blogging on painting

Every chance I get I go to the museum to paint on the mural. The forest has been an exhausting project. There is so much that has to be depicted and I don't just open up the cans of paint and voila! its a forest. It has to go in layers and then each layer will show me something else that needs to be done. Its a never ending thing! I hope to finish it this next week. Or at least I may just walk away from it and go on to the next 1/3 of the project and work on the school room. That one should go pretty quick because I am painting it to look like beadboard walls and some windows to the out doors. I am eager to try out my new graining tool.

Everytime I am down there, people come in. They usually just wantder on in and it turns out most are from out of town and they have some sort of connection to the area. I tell them about the museum and that we are looking for more items (give a little plug for the money needs) and listen to their stories. Some of them have been very interesting. I find it tells something that people that left in the 40's are coming back to live out the rest of their lives in this area. Their roots are calling them back to the place of their birth. Most of the folks I have talked to have very fond memories of Bruce. And they remember all sorts of things about the town, like how it looked and who worked in what store. I hope that we can pass on the legacy of our little town to the ones that are after us so that they will want to come back home too.

Things that make you go hmmm

It drives me nuts when a student is supposed to be here and then doesn't even call to let me know that something has come up to prevent them from calling. I could rearrange another childs schedule so that everyone can get their work finished and there won't be any tripping over eachother later on this week.

I've been working hard at learning my medical terms so that I can do the first test. one of the words that I had to learn to spell was 27 letters long. I didn't know I had it in me! Getting these things into spell check is the longest part. I have to make sure they are spelled correctly to start with so that is a slow go at the moment. Its been interesting to see just how much terminology I do know from the root words and the suffixes and prefixes. It is a whole different language.

Darling hubby is on vacation this week. I have to go to the dr. for year mammogram and I don't like driving in Memphis, so he is going along. We get to secret shop a resturant afterwards. I like being a secret shopper. That can be a full time job in itself. I may do that over the summer for some extra income.