Paint Party Friday - Forest Moon Rise

It's time for Eva and Kristin's Paint Party Friday! Please stop by the other participants and join in the fun today.

It's the Canadian Thanksgiving long weekend.  It usually means lots of turkey and pumpkin pie!


Today I'm featuring a moon rise in the forest, an ACEO done in acrylic. Hope you like this one.

Fall Topiary

Here's a Fall Topiary I like to display as a fall decoration.

Peggy of Middle Age Ramblings found 'The Greatest Speech Ever Made' written by Charlie Chaplin. It's 70 years old and worth listening to.

Wow the passing of Steve Jobs yesterday was sad news, such an icon.

Dishcrawl

One of my sisters was telling me about Dishcrawls a new way for foodies to have fun!

This is how they describe it on their website:
'Our City Dishcrawls are a social dining experience through 4 restaurants in 1 night with a group of awesome food lovers. Try a taste of everything while meeting your neighbors and local chefs and owners. And trust us, pacing yourself is everything. :)'  It started in California, but now the event has been organized in some Canadian cities. I noticed the one in Toronto scheduled this week is sold out.
Well, I thought that was an interesting 'city' thing to do, not saying I'd actually go to one at this time!


I managed to sell an extra IPOD Touch we had, on Craigslist!   I had one inquiry the day after posting the ad, but had to reduce the price after the first week.  It went to an interested buyer the very next day after the price reduction.  M came to an agreement with the buyer and met him at the local library to do the exchange.  To think it had been lying around for more than a year.  Have you tried Craigslist or Kijiji?

Narcotic

Yesterday I went to see my family doctor to renew a prescription.  It so happened I was coughing pretty hard, so I had him check my chest, etc.  Then he prescribed a strong cough medicine for me.  Later on, the pharmacist read the instructions saying 'one to two teaspoons three times per day' and advised me to stick with one teaspoon as the medicine is pretty strong.  He also said it had a drowsy effect so I wouldn't want to take it if I needed to be extra alert at any time.  When I got home, I read the sheet that came with the medicine and I noticed the word 'narcotic'.  That spells 'addiction' to me!  These doctors think they are helping us, but frankly I'm now scared to take that medicine.

The interesting thing is that I was telling the doctor about my daughter in university passing this bug onto me.  Then he mentioned his son is in first year at the same university.  The big deal is that my mom, my sister and I have been patients of his since the mid-eighties and we all assumed he wasn't even married!  I managed to inquire if he had other kids and indeed he had some younger ones.  Were my mom and sister ever surprised to hear this gossip!  It's not that we're clued out, I guess we are not prying kind of people and he's never mentioned having a family.

And flu shots are now available, by the way.

Twitter and Happiness

Have you heard of Timeu.se? It  ' is a web tool for investigating how millions of people report spending their time. This is done by collecting and aggregating millions of messages from Twitter. '

Give it a try, it's fun although I did read of it in the newspaper where this tool is being used in research:

Twitter used to track happiness


I photographed this pretty fall arrangement when I was  in a downtown office building the other day:

Sunday Sketches - Tulips in Acrylic

It's time for Sunday Sketches! Please stop by the other participants and join in the fun!

Today I've done an acrylic painting. It's an ACEO.  I decided to do these tulips. It's fun working with acrylics and it's very forgiving if you make a mistake. I didn't even have a pencil sketch to work with, just free hand. There's a lot to learn about this medium.  Don't forget it's the perfect time for planting your spring bulbs!

Sweet Saturdays - Roast Chicken

It's time for Sweet Saturdays!  Please stop by the other participants to see what they found sweet today.

Happy October!

We have the Canadian Thanksgiving long weekend coming up and when I made a roast chicken with stuffing recently, it made us think of Thanksgiving turkey!

On a cooking show, I once saw them put a pat of butter or margarine under the skin of each chicken breast prior to roasting and I think it makes all the difference!  My favourite stuffing is a bread stuffing, what's yours?