I must apologize for not posting every day lately. Transitioning from gardening and preserving to painting and drawing has always been difficult. Painting for hours at a time I have difficulty transitioning to verbal and written forms of communication and I become very sensitive to sounds. Basically I turn into a grumpy bitch. My husband is very kind and hides...haha
Drawing and gardening are for me two different mind states. Gardening is very physical and I am in fresh air and sunlight. I feel very energetic and full of awe and wonder watching seeds sprout, caring for the plants, harvesting our food, preserving the food I grew from seed.
Drawing I withdraw and have to give birth to creativity. It's difficult and painful at times and sometimes I wonder why I want to draw and paint. It's a compulsive act in a way, I feel kind of on the edge of crazy when I work on drawing of painting for hours at a time...yes I take breaks...my husband reminds me! He does so from far away, I might throw something at him.
In the next couple of days I'll be writing a few articles on canning and some vaccine research I did whilst going through my beginning course work to earn my nursing degree, if I can pull myself out of the right side of my brain. I hurt my back whilst in the second year of my 4 year degree and had to drop out. I was crushed, but in hindsight I wouldn't of been happy in that career forcing people to take medicines they don't want, like forced vaccines.
Pepper and squash seedlings.
Some of 2014 tomato seedlings. We grew over 400 pounds of tomatoes that year and gave over half to our community center.
