No One Will Ever Call Me An Artist

Are you an artist?? Show some artwork or doodling you've done. Don't do art, share something you like then.



I am NO artist. I have an eye for color and composition. It just doesn't translate itself to the paper. I'm glad I can craft, so that I have an outlet for these qualities. They also help with things like arranging pictures on the wall and arranging furniture. I like balance and symmetry. I like movement.Those things attract my attention. But color is always first. The more colors in something, the more I'm attracted to it. My shop logo and my business cards both have a lot of color in them.

I like impressionism, but my husband doesn't share my taste. He likes photos, so much of the work on our walls is photos. I don't mind it too much because they are usually photos of places we've been. I took some photos of some of the artwork on our living room walls. I couldn't help the glare.

Some Things I Didn't Know When I Was Young

July 29- How does your life measure up to the vision you had when you were younger?


When I was younger, I never thought I would be so, so tired
When I was younger, I never thought I would be fat
When I was younger, I never thought I could be so happy
When I was younger, I never knew what it meant to love---until I had children
When I was younger, I never knew what a marriage was meant to be---until I married Mike

Mike, on our 25th wedding anniversary

Me, on our 25th wedding anniversary

Say Yes to Nuclear Energy

July 27- Write up something about an alternative energy source


(I wasn't sure if I was going to write a post today because of the pain from the tendonitis in my right elbow. But it is tolerable tonight, so I guess I can't back out. I rested it a lot and took my anti-inflammatory meds.)

When I think of an alternative energy source, the first thought that comes to my mind is when I was in college beaucoup years ago, we talked a lot about nuclear energy. It was going to be safe, clean, and cheap. Then we had the Three Mile Island meltdown. Coincidentally, the movie China Syndrome had been released just 12 days before. According to one source, no nuclear power plant  in the US received approval to be built from1979 to 1990.

Now with new designs, smaller plants, and closer regulation, nuclear power plants are being built or consolidated. There are 32 companies licensed to operate power plants in the US. The Nuclear Energy Institute offers the following statistic:

Amount of electricity generated by a 1,000-MWe reactor at 90% capacity factor in one year:
7.9 billion KWh—enough to supply electricity for 690,000 households.

If generated by other fuel sources, it would require:

• Oil: 13.7 million barrels – 1 barrel yields 576 KWh
• Coal: 3.4 million short tons – 1 ton yields 2,297 KWh
• Natural Gas: 65.8 billion cubic feet – 100 cubic feet yields 12 KWh
  (based on average conversion rates from the Energy Information Administration)