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Ree is really walking now! For real.

My F-ing gawd it is about time!

Ok, I was getting seriously freaked out about the mystery sprain of 09... I swear I was on the verge of coming to terms with this possibly permanent situation... Of my two year old NOT EVER WALKING AGAIN (extreme yes, but still one possibility). So there was that heavy duty-ness, but also, Ree and I were getting pretty sick and tired of one an others bad attitudes.

 It literally lasted 6 weeks (which is a whopping long time) but it FELT LIKE 6 MONTHS! I have, probably like, 12 or 7 more gray hairs. My crows feet are deepening, my laugh lines are diminishing, I have gained at least five pounds of muscle (from all of the caring of the 40lb temper tantrum) But have also matched that amount in lbs of fat from all of the stuffing of my face (my version of the 40 lb tantrum). I have a saggy hip a, hunched back and all the soles on all my left  shoes are worn through to reveal my ever so fashionable men's athletic socks. It has been a rough  run, this past month and a half. But I feel like we are nearing a clearing (sorry for the unnecessary rhyming right there). I feel like we just may be out of the woods.

Reese and I had an amazing day yesterday! We spent all afternoon in the Rhododendron Garden feeding the ducks and squrls, throwing rocks into the water and hanging out in his" fravrit" tree in the sun (60^o in Portland in February!)
It started out as a lot of hand held hobbling, limping and toe scraping. Then about and hour into it, I noticed he finally, for the first time in a month and a half, put his heel to the ground while we were walking. I observed this new use of the heel for about 10 minutes, before I dared mention it to him, but when I thought he was clearly and comfortably using it, I asked him if he felt anything different? I asked him what he was doing? What was happenin' down there? He was so surprised to notice that he was walking! He was really walking??!!! We both we so thrilled by the return of this old friend... We, the three of us, Reese, Walking and myself all had a slow celebratory reunion, where he walked on his own for the duration of the afternoon, which lasted about another two and a half hours and took us to every inch of those gardens! Lots of peace, gratitude, release and resolution feelings were made in that garden yesterday.

It felt like old times.
Thank you Reese.
Thank you leg.

The update...

like the weekend up date... But way better 'cause Seth Myers is a weenie.. Also it isn't really the weekend anyway so forget I even mentioned that... Although it is good opportunity to tell the world one of my secret dream secrets, I really wanna be on stage at the END of SNL to hug everyone (although I have a feeling Seth might not want to hug me, after the weenie remark)... I always wait for that part even if I am super sleepy (yeah, like I get sleepy at that time of night, I am usually just getting started) You like how this is starting out? All crazy wander, off track in the first run on (sentience that is). Classic RC!

Maybe if I stat a new paragraph I will stay on track... So yes, I really wanna give the on stage hugs at the end of Saturday Night Live. That is my favorite part, a bunch of funny people hugging each other I really can't think of anything better, actually I can (not gonna say what 'cause I am stayin' on track) but it is close, it is right up there!

I know you can be up there during hugging and not have preformed, I know that for a fact!  Last week, I saw Drew Barrymore up there hugging... She wasn't even on the show, so I know it is possible.

Now with the "update":

Reese is walking... kinda. Hobbling at best... if that. Ok so he IS mostly still crawling but we saw him walk it is rare like a big foot sighting, but it happens... Or so we think.

Really it did happen this weekend for a good 40min, we walked together, it was awesome!
Billy has a wild male Peacock that lives on the property where he has his wood shop, it is also a big nursery in a really wooded area... Anyway Reese and I were visiting daddy and work and we were determined to FIND THAT PEACOCK! We walked around the property for about 40 mins and then we finally found him in one of the green houses, just basking in the sun on one of the seedling tables. It was a good start for the walking, but it didn't last very long.  He has since become a bit resistant, as it is a lot of effort for him to walk compared to his recently honed crawling skills. so we just keep picking him up when we can and encouraging the walking... Maybe we need to go hang out in some gravel? So that is the walking update.

Art is going good--working on a lot of new stuff. Just posted some in my etsy shop if you wanna go see some newbies? I have a piece in The LOVE show (4th annual) there are about 200 other Portland artist in this show and some of this stuff is really amazing! The opening is this Friday at Olympic Mills at 7pm-12am come early with the kids or come late with the animals... Party animals that is (I am a dork)!

I feel like I had more to say but my thoughts are failing me. Sorry more interesting stuff next time. I promise, next time I will come to class prepared... No... I won't.

Flying Cat Coffee Co...

So I have been working with an awesome gal, Susan, on the creative development of her new and fabulous coffee shop to be... Flying Cat Coffee Company! It is in SouthEast Portland on 30th and Division, it is not quite open yet but soon people, very soon! I am not exact on the grand opening date yet (who ever nails a grand opening date anyhow?) I will let you all know when I have all of that top secret info.

I just want to say that this was so fun to work on, It made me feel like I was the town painter in old France somewhere... I don't know why, but it did... And I loved it... Maybe, now that I think of it, it was because everything was hand cut and painted and no graphic design stuff was donr at all... It was all done the good ol fashion way--by a painter! I absolutely loved the process... And if I don't say so myself... The out come is even more fantastic then I even imagined!

Here is another pic of the sign in progress at my studio... Now that it is hanging up on the front of the building I can let the cat out of the bag!

I also did some A-boards and the front of the building as well... I will post more pics of the completed work once I take some more pictures.