLY good. not symphonic rock at all.


FUN FACT - a new species of beetle was discovered by scientist Andreas Weigel. It was named after Jansen, dubbing it Tmesisternus floorjansenae

Anyway I was reading about Tarja and had to look a musical thing up.  Tarja is a She is a professional classical lied singer.  WHAT? A lied singer?  What?  German vernacular to describe setting poetry to classical music to create a piece of polyphonic music.  WHAT? polyphonic?  WHAT?  

Polyphony is a type of musical texture consisting of two or more simultaneous lines of independent melody, as opposed to a musical texture with just one voice, monophony, or a texture with one dominant melodic voice accompanied by chords, homophony.

Fascinating 

WEATHER - 

going to be hot hot the first half of June.  Expect middle 80s once June starts