Sunday, June 25, 2023

Sunday, June 25, 2023

Tonight's picture was taken in May of 2006. That Memorial Day weekend, we took Mattie to Sesame Street Place in Pennsylvania. Mattie had an amazing time! He and Peter went on every ride that was possible. I was so impressed that Mattie went down this huge water slide with Peter, because just a few years prior to this, Mattie was deathly afraid of slides of all kinds and water. But we kept at it, introducing him slowly to slides and water, and eventually he LOVED them. 

Quote of the day: When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. ~ Henry Ford

On Peter's walk this morning, he was greeted by deer. These are the creatures I absolutely love seeing since we moved to Virginia. 

In comparison to the above photo, we found this in our backyard today! SORRY, I am NOT a snake fan. I don't care if this Black Snake isn't venomous. I think snakes are creepy and ever since I was a kid, they terrify me!

The highlight of the day was we had Kim Richards over to begin sketching concepts for the paintings she will be doing of our house. Kim is a plein air painter and I fell in love with her work when I met her at the Vale Arts Show last year. We have a two story wall in our family room, and honestly none of us could agree about what should be displayed on this wall. 

When I thought of the idea to ask Kim to create landscapes of our house, everyone agreed. This will be a process in the making, and today was day 1 on sketching and creating. I have asked Kim to include Sunny in one of the landscape paintings. Sunny was intrigued by Kim's presence and ironically stayed close to her. 

I snapped a photo of Kim and you can see how close Sunny was.... and a few times he even went up to her and sniffed her paints. He is quite a pup!!!