Long time passing...

My summer children are gone. Back to the hallways and lines in the schools of Texas. This year it all went too fast. We got to do lots of things and go a lot of places.
Now I can maybe get back into a routine and (fun) artwork again. Plenty to do all summer with advertising art and helping the kids with their horses.
Diamond Reo was found to have an ethmoid hematoma, yeh, I know, I didn't know what it was either. He is on the rapid mend now from a very rare affliction and you will be able to read about it along with my illustrations in an upcoming issue of EQUUS this fall.
On her 86th birthday, my mom tripped and fell. Nothing broken, but she wrecked her muscles in her right leg. My sister convinced her it was time to move into an apartment in town (past time, actually) and she will be moving in September to Knoxville. Mom has been staying with me until she can get into the apartment. She is getting around better everyday and is actually enjoying the cat - she "hates" cats - so I am hoping this new affection is not a sign of her mental facilities decreasing.
A local art show coming up this weekend and I am trying to get enough things together for a booth.
A heads up for all you equine artists that list on the web: I was contacted last week by a couple that wanted to purchase five paintings. They gave an address in England. I received a cashiers check today - for far more than the amount of the paintings and shipping- and thinking it was fishy, took the check to the bank to have it looked at. About 30 minutes of sleuthing later, they came back with the information that it was indeed a phony check. The couple was using the names Kelly and Frank George and claiming to live in London and Alabama but the check was from a bank in Maine. Hey, they had good taste at least.