They’ve now finished the roof of the chimney and have started installing the flooring and the tile in the entranceway:
It’s fun to watch the progress, but the thing that gave me the biggest sense of accomplishment this week was organizing the over 19,600 photos and slides Andy scanned into the computer a few years ago. They weren’t in chronological order, which made it hard to find the image one wanted.
It took several days, but the problem has been fixed! More importantly, I learned a lot in the process. That always makes me happy.
What about you? Did you accomplish or learn anything this past week?
LOOKIN’ GOOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My accomplishment is all in my mind just now. First I imagine it DONE.
Nothing new. Though seeing again the usefulness of rules of thumb eg measure twice, cut once.
Which could lead to lots of reflections on the nature of knowledge and how it is passed on. But I’ll spare you.
It wasn’t exactly last week that I accomplished something but the detail I guess began last Sunday when I took a somewhat strange short workshop on “learning to draw” – the Tutor in my opinion might be better sticking to his knitting (artmaking) but for some reason I managed a respectable looking still life of a ceramic swan – you can search them “New Lynn Ceramic Swan” in images/google. My one a white one…
Anyway, I closed that chapter and got on with other things.
Then on Friday, I wanted to be able to draw a tap (faucet) and water. So I found a clip art almost abstract item and set forth and managed something…a bit wobbly but it was just #1 and I am going to do a better one, possibly today.
But as it is whenever I watch the box (TV) I usually sit and dabble at things and this week it was often “pick up a pen and scribble” well out of the blue, last night I managed to draw some respectable looking things that I copied freehand from some books around me…I feel I might be able now tackle a small weekly drawing project (as above the water faucet).
Oh, your home looks great!
I learned that the ‘to do list’ and I need to cooperate more; thereby eliminating any panic from untimely accomplishments. Hahaha.
Everyone have a wonderful week.
bikehikebabe,
Thanks!
Evan,
Your comment intrigues me!
Cathy,
It sounds as if you are indeed making some progress. That’s great. I did look up the swans.
Dixie,
I have Possibility Lists instead of To Do lists. If I have a deadline for something I try to put it on my list early enough so I get tired of looking at it. Then I do the dreaded thing just to get rid of it.
I’ve doing physical work rather than just working with words.
It leads to a different form of experience and knowledge. The knowledge is more kinaesthetic and encoded in different ways.
I heard a philosopher interviewed who said that in the decision about whether a potter or scientist understood clay better the Japanese philosophers tended to answer the potter and western philosophers tended to answer the scientist.
The West has tended to privelege the cerebral, which benefits me because I’m heady and comfortable with words. And tends to denigrate the practical at the expense of the theoretical – I did try to spare you (I have much more I could say)
Evan,
Actually I’m interested! I spend a lot of time learning new skills on the computer. It’s certainly not theoretical, but I’m not sure the stuff I do is practical either. 😀
Richard Sennett wrote a book called The Craftsman which goes into this in some depth.
Jean: I think retirement can be both practical and just plain fun…and you decide how to trundle along your personal pathway 🙂
Evan
As you’ve probably guessed, I’m a craftsman at heart. The process is even more important than the product for me.
Cathy,
One of my mottoes is, “Find what you love to do, and find a way to share it with others.” Isn’t it great being able to choose how we spend our time? 🙂
And the WWW helps us achieve even more! 🙂
We are just settling into a 3 day long weekend: Labour Day (celebrates the 8hour working day) – it isn’t looking very sunny at all…but I hope it will be breezy as I want to paint a whole lot of large plant shapes!
Awhile back you asked if a job one didn’t want to do, turned out fine when one did it. (Nick said, no it was as awful as he expected. :D)
Happened to me today. I went through a zillion t-shirts of mine & my kids. Was FUN 😀
bhb: oh the memories I guess came flooding back…