26 November 09

Figureheads at the Port Adelaide Maritime Museum

Rain came with the cooler weather, and downgraded our massive barley crop from malting grade to animal feed. Ho hum. The trees grew.

The pile of cars is now progressing steadily towards a (distant!) conculsion. Stronger, much more colour and every day I feel confident to start the next section. New paintings are piling up in my head, ready to burst forth in the new year.

Found a new framer today, after husband Ken asked me to accompany him to Adelaide to look at an off-road motorbike for Blinman, just in case he wanted to ride it home, but when the bike proved to be too underpowered to outperform a truck tanking along the highway (apparently it’s no fun if one of those overtakes you, poodling along on a 250cc motorbike), just in case a highway needed to be ridden along on said off-road bike, we then went hunting down a particularly good picture framer, who might make exactly what I want, AND HE WILL!!! Not only that, but I can make an appointment to take a painting in, go away for several large cups of coffee and return to pick it up, resplendant in its new frame. Bliss.