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With a New Year comes the desire to improve oneself...in other words...Resolutions. For starters, I've decided to renew my Bug-A-Day project and see where that takes me. Maybe I can get past the three-month mark this time. Maybe I won't make it past one. ;) The goal is to complete a year. So this is Day 0, because it's December 31, 2019, not January. I was really motivated this morning and eager to get started. It took several hours to color this "metallic" wasp sketch (I think it's one of those solitary parasitic wasps, which are frequently metallic). I saw the photo and was dazzled by its pretty colors. Moving forward, not everyday will be so elaborate and time-consuming, but the most important thing is just to complete something . And it isn't perfect, but that's also the point. Perfectionism can be a killer - it can prevent you from completing things, or sometimes even from starting things. I will be posting them on here and my Tumblr pa...

The truck stop behind our hotel room after a few hours of snow. We were starting to get worried that the auction would be canceled. (Same view just as it started snowing) And...it wasn't cancelled, but we didn't get the farm. The bank bid was too high. We're bummed, but we still have one more chance at it before all is lost.

Maine farm in October 2019 My hub's grandpa's farm in ME is going to auction on Tuesday. We're going to fly up there on Monday and bid on it. It's beautiful there, and if we get it, it's going to be a major life-changing event! I've lived in FL most of my life - you know, minor climate differences... I think I'm ready for the change though. Even if we don't get this farm, we're looking at other possibilities in the area. I've missed my tiny home in the country since I left and can't wait to return to a rural life. The farm house was originally built in the 1850s and was "updated" in the 60s...probably gonna need some work. I tried to convince my hubs, ghost enthusiast that he is, that being from the 1850s, the house was probably haunted, but he didn't believe me! :P (I was so credible...)

round-neck longhorn beetle Wow, it's been an incredibly long time since I used this site and pretty much my entire life has changed in the meantime. I had to reset my password and re-learn how to use this...old stuff and new (still a bit foggy...). Besides allowing the dust to collect, or perhaps a result of, my drawing has become a bit rusty, too, which I've found happens when I lay down the pencil for too long. Life gets in the way sometimes (not always good, but not always bad either). The above pencil sketch is my attempt to return to the groove. I'm imposing a daily sketch regimen - exercise! Calisthenics for my rusty hand/brain coordination. This particular insect was photographed by me in northeastern Iowa in 2014 when I was visiting my grandma. I remember being so excited that I found it, and so eager to draw it's portrait...and I'm just getting to it now, in 2019. Life. Happens.