We went south as usual this year figuring it was nicer to be in the warm weather if we had to be confined and cautious. The family was doing well and we gathered just before we left to enjoy each other's company and say goodbye. We planned to stay in Florida for the holidays to avoid travel.
Everyone has been cautious, zoom board meetings, little activity inside at all. The gallery has held exhibits with everyone just dropping off their work and scooting away. Not much socializing unfortunately. Fortunately because we can be outside the painters meet wearing masks but can still enjoy painting and chatting safely.
The holidays were a bit strange with a zoom Christmas. We watched as they opened gifts and laughed together. George and I filled stockings for each other and exchanged a few gifts just to make the day a bit special.
George kept busy doing puzzles, each one more difficult than the other. It was challenging and fun to post him working on them. He also learned to make pie pastry and has made quiches, pot pies and others with this own crust and fillings. New tools helped and I enjoyed the products of his labor.
Kris and Mitchell flew down in January then just Kris again in February. We ate in a few restaurants outside only and enjoyed the beaches a bit but it was a much different experience than usual.
Now many are getting the vaccines and things will open up. The insanity from politics is much less now that 45 is out and Biden is president. There was a huge sigh of relief from all of us so tired of the awful mess he created. The vaccines were a wonderful accomplishment done more in spite of politics than because of it. Slowly the world is getting the shots and hopefully this pandemic will die down and life will return to a new normal.
I'm still doing some art and now that sanity is being restored I hope to be revitalized!
This is "Found" created this summer from found items. A piece of handmade paper from a stash made by paper guild ages ago, a paper towel that I saved because I thought it was beautiful, a piece of grass cloth from the Scrapbox junk, a bottlecap, a feather found in a stash from a friend, and a broken beer bottle stuck to it's label found at the boat launch. George thought I was nuts when I carefully carried it home. This was fun to assemble on an old canvas I recycled as well. 