Applesauce

With the two bushel of apples Steve and I picked, I made 24 quarts and 13 pints of applesauce.  And I watched four movies while I chopped and strained and sealed:  Parent Trap (the new one), Freaky Friday (the new one) (I guess it has been a Lindsay Lohan kind of week), Princess Diaries, and Hans Christian Anderson.  And, Steve's July-movie-of-the-month is the Lord of the Rings trilogy and we watched Fellowship Friday night and Two Towers last night.  Oh, and I watched Percy Jackson and the Sea of Monsters on my Netflix Tuesday night.  So, I have been in heaven with all this movie watching.  It has been nice to catch up on mending and do some small sewing projects while I watched. 

About 28 years ago, I started to oil paint.  It all began with a one-time, evening Relief Society class taught by Leslie Ethington and I was hooked.  I just couldn't get enough of it and I painted for about 5 years.  And then I stopped.  I think our heavy financial issues dampened my artistic spirit and then I started to work part-time and then I went to college full-time and then I became a Relief Society president and I started teaching orchestra and, well, I guess I found different ways to satisfy my need to create.  And so my box of oil painting things has been shuffled from closet to shelf and back to closet until this past week when I pulled everything out to see where I am at with all of this.  And, I think I am ready to re-open that part of my life again.  I don't have that burning drive that I had so long ago.  Crimeny, I had six kids back then PLUS I babysat!  And, yet, I made time to paint every week.  Now all I have are two sleep-all-day dogs and it is summer break and I confess that I am a bit intimidated.  And, the practical side of me says "what will I do with all the paintings?"  Isn't that silly?  But, here I go.......