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I’ve been trying to put something on this blog everyday, but as you can see its mostly been drawings, so here’s a couple more.

What a month this has been. Marcella and I celebrated Christmas with all our four wonderful children (Actually adults), but what can I say! I’ve just finished up my first art show of the year. I haven’t sold anything yet, but at this point in life, I really don’t care. I didn’t really draw them to be sold. I drew them because they needed to be drawn. I’ve been taking Aerobics and its the best thing I’ve done in a very long time. I’m still out of step with everyone. I’m still dropping the Hula Hoop, but I’m gaining. I think by the next session, I’ll actually be able to use the silly thing. See… It’s never to late to go out and put yourself to the test. We are about to end up this session and then I guess I’ll have to wait until next september to start again. I don’t want to stop now. I guess I’ll just have to take up jogging around town in the morning. Oh… I almost forgot… I have a couple more drawings to share and these two are beyond the influence of Rose.

Last friday, Marcella and I went to the Great Bend Coffee company for the Rythem and Brews night. We set down with Ann Rogers and listened to the music. Then Steve and Rose Dudek came in and sit with us. Marcella usually brings a magazine and I usually bring a book to read. This time I decided to bring my pen and ink and colored pencils. Well, to make a long story some what shorter, I pushed some paper, pens and colored pencils over to Rose to draw a picture for me. She drew a wonderful rendering of a girl she labled “Alice”. I took Alice home with me and during the Jay Leno show, I decided to draw my own “Alice”. I guess that must have set me off, because I’ve been drawing portraits since all week long. I just finished up the girl with hair over her eye about an hour ago. Who knows where this is going to take me. “Thanks, Rose!”

It is wonderfur to get comments again. My friends are no longer Spambot. Down with Spambot and I hope it never infects us again! Then, the first comment to come to me is from my favor daughter (Lisa) in Colorado and she says my drawings are awesome and it can’t get any better than that. Thank you sweetheart and I love you! Then I get comments from my other two best comment friends Karen from Ellinwood and Hannah from Bedford. Well… I guess I better add some more drawing for you to look at. I love you all.
from Bobberdilly.

Here is Roxann

Here is Idaho

Last week I wasn’t getting any comments on my blog. I thought I’d been abandoned. Then Hannah e-mailed me and said she couldn’t comment, because my blog said she was spambot or something like that. Then Karen Kline-Martin said the same thing so I e-mailed my daughter and she e-mailed back and said she fixed the problem, but I still haven’t received any comments…. Well, If that is the case, email me again and I’ll call my daughter again, because I should be getting comments on my latest drawings, because they would cause me to comment if they weren’t my own and I ran on to them on this blog. Last night I pushed a piece of paper over to Rose and she drew a picture and named it Alice. I looked at it and when I got home from the coffee shop I decided to draw Alice myself. Then I decided to draw Omar and then this evening after work I drew Regie. I’m tired a hell tonight after all day washing dirty pots and pans. There… I wrote something on my blog like I promised I would.

Nien Cheng died on Nov. 2 and I didn’t know it, because the Hutch or trib Papers don’t cover stories on dead authors. I had sent her a drawing and my christmas letter. I get it back yesterday from a Lawyer handing her estate and informed me of the fact. My heart sank. I didn’t really know the lady, but I’d written a few times and she’d written back. It was such sad news. She was the author of “Life and Death in Shanghai

Well… I went to set up the Library show tonight. I have around twenty-five drawing and paintings on display. Hopefully Mike Whelan will get some things of his in there and this show should be a complete knock out.

Funny thing happens to me very often. I go through my stuff and its usually the most recent I’ve done. I guess its a sort of a, at-the-last minute thing that happens. I seems like it’s what is happening at the moment, because when I get the stuff up on the walls, I suddenly dislike the things I just completed a couple of months earlier.

In fact, I had a hard time looking at the other drawings in my scrap book when I finished this evening. Honestly, If suddenly a big wind would come up and blow all that old stuff (Last months) away, I wouldn’t care. Good Riddance, I’d say to myself! What’s the matter with me? Last month it was my top of the line stuff and today its the second best. I should love it all.

I just got off work at the diner and I’m tired as hell. I guess it is just the thing to put me in the mood for this entry. My question is; Don’t people see the damage they do to friendships when they do something deliberately or I guess, not-so-deliberate, but maybe just abit mindless and a bit mean.

I mean, there are people I thought were friends who have deliverately did things thathave damaged the relationship. Maybe what they did or said, didn’t sink the ship, but it certainly set a new standard on how I’d relate to them in the future. I’ve taken many person I once considered a friend and put them in my aquaintance file. I’m still civil when I meet , but I don’t go out of my way any longer.

So, If you go by the name of “Don”, I’m putting you on that list. Every year for the past several years, Gary Gackstetter has come to the Backroom of the Barton Arts Center for a nice Valentine’s Day program. Then suddenly this year, “Don” (the director of the Back Room Programs) decided that a one, Mr. Gackstetter is no longer welcome. When Marcella asked him why Gary wasn’t invited, she didn’t get a very nice answer to her question. Is there something going on or he is just trying to be deliberately mean? Maybe this is just his natural nature! Well, If that be the case, I’m gonna put “Don” in my aquaintance file along with all my other aquaintances. It’s a crowded place believe me.