Day 218 - 365/2014

Day Two Hundred Eighteen

This morning I was able to make a coffee meet up with Joan and Leann at Tuscan Cafe.  It has been so long since I have been able to join them...it was so great to be together again!

While we were talking Joan mentioned an upcoming event at the Northville Art House and wondered if I was going to participate.  The event is called The Painted Chair and the call for art is called Can You Spare a Chair?  I had not planned on altering a chair...but that was before Sue broke her ankle.  My days/nights work times have really been shaken up but I think I just might be able to do this.  (Click on the link for more info!)  I will post more about it as the event gets closer.

Joan has been looking for a couple of chairs to alter and I said I had one she could have.  When I got home I went shopping in my basement and found another chair that I had originally planned to alter at some point.  I gave Joan first choice (since I wasn't expecting to be doing this) and she chose the one from the basement...I got it at a garage sale quite a while ago.  I will work on the one I first told her about...it is currently in my entry area by the front window...it is rarely used...I got it from a coffee house a bunch of us used to hang out at a long, long time ago.  And I think that one will work better for my ideas and Joan thinks the other one will be better for her purposes...yay!

The chair I will alter.

The chair Joan chose.

A bit later (before I went to Sue's house) I went to see WanChuan Kesler's solo show DongFeng at the Northville Art House.  Here are a few photos...I didn't show every painting...you need to go and see these for yourself!

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DongFeng -- a solo show by WanChuan Kesler
August 1 - August 23  

Northville Art House
225 W Cady St
Northville, MI  48167
phone:  (248) 344-0497

free and open to the public
Wednesdays - Saturdays from 1:00 - 5:00

Day 217 - 365/2014

Day Two Hundred Seventeen

Although I am home a bit earlier than usual, I need to catch up on laundry tonight.  I expect to have stuff to talk about on Wednesday and Thursday -- yay!

Day 216 - 365/2014

Day Two Hundred Sixteen

We are back on the "regular" schedule with Sue's husband's work hours today.  No blog post -- just checking in now because I won't be home before midnight (probably).

Day 215 - 365/2014

Day Two Hundred Fifteen...a change of pace

Our day was a little more interesting today -- Sue needed to parcel out some supplements for her horse at the barn where she keeps him.  We drove out there and she was able to slowly hobble over to the locker area of the first barn (with the indoor arena) and I helped by bringing the chair for her and then doing the walking around parts...which is kind of amusing because I have problems with everything from the waist down (with trouble standing for too long or walking too far)...a sort of the blind leading the blind situation...but we are getting through it.

Those roads out there where the barn is (where all of the various barns she has boarded her horse(s) at actually) are very -- to me -- similar.  Get me out in the woods on dirt roads and I get a bit panicky because everything looks the same and I lose my sense of direction...it's kind of ridiculous, but there you go.  Sue on the other hand knows exactly where she is and how to connect all of those back roads...even in the dark.  Man!  ANYway...here are a few photos (using the back up camera that I am not at all familiar with)(and have to use the memory card to get the images into my computer)... sheesh.

Okay...the first road (shot through the windshield)...they ALL look like this, I swear.

Finally getting to the barn...this is the view from the road.

Sue getting out of the car.

Sue after I assured her there was room to get by the truck inside of the barn.

Sue at the gate...about to show me how to open it.

The indoor arena...this is a really great looking place!

Sue in the chair I carried over for her doing jazz hands...these are the tack lockers of the horse owners.

Sue's tack locker.

Her horse's food and scoop and supplements containers.

Sue refilling the little cups...I helped, too...Sue scooped the supplement and I added the powder stuff.

We drove around to the side of the barn to get a view of the pastures and see the second barn where her horse's stall is.  This guy is a show horse who is used to having his photo taken...he was very cooperative...these are shot from the driver's seat of my car through the open window...he came right up to us and started posing.

My bad photography with this unfamiliar camera...the horse is great poser.

Pulling the zoom back a bit to include the tractor I was shooting around.

The pastures...Sue's horse is out there somewhere...probably down the hill.  We were hoping someone was going to be around to be able and go out and get her horse...she wants to check his feet/clean them out...and maybe lunge him a little.  I was going to try to do the lunging part...we will try again sometime during the week.

Okay...another road out there.

A different road.

And another different road...they all look the same to me -- gah!

After we finished up out there we got back to civilization and went through Milford and back towards Sue's area and went to the grocery store...I "ran" in and got a few things to make dinner for her and her husband.  Then we rested a bit and put dinner together...Sue scooted on the floor over to the kitchen and talked me through the dinner prep.  Then we both rested a bit and Pepper came home just after I moved my car out of the driveway and I was washing the pots/pans/bowls.  Then I cam home.  It was a shorter day today but man -- it wore us out.  That was a lot to do.

Day 214 - 365/2014

Day Two Hundred Fourteen (an update of sorts)

I had a shortened day today with Sue...her husband went into work very early and that meant that I could leave earlier than what has become my "regular" time slot.

I've been using the day to catch up a bit around the house and also to try to locate the back up camera that Jeff gave me.  I wasn't sure if I still had it or if I had passed it along to another camera-less friend.  I did find it finally and the battery is charging.  I took a couple of quick test shots with it but now I realize that I don't have a manual for it (no doubt I can find one online) but I've been fooling around with it a little so I can use it until my new camera arrives -- estimated delivery date is August 7.

So -- another night of no real blog post and definitely no photos to show because I cannot understand how to get the pictures out of the camera and into my computer.  The cord for my Canon does not fit the Nikon...and I have never just used a memory card for uploading.  Hopefully I can show stuff from tomorrow because Sue and I are supposed to go see her horse.

As back up to the back up camera, I also have Sue's husband's old Canon digital SLR -- big and clunky and I really don't know very much about that one...or how to work it.  It is also useable...but not very handy for snapshots for the blog...but it is here...but no manual that I can readily find...and that battery needs to be charged as well.  Fingers crossed for camera progress tomorrow.

Day 213 - 365/2014 (another late post)

Day Two Hundred Thirteen

Wow -- another late post to my blog.  I fell asleep after I got home from Sue's yesterday evening -- I guess I needed to catch up on some sleep, too.  Man.

So...another hiccup in my plans happened -- my point and shoot camera died.  Yep, another one bit the dust.  The same thing happened...lens freeze up/error.  The poor little camera sounded like a dying robot ... it kept trying to open the lens and made clicks and buzzes and error messages but in the end, it just gave up the ghost.

I ordered a newer model from Amazon through the link on my friend Juana's blog.  She participates in some sort of points program and I try to make larger purchases from that link/button whenever I can.  Maybe you can do that too the next time you make an Amazon purchase!

Just scroll down the page and the Amazon button is on the right hand side in the Banner - O - Rama section.

In the meantime, I am going to try to find and figure out how to use the point and shoot camera that Jeff gave me when my other camera died.  It is a similar camera but a different brand and I will need to learn how to use it...unless I passed it along to someone else who was camera-less at the time.

Day 212 - 365/2014 (late)

Day Two Hundred Twelve

Oops...not much of a blog post tonight...I got home after my midnight deadline.  I did a lot of running around errands (for Sue and for me) before I went to her house.  I am beat.