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Back when it was hot and dry and Rocky was working on another job and I was dithering over paint colors, it was perfect weather to paint the house.

I put out the new rain gauge when I got back from the meeting Thursday and then checked it Friday morning...3/4” of rain. Emptied it and checked again Saturday morning...1” of rain. Emptied it again and looked later in the day Saturday after a pretty hard shower...another 1/2” of rain. This on top of all the rain we've been getting the last two weeks. The other night when I let the dog in from her last outing of the day, this guy came in too. Even the frogs have had enough I guess. 

And in case you were wondering, the mosquitos are still thick out there so I'm still pretty much house bound.

I've excavated the kiln in the garage which is now accessible (and knocked down all the daddy longlegs webs and did some general clearing out but it's still a huge mess in there), finished cleaning the cedar chest and moved it into the back bedroom, glued the four tile models down onto a piece of glass and made boxes for them so they are ready for the molds to be made, 

took the dog to get her toenails clipped, got a tension bar and hung the lace curtain I got in Portugal in the window of the back bedroom (finally! and decided I like them best smooth as opposed to gathered so now I have to get the courage up to cut the excess third off), 

and put the oxblood lily bulbs in a basin and covered them with dirt to tide them over til I can get outside.

The gallery in Dallas called Friday to say the work I sent arrived and they love them and by the way we sold the Moonflower piece. That would be this one...

I'm always pleased when a piece sells because, for one, they aren't inexpensive, but it's not really the money, though of course that's the whole point of selling them, but that someone wants it enough to spend the money. That's when a piece really succeeds for me. Plus it encourages me to make more, or rather, make.

You may remember back early July my iPad went to sleep one night and never woke up. Wouldn't charge, no nothing but a black screen so I put it in the secretary until such time as I made my way to the Apple store and charged up my old one, after I taped up both ends of the charge cord. It has been working fine except for the fact that it is outdated and doesn't have all my stuff on it and wouldn't do mail. So the other day it was niggling in my mind that someone had said this happened to theirs once too and after a while it allowed itself to be charged so I thought I'd give it a try and plugged it into my desktop and after several hours, it woke up. Took it two full days to get to 100% but seems to be fine. So yay! I guess it just needed a timeout.

And here's something we haven't seen much of for the last couple of weeks.

behind me it was still all cloudy