I added a new painting, Livia Loves to Paint the Breeze, a watercolor on panel - http://www.organ-kean.com.

Just so you know - I've started a new blog, attached to my website, at http://organ-kean.com/wordpress

The current post is about a new painting I've started - it includes a picture of the wip - I'd appreciate comments!

P.S. I've also updated the website.

Mr. Bud, the previous owner of our house had a highly eccentric view of home repairs. Even after six years, we're still discovering some of his notions.

Today my husband and a friend moved a fridge out of storage and into our kitchen. Since it has an ice-maker, my husband connected the plumbing and then found that when Mr. Bud had put the valve in on the pipe, he'd put it in so that it faced the drywall. As in, no you can't reach it - there are studs on each side, drywall behind it and a pipe in front.

So my husband went and bought a cunning little door and frame, and next week, he'll knock a hole in the drywall, put the door in and we'll have access to the valve. It's in the laundry - I can live with this.

P.S. For those of you wondering how Mr. Bud accessed the valve - he put a hole in the drywall. At some point before he sold the house, he turned the valve off and patched the drywall. The only thing that surprises me about this is that he patched the drywall.

Or something.

For what it's worth if you go to http://www.askkids.com, type in elephants and click on images, one of my paintings - Big Game Animals 2.01 - comes up on the first page.

I also notice that Amphibians Dream of Flight has made it to the second page of images for Frogs. Some kids are going to have some awfully strange notions about frogs, I think.

Laundry, Finances, Dishwashing, Walking, Bread-baking, Web-mastering (my site - due for a new one soon) and

 YES!

 Painting

 Need to go pet cats now. That's next on my to-do list.

I just had a painting juried in to the Puyallup (for non-locals, that's the Washington State Fair - the biggest one this side of the Mississippi).

 I never get in juried exhibits.

 Well - maybe it's I never used to get in juried exhibits. :)

Desperately waxing cats.