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POWER IS BACK, SEE YOU SOON

 WE ARE SAFE, HAVE POWER, AND SO HAPPY TO SAY THE WORST THING WAS 38 HOURS OF NO POWER. MAMA WILL POST SOON. HELENE WAS A HORROR

THE PAST 3 POSTS WERE ON AUTO POST, SORRY ABOUT THAT SEE YOU SOON

COMMENTS OFF.

Caturday ART

 

You saw this  photo of Lemon Grass Yesterday, while researching I found this

Since this says Zebras eat Lemon Grass,  I popped the photo in procreate and fiddle with it, and then drew a cartoon zebra by looking at a coloring book baby zebra 
and TADA.............

Baby Zahara my Zebra

I am learning to draw using shapes, can you find Zaharas Shapes?

Joining nature Friday with Sunny and Rosy at https://llbinourbackyard.blogspot.com/

Lemon Grass for FREE

 

While Bob put pool supplies in the basket at Home Depot, I wandered around taking pictures of plants and found a flat that had maybe 50 of these Lemon Plants. My first viewing of this plant.

 Horrified at the price, I did not take a photo and had to borrow this from their website.

As we drove in the driveway, I pulled in the garage and hopped out and ran to the front yard with my

cellphone. As I stepped inside the house, Bob said what were you doing?

I poked my phone and said look, look at this

So, what? he says, I almost cut it down yesterday, but the weed whacker quit.

I said in my soft gentle voice, DON"T CUT IT DOWN. It's LEMON GRASS.

We got a present from the birds...

I am thankful the weed thingy quit, because he has cut it down several times and I always fuss, because I like it around the stump. He says it's just weeds, I say I like weeds.

Now I have PROOF it is not weeds.

I showed bob the price of the big one and the price of this little 4 inch pot at Walmart

At first, I thought we could dig up 3 big ones and sell them in our front yard, but on 2nd thoughts, if I make 10 of these smaller ones, at $13.99 that is more than 2 big ones at $59.99

Lemon grass flowers, it is a mosquito, flies and ants repellant, it is toxic to dogs, but ours is in the front yard, not where Beau goes. It's attractive if you take care of it. 

THERE IS ALWAYS a fly in every ointment. 😉😉😉

I am thankful I found proof these are not JUST WEEDS, and that Bob did not cut them down for the 3rd time and 

I am thankful for our gift from the birds, and can join Brians Home Thankful Thursday

PS I do realize the lemon grass needs to have weeds pulled from around it, but waiting to see if anyone volunteers to come do it.

I HAD SEVERAL POSTS ON AUTOPOST, IF I DON'T COMMENT ON YOUR BLOGS, IT MEANS HURRICANE HELENE HAS PUT OUT THE POWER OR WORSE. 

It's Fall Y'All" or so you say

 

Some of you have been saying its fall, I looked around the yard and found 14 Orange Hibiscus on the tree sized bush. I give you Florida Fall Colors

I decided I wanted to try to paint one of the flowers. Looking at the color pallets that came with procreate, I saw none. I checked into how to add colors and found instructions to USE My Photo.

I opend the app, tapped Plus sign to add colors, tapped on use my photo 

and WOW! Look at all the colors it uploaded from the one photos.

It's no perfect but I love it anyway and I also painted a note for YOU

can you find MadSnapper in the note?

Dukes Mixture

 

 I ordered silicone ice trays and WOW! what a deal. They came with lids, the bottom is soft. Turn upside down and you can push out the cubes you want, of twist slightly and all come falling down. Thanks for telling me about them Ann. Fresh in the freezer straight from Amazon and no cubes on the floor. My first ever ice trays that came with a Ice Tray Manual, both sides with photos. I am still giggling

Duke's Mixture 2.  Above are the shopping bags I take with me to Wal-Mart. 3 weeks ago, I purchased 2 of the bags with wine bottles on them and the other one is what bob's hearing aids came in.

the big bag I have had since selling Real Estate in early 90's

Those wine bags are PERFECT they stand up by themselves, they have pockets to use or not, and I wanted a couple more but they were not to be found in WM which is where I got them.

I like the stand up kind, the others are all floppy and fall around while trying to fill them.

Now I need to make a sign to hang on the steering wheel that says get them out of the trunk 

Dumb bunny.

My morning BP pill,  sits in my coffee cup, next to the coffee pot, I have not forgotten it  a single time since I store it there. 

If you are pondering what is Dukes Mixture, it means to me a hodgepodge of whatever.

Found on WWW

What does Duke's mixture mean?

Years ago there was a "Duke's Mixture" pipe tobacco that was "low end and

The public snickered at Duke's Mixture brand, because it was low end, was a thrown together stew of tobacco odds and ends, and this led early on to the phrase duke's mixture and we sometimes still hear used today, to mean a hodge-podge of something.

Copy Cat Copy Cat 12

 

I am playing catch up with my Inspiration paintings from Copy Cat of 

Ann'sSnapEditScrap blog, each week she draws one a day and post them. I choose the ones that inspire me and here you go, somehow I got off on numbers, she is on week 13, mine is 12. who knows how that happened.

You're not seeing double, you're just fortunate to have two

I painted two, so what can you do?

Twinning is winning,

 so just start grinning?

Puns and jokes, are so baaaa-d

Just smile and move on and be so glaaa-d

I did not draw twenty 

which would make you wish there were not any

Stained Glass Sunday

 

I followed a tutorial on how to make a painting look like stained glass. she drew a heart, I chose my own thing

set of eyes that were free on a drawing site

 I always go 'overboard' when I try to learn something new.

I am grateful all of you keep coming back to see what crazy thing I draw next.

This will all stop, soon. I promise

I picked the middle eyes on the bottom row and drew them on my canvas.

this one took the devil of an effort to draw it 

All of you are Out of This World for looking at my creations.

I can't stay focused, because I am spaced out!

So, you don't think this is funny? Comet me Bro!

I intend to keep playing, REMEMBER

Happy Birthday in heaven, Mama.
 Sept 22, 1925 - March 27, 1990 

Mama I wish you could see all my devices and you would love this iPad and drawing app.

Copy Cat Copy Cat #11

 

Ann's crow, AnnsSnapEditScrap, drawing was my inspiration today.

I chose the crow because I think crows are really interesting and oh so cool. I found these crows at Walmart.   I stood for maybe 4 minutes watching and listening to them then remembered I had perishable food in the car. 

my guess was there were close to 200 of these crows all over the parking lot. the roof line was lined with them, trees, cars and the parking lot.

A True Murder of Crows

this guy is handsome, but does he compare to MINE

Harvest Moon and the Sunrise

 

moonshine at 2:30 am back yard 

Tuesday, Sept 18, Beau came to the side of the bed at 2:50 am and said Breakfast Time.

We walked down the hall in the dark and low and behold I thought I had left the flood light on in the back yard, the blinds were closed but lit up and it was bright out there.

I opened the blinds and low and behold there was a ginormous HARVEST MOON.

photo from Picmonkey Shutterstock

I took the photo of the blinds in the dark, and later grabbed the above Shutterstock free moon photo and took it to Lunapic just to show you how it looked reflecting on our pool

When I stepped outside I could count the grains of sand at the bottom of the pool

created in Lunapic not my photo

Three nights in a row of MOON SHINE on the pool and the morning of Sept 19th OH WOW

It rained cats and dogs from 2;30 to 3:30 AM, and we had to wait until after 7 to walk with Beau.

by noon on Wed the blinds were closed to keep out the Florida Branding Iron Sun.

Fast Forward to the next morning, Sept 19th.

looking west

Beau and I were walking West towards the beaches, and it was strange because it was a stunning view and it never has color in the sky. pretty clouds over the beaches but their color is in the evening..

I took a couple of photos and turned around to head EAST into the sunrise.

looking east

I actually gasped out loud when we turned, our house is to the left around the corner. I asked Beau to stay, and I wished for someone nearby to gasp with me. Beau did a pretty good gasp, because we stood at these 4 way stop signs and waited on 6 cars to pass in front of us.

Not one of them looked to see what I was taking photos of. 

Their loss.

Today I am Thankful

 

I never know where my mind will go or what I might think of or write about.

I stood staring at my back yard through the  kitchen window, making my mixed berry smoothie in the Bullet Blender, and realized I love looking out our windows when the sun is shining. 10 am is the perfect time to view.

I am thankful for our home, our views from our windows and for my bullet blender.

I love Gods Color wheel that paints our yard day by day

I am also thankful for my creative mind that is always ON and running and makes me see while turning , the fruit bowl and thinking primary colors of fruit.

My brain  hops and skips from thought to thought.

my brain skipped while I sat sipping my smoothing and the next thing I knew, I had found a color book page online, dumped it in the iPad to see if I could paint the box. 

I could and I did. I can drag and drop colors, I can color with crayons or charcoal or paint with water colors, or oil  paints.. its all there 

I just need to drive the brain to tell the hands what to do

Joining Brian's Home for Thankful Thursday

I am deeply thankful that a friend, Bev Whitcomb, told me way back in 2008 that she had a blog and sent it to me and brought all of you into my life.

I learned how to put a new pallett of colors in Procreate using a color wheel found on WWW

More colors to paint with.