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ripening rose hips

I have a feeling that this might be the last lazy weekend for a while.  Next weekend, well next Wednesday really, we leave for Denver and return on Sunday.  Our neice is coming of age and there will be services and parties.  We’re going a few days early to have the opportunity to see some friends we haven’t seen in about 6 years and to meet the architect that got us the big residential job in Colorado Springs last year.  We might even get to go over to the house and see it.  That would be really cool because, though of course I saw each individual panel intimately as we worked on them, I only ever saw it complete on paper at about 1/4th full size.  Part of this job was two walls...the wall around the shower and the wall around the toilet in the master bath, about 24 linear feet in all.  We also did the front door and 7 interior doors.  I haven’t seen even a photo of it because the owner has not allowed any pictures to be taken of the house but apparently he’s not adverse to us coming to see it.  Anyway, this post is not about that job. 

purple coneflower empty seed head

I say this might be the last lazy weekend because now that August is finally coming to an end and summer is over, is really over after Labor Day, people are going to start waking up.  Already I feel myself stirring.  The piece is finished for the Mint Museum’s gala and I have finally started work on some waxes to get the two boxes I started last year finished.  Initially, these two pieces were one but although I loved the way the top came out and I loved the way the box came out, I didn’t love the way they looked together.  This top was actually the third idea I had for the box.  The first one didn’t get made.  The second one I couldn’t figure out how to make it work.  This one looked great in my head on the box, which is about moon phases and mountains, but the reality didn’t hold up.  So now I have come up with my fourth idea for the top and I really think this one is it, but just in case I’ll fall back to my second idea even though I still don’t know how to make it work.

The cool air in the last few mornings has not only got me back in the studio, it is also making me think about working in the garden.  I have plants to plant, others to move, flower beds to expand, ponds to put in, a shop to build. a patio to lay.  Even the cat feels it.  She has been busy striking terror into the hearts of birds and reptiles all morning.

sunflower seeds almost ready

This has been a long slow summer.  I have submitted many proposals this year and the work has been so slow coming in.  I’ve been expecting deposits on two very nice jobs all month.  I also have had another very good proposal accepted and anticipate their deposit soon.  The race has been on all month but no one seems to want to win it.  Now that summer is ending people are going to wake up and say, whoa, it’s September.  When did that happen?