Geezer's Lounge (Rev 1) - Volume 6

[TomO/Tloc]

Good morning from the Land of Cheese and less but bigger lakes (total acreage) than our westerly neighbor of 10,000 lakes. It's cool at 41f degrees and a guessed high of 62. My app says the overnight low was 39. Our area's 1st frost is typically between 10/1 and 10/15. Up north about 100 miles it's from 9/21 to 10/5. I like the pretty flowers hanging around in the nice pots.

The grandson has an away soccer tournament 15 minutes away but the 1st game is at 8 and the temperature will be about 44 but feeling like 33. We'll go to the 2nd game at noonish. This tournament is actually time wise closer by a few minutes than the home pitch is for the team from our place.

I wanted my deck expanded from 12' long x 8' wide to something bigger like 12x12 but the quote from our contractor was the price of a cheap (now a days) car. I'd like to grill and have a few places to sit out there. I like just going out on the deck and relaxing anytime I feel like it if the weather is cooperating. Terry used to join me but with my grill and only 1 chair it's not the same. Putting the grill on the patio on ground level is now the plan in the Spring. No, I am not getting a smaller grill, the 4 burner gas fits our needs very well. Terry says about 80% of our dinner meals are cooked on the grill by her or mostly me. We'll adjust to going down to grill. There is just no value added by expanding the deck.

Today other than the soccer somewhere around noon is to clean the studio some and take a few pictures of the canvas I am painting. I thought I had posted some previously but I guess not. I was asked why the uptick in painting? I needed a break from model railroading, especially trees! I also have (proud to say) a joint gallery showing with 2 others at Thanksgiving time that I am told by the gallery owner is a great time to sell for Christmas. She will show 25 canvases from each of us but wants at least 2x's that many there to show interested buyers. I have no style as I paint what I feel not so much what I see. Maybe an impressionist? Monet had his series of Haystack paintings. I have a few pictures of the grain bags that we see around Wisconsin and other Midwest farms. Those long while plastic storage things. But mainly no people or rarely mechanical objects in the painting. I paint free style as I have no actual training. It reminds me of my time as a kid designing and coloring golf courses, then drawing floor plans and later the walls around them. I called it doodling.

Why start to paint after 70? It's not just that I enjoy it though I do. My health issues in 8/2024 took a lot out of me and I lost the natural (for me) feel for weathering freight cars which was until it became too intense a great sense of joy and release for me. Painting is almost the same feeling now. I have gotten back into weathering (mainly diesels) but while it's no longer a series of frustrations it's not natural yet but I keep moving towards that feeling

Enough of me, enjoy your day
TomO

[elwoodblues]

Good morning everyone,

Thanks for the coffee and breakfast Larry.  Hope the rest of the firewood gets picked up.  Have fun at the bench.

Mike, glad your scan was clean and you are feeling better.

Dave, enjoy the harvest festival and scotch club.

Rick, hope you get the coffee grinder fixed, it's essential for one's well-being. 😊

Tom, enjoy your day with Pam.

Curt, hope you can get the bow of the boat fixed.  I think we have all done something like that.

Karl, you shouldn't say things like this "AT least bass wood doesn't leave too big a mark on the wall, as long as you miss the TV or computer monitor....", It made me spit out my coffee. 😊  Sounds like you had a busy day.

TomO, was wondering why so much painting lately, now I know why.  Hope the Thanksgiving show goes well and we need to see some of those paintings.

Weather here is 11c (52f) and sunny.  Ended up working most of the day yesterday but I did make it down stairs and started roughing out the mountains, think Minecraft.  Today I need to run a couple of errands, probably cut the grass in the back yard for the last time, and have a walk with Gracie.  After that it will be more Minecraft mountain making time.

Have a great day everyone.

[Jerry]

Morning everyone

Larry thanks for the coffee & breakfast.
I hope that guy gets the rest of the firewood.

Mike hope you make it upstairs today.

Morning Dave.

Nice picture Rick.

Tom have a nice day with Pam.

Curt I hope you can fix the boat??

Karl glad your feeling better.  And free donuts should help the sinus!!

TomO how about a picture of some of your art work.

Ron good luck with the mountains.

Weather in South Jersey is cloudy/64.
Nothing got done from the bench yesterday again.
Just busy doing other things. 
Well maybe today I'll get there seeing its not a nice day outside.

Everyone have a great day!! 

Jerry