SPENDING TIME

A lot of my time lately has been spent trying to get the PR out for my son's glass exhibit here in town. He is going to be here for several days with his lovely friend, Stacey. Stacey is also my daughter's name so this is getting complicated.

Aside from the PR there is the house to think about. Or not. We have four dogs one of whom is fairly incontinent. I say fairly because he does exhibit some degree of awareness and control but he still tends to dribble a bit. With the onset of summer and humidity (even tho it is March it feels as if summer is imminent--the temp right now at 8:44 on a March morning is 66 and humid.) the smell from the dribbling is reaching stench level.

Poor Nigel. Blamed for everything.

Nevertheless our failure to adequately cover his weenie (a medical term) when he is out and about is responsible for the smell. I still cannot get anything to stay on him, and diapers are simply out of the question. If we fasten the belly band with a strap around his chest (like a doggie suspender) he freezes and will not move, will not move even his head. So he goes without. (No pun intended, but that's not bad.)

I have to get a steam cleaner and clean my rug, for it is my room in which he spends the majority of his time.

AND he needs a bath. They all need baths. I read in wonder of those of you who bathe 4 or 5 dogs every week. Can you walk normally? Upright? I would not be able to. I barely can now. But Nigel in particular, of course, needs a bath since the rug is not the only thing that is dribbled upon.

Meantime I am trying to roust the local newsy people into putting an article or at least a freebie ad in their "Local Interest" places about the glass exhibition. It would help enormously if he were going to be blowing glass, but transporting a furnace that heats up to 1500 degrees.....

At an art fair in Des Moines, Iowa, there is a glassblower from Ames, Iowa, who brings a small portable furnace and sets up at the Fairgrounds and blows glass. It takes 24 hours for the furnace to get up to temp and he has to watch it all the time. It is not quite like picking up your sketch pad  and paintbox and moving to a different spot.

So I have the paper PR-- postcards and posters and banners. And I have been tormenting the local news people. I do not have the $$ to take out a big display ad.

We have the music arranged for the opening and are working on food. Two of us are bringing wine. Heheheheheheheh.
Last year I got little goodies and cooked them at home and transported them to the Gallery where they became cold, gelatinous, greasy gobs of inedible garbage. Not trying that again.

I don't mind doing it for Christopher but it is a lot of work and now I know how those people who plan "events" for a living make a living. Next time...

Gasoline is up to $4.39 here having dropped a bit in the past day or two.
I hope this helps all those starving Oil Magnates....