ROULIER'S RUSTY RELIQUES

RANDOM THOUGHTS ABOUT SKUNKY BEER

Ever wondered what makes beer skunky? I mean I do like my IPA which is pale and hoppy, what can that add up to?? Skunky beer of course. Here is an excellent easy to read, easy to understand article on "What Makes Beer Skunky"........Why am I doing this instead of making art well taking a little break and just getting ready to dive in next week got two commissions to do plus a show to get ready for and an invitational show all about creatures.......whew can hardly wait for that, more on it later!!

PAINTING THE LIVING ROOM AND KONA

Okay I'm working to finish the house painting inside just two more rooms upstairs then the downstairs is next.

 

wall one done

 

gold is going up and over the top

 

last wall and ceiling

 

Kona has grown wings

 

she is loving her new found ability to jump up and is becoming upwardly mobile wherever possible

 

MY DOG K-K-K-KONA

Okay short update on my dog Kona, who is not high on my good dog list right now. She doesn't want to go to bed and then after that struggle she wants to get up early on the weekends which I would love to sleep until 7:00 at least BUT no that's not what she wants and she has a high level of tenacity.....sigh. She is cute but she's a ba-a-a-ad dog......

our little girl is growing up

she's eyeing Aaron's empty can

she has just discovered the furniture

why chew this bone when there are so many other things to chew.....sigh

CCAF A LOOK BACK

Well all in all it was a good show for me, some bumps, some interesting conversations, lots of practice describing my methods, and some rain!

Thursday was set up day I rented a tent which was supposed to be set up when we arrived, uh huh right.

 

what I saw when we got there, late

 

Dan and his posse once he corralled them, that took about a half hour

 

they tried to leave after the tent was weighted down and up and one guy actually did manage to disppear, as they were walking away I said aren't you gonna put the walls up????? oh do you want us to do that???????? well, hell yes, Dan.....it was now after 4:00......sigh and hot really very hot

 

my crew, waiting waiting waiting, good thing they weren't getting paid by the hour

 

Friday was a beautiful summer Colorado morning which quickly became hot...

my booth which did look pretty good although did forget to photo it much

 

father and young child looking at the big bad wolf

 

Saturday was, well I should have known when I saw the clouds hanging low in the canyon, it was nice that the clouds moved in and cooled us off which was promptly followed by a huge downpour, that completely trapped a group of people in my tent and the water managed to make it up to my grids.......

 

very typical cloud behavior when it gets cool

 

Saturday morning things warming up in sales and weather

 

note the brown shorts, crocs and tee shirt

 

posed in front being tempted

 

in the booth!

 

note the bottom of the grid, this is during "the big one" we all got soaked

 

well here we are trapped inside my tent with the place totally closed up for about a half hour luckily this kid helped me close my tent because my ladder had floated away, got it back later, the fair closed early this was pretty much the end of the day around 5ish

 

Sunday was a good day too we had nice weather all day, my booth sitters were on time and collected the money for the magnets while I grabbed a bite.....interestingly the rental guys were right on time too but they had to wait for me this time......

 

my tent was right by the alley where we parked our truck on the last day