::Devon Industry:: My Mid-Afternoon Daydream: April blowin' by...

Last year's garden (or maybe the year before that...japanese eggplant, lemon grass, basil, sunny dahlias, and a really sweet cantaloupe melon)

This is going to turn out to be one productive month! You can't tell probably (with the lack of pictures these days...) but Jared and I are working up a storm on our little casa and on bunches of other things. Mostly we're feeling the heat of our baby due date at our heels :o) She'll be here in about 10 weeks!! But really it feels so good to be getting stuff done too you know? And sunny warmish weather always motivates me.

The projects and other good stuff:

Re-doing our bathroom (all demolished, most of the electrical done, some plumbing and drywall started, almost everything on hand that will go back in - all that in the last 4 days - craziness!)

Preparing for my show at Vintage Faith Galllery (I've got tons more work to do for the show...and need to start writing my 'summary', then get started on the framing and presentation - show date May 4th!)

Celebrated Jared's 30th b-day! We somehow squeezed in some good time with friends on Saturday, and then one lovely friend helped us move our old cast iron tub out of the house - eternally grateful believe me. Now we have a giant green tub in the back yard - woo hoo...

Planning out mural jobs for the rest of the month & May...I may be painting my last big job in May, then maybe just little things, and then the baby's room (still simmering ideas for her space...). I'll be back to work (if slowly at first) in late August and already have some mural jobs on the calendar - have some figuring out to do. Can I paint murals with a baby strapped onto me??

General stuff...making curtains and finishing projects in rooms that have been crying out for attention (painting trim, fixing plaster and drywall, organizing, getting ready to move my stuff from my office in the house to the studio outside (and hopefully making it a gosh darned cool space I love to be in :o)

And with this amazing weather...I've pulled out my seed packets of long italian globe onions, french charentais melons, curly lettuces, miniature white cucumbers, dragon carrots, and what could be a whopper of a plant and take over the whole garden - moon and stars watermelon (but I can't help myself!!) and I'll get them started hopefully today. I'll go by Summer Winds to get tomato plants sometime this week too (I like to buy big plants in April that already have a healthy head start). We love 'early girl' and 'sun gold' and so I'll pick up those and 3 or 4 other types - a big beefy sandwich tomato with tons of juice and flavor, a meaty one that is perfect for sauces, a really colorful one that has lots of sweetness, and then something surprising we haven't seen/tried before. I get way too excited about tomatoes!!

Today I'm painting works for the show, picking up a toilet tank and groceries - what randomness right? That seems to be life these days.

I'll leave you with some of my favorite finds from the past few days:

A lovely egg from the easter egg dyeing we did (love these colors):