Christmas Rhode Island Style

Nothing says Christmas like a few bottle rockets.

Christmas Greetings

I had hoped to achieve 100 posts by the end of the year but that doesn't look like it is going to happen because I have been away too long.  I suppose that happens when one is working 50+ hours a week.  All work and no play as they say.

I have been making my way thru Eat Pray Love and for those of you who haven't seen the movie, the book is nothing like the movie.  I finished the Italy part and the India part seems more like the movie but still different.  I find it interesting how the screen writers come up a movie based on a book without being the same, just a resemblance.  

Another example of this in my mind would be Under the Tuscan Sun (movie WAY better than the book because it had something to say) and Band of Brothers.  Love the miniseries and also loved the book but I don't see how the miniseries came from the book because most of the main characters in the mini series were mere footnotes in the book.  Still both continue to hold my interest.

 Make sure you watch A Christmas Story, my all time favorite holiday movie and make sure you don't shoot your eye out.

A New Project

Here is my latest project.  It is two feet by four feet and it will hang in in a yoga studio.  It is an acrylic and I only used three colors:  cad red as a base coat and black and white.  I have since reworked the nose at least twice so it looks better than this.

Another Day at the Dump

Those of you who have been reading regularly know that I love to take a trip to the dump (which is technically a transfer station so who knows where it all ends up) with my household trash.  Today I will finally show you what it looks like.

The big brown structure is "the pit" where the trash goes.  The smaller white one in the fore ground is where old guys sit to make sure you have the proper sticker on your car and are allowed to dump.  Not a bad job.

Here were some of the goodies just waiting to be taken home.  How about that lime green dresser?  And not a bad stroller or high chair.

And here is where you find treasure.  It doesn't look like much but believe me, there is hidden gold everywhere.  On this particular day it was pretty cleaned out and lots of books.  I don't know if you can read the rules but some one can't spell and most people don't read them any way.

Here is a close up of what you can find.  This is the dishes and breakable shelf.  One woman told me that she found a place setting for her china set there.

This is where the glass is recycled.  There is also a place for plastic and newspapers on the other side.

All is pretty well organized, not bad for a middle class town.  It does not, however, compare in any way to the Cape Cod's South Yarmouth dump where your cast offs have to pass a jurying process to be worthy of being picked up at the dump.  I just wish I knew someone there with a sticker.

Hope you enjoyed the tour.

Christmas Season

I did not mean to be away so long.  Time has a way of slipping by this time of year.

The weather here has been unseasonably warm, not that there is anything wrong with that.  We have had temps in the 50's and 60's and so far no snow except that dusting (for us anyway) around Halloween.

Having said all that, I do not have the Christmas spirit.  I have been working a lot of hours and I do not plan to put up any Christmas decorations again this year.  I do not have time to prepare a Christmas party, nor do I have time, thus far, to make my kielbasa run.  Our Christmas plans are to go to Rhode Island to my daughter's house on Christmas Eve and stay over night for mimosas in the morning.   We will head back later Christmas day and maybe go to the movies.

I hope all of you out there are feeling better about the holiday season and I promise to show you my latest art projects and some pictures of the dump.