Sunday Sketches - Peach Picking

Welcome to Sunday Sketches from England! This piece is done in my art journal (8 1/2" x 11") in watercolour pencil and crayon. She is 'Peach Picking'!

Old Soul

We were at a restaurant the other day and I decided to try this low carb selection, it consisted of a burger atop a nice salad. It was quite filling and the burger was delicious.

I loved this newspaper article about the young 12 year old poet with an old soul.

Paint Party Friday - Social Painting

Welcome to Paint Party Friday!

Daughter L had bought some tickets to a social painting party as a birthday gift to me. We went several weeks after my actual birthday and it was a lot of fun. The photo above represents our finished work! L's is on the left and mine is on the right.  It is worth noting that of the 20 participants, nobody copied the actual work sample, it was more of a creative process.

L and I got iced lattes as the place offered snacks and drinks.

The painting above was my piece as I left the art studio, but I wasn't happy with it and changed it as displayed in the first photo!

Summer Wildflowers

Here are some more wildflowers of summer for you today.  I took these photos last weekend.  I had met my girlfriend S for a quick walk.  We saw 2 dead raccoons on the main road, S thought one of them was a baby.  I tried not to look too closely.

Blueberry Muffin

Husband M and I went for coffee at Panera Bread the other day and shared this delicious blueberry muffin! It tastes like a pound cake stuffed with blueberries and really not that sweet tasting compared to say a cherry danish.

Have a look at this outdoor sofa, on sale for only $13,199.99 Canadian! It's very attractive, but the newspaper actually had it listed for $19,699 when it caught my attention.  Either way, it is unaffordable!

Clogged Kitchen Sink

I took these summer wildflower/weed photos, aren't they pretty?

Pokemon Go has taken our city by storm, at least in our area, the streets are filled with kids hunting for Pokemon characters. My 'kids' age 21 and 24 are just as addicted. It must be just a fad. The escape reality game rooms seem to have been just that, as a lot of them have closed already.

In more mundane news, our kitchen sink became clogged on the weekend. I remembered we had trouble with this many years ago but couldn't remember the details. Sure enough, I was able to search my blog and found that I had recounted the story of that 8 years ago! In those days, the blog was even more of a daily journal of what was going on in my life.

Fail

neighbourhood snail

A lot of the financial investment companies are giving people the option to access their account statements online.  It seems like a good idea, avoiding all the paper statements.  The bad part is you have to keep track of ids and passwords.  The other thing is the initial access you have to set up on their systems.  This particular company has this multi-step process.  Step 1 involves requesting a pin number which they promise to mail within one day.  I waited 3 and a half weeks to receive mine.  It had been so long that I forgot what to do.  I went in to step 1 again and found myself requesting another pin which invalidated the first pin!  It was a frustrating fail.

Luckily this time I only had to wait 4 days to get a new pin.  I was very careful this time to proceed directly to step 2!  Now will I really check my statements online?  With the paper statements at least you just have to open the envelope, not hunt for passwords to look them up online.