Today’s headline, “Early Christian Text Discovery Reopens Debate, Was Jesus Married?”

A piece of papyrus (unauthenticated) the size of a cell phone shows someone named Jesus referring to his wife. That would be like 1800 years in the future, someone coming across a piece of paper saying John was killed, and automatically assuming it was talking about John F. Kennedy. Just as there was more than one John, there was more than one Jesus. That’s why the Bible referred to him as Jesus Christ, or Jesus the Nazarene, or Jesus the Messiah, to distinguish him from other men named Jesus. My little history lesson for today.

Gorgeous day today!!! Brisk NW wind, 69°, no bugs, I should go out and do some barn cleaning or something, but I’m seriously lacking energy. NEED COFFEE!!

I’m trying to get organized (a never ending process, sigh) and keep better notes so I can try to duplicate beads that I really like. Part of that is testing different combinations of Galaxy stringers. That’s what this is, with each color combination put into my glass catalog. The dots on the beads help me keep track of which one is which.

I’m also trying to get some different color combinations in my focal beads. Here’s a blue one from this a.m.,

But gosh, I love the striated sandstone and earthy colors, like these,

And here’s a couple of new big hole beads,

Our hay was delivered today. Summer is coming to a close, it’s time to get the bulbs dug up, tender potted plants moved into the house or greenhouse, get the furnace checked, get a cord or two of wood, and get the propane tank filled. The weather is going to turn icky tomorrow, so it was a good day for this load to come. Maybe one of these days I’ll have a nice bobcat too, it sure would make some tasks a lot easier to do.

My Percheron drawing is progressing. I’m just about done roughing it in.

It’s a meandering night...
Want to know what 100 amaryllis bulbs look like?

Stupid pet photo,

Some last pictures of my flower garden, sigh,

The cleome in front is from seeds a dear friend from North Carolina sent to me,

I’ve been on a murrini kick again. Some samples of my latest,

LOL, disgusting!!! Suka wanted attention, so he rested his head on my arm and looked at me, so nose to nose, I told him we got Pyr for him to play with, and he burped at me!

I’m watching the news this a.m., and the topic of Pres. Obama’s birth certificate came up again. It’s interesting that so few seem to realize that it wouldn’t make any difference where he was born, he’s still a U.S. citizen since his mother was a U.S. citizen. That’s why Mr. Romney’s father was able to run for president, even though he was born in Mexico.

My Percheron drawing is progressing, very slowly,

Lots of work to do on it yet. I have to finish laying in the basic drawing, then go back and fine tune the darkest parts, then finally lay in white highlights with gouache (a white opaque water-based paint).

I’m starting on a new drawing. This one is of a Percheron I saw at the Horse Expo several years ago. This is what I’ve gotten done so far (just a phone photo, not a scan, so it’s kind of rough).

Starting Sunday, I’m going to try ebay again. It’s been quite a while since I sold on there, so I’ve been playing around with my listing program to remember how to use it. :(

Here’s some that I’ll be listing,


My nephew bought his 5 yr. old granddaughter with last week when he came up, and we took her out when we did chores. I thought the safest place for her to be would be up on Christian’s shoulders, both because of how little she is, and all the fresh cowpies. She’s the prettiest little girl!


Pip gets into moods where she wants to play, so here’s some photos of her and Suka playing, and yes, they are playing,

And here’s Suka and Pyr playing,

Oh, that was funny! I gave Suka a rawhide chew while he and Pry were in my studio. He chewed on it a couple of minutes, then wanted out. Pyr picked up Suka’s chew and scratched on the door to go out too. Suka was standing outside the door, and as Pry went out, Suka gently pulled the chew out of Pyr’s mouth and then came back into the studio with it and dropped it on the floor.

The comment on this picture HAS to be from someone who’s never been around animals. It says, ‘They look so beautiful and peaceful. I love seeing animals and humans living together in harmony. I wonder if they are domesticated or wild.’

Done with my colt drawing!!!

Up From a Nap,

My new year’s resolve (OK, a little late/early for that): quit pouring over the news every time I get on the computer. This person has died, that person has died, racial conflict, religious conflict, political conflict. It’s not what I need to be spending time on.

I have a very sweet neighbor! I told Lynn next year I needed to get or make a bigger oriole feeder because I was having to go out every day to fill the jelly holder. This week she found me one at a garage sale! They hold a half jar of jelly. :)

Pyr is growing, but he’s still a big, clumsy goofy puppy.


Chewing on Christian’s thumb,

and some new beads,

Pyr sure is growing fast! He’s such a big goof, tripping over his feet. Here he is with Chris,

and playing with Suka,

I have some cool bird photos, hummers,


I shot this Oriole as the sun was going down,

and here’s babies squabbling over the jelly,

and doing the splits,

My foal drawing is progressing, so very, very slowly,

and one of my latest Dark Aurae. I absolutely LOVE this glass, and am going to shed a tear when it's all gone.