Guests are for Getting your House Clean
Oct. 3rd, 2002 07:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dolphins_logJuli has a week of vacation this week. It actually started last Friday when we took our Lighthouse excursion. I can't have the week, but I've managed to make up for it by taking a day here and there.
Tuesday we Had my parents and my uncle over for dinner. I took Tuesday off to run about cleaning the house and getting a crock pot roast cooking. I found a recipe on the internet some time ago and it's been very good.
The other item Juli and I had to attend to was hanging up artwork. We've been in this house for three years and we have very little of our large collection of art on the walls. Three of those pieces were painted by my uncle, a very accomplished artist. And since he was coming by for his first visit it was only right that his art be displayed. One piece he painted as a wedding gift to Juli and I. It's of a series he calls "Flowers in the Field". My Sister and my brother received one at each of their weddings. I was convinced we weren't getting one. For the past five years my uncle has been saying there is no more art in him. There's art in him, he just struggles too hard to get it out.
A fourth painting was by my father, another very accomplished artist. It's of the Bainbridge Island sand spit, a.k.a. Point Monroe. He painted it back in 1960. What's fun about this piece is that it's of the sand spit back in 1960, before developers stacked houses and architectural nightmares on every square inch of it they could find.
Art on walls is a good thing. We need to hang more.
Tuesday we Had my parents and my uncle over for dinner. I took Tuesday off to run about cleaning the house and getting a crock pot roast cooking. I found a recipe on the internet some time ago and it's been very good.
The other item Juli and I had to attend to was hanging up artwork. We've been in this house for three years and we have very little of our large collection of art on the walls. Three of those pieces were painted by my uncle, a very accomplished artist. And since he was coming by for his first visit it was only right that his art be displayed. One piece he painted as a wedding gift to Juli and I. It's of a series he calls "Flowers in the Field". My Sister and my brother received one at each of their weddings. I was convinced we weren't getting one. For the past five years my uncle has been saying there is no more art in him. There's art in him, he just struggles too hard to get it out.
A fourth painting was by my father, another very accomplished artist. It's of the Bainbridge Island sand spit, a.k.a. Point Monroe. He painted it back in 1960. What's fun about this piece is that it's of the sand spit back in 1960, before developers stacked houses and architectural nightmares on every square inch of it they could find.
Art on walls is a good thing. We need to hang more.
