The end of another school year is a dominant theme in our household these days. Jacob has several big projects coming to a conclusion, including Friday’s big extravaganza. Jacob was Thomas Jefferson. I came to see all the presentations in the library, and the kids did a fine job with their early American personalities. I’ve been stopping in to support Mrs. Tamborrino as an algebra tutor some mornings and having a lot of fun with the kids. I even helped participate in the rocket-building exercise—launch is set for Monday! To wind down after a long day when Jim was out sparring Wednesday, the boys and I took a nice walk in the neighborhood and played a fun rhyming word game. Who knew swapping spit with a Russian communist was a ‘Bolshevik lick’?
Between all my other responsibilities I have slipped off to
the art studio to move my projects forward. I completed all the tree trunks for the foreground of the
piece, and I think I have enough branches created for the canopy.
As school winds down, I’ve been able to
pirate a few of the wire from spiral notebooks that are no longer needed at
school. It’s actually a good time
of year to collect those. I warped
the loom and started weaving the extended trail through the woods. The lower layers begin with a sumac
weave that will be covered with a dimensional crochet technique that will form
the final path. I’m using up a lot
of yarn colors that I don’t normally have a lot of use for. That includes soft peaches, pale
yellows and beiges from my collection.
Last night we held a meeting of the artists who organized
this year’s Open Studio’s Tour. We
gathered in our dining room for a potluck and talk about this year’s successes
and what we’d like to do differently next year. The kitchen became the staging area, with a wonderful collection
of foods. There was even an interesting pie that featured blueberries, mild goat
cheese and basil. Yum! I think everyone was enthusiastic about
the event, and everyone in the group seems to appreciate good food. As I’m writing this I have a belly full
of strawberry shortcake with freshly baked biscuits in my tummy. Jim is working on a biscuit version
that doesn’t have shortening, which I encouraged.
They haven’t been perfected yet, but they were still really
good! And as I write and think how
to finish this week’s blog without a picture of a pie, I’m looking out at the
beautiful spring flowers in the garden.
They’ll have to do for now.
Until next week,
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