Cars, Painting, And Hoods

 Spring was very hectic. I spent a lot of time, trying to make sure I got projects done and no procrastinating. I plan on writing about my experiment with procrastination one of these days.

 April was crazy. I had a painting job, five classes and bar tending. It was also an astrological event called "mars in retrograde'.

 I have been joking that Mars in Retrograde is why my car had so many issues. I had to get repairs...and one day after guitar class I locked my keys in my trunk. Friend from work who shall remain un-named Tina tried to help me open my car door. We hoped to switch the trunk open. Nope. Then we got another co-worker to help...they got door/window open...setting off alarm. I had to undo the battery to shut it off. Eventually got my mechanic to fix the whole thing. The night before...I tried putting my roof down. In order to crawl into trunk. That was also a joke. I had to wrap the car in plastic overnight. My car was towed during April too. No one should have to go to the Chicago car pound. What a cast of characters there!

 I did have a lovely job of painting a woman's apartment. Three rooms...and one set of walls with stripes.

And there is my poor car wrapped in plastic for the roof...because I couldn't open it or close it.

Bears NFL Paintings

Backtrack

 Well...blogging has not taken up very much of my attention this past year. I really miss blogging. However life (and Facebook) gets in the way. I will try to experiment the next couple of weeks and see if I can find things to blog about...and also connect blog to Facebook. Our desktop broke down in December. So that also restricted my computer time. We have a new desktop now. I spent the winter exploring the city, working and taking a lot of classes at Old Town School of Folk Music. One of the things I did in the city was make a trip out to the famous Old Fashioned Donuts. Well worth the drive! I went with friend at work, Tina.

 Here is Stagg at some point watching one of the Olympic hockey games this winter at a pub.

 Here is Tina, Stagg, a friend of Carlos, me and Carlo watching Olympic Hockey.

Here are my tap shoes. I love tap classes. My teacher is amazing.

Front Stoop Garden

 We enjoyed an accidental tomato crop last year so we thought we'd try to grow some things again this year. Last year I thought I had got a basil plant...but then it started looking more and more like a tomato plant...which it was and we had a dozen tomatoes from it. So I picked up a bunch more pots and plants. I amy have made a grave error because I bought some chili plants. They have names like "ghost chili" and "scorpion chili". Dangerous names usually mean spicy. Apparently the fellow who started these peppers in a local greenhouse had to wear gloves to handle the seeds. Uh oh.

 There is Stagg near the bbq.

 We also thought we would experiment with a "topsy turvy" tomato planter...it's hanging on our wrought iron fence.

Seen On A T-shirt

More Music At Work

Sometimes we play music in quiet times at work in the bar. 

Hoofer Dance

 I have been taking two tap dance classes a week. This is my Tuesday night class. I've just started another session of classes. I love it plus I love the work out. I also love our teacher. When I first started the dance classes I had no balance, no stamina. The routines seemed very complicated and memory challenging lol. Now I have some energy and can do classes in a  row!