What do you do ....

[Jenny A]

Usually, I paint.  Here's a little bit of Oxford for Stimbo:



Sometimes I mess around with digital art:




But right now I seem to pack boxes and assemble shelves.  But once we get really moved and this house prepped for sale, I'll go back to painting.

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I play god in my yard.  "You're a weed and shall die."  "Your audition here is over; to the compost with you!"  Occasionally I look out over all that I have created and see that it is good.

I do a lot of that, but the yard is big and weeds were beginning to win, so I'm downsizing the yard.  But there will still be weeds to pull and flowers to deadhead.

[Pyrrho]

I play god in my yard.  "You're a weed and shall die."  "Your audition here is over; to the compost with you!"  Occasionally I look out over all that I have created and see that it is good.

I play God in my yard, too.  But when I command things to happen, nothing does.  Kind of like the Christian God, doing nothing.  If I actually did something, that would not be much like God at all.

[Whateverist]

You seem like a really good painter, Jenny. Do you show anywhere I might get to go?

[Jenny A]

You seem like a really good painter, Jenny.  Do you show anywhere I might get to go?

Depends on where you are.  I show mostly in Oregon in the Willamette Valley.   Occasionally, I have a single painting in a traveling show that goes elsewhere.

[Whateverist]

Painting is such a large pool. So many people seem to be drawn to it. My wife makes weavings which she shows in galleries. A much, much smaller pool. But she is a pretty big (if somewhat dated) fish in that little pond. On the other hand, paintings command a much better price than weavings.

I sure wish I could afford to hire someone to upkeep the garden for me. It seems that many (maybe most) of my wife's artist friends are into gardening too. I approach it as an artistic endeavor, and probably one of the most complex .. as well as impermanent. I guess pulling weeds takes the place of washing brushes.

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I play god in my yard.  "You're a weed and shall die."  "Your audition here is over; to the compost with you!"  Occasionally I look out over all that I have created and see that it is good.

I play God in my yard, too.  But when I command things to happen, nothing does.  Kind of like the Christian God, doing nothing.  If I actually did something, that would not be much like God at all.

Where do you garden Pyrrho?  Oh, and I forgot to mention I also play god in my classroom.  I like to think of myself as a benign dictator.

[Thumpalumpacus]

I help manage a nature preserve to pay the bills; You can see some pics of my office here. (That reminds me, I need to upload some more, springtime has the Preserve buzzing with activity).

I'm a musician and songwriter, so much of my free time is taken up with that; matter of fact, I'll be changing the strings on my acoustic later today, as I grill some chicken on the porch. Anyone interested in hearing some of my music (albeit old recordings) can find them here: https://soundcloud.com/thumpalumpacus. Forgive the shitty singing, these were just demos to get the ideas down. I can't sing worth a shit.

I write a little bit, not so much as I used to, but I'm set to dig into taking up my work-in-progress again this summer -- it's a suspense thriller featuring a guy on the run from the national-security apparatus.

Shitposting takes up too much of my time, but it is something I do.

[Whateverist]

Nothing wrong with your voice but then I like Dylan too. =)

[Jenny A]

Painting is such a large pool.  So many people seem to be drawn to it.  My wife makes weavings which she shows in galleries.  A much, much smaller pool.  But she is a pretty big (if somewhat dated) fish in that little pond.  On the other hand, paintings command a much better price than weavings.  

I sure wish I could afford to hire someone to upkeep the garden for me.  It seems that many (maybe most) of my wife's artist friends are into gardening too.  I approach it as an artistic endeavor, and probably one of the most complex .. as well as impermanent.  I guess pulling weeds takes the place of washing brushes.

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Judging from the photos, your garden is indeed a work of art.

[Cyberman]

I'm like Eddie Murphy...

For a minute I thought you meant you once had a flourishing stand-up career, which you then pissed away in a series of ever-diminishing film rôles.

[Pyrrho]

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I play God in my yard, too.  But when I command things to happen, nothing does.  Kind of like the Christian God, doing nothing.  If I actually did something, that would not be much like God at all.

Where do you garden Pyrrho?  Oh, and I forgot to mention I also play god in my classroom.  I like to think of myself as a benign dictator.

I meant that I am a gardener in the same way God is a gardener.  In other words, I do nothing in the garden.  I am sorry my joke was unclear.


I do, however, very much like gardens, strolling in them, or sitting in the shade and enjoying the view.  But I have no knowledge of gardens.  What would be nice is to be wealthy and have a large garden (or several), tended by a couple of professional gardeners.  And maybe have one of them teach me what it is that I am looking at.  But I will have to make do without that, and just visit public gardens.

I enjoy hiking as well, seeing the beauties of nature.  I don't know much about what I see, but it is pretty all the same.  And I enjoy the view from my present home, as there is a small wooded area behind the house, and the living room, which is in the back of the house, has large windows (the set of windows is approximately 8' tall and 15' wide) from which one can enjoy nature, while being in a temperature-controlled environment, free of insects and other pests.  I see deer out back with some frequency, as well as some interesting birds.  And I have seen a couple of foxes also, but that is exceedingly rare.