Time to hear from Jville mom better known as ma MA

This is my first attempt at a blog.

Today was a "typical" spring day, starting out cold and damp and then warming up to high 50's this afternoon. I drove with Cora, my artist friend, 45 minutes out to a fellow artist's home in Shady Cove to our monthly Valley Girls' critique session. Cora and her husband are planning a move to Oahu soon. She is paring down her household items to a very few... each pound she ships is $2.00. It is a great exercise to go around your home and ask yourself, "Would I pay $2.00 a pound to move this?"

This afternoon I went through all my old paintings to see which ones I might resurrect with collages. This is the assignment for tomorrow's class. I thought of Cora as I was doing that and took a whole bunch of them to the recycle bin, they are beyond resurrecting and I no longer see a need to keep them. It was fun to see how far I had come from my first painting attempts. Spring is a great time to clear out and throw out "stuff". I seem to want to go through this every year when it gets warm enough to open the windows and doors and let the fresh air in.