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last resorts

there are so many empties around the house, no surprise i painted yet another bottle.
well, i had to do it, today i painted the dog.

i'll take that neat please

went to a lovely cocktail party last night in Cannes...feeling very groggy today, due to father-of-the-hostess' drink making tactics...when making a gin and tonic, he filled a large tumbler with gin and then just waved the bottle of tonic near it. (credit for that ingenious description must be given to one Miss Liz Dickens)

another note: i managed to wear my two inch heels the entire evening without falling over once!

getting with the times

my sister Margaret has a new site (thanks to my brother Thomas) that is more blog-style and easier for her to use (she was handcoding previously!). i'll have a newly designed one shortly as well, with all the features (comments, trackbacks, etc) that my brother says i just can't live without...stay tuned. (note: address won't change)

summer reading

having finished a few trashy beach-reads last week, decided to stretch the brain muscles this week and am now mid-way through The Great Shame, and the Triumph of the Irish in the English-speaking World. extraordinarily well written and researched, not to mention interesting...Grandma Quinlan will be proud.

hey-der

uncle Bert has some friends in town this week, including a young sister and brother (20 and 24) from Madison...cured my homesickness (see earlier brat-reminiscing) right off!

a pic (sorry for the grainy quality, that's me in the middle, in silver, pre-tan...cheeky Rachel at the bottom left, solid Liz behind Simon and sweet Tina to the right) from the Forum social clubs most recent outing....a girls night at a bar called Morrison's in Cannes...note presence of (male) co-ordinator. fun.

making progress

some of todays 10 minute watercolor studies:
glass study
ihategeraniums
apples
this afternoons gouache:
red laundry

sparkles

i bought myself a pair of hot pink spangly flipflops today to cheer myself up...it worked a little. every girl needs a pair.

bbq

barbeques are fun, but make me homesick for WI bratwurst (is that possible?) ...i've found sausages, but they are so tiny and shrivel like old men on the grill...and the idea of a bun is laughable here...spicy mustard is find-able, but sauerkraut ..i'll probably have to make some myself. Racine Kringle Co. will fedex their goodies anywhere, wonder if someone else can do some brats and cheese curds? ooh...and some Leinie's while i'm at it....

same shit. different place.