The surge is working!

Really didn't have much time to mope around the house and worry about my ultrasound test results, which I picked up when I went for my MRI Friday afternoon. The results didn't sound too good, but I was so busy cleaning up the last tenant's mess over the weekend that I didn't focus on it. Had to do something to try and tame the chaos at our own house today, so I mowed the yard while Jerry cleaned out the truck, attempted to organize our garage, yada yada. Tomorrow--we'll battle, among other things, the dreaded yellow pool and fixing cabinets for our other rental. The tenants started moving in Sunday (all Full Sail students) while we were finishing up. One house down, one more to go. I hope we can get the one in Suntree rented soon because I'm running out of energy and need to concentrate on other things. Finally got to spend a little time (very little) on some arty things. I attempted an incursion into my art room with some organizing type things I found while cleaning the rental. Hey, if you can't get something out of cleaning up someone's mess for a week, what's the point? Then, on to the computer to fool around with that lily photo from the challenge group. Here's my latest version. I tried like hell, per the rules, to keep track of the steps but they got away from me and I have no idea how it ended up like this. So, I guess I won't be able to "submit" it to the site, but maybe I could do a painting from it. Or maybe I could just keep fooling around with it. On another note, here's a good u-tube video I got from my image transfer group with a nice tutorial on photo transfers with Apollo transparency film. I haven't had much luck with other processes (impressively bad luck!), but I hope this might work because I've got a lot of ideas percolating in my head that could possibly come out through this medium.

Precarious Penguin Perch ©, 9" x 12", acrylic on canvas board

Didn't get to post yesterday. It was very traumatic. We went over to the house at Suntree and tried to get into the garage to fix the sprinklers before the whole lawn died and have the yard crew work on trimming the shrubs. Surprise! The idiots living there wouldn't let us in--even with a Deputy present. Our lawyer told us we have every right to go in to maintain our property and had notified them several days ago that we would be there at 11:00. She, of course, lied to the Deputy and told them Jerry had "threatened" them and she was just trying to protect her children. These people are criminally insane. I shudder to think what they must be hiding in that house. I can only hope that they do leave by the end of the month, but I'm not counting on it. It was white-knuckle driving on the way home as it rained buckets and by the time we got back I had to take a two hour nap. I felt lucky to be able to pull myself together and go for a walk with Jerry and Marley. Anyway, today was a little better and we went to the Y and worked out for a couple of hours. I felt so much better after the yoga class--totally relaxed. I wish I could paint some of the colors and abstract thoughts that come into my mind when I meditate, but somehow when I go into my art room it isn't quite the same. I haven't had much luck with these photo transfers, but this painting is a feeble attempt with a photo that caught my eye of penguins (hundreds of them) on a ledge. It didn't quite work so I tried to compensate with some paint in a Klee-type fashion. May try a little wash to unify parts of it--but then again, maybe not.