Summer Is Over

Our summer in our little house out on the prairie is about over. Pam is buying tickets to fly back maybe on or around the 18th of November to our old home built boat in Guatemala. A couple of days after our birthdays. We will winter up down there some where on our boat. We are getting older and time is slipping away. The older we get the faster it seems to be getting away. I will be 75 in a few days and Pam well I’m not going to say but she is younger than me and this year coming we will be married 58 years. Before we ran away and got married I couldn’t wait to go see my girl and to have her with me going somewhere doing anything. The weather is challenging out here and we have had a chance of frost already.

We got some good tomatoes out of the garden. We were able to even can some.

Our little garden looked like we were being over run with ghost. Pam had ever thing covered with bed sheets. This week we may hit 90F again. Yesterday was perfect. Motor bike riding with it in the mid 70s.

A Good Ride

This is rural farm country out here and we road the back roads to the main road going to Russell, 18 miles and never seen another vehicles. Still got my girl with me. I think about that a lot. It makes it more fun going some where in our old 50 year old truck or our old motor bike if Pam is still there with me after all these years. Lots of turkeys and deer. The snow geese are back flying through. You can hear them before you see them. They make a pleasant sound. If you like it quiet and living around a lot of nature we have it here.

It’s hard to sign my name on burlap.

Finished up with two art shows now. Sold some so maybe it was successful didn’t sale it all so maybe not. Bringing some of the money back to the boat so maybe I can clam to be an artist now and not just a boat bum. Working on a way to put some on line so people that just want to see can see what I paint and for them that want to buy can.

                        Ether way life is still good. The Adventure go’s on.

Work In Kansas

Another crazy week in Kansas. We have another art show coming up this week and here is another entry in that show.

36 Caliber Colt

It’s a 36 caliber Colt painted on an old used burlap bag with the frame out of old reclaimed wood out of a barn. These old guns were the first mass produced guns and made a name for Colt. Today they are not even considered guns in most states and you don’t need a back ground check to buy one. The one you can buy today are working replicas not the real thing. The real first Colts cost real money. Pam and I have had a replica and enjoyed shooting it. Sold it when we left on the boat. Leaving on a boat you have to leave a lot of your life behind. This is still a problem today with us leaving our boat in the Caribbean and coming up here when it is so hot down there. A few more facts about using these guns you need a tool box to carry all you need to shot one. A gauge to measure the power needed so you don’t over load. Grease to coat every thing with. If you don’t do it properly every cylinder can go off at one time. The big problem is after they are loaded in time it may not go off. If it’s raining it may or may not shoot and impossible to load in the rain. After shooting one loading it needs to be cleaned and the best way is soap and water. Then it has to be oiled or it will rust. You can see now why it not considered a real gun today but in defense of it being a gun it was the preferred hand gun during the Civil War and a lot of cowboys made their mark with an old Colt. Most buffalo guns were black power and 58 caliber rifles. The bullet almost the size of a women’s thumb. Another famous cowboy day gun. With this art stuff it’s always feast or famine but it is fun sometimes.

Got My WINGS

Pam showing off in the art gallery. With us never having enough money “ maybe because we spend it doing something” our stable money out here is still sewing.

Pam’s reworking truck covers for  grain trailers. We are still upholstering tractors. Modern tractors have air conditioning stereos and turn signals like a car. We have three more to go right now but it’s finding where they are and when we can work on them. How would you like driving one of these monsters?

Big Tractor