It's been a very long time since I came this blog!  Lots of things have happened since I last wrote.  Too many to completely update.
I went back to school to study Massage therapy and become certified so I could practise therapy in our town.  We had no one here and the nearest was at least 3/4 of an hour away.... if you don't speed.  Now there are two of us that practise here, which is good for everyone.
While I was studying I stopped painting and in the second year stopped singing as well.  It had been about three years since I sang in a concert for the public.  This year I also withdrew from the Perspective Art Group.  I feel there is quite enough on my plate at this time.  I need time to recuperate from study and from loss.  I worked on a few small pastel paintings after the exams were over, but Gene and I  have a huge building reno project on the go since May 2013, just before the exams.  We obtained a one room school house that was decommissioned in the early 1960's.  It had been used as a grain bin and housing for many generations of pigeons.
In May we began to work on the clean up.  Gene worked on the building and I worked on occasion with him.  I was still prepping for Massage Exams.  When I wasn't studying, or helping Gene in the schoolhouse, I was cleaning up the old wind break of trees that ran on the west and south edges of the 2 acre property.  That was my delight.  Out in the fresh air and breaking off dead branches and piling them up so they could be gathered at a future date.