More Colour For Kat ....and Me

I've been trying since I started today to get a photo up. Blogger's having a little indigestion and will be back to health soon, I'm sure.

I've tried to jam too many things into this day. I did errands and had a bunch of things happening at home too. My errand run to the nearest town had seven stops. Each one was necessary and took driving and waiting time. Yesterday I had only three but had a visit to a friend and felt less rushed. Today, I felt rushed.

Tomorrow, I have a friend taking me to lunch in Charlottetown and have an hour and a half while she keeps an appointment to finish up my 'to do' list. I've only been in town once since I've been home from Florida and that day started with the car getting smashed in the parking lot of my first errand.

In a rush is not a good way to pick music when you sucked once already this week and picked randomly. I wouldn't dare do it again so give me a minute.

I was reading and researching someone I listened to extensively since the 60's or early 70's. Until I did the research, I for some unremembered reason, for the last 38 years, have thought she was Canadian. Today I read she was from NYC; Astoria, Queens more specifically.

I saw her in Toronto in August '71 and I was wearing a fur coat. I was very, very ill with rheumatic fever and was freezing in fever for a couple weeks before I went to a doctor. I remember people staring at me thinking I was tripping on acid because people were freaky in those days. I was just sick, freezing and needed the coat. I wasn't going to miss Melanie. I saw a lot of great concerts in Toronto and Boston in those days, living in both places. Anyway, Melanie (different link) is a wonderful singer, songwriter and performer. Check her out. Here are two to start you on your way. Ruby Tuesday and and I'm Not In Love Anymore. I had all of Melanie's albums until I left them all at a friend's in Port Perry, Ontario. One of many times I gave my albums away.

The Sun Is Near

We are having a heavy downpour, raining harder than it has all day. By the look of the radar it will end within an hour or so, then we're in for several days of sunny, warm weather. Yeah! I love being outside this time of year.

I'm finishing up lots of paintings, varnishing more and started on others. My arm actually tires so I can't do it for hours without a break anymore. I hadn't planned on starting any new ones but if the muse is there you grab her. I was only going to start one but you need two or three going on at once to paint efficiently. That's how I work anyway. I may do a bit of jewelry too before I start back to work but I'll leave the glass commission till next winter. I have to get outside.

New Brunswick, our neighbouring province and my birthplace, is experiencing floods through much of the province. There was the current heavy rainfall, record winter snowfalls and it's an area prone to spring flooding anyway so it's quite severe. They have had this two day rain but with the expected sunshine, it will start to abate. Ian Tyson with Eighteen Inches of Rain is the perfect song and Rainy Day by Jenn Grant is pretty good too. Jenn was born here on PEI and Ian is Canadian too. They know about rain.

Goodness, both of those songs were up already. Some other Canadians ..... from the past, Melanie with Nickle Song and kd lang with The Air That I Breathe.

Anticipating Weather

The above photo will never go on a photo blog but will go on this blog. It's how I found the girls when I went to bed last night. I went back downstairs to get the camera but kept the light off when I came back to take the photo. They're quite the girls!

Don't you just love the flavour of brie cheese and rosemary crackers? I'll be having a late supper tonight because of a fairly extensive visit/snack just now but that's ok. This flavour on my tongue will see me through.

I was out visiting earlier today and made plans to go hiking next week on some brand new trails which promise to be a photographer's delight.

I love my friends. Two today have made me feel sooooo good. I appreciate my good friendships more every day. To accept one person for who they are and be accepted for who you are are just the basics. I celebrate my friends today and every day. We're there for one another and that is to be celebrated.

We are expecting "some weather" but the newscasters are being a little over-dramatic. I heard one say this afternoon that we were in for a "big system", in very dramatic fashion. The forecast is for 15 cm (6 inches, Carol) and winds gusting up to 50 km/hr. Nothing really big but since it's only our second taste of winter it's all feeling very exciting.

We love our storm days. They are an excuse to take the day off - a mental health day. After all the drama has passed I want to snow shoe. My favorite ex (sister-in-law, sometime I'll get a cuidadopedia) wants to cross country ski so we've decided on a field where we can do it together.

Music: Canadian, Ron Sexsmith, clever and likable in God Loves Everyone and an old favorite from 1970 or '69, also Canadian, is Melanie and Beautiful People.