New Dollys & Current 'projects'

Hope you all had a wonderful Easter weekend. We had a nice wet snow, which we really needed. Its all gone already, and everything is back to being green. Hope you will stop by the TDIPT Mercantile tomorrow evening of the 14th, to see 3 new precious dollys I will have to offer.....

Here is a picture of the mural I am painting going down to my studio.....not to 'Rufus'-y looking yet. I haven't had time to work on it for nearly 2 weeks now~ don't know where the time goes! I have been sick alot lately, the whales got painted early one morning, about 1am, while everyone else was sleeping. I figured~ why waste time rolling around AWAKE in the bed. I still have much to do on it~ this wall will have a house in the foreground above the whales there, and I need to do something with that hideous tree. I am not happy with how the foreground tree trunks came out, but I'm not worrying about it until I get finished with them, I am hoping they will look better with their sponged on foliage. In any case, it does look much better than plain ol cement!

We have been rearranging the line of the fencing outside~ Josh is trying sooo hard to pull up the t-post. He was hopping up and down on the jack with all his weight and it would hardly budge, but he finally got it out! Tootie & Puddle, 2 of my drakes, went to live with friends of ours, as 3 males is just not good for only one female duck. Squeak is already soooo much happier. We have also culled down to just one rooster, for now anyways~ with my current luck, every one of the chicks will be a rooster!

Last year one of our neighbors cows got out, and they ended up roping her right in the middle of our corn.....so this year, a new fence is going up around the garden, before Jayson plants a single seed!