Fairly Useful Day

This morning, February 29, 2020, I went to the Covey Center to finish the installation of the Spring Exhibit.  I did not do the installation but my wiring equipment was useful as one of the artists had forgotten to put wire on the back of her painting.  I mostly registered artwork, prepared the checks and cash for deposit, made out extra checks for Sandy to co-sign and fiddled with the information sheets.  It's a varied and full exhibit.  We took in over fifty works of art.  When I got home I reworked the logo I created for the new website.  After resting I installed it after cleaning out the chicken coop and making some more changes to protect the chickens from the coons.  Tomorrow is Sunday.  I 'loaned my nice set of colored pencils to Jacqueline.  I rarely if ever use colored pencils.  She plans to make a silk painting of the First Vision, making it about the light instead of the figures.

Busy Day

I had a busy and productive day today.  I woke up way too early and ended up purchasing a three year contract on a simple stand alone website from Bluehost for the Utah Valley Artist Guild.  I used a little less than the cash I removed to pay my helpers and tore up the check I had written to reimburse the Guild after putting a little cash I had on hand into the cash I collected.  I purchased the domain name UVAG.org.  I redesigned the logo based on a painting by Sandy Whitby of the south peaks of Timpanogos which I altered with her permission.  This way the website can be left to others to edit and work with if that becomes prudent.  I like the look of the new website.  I drove to Bountiful after spending the morning doing intake for the Guild.  I will help again tomorrow.  I deposited almost $400 cash but retained the checks until I have photoed them for information.  I started the redesign of the website before leaving for Bountiful and redesigned and finalized it after coming home.  I also checked on my chickens and plan to tighten up the run against the nasty intruders in the afternoon tomorrow.

Intake

After I went to the temple today I stopped to fill up with gas at Smith's.  After making some preparations I headed down to the Covey Center and did intake for the Spring Awards Show for several hours.  I wrote a check to cover the cash I removed from the fees in order to pay my helpers when I drove by Lucinda's house.  I was tired when I got home so I took a long nap before heading out to the UVAG meeting.  We had more than 34 entries in the two hours I did intake.  I don't know if we will have the same load of artwork as previously but we have a good basis of excellent artists as members of the group and several new ones to offset those who are aging out.

Death and the Masked Marauder

Today is February 26 and I was waked an hour early by my son Richard who said the chickens were upset.  I got up and took my lantern out to see why they were squaking.  I counted one in the coop and two beneath the coop.  I found the third in a heap towards the back of the run.  I thought I first I would leave the body there and take care of it later, but I reconsidered and picked it up.  A gray shadow ran from under the recycling barrel.  I smacked the raccoon several times with my lantern and it was having a problem finding an exit.  I think it forced its way out through the trellis under the coop.  I need to reinforce the run before I let the chickens out again.  Fortunately they have plenty of food and water.  I finished up my pictures and some paperwork for the intake for the UVAG tomorrow which I will do after I go to the temple.

First Vision

Diana came up this afternoon and finished her diorama about the First Vision.  She made figures of God the Father and Jesus and Joseph Smith out of Sculpey clay, painted them with acrylic paint and mounted them in a box from my air fryer.  I punched out a lot of tiny maple leaves to accent the floor and she used pearl mini glitter on the deity figures to give them shine.  I think it is an effective scene.  I have been feeling somewhat logy today.  At the temple this morning everyone was suppressing their coughs.  Nobody wants to be seen as a carrier for the dread Corona virus.

Self Indulgence and Industry

I went ahead a went for full out self indulgence this morning. I had a box of HD bars distributed throughout several hours.  I didn't suffer as much intestinal distress as I expected.  I got up early to take the kids to seminary but I had been awake since before 4 AM because of noise from a wind storm.  I worked on various aspects of preparing for the intake on Thursday.  I printed out awards and arranged some labels instead of colored dots to use on the pictures.  Diana came over and worked on creating figures for a diorama of the First Vision.  She finished up the figures around 6.  One thing I didn't get around to was finishing the frame for my picture of Marge Lewis but I still have a couple of days.  Tomorrow I will help Diana in the afternoon and also work on my frame.  I think I've pulled the fang on my dietary yearnings  I learned on Facebook today that David has been successful in losing 40 lbs. with intermittent fasting and limiting carbs to one meal a day.  I'm happy for his success because it should have real impact on his health.

Slow Sunday

Richard didn't realize that today was Sunday and he is somewhat under the weather so I went to church alone today.  I've spent a lazy afternoon and evening.  Tomorrow I'll be up early to take the kids to seminary and try to finish framing the Picture of Marge.