Ice Cream

I got daughter L an ice cream maker for her recent birthday. She loved it and set about making ice cream immediately, it was delicous with a soft serve ice cream texture:

Entrepreneurs

I thought this was a good one:

I am really annoyed with blogger, I used to get all my blog comments emailed to me, and now I noticed there are quite a few that just appear in my comments with no other indication. So Michael, Alexandra, Adam, Kathy, Lux and so on...I catch most of them eventually.

Did you hear that Sheryl Sandberg's husband Michael Goldberg passed away suddenly at age 47? Apparently he fell off a treadmill in a Mexico hotel gym and suffered a fatal head injury. Sandberg is the 45 year old COO of Facebook. Goldberg was a Survey Monkey executive.

Husband M and I went to the library the other night to attend this entrepreneur talk that was being hosted. We are not entrepreneurs but 4 of them spoke on their lives and their accomplishments. My plan was to take son K to learn something but he ended up having to be at his part time job that night. Entrepreneurs are a special type of person. Many start from childhood with newspaper routes, lemonade stands, and end up recruiting other kids to do the actual work while they collect most of the profits. They tend to 'connect the dots', or network to find people who can help them get the job done. I am always amazed at their boundless energy, ability to multi-task, and they seem to forget to eat, not having enough hours in the day to accomplish all they have planned.  It must be exhausting just knowing someone like that, although there is much to be admired about them.

A Long Walk

I thought this was cute:

The weather's been so nice, I went on a 4 hour walk with my friend S on the weekend.  A walk like that makes me very tired!  We poked around at a garage sale, fortunately bought nothing.  Then we arrived at a shopping mall where S bought a lovely leather T-shirt on sale.  A lady in the store was trying on a beautiful salmon red jacket that she was intent on purchasing.  I had been sitting/resting on a bench nearby her and remarked on the lovely colour and how it suited her.  She told me she had a 17 year old daughter with anxiety issues.  So she took her to a lot of private skating lessons because she thought it helped her deal with her problem.  I sympathized with her on dealing with a 17 year old to begin with, that is a tough age.

Monday

Maybe you feel like this at the start of the week!

I am very pleased to announce that son K passed all of his courses this past semester and just has to find and complete a field placement/internship for his last course credit towards a college diploma! It is a big accomplishment for him as he has a non-verbal type of learning disability that affects his English and Math processing.  Fingers crossed that he can find a suitable placement and quickly.  We've been more focussed on him passing everything than in finding a placement.

Sunday Sketches - Bird at Sunrise

Welcome to Sunday Sketches! This 'Bird at Sunrise' piece is done on a (3" x 3") post-it note in watercolour pencil. I have lots of art paper, it's just that I always have post-it notes handy and it's the easiest thing to grab a hold of when I feel inspired.

Funny

Do you ever feel like this sometimes?

We have been having sunny, wonderful weather.  It encourages everyone to be out and about.  Son K cleaned the wheels of the car with armour oil, he wanted them nice and shiny.  He has never done that before, maybe turning 20 has this effect on young men?  Then he went off to his part time job.  I invited a middle-aged cousin over for an afternoon walk.  She is depressed at what seems to be the end of a long-term relationship.  I hope she can feel better sooner rather than later.

Have a read through this article from Home Digest magazine.  It's called 'one damn thing after another (ODTAA)', I loved it. It says life is a series of problems to be dealt with and resolved. We should just accept that fact and at the end of it all we come out changed, compassionate, energized.  The Canadian Author Jim Campbell is described as a Northern Andy Rooney.  I decided  to buy his most recent book 'Glimpses Through the Mirror: The Collected Pen Point Columns'.

Paint Party Friday - Clematis

It's time for Paint Party Friday! This is clematis on a (3" x 3") post-it note in watercolour pencil. Welcome to the weekend and the month of May!