Quick Update

Howdy folks!

Just wanted to let you know that I'm in the process of updating this blog to bring it into the year 2010 and out of the dinosaur age. You know, way back when in 2006.

Since moving the Other Half and I have gotten pretty much settled and I"m in the process of "cleaning", if you will, both the laptop and desktop as well as other technologies.

So as the Summer wears on stay tuned for a fresher looking blog and some new artwork!

Excitement? Here?

So you came back to find out the exciting news, eh? Well, here it is...


I’m going camping this week-end!!

Okay, no, that really wasn’t it (although I am excited about going camping this week- end, what with me being a tree hugger and all...)


Okay, the real exciting news is that the Other Half and I became engaged as of June 18th.

Really!!! :D


So does this mean I have to start calling him the Significant Other Half? Does this mean I have to change my name? Does this mean I have to start thinking about the potential cost associated with having an open bar at a wedding with people that are predominately Irish?

The answer to the first two are ‘no’ but the answer to the last is a definite ‘yes’.


We’re very excited but intend to enjoy our engagement for well over a year as we haven’t set a date, but do know that we’d like an Autumn wedding. That gives me enough time to train my dog, Rosie, to carry flowers without dropping them and I also have to figure out a way to keep Al, my horse, clean until after wedding pictures have been taken. The cats have indicated that they have no desire to participate in the wedding itself and instead will contribute by keeping the property blessedly free of rodents... and for that I thank them.

She's female, her name's 'Rosebud', I think that's really all
the qualification she needs to be called a "flower girl"... right?

Mr. Al Mansur Primo... if there's a mud puddle to roll in, he'll find it.

So that's the exciting news. Pretty exciting, eh? I thought so.
I'll be back later in the week with an art update and more on Vermeer!

Slow News Day

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Copyright Rita Woodburne

Greetings and salutations dear reader!

So it's Friday and here I had another edition of 'Revelations from the Drawing Board' that I was all ready to post and then I found an article that seemed perhaps not funnier, but certainly more ridiculous which is why I felt the need to post it. You can find out what the heck I'm talking about here.

I don't know what disturbs me more, the visual of a cat and mouse getting along and possibly frolicking through a meadow together or that some ding-dong forked over thousands, if not millions, of dollars to do this study. What also got me is that above that article there was a link to another article with the riveting caption: "Peanut shells filter copper, Turkish researchers report". Who's funding these guys, and are they on drugs?

I think what gets me about these types of articles is that they explain what happened in the tests but not why they're even doing the research in the first place. If they're doing this to help figure out how to turn off the same receptors in humans I'm going to have to humbly decline any attempt to coerce me into being a guinea pig. I'm sorry, but if I'm out in the woods and there's a bear hiding in the trees that thinks I look like a nice lunch, I want to be able to smell that bear. I dunno, maybe it's just me but I think nature gave us those receptors for a reason.


In other completely inane news there was another article that sported the headline "Rich have it easier than poor". By golly, good thing they informed us of that!

Where's a well written, intruging and thought provoking starlet admitted to rehab (again) article when you need it, hmmm?