life is not good today.....

Waiting for a call back from my son. Last one before he boards a plane heading to Afghanistan for one year deployment. I know in my head this is what he's has signed up for, this is what he has been trained to do..but somehow that hasn't hit my heart yet. He is leaving an 8 soon to be 9 year old little girl, and a 5 year old boy who thinks his daddy is going to the toy store. Worried about when Jake realizes that daddy will be gone a little longer than that.
Looking forward to March when he will return for 2 week r&r.
Wishing we would just bring them all home and protect and defend the good ole USA before it is too late.

rainy days and sundays.....

our plans for today are postponed until next week. wanted to boil some crawfish and have family over, but weather is not co-operating! so what to do? catch up on the laundry, cook for my lucy, paint, sleep, and blog.
wondering if i have some spying eyes~thinking i probably do.
i had such a good week babysitting for my grandchildren ... had oliver on monday, ryan on wednesday and ryan, reece and lola on friday. thank you God for some many sweet blessings in my life. very sad when i think of alissa and josh, parents are separated and it not a smooth transition and so since i am the "devil" i haven't seen them since jauary when we were at ft. hood for their dad's surgery. looking forward to seeing bailey and jake in july when we visit ft. hood for their dad's deployment to afghanistan. sad that i even can spell that word.
yes, two boys active military, one a blackhawk pilot and one in military intell. very proud of them for the job they do, very scared for them always in this crazy world. who knows what will happen ever?
so goodbye world for now.....going play with my brushes, canvases and paints.
hope you all have a good day and thanks for stopping by..........................

wtf???

what's happening? oil spewing in the gulf, killing our wildlife, beautiful birds, closing down precious waters used by our fishermen professionally and sport. now you hear about the good gulf shrimp, oysters and such, now you hear about how valuable our coast is, now you hear how we have no barrier islands to protect us from rising waters......now you hear what we have know for a long time. and where is potus? but that's another story all together.
people who live on the coast and use the water as a way to live, not only in louisiana, but alabama, florida and texas are the ones who will be hurt the most. and our most valuable precious barrier islands will be damaged beyond repair. another black eye for the fed government.
people have volunteered to help, with several agencies, only to be told that they are in a waiting pattern. waiting for what....more dead wildlife???? frustration to the 9th degree.

Funny.....

Started blogging so I could or would or should (coudawoodashouda) display and talk about my paintings. Little of that has been done so far. Haven't really been painting much lately. There for a while I was at the easel every spare minute I could find. Lately, all I have been doing is thinking about getting back to my easel, I even played hooky Tuesday and skipped my art class. But really, 4 days, 10 - 3 on the same picture, please. Been working in my yard since we had a really cold winter in south Louisiana and some of my prized begonias are taking a while to recover. But also taking the opportunity to scale down in the yard some, meaning not replacing and shrinking some gardens. Sounds like I live on acres and acres but just a small subdivision lot with big old oak trees in the front and baby swings and big girl swings hanging from the branches. Neighbors can usually find hubby and me sitting out on our new red Adirondack chairs in the afternoon sipping on some cold Riesling, well me anyways~ and the chairs are plastic!
I am still wrapping my brain around the fact that my mother has alzehiemer's ~ moderate alzehiemer's. One thing to know and suspect it but another thing to have a doctor say those dreaded words. We have finally gotten some meds to help her stop going like the energizer bunny, literally 23 hours a day, being so paranoid and angry and just plain mean. Now she is calm, content, sleeping, eating better ~ but carrying around a baby doll, talking to herself and forgetting who we are. Tough watching mom go from always being well dressed, with makeup, and beauty parlor everyweek to a little ragamuffin. I say I am just looking at my future. Wish my family was a good source of support but that just is not the case. Of course this is not our first rodeo, my brother died of a brain tumor almost 7 years ago, and my dad died almost 4 years ago. I want to scream at my sisters, Just get over yourself~It ain't about you! Someday I just might do it.......but until then.......keeping it all to myself. Hence not painting....sucks!
Enough with this pity party.....in the words of Drew Brees.....Finish Strong!

Lazy Saturday afternoon

It's 4pm and i am still sitting here in my pj's. i told hubby that we would hunker down today, but now i feel like i have wasted the day away.
oh well....yesterday was quite busy. spent all morning in court with my sister-in-law while she was divorced and then settled on alimony payments for the next 6 months. then off to celebrate for lunch, i had a salad and two glasses of Riesling. then off to the bank, back home, had to make groceries (that's shopping for anyone north of I-10), deliver groceries to my mom, back home, then to my daughter's house where hubby boiled 40+ pounds of crawfish and of course had potatoes, corn and garlic with that. did i forget cold beer? yep that too.
I piddled some this morning, ordered some brushed from Jerry's and then sat on my ass and watched some stupid scifi movie.
just rambling....trying to get motivated-moving-painting-whatever.
hope everyone has a great weekend...first weekend of jazz fest in new Orleans! party on!

uugghhhhh.......

Not a good night. Stayed with Mom. Slept from 10ish to 5ish, which is pretty good.
Dragging today.
Want to finish cleaning out another closet and get it organized, want to paint and want to cook. Curious which will happen. But first I need to get off the computer!
Beautiful day today, already been to the grocery store and sat in the front yard with Lucy and chatted with a few neighbors.
I have been eyeing my neighbor's house and thinking it may be on of my new projects. I already have one I need to start as well as an old building in Thibodaux (Tib-a-dough) for you non South Louisiana readers....hehehe I make myself giggle.....I promised a friend I would make an attempt at.
Interesting that I write as if someone else but me reads this, but for some strange reason I continue to post to this blog.
Still thinking about posting a few in progress works and maybe even a few completed.
Got some really good feedback at Art after Dark Saturday night, no buyers but many great comments which is just as good in my book.
Gotta go, decide what to do and see what the day will bring.

Monday, Monday....

Spent today cleaning out my big walk in cedar lined closet. I am in a purging mood and plan on doing all my closets. Now if only I can keep hubby from going behind me and keeping things I want to throw. He is such a pack rat, if he thinks it is usable, it stays. Drives me crazy. I got lots accomplished because he drove into New Orleans with a friend and was back about 3ish. Things were pretty well done and he didn't complain too much.
How can two people live in a 3 bedroom house and is bursting at the seams?? My thoughts that when the kids moved out, we would have more than enough space, but the closets are packed to the limits. Hopefully the fish will start biting soon and I can get things done while he on the boat.
Of course with my new hobby, I have commandeered one bedroom with my easels, paints, table, lights and all the other stuff that comes with painting.
I even had supper cooked when he got home. Mondays in South Louisiana is usually red bean, rice and sausage day. I switched it up a little, I cooked white beans with salt meat, rice and some really good cheese/garlic biscuits.
Tomorrow (Tuesday) is painting class and tomorrow night I am staying with my Mother.