Wednesday, January 23, 2008

The Kingdom of Talossa

The Kingdom of Talossa

The day after Christmas in 1979, a 13-year old high school student in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, declared his bedroom to be an independent sovereign state, the Kingdom of Talossa. The kingdom has grown considerably since then and now consists of a 13-square kilometer portion of East Milwaukee. So far, the U.S. government has not disputed Talossa’s claim to this land. In 1985 the country’s founder was elected king, abdicated in 1987, and became king again in 1988. The head of the Progressive Conservative Party is Michael Pope and Chris Gruber is prime minister.

The Kingdom of Talossa has claimed to be descended from North African Berbers and have their own language as well as “Talossan English.” The Talossan government has a foreign affairs policy and in 1980 defeated the Glib Room Empire, which surrendered and signed a peace treaty.

The Kingdom of Talossa has claimed a chunk of Antartica (which they call Pengopats) as a colony because no other nation has ever claimed it. Part of their colony off the coast of Brittany was occupied by French troops and placed under barbed wire. Because of deficiencies in French barbed-wire technology, the Talossan prime minister at the time liberated part of the French-occupied zone and had a picnic.

If you’re really interested in the Kingdom of Talossa, it offers dual citizenship. You can become a Talossan and still retain your U.S. citizenship.

http://www.execpc.com/`talossa/index.html

Also taken from the book Do Fish Drink Water?

Tuesday, January 22, 2008

More Trivia!

Trivia for blog

If large blocks of ice are stored in well-insulated buildings and covered with sawdust, the ice can last for most of the year without melting.

The [Tootsie Roll] company has done well even when the candy industry has been in a slump. It has paid dividends for 53 years, increased sales each year for the past 19 years, and boosted annual earnings for the past 14 years.

Vampire bats need two tablespoonfuls of blood each day. They land near a sleeping victim and approach on foot to avoid waking the intended prey. The bat uses a heat sensor to determine where the blood is closest to the skin and then makes a small incision (one fifth of an inch long) to extract the blood.

The longest place name in the United States is that of a lake near Webster, Massachusetts. The 2-square mile lake is called Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg, which is a Nipmuck Indian word freely translated as “You fish on your side, I fish on my side, nobody fishes in the middle.”

The longest place name in the world is a hill in New Zealand. The hill is simply called Taumatawhakatangihangakoauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanataha. It is a Maori word meaning “The brow of the hill where Tamatea who sailed all round the land played his nose flute to his lady love.”

If you count the chirps of a tree cricket for 15 seconds and then add 37, it will be almost exactly the true temperature in degrees Fahrenheit.

Poplar trees and both red and silver maple trees are good rain predictors. During a low pressure system before an impending rainstorm, the leaves flip up.

This is taken from the book Do Fish Drink Water by Bill McLain.

Monday, January 21, 2008

What not to put on your application

What not to put on your application:

Have you ever been convicted of or pleaded guilty to a felony or misdemeanor, other than a minor traffic violation?

1. “Urinating in public because I didn't want to use a toilet nearby full of large, aggressive sissy boys.”

2. “It was my first and only offense. …Minor entering a Tavoron.” (Oh, no, a – a what?)

3. “Wrong place at the wong time, and I’m human I’m not perfect, and I am a much more better man.”

4. “Mistor minor offence.”



Volunteer experience?

“Death and dismemberment clean-up.”



Signature to a cover letter:

take care.
tenderly
jane doe



What not to do when you turn in your application:

1. Tell the secretary how badly you need a job. Be sure to include bits of personal information about diseases you have had and reassure her that you are not contagious.

2. Tell the secretary how badly you need a job. Be sure to emphasize how difficult it is to get a job when you are old/young/black/white/foreign/not foreign/male/female/etc.

3. Tell the secretary how badly you need a job and then tell her that you are pregnant. When she says she doesn’t need to know about that sort of thing, ask her if she can at least pray for your baby. Then when she goes to lunch, stop her in the middle of a busy four-lane street and ask her how long it will be before you hear anything.

4. Deign to remove the earpiece from your ear while your music blasts at full volume and then grunt to find out where the applications are.

5. Breathe like Darth Vader and occasionally yell out things like, “I told you ghosts not to steal my Kleenex!”

6. Remind the secretary several times that you live a block away. (Like I care.)

7. Ask the secretary where she lives.

8. Ask the secretary to fill out the application for you.

9. Mutter things like, “I know I’m not going to get this job. I’ll just turn this in anyway. I don’t know why I bother.”

10. Be vague. Don’t phrase questions in complete sentences. Say things like, “Applications,” or “Apply?” Act irritated when no one understands you.



What not to do when the Human Resources office is closed:

1. Stop outside the door and read the sign that says the office is closed, then come in anyway and announce that you know the office is closed but you just wanted to turn in an application.

2. Or take the skills test.

3. Or check on your application.

4. Or get an interview.

5. Surprise the staff by sitting in the office on a day the office is closed and the lights are turned off. Complete your application in the dark anyway.

6. Or turn on the lights and make yourself comfortable.

7. Read the sign that says the office is closed. Come in anyway and wander down the hall calling, “Hello? Hello?” When someone comes to find out what’s happening, tell them the sign says the office is closed.



What not to do when you’re frustrated because you haven’t been contacted for an interview:

1. Make an irate phone call to the secretary during which you ask, “What does a person have to do to get a job there, have pictures of someone having sex with animals?”

2. Imply that you are a Very Important Person who is chummy with other Very Important People. Lean in and say something like, “I know the Director.”

3. Or the mayor.

4. Or a board member.



What not to do when called for an interview:

Say, “I’ve never done that kind of work before but I’m sure I can learn.” Then giggle.

Say, “My wife reminded me I have something to do at that time. Can I reschedule? My wife reminded me I have something to do.”

Say, “Ummm… hmm… (pause) I guess I could set up an interview for that.”



What not to do for an interview:

Call that morning and say you can’t make it and need to reschedule, then show up at the time your original appointment was scheduled without any explanation. Say there is no place to park and you don’t have any change for a parking meter. Borrow a quarter from the hiring manager so you can park your car.

Come in for a security officer interview wearing a hot pink t-shirt, tan mini skirt, hot pink flip-flops with feathers on them and your hair in a ponytail on the side of your head.

Get to your interview early and once the interview has started tell them you need to use the restroom. Then wander around the building, get a drink, use the restroom and do some more wandering before going back in for your interview.

Entertain the secretary by telling her stories about how you create computer viruses in your spare time.

Tell the interviewers that you’ve had a lot more jobs than you put on your application because you got fired from them.

Arrive an hour early because you forgot/didn’t know about the daylight savings time change that occurred two weeks ago.

Wednesday, January 16, 2008

PS

I did get a cedar chest/coffee table. In case you were worried.

Blogging

Even though I have created a blog with pictures and a profile and everything, I am still not sure I like this whole blogging thing. I want to create a fake one from the point of view of my dog, but I thought that would be too dark and scary for the younger readers as my dog has anxiety issues, and then I thought about creating one from the point of view of my cat, but that would mostly be, "FEED ME! FEED ME NOW! NOW! FEED ME!" And it would go one like that for pages and pages. Maybe a picture of a mouse. Disemboweled. Which would be too graphic for the younger readers.


Then I considered writing one from the point of view of my former kitty Hollie. Hers would include lots of pictures of herself and would perhaps be a bit like reading something written from the perspective of Paris Hilton, but with less alcohol. "Today I napped until noon, then had a nip from the water dish my human kindly filled this morning. Not exactly Perrier, but bless her heart, she really does try. I think maybe after I take a nap I'll leave a present on her freshly-laundered white comforter (though my white fur is ever so much brighter than that comforter. Really, have you ever heard of bleach, darling?). And then I'll purrrrrrrrrrr. Ooo, that has a nice ring to it! Purrrrrrrrrrrr. Oh, I could do that all day. Purrrrrrrrr."

Tee hee. :)

Friday, January 11, 2008

Link to a Wish List

I saw in my profile set up a place where I can enter my wish list and create a link to it. Link to a Wish List? Are they kidding? My wish list would crash the Internet! :) But what a good idea... put the wish list on my blog, give people my blog address, wait for presents to roll in. A concept worth pondering! Oh, wait, I need a special occasion to receive gifties? Unfair! My life as a princess, all in shambles!

I am very disappointed in the last cycle of America's Next Top Model and am eager to see the next cycle so Tyra et al can redeem themselves.

I am looking for a new coffee table. I have one that Mandy is loaning me, which replaced a filing cabinet that was laying on its side and covered with a throw - very shabby chic - and I want to get a sort of cedar chest/trunk deal so I can store blankets and puzzles and stuff in it. There was a rattan one at Target I was going to buy after Christmas but when I looked at it a second time it was too small. So I have been everywhere I can think of that might have something in my price range - Big Lots Furniture, JC Penney, Sears, Wal-Mart, K-Mart, Value City Furniture, World Market, Lowe's, Menard's, Meijer's - and am not finding anything I really like that fits my budget. So I'm starting to get those dangerous thoughts of, "How difficult can it be to build a cedar chest? Couple slabs of wood, some nails, bit of sanding and staining..." In other words, I need to be stopped! I'm going to try to wait for the spring and our neighborhood garage sales to start, but I don't know if I'm that patient.

That's my update for today! Fare thee well!

Thursday, January 10, 2008

My first posting

Well, hello, all. I am really not happy with the formatting of my blog, but I think that's mostly because I don't know what I'm doing yet.

Trivia of the Day:

* Coffee was usually roasted at home up until the 1870s. The coffee beans were put in a frying pan and roasted over a charcoal fire.

* For over 20 years, the Glass Orchestra of Canada has been performing music on custom glass instruments that they designed and made themselves. The orchestra uses 1,000 pounds of glass instruments during its performances.

* Honey bees consume 7 pounds of honey for each pound of [beeswax] they produce. The resultant wax is white, odorless, and tasteless. The so-called natural yellow color and pleasant aroma come not from the wax itself but from the pollen and honey stored in the wax honeycomb.

* Beeswax was not used to make candles until around AD300, when the Catholic Church mandated that for certain rituals candles had to contain at least 51 percent pure beeswax, the rest of the candle being either mineral wax or tallow. Some ritual candles today consist of 56 percent to 100 percent pure beeswax.

* Beeswax candles found in Egyptian tombs are still pliable, even though they are thousands of years old. Beeswax candles salvaged from sunken ships are still in good condition even though they have been underwater for hundreds of years.

* Ancient peoples made candles from a variety of ingredients. Many used tallow, or animal fat. The Japanese used wax from an insect, the Chinese extracted oil from the tallow tree seed, and early American settlers made wax by boiling berries from the wax myrtle tree. In India wax was obtained from cinnamon, and in South America wax was obtained by scraping the leaves of the wax palm. American Indians simply stuck a spear through a candlefish and lit it.

* The first flushing toilet was in use almost 4,000 years ago at the Minoan Palace of Knossos on the island of Crete.

* Although not well publicized, ice sculpture competition is part of the Olympics Culture and Art Festival. To qualify for the Nagano Winter Olympics, Steve Brice and Kevin Roscoe created a 2.5-ton ice sculpture called Moment of Truth. It depicted a man fighting a lion and included an intricate net made of ice.

* The color of the egg yolk depends on what the hen has been eating. In this country, adding artificial colors is not allowed so some producers add marigold petals to the hen's food to create a more orange yolk.

I got these from the book Do Fish Drink Water? by Bill McLain. Very cool book! You should check it out! :)

Tuesday, January 1, 2008

Anonymous or Unknown

Anonymous, Unknown, or Not Famous

I know that a girl with a book is a girl who is unstoppable.
Havana Chapman, 8 years old in 2021

"I wish I had tried." (graffiti on a tunnel wall)

All the fans are wearing yellow shorts, it’s a fantastic kaleidoscope of color. (Soccer World Cup)

“If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?”

“Solar energy is not something that is going to come in overnight.” (1974)

“Sometimes in order to make progress and move ahead, you have to stand up and do the wrong thing.”

“There are different Klans - just like there’s different fraternities at a college.” (Explaining his former Ku Klux Klan membership)

"I always wonder why birds stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on the earth. Then I ask myself the same question."

“Things are more like they are now than they have ever been.”

“Wanted: Young, skinny, wiry fellows not over 18. Must be excellent riders, willing to risk death daily. Orphans preferred. Wages are $25.00 a week.” This is a mid 1800’s help wanted sign for the Pony Express.

Garden Rule: When weeding, the best way to make sure you are removing a weed and not a valuable plant is to pull on it. If it comes out of the ground easily, it is a valuable plant.

He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion.

You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her.

Count your age with friends but not with years.

Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.

Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.

The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.

A budget is just a method of worrying before you spend money, as well as afterward.

I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the top.
Anonymous English Professor, Ohio University

Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's family does too.

Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way.

English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation.

Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the second, "For my best friend."

We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.

We do not remember days; we remember moments.

The world is so fast that there are days when the person who says it can't be done is interrupted by the person who is doing it.

Under the most rigorously controlled conditions of pressure, temperature, humidity, and other variables, the organism will do as it damn well pleases.

When science finally locates the center of the universe, some people will be surprised to learn they're not it.

Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.

Why do we kill people who kill people to show that killing people is wrong.

Your ignorance cramps my conversation.

Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words.

How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?

I want to die like my grandfather; peacefully in my sleep. Not screaming like his passengers.

If you know you're going to look back on today and laugh, you might as well start laughing now.

Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad.

Before they invented drawing boards, what did they go back to?

How do I set my laser printer on stun?

If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?

If one synchronized swimmer drowns, do the rest have to drown too?

If the #2 pencil is the most popular, why is it still #2?

If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done?

Is Santa so jolly because he knows where all the bad girls live?

It might look like I'm doing nothing, but at the cellular level I'm really quite busy.

Cat's motto: No matter what you've done wrong, always try to make it look like the dog did it.

Men are like a fine wine. They all start out like grapes, and it's our job to stomp on them and keep them in the dark until they mature into something you'd like to have dinner with.

Why do you need a driver's license to buy liquor when you can't drink and drive?

Why isn't phonetic spelled the way it sounds?

Why are there interstate highways in Hawaii?

Why are there flotation devices under plane seats instead of parachutes?

Why are cigarettes sold in gas stations when smoking is prohibited there?

Do you need a silencer if you are going to shoot a mime?

Have you ever imagined a world with no hypothetical situations?

How does the guy who drives the snowplow get to work in the mornings?

If 7-11 is open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, why are there locks on the doors?

If a cow laughed, would milk come out her nose?

If nothing ever sticks to TEFLON®, how do they make TEFLON® stick to the pan?

If you tied buttered toast to the back of a cat and dropped it from a height, what would happen?

If you're in a vehicle going the speed of light, what happens when you turn on the headlights?

You know how most packages say "Open here". What is the protocol if the package says, "Open somewhere else"?

Why do they put Braille dots on the keypad of the drive-up ATM?

Why do we drive on parkways and park on driveways?

Why is brassiere singular and panties plural?

Why is it that when you transport something by car, it's called a shipment, but when you transport something by ship, it's called cargo?

You know that little indestructible black box that is used on planes, why can't they make the whole plane out of the same substance?

Why is it that when you're driving and looking for an address, you turn down the volume on the radio?

I don't believe in reincarnation, but I did in my past life.

You may be only one person in the world, but you may also be the world to one person.

A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour.

We could learn a lot from crayons: some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, some have weird names, and all are different colors....but they all exist very nicely in the same box.

If Wal-Mart is lowering prices every day, how come nothing is free yet?

If you love something, set it free. If it comes back, it will always be yours. If it doesn't come back, it was never yours to begin with. But, if it just sits in your living room, messes up your stuff, eats your food, uses your telephone, takes your money, and doesn't appear to realize that you had set it free....... You either married it or gave birth to it.

The only reason I would take up exercising is so that I could hear heavy breathing again.

I joined a health club last year, spent about 400 bucks. Haven't lost a pound. Apparently you have to go there.

My husband says I never listen to him (at least I think that's what he said).

Why do people point to their wrist when asking for the time, but don't point to their crotch when they ask where the bathroom is?

I planted some birdseed. A bird came up. Now I don't know what to feed it.

I had amnesia once...or twice. I forget.

I went to San Francisco. I found someone's heart. Now what?

All I ask is a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.

They told me I was gullible...and I believed them.

When the only tool you own is a hammer, every problem begins to look like a nail.

A flashlight is a case for holding dead batteries.

What was the greatest thing before sliced bread?

My weight is perfect for my height... which varies.

I used to be indecisive. Now I'm not sure.

Is it possible to be totally partial?

If swimming is so good for your figure, how do you explain whales?

Is it my imagination, or do buffalo wings taste like chicken?

Teach a child to be polite and courteous in the home and when he grows up, he'll never be able to merge his car onto a freeway.

Save the whales. Collect the whole set.

A day without sunshine is like -- night.

On the other hand, you have different fingers.

42.7 percent of all statistics are made up on the spot.

99 percent of lawyers give the rest a bad name.

Honk if you love peace and quiet.

Plan to be spontaneous tomorrow.

How many of you believe in psycho-kinesis? Raise my hand...

Hard work pays off in the future. Laziness pays off now.

If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends?

How much deeper would the ocean be without sponges?

What happens if you get scared half to death twice?

I used to have an open mind but my brains kept falling out.

Killing turkeys causes winter.

People who ask our advice almost never take it. Yet we should never refuse to give it, upon request, for it often helps us to see our own way more clearly.

You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.
Don't spend two dollars to dry clean a shirt. Donate it to the Salvation Army instead. They'll clean it and put it on a hanger. Next morning buy it back for seventy five cents.

To hide the key to your heart is to risk forgetting where you placed it.
In order to keep a true perspective of one's importance, everyone should have a dog that will worship him and a cat that will ignore him.

Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice Doggie!" till you can find a rock.
The most wasted day of all is that during which we have not laughed.

I'm desperately trying to figure out why kamikaze pilots wore helmets.

When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at.
I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.
Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
What's the difference between a boyfriend and a husband? About 30 pounds.

A truly great library contains something to offend everyone.
People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
Save a little money each month and at the end of the year you'll be surprised at how little you have.

Whoever said you can't buy happiness forgot about puppies.

Paranoids are people, too; they have their own problems. It's easy to criticize, but if everybody hated you, you'd be paranoid too.
Feelings are everywhere. Be gentle.
Ever wonder if illiterate people get the full effect of alphabet soup?

This customer service job would be a breeze if it weren't for all these whiny, pushy, complaining, help-me-now, customers.

The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
Did you ever walk into a room and forget why you walked in? I think that's how dogs spend their lives.

I have said nothing because there is nothing I can say that would describe how I feel as perfectly as you deserve it.

Nobody believes the official spokesman... but everybody trusts an unidentified source.
Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.

The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.

We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own.

Life is like a field of newly fallen snow.
Where I choose to walk every step will show.

My dog is worried about the economy because Alpo is up to 99 cents a can. That's almost $7.00 in dog money.

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience -- well, that comes from poor judgment.

Dad's Art

Some of the art my dad has created.

UPDATE: March 2011







The one on the left is the beginning of a new "dab" painting. Read previous entries below to see what that means. :)






This is one Dad had painted a while back (and is pictured in a previous entry) but he felt it lacked something so he tweaked it a bit by adding pinks to the sky. It really changes the entire picture!


Dad did the same thing to this one.






He gave us the one on the right. :)


And the one on the left here.




Dad had displayed some skinny paintings in a local gallery and bunches of them sold so he has done some more! He places them above the fireplace to dry, and it really makes quite a display. This photo doesn't do it justice.



UPDATE: January 2010


Dad holding one of his paintings.


This is on a mini easel, about 3 inches tall.








These are now in my hallway.


Along with this one!










UPDATE: NOVEMBER 2009


















UPDATE: JUNE 23, 2009

Dad's most recent thing is making the perfect folding table. He's been experimenting with different ways of building the legs and the way the top hinges on. This is one unstained version.













UPDATE: JUNE 2009

I actually took these in February, but it's taken me a while to load them to the blog.

This was painted many years ago, I think before I was born. It's a little hard to see with the glare from the flash.


These are two wooden shapes my dad pieced together. Each triangle is a separate piece of wood he cut to fit.


Dad made this paintbrush holder. Simple idea for storing lots of brushes!


This is a boat, Puppy Breath, that dad made many years ago when he was in his boat-building phase.


This is a carved wooden dog paw. :)


His newer paintings on display. I bought him some oval canvases for Christmas.












Experimenting with oval shapes.




I like the use of color in this one.











ORIGINAL POST, 2008

The fireplace in his garage. He built it.


An instrument he built and gave to me. I chose this one because I liked the design and color, but the pegs don't stay in place to tune it. Some of the others he built are playable instruments.


Dad's Starry Night. He doesn't like the way it turned out because it was based on a computer print out of the original instead of the original itself.


Van Gogh's Starry Night


Paintings of various places on my Aunt & Uncle's land in Mongo and on Montgomery's land.


This one is almost cartoony to me. Very simple in detail, lots of color, lots of thick black lines. Dad has been experimenting with different techniques.




Painting of the tipi Dad made. It started out as a tipi and transformed through the years into a little summer cottage with a sun room and windows. No electricity or running water yet, but there is a fireplace inside and a cement floor. :)


Some of the pictures of paintings were taken at odd angles because Dad was looming over me, certain I was going to damage something.




Another painting of the tipi. I think the detail on these are very nice.


Dad showing a painting.






I love this because it's one he painted by cleaning paint off his brush (a "dab" painting). He didn't want to waste paint and overly dirty the water so he dabs the paint onto a fresh canvas and makes it into another painting. Very cool!












Dad showing two paintings and Mom trying to pretend she isn't in the picture. Logan is looking at her trying to figure out what she's doing. :) This was taken in the garage, where he has been doing his painting of late.


Dad did a lot of campfire pictures, trying to capture the look of fire. He said it was very difficult.


I like this one. It's about as abstract as I enjoy viewing. :)


Side view and front view of the same still life. These two are in my upstairs hall.


Something Dad made years ago based on cartoon curse words. :)


I love the detail on the branches here. I wish I had a better photo of this one.


This one also reminds me of a kind of cartoony look, like the original Winnie the Pooh, or maybe Beatrix Potter. Maybe The Little Prince! Is that the name of it?


The detail on this one is very nice. I wish I could have gotten a better picture, but the battery in my camera was about to die so I was trying to hurry.


A 20-sided table Dad made when he was in college. I have it in my living room.


Six Kittens Quilt, one Dad did years ago. I have it in the attic.


Two more of the "dab paintings" Dad made when cleaning off his brushes. These are in my computer room.


This is along the stairs.














This is in the foyer. The flash from my camera adds a bit of a glare. This is also one of my favorites.












These are in my bedroom.








I think this one is spectacular because you really feel like you're looking at a photograph and not a painting. As someone observed, it feels like you could walk right into it.




























This is another of my favorites. The texture of the paint is rather hazy, giving it a romantic feel.











Dad made the frame on this one. I think it's kind of fun!




























Dad felt this one wasn't finished. Too monochromatic. But that's one of the reasons I like this one.