From 2009. I have mentioned this before, but I have mentioned most things before: every time I look at my artwork from recent years, I cringe at how blah it appears, because it is from the period I was using felt-tip pens. Felt-tip pens are convenient. They greatly speed up the drawing process, a big plus in my book, and they are very portable. One of the best things about my job is, I can do it anywhere. However, as many times as I’ve done it, traveling with India ink and accouterment is always problematic. Felt-tip pens eliminate that concern nicely. However, the resulting drawing just isn’t the same. Not for me, anyway. About a year or so ago, I went back to the old dip pen method, and I am much happier with the finished product, although I’m always trying to do better.
157 responses to “Inking Aloud”
She liked my post a short time ago. I will go look.
She liked my New Years day blackeyed pea and pork roast Texas caviar salad on January 2 so that was two days ago.
Want me to write to her directly?
Off to bed and pick out warm clothes for tomorrow. Skipper the cat is sleeping on my thermal ski underwear that is bottom layer of ensemble! No Carhart’s for me. I may do the Janis into jeans but no zippers.
Forgot the Egg report. We have second hen laying. We now have three tan flesh colored eggs and one that looks blue, pale, like giant Robin egg. Trula has asked me to go buy fake eggs for the chickens, she says she feels guilty taking their eggs.
Have gone on a salmon binge, found a huge cache of it that was in freezer and it is still good. Made a lime honey garlic and tamari, olive oil and brown sugar glaze. Put brandy flavor in as I had no brandy. Defrosting more salmon. On super food binge too, quality food in cannot hurt.
Jackie, please check on Charlotte if she doesn’t post here tomorrow.
During the fall, it seemed I couldn’t give away (literally) bird seed but also couldn’t keep the hummingbird feeder filled. Now, of course, that’s reversed. So arrived today a second seed feeder I ordered to exchange for the HB feeder for the winter months. I’ll put it up tomorrow.
Heck, I did it just now. No assembly required, just fill and hang. Happy breakfast, birdies.
My feeding towers are the most admired things in the yard according to Trula and Tony. It takes about 50 pounds of bird seed to fill them all if some still have seed.
Tony is really proud of them, he installed the high posts and brackets on them.picked the feeders to coordinate colors. My property goes from one street to next street so we did flight patterns so many yards apart and each tower is close to one or more excellent tree or tall vine cover for protection.
I love birds. Dogs, cats and birds, chickens and I could have other animals, there are no.restrictions out here. Of course that isn’t always a good thing.
Really didn’t buy any of the outrageously costly ones but have barns, churches, light houses, schools, silos, windmills, a Texas star, lots of reds, yellows, whites, blues, greens.
This started 20 years ago and took off with my mom here, she loved the birds. I guess I just kept adding them wherever I saw a different one or sales.
Apparently the syndicate colorist thinks “opaque” is a synonym for “white”. (1-5-17)
Still enjoyed it, though. There seems to have been a recent dearth of “Janis in the tub” cartoons.
I float. Why doesn’t Janis?
Jackie
You remind me that I have to defrost the little freezer – it is colder outside than in the freezer
so stuff will keep.
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BH slipped on ice getting out of truck and twisted knee – have been “doing” so she does not have to move much. She is better tonight.
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As I said the other day sometimes it takes awhile for our ride to tell their names-
I think my truck tried to say his is “Traveler” (R.E.Lee’s horse) but ge is not – so I will
call him Ishmael. (paraphrased quote).
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BH will be very disappointed when her station wagon can no longer be coaxed to continue.
But I figure there is 200,000 more miles in the of girl.
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Mom used to make good liver – she marinated it in milk.
MIL made better but the we used our own cows.
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I used to eat Raisin Bran exclusively for breakfast till I saw the raisins doing the backstroke across the milk – of course zapping them would discourage swimming, just add protein.
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About 35 years ago i co-invented a Braunschweiger cutter that increased efficiency
about 300% and eliminated waste. Got $1.00 to sign over patent to employer.
On a Dragnet episode Harry Morgan (later Col. Potter on M.A.S.H.) had a sandwich
of Braunschweiger, Cream Cheese, & Garlic Powder on Caraway Rye bread.
I have been eating them ever since.
GM Debbe where ever you are.
That is — old girl
Her name is Sable
That is part of my memory of the wonderful Jewish deli where I used to eat the liver wurst or braunsweiger sandwiches. The cream cheese and freshly made Carraway rye bread. I do not remember the rest but it was about and inch or more thick. It was hard to get in mouth.
Mike used to say they could skip sandwich and just inject in my veins.
Think oil crash in 1980s dropped a dead rig right on top of the restaurant.
Jimmy, “Blondie’s Opaque Bath Salts” is inspired!
Our local squirrels will be chasing each other for the next two months in the attempt to pass on their genes. Most females will run when not receptive, but we had one old fox squirrel lady who would just hold her ground and swat her pursuer when she was not in the mood. I once saw her knock a big male right off a tree branch. He didn’t seem surprised; my hubby saw her do the same thing to him the year before. Goldie was a scrappy broad, and Short-Tail, while not monogamous, apparently loved her for it.
The holidays must have been most relaxing. “Blondie’s Opaque Bath Salts” was a classic at birth.
Before there was Arlo and Janis, there was Blondie. The strip was on the top of page but it was always the first one that I looked at every day. Thanks Jimmy. It sounds like others enjoyed it too.
If it will result with Janis looking like Blondie then I’m all for it.
Ghost, I’ll wait to get chipped until I begin to get lost. My DNA must be on file by now as much blood as I’ve had taken.
Blondie? Good strip, but figure? Too much of a good things*. Does well for her age, though. *That’s a typo [really], or maybe an Act of God. Genuflect, d*mmit!
It’s now official:
http://www.bemidjipioneer.com/news/4192381-absolute-zero-mn-winters-rated-worst-us-nds-ranked-fourth-worst
Peace,
She looks good for being at least 86 years old. BTW did anyone else see the video of the two year old picking up the furniture that had fallen on his twin brother?
Jackie- you ARE beautiful.
Folks, you can do your own side-by-side thingy, using this strip and today’s. (Jimmy’s busy, y’know. creating fun stuff for us to enjoy, supervising workers on the parsonage AND putting together another book…..)
Oh no- Jimmy, you folks didn’t get hurt by the bad weather, did you?
Jerry, GOOD to see you again.
A bit of snow here, maybe more later. Everyone have a fun day. 🙂
When my little brother was 2 or 3 and and I was 8 or 9, I caught him trying to climb up the dresser. When I went to pull him off, the dresser started to fall on us….with a TV that was setting on top. The TV was balanced on my head but I was having difficulty pushing everything back upright, so like in the movies I yelled HELP! and my older brothers came running to push the dresser/TV back into place. It took me a while to explain what happened, but my brother never tried climbing up the dresser again.
There’s a story behind my new “brass lantern” style bird feeder (see below). It is nearly identical to one that my sister gave my mom several years ago which, by about this time last year, had weathered to the point the bottom had fallen out it. I had to replace it with a “tower” type feeder. Needless to say, I am happy to have it to join the tower feeder I brought from my mom’s apartment.
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That’s why we all should secure tall, high center-of-gravity items if there are likely to be toddlers in those rooms. Brackets are cheap, and repairing screw holes in the walls is both cheaper and less emotionally devastating than repairing injured children. Or burying them.
I think Utah deserves higher than #35 on the list… but they are probably doing average weather data for a state that shares borders both with Arizona and Idaho and ranges between 2,180 ft (spillway of Beaver Dam at AZ border) and 13,518 (King’s Peak). I live at about 4,500 ft and in the northern half of the state. When St. George gets snow, it’s news. When we don’t get snow here, only the ski bums and resort owners cry.
Thank you Llee. I do plan on stopping to visit when I head north but I am waiting out the weather. I don’t like driving in snow or ice and I see no reason to do so!
I love your nasturtium paintings you just did.
Ghost, those are my favorite bird feeders too.
There is a story behind mine too. I had a matched set of them all around porches, maybe eight or ten my feed store ordered for me. They annoyed my late husband but they were neatly hung alternating with hanging baskets.
He took them all down and we thought we’d find them eventually and reinstall. So far we have not found but I still am looking.
Birds love them.