No pictures, just news of today. I asked Rick if he would please put the scroll saw I bought at a garage sale 3 years ago together and make it work and show me how to operate it. He did and I thanked him. While he was putting it together, I started my whine about my
dremel. The one that's been hiding from me for at least 6 months. While whining I started to clean out my shop a bit. Rick walked in and said, "What's that hanging on the wall behind that stuff?" My
dremel! Cynthia will be more pleased than me, because she won't have to listen to me whining about the missing
dremel. I lust for a holder for the
dremel like Juli's that turned it into a drill press. Couldn't lust too much with a missing
dremel.
Cleaned up to go with Bob to the
Apple store for some questions. They answered all so we decided to go to
LaMadeline for a salad. As we walked from the parking lot, Bob walked back to the car to be sure he'd locked it. I continued toward the restaurant. Beautiful day. I glance at a man sitting at one of the outdoor tables. The man is John Dibs. Bob walks up and I say to him, "There's John Dibs." Bob nods. The unusual part of this is John has been dead quite a few years. I look at John again and he looks up at me. He knows I know. I know he knows I know.
Bob and I walk into LaMadeline. The people in front of us insist we go ahead of them. We do and I say to Bob, "I'm going outside. That's really John Dibs and I'm going to talk to him." I put my tray on the rack and run outside. John's gone - with no trace he was ever there. The
newspaper he was reading, gone. The dishes in front of him, gone. I look around and not a soul in site. Less than a minute I was inside.
Do you watch
Saving Grace? Who's your favorite character? Earl the angel? Me, too. This was like an Earl appearance. We got our food and sat outside and I called Pam (John's second, wife. Pam's second husband.) No one home. I'll call again tonight and tell Pam it really was John. Oh, my, as with Earl, we will just be glad John's here. I will forever watch that table.
Scavenger Hunt! See if you can find these two lovely pieces when you're touring the White Rock East Garden & Artisans Tour, Sunday, May 17, from 11:00 to 5:00.
And here's garden addresses:
The Hot Flash Art Girls at the International Museum of Cultures opening art reception along with their pieces. Cynthia's giraffe is not in this group. I'm trying to photoshop it. I'll post it soon.
Remember this is a small sampling, so imagine how great the White Rock East Garden & Artisans Tour will be in real life!
I just sent the following to Ronda Kay Moreland of Coffee News. She has so graciously given us not only a place in What's Happening for the White Rock East Garden & Artisans Tour, but she's also giving us another space with Lynn's picture, shown here, and the following blurb:
Sunday, May 17th from 11:00 to 5:00 pm
Two "ToDo's" tonight. Crawfish Boil at the Mason's and Deep Ellum Art Walk where I had 2 pieces featured at Chi Gallery.
Enjoy these pictures and join Cynthia and me for an art walk. See below
Lucky you, getting a more preview pictures of the White Rock East Garden & Artisans Tour, May 17, from 11:00 to 5:00. Do you love Jeff's bamboo water feature? I look at my back yard and sigh when I look at these pictures. Maybe some day. Come to the tour and make notes, so many ideas, so much fun.
Monday, Karen (star reporter) and I visited some of the gardens that will be featured on the White Rock East Garden & Artisans Tour, May 17th from 11:00 to 5:00. Got lucky and some homeowner's were home. We knocked on doors and when no answer snuck into some gardens. Karen's idea, of course. I would never sneak in someone's yard unless Karen was pushing me.
Snider Plaza Art Walk came about because Max visited the State Fair of Texas and called the office asking how to get in touch with the artists. Melanie gave him my number. This is the State Fair show revisited, except Cynthia did all the work. The show can accommodate some indoor pieces we could not have at the Fair, like Nan's glass piece. Monica's "Animals of Texas" was a big success at the Fair and will be in Snider Plaza also. This glass piece says, "Brad Abrams". Max particularly requested Cynthia's flaming from the Fair. Please be sure and go to Snider Plaza, walk around and enjoy the art - perhaps buy some from fabulous local artists. These pictures were taken during the art walk reception and I must tell you Max put on a reception like we've never seen before. We will follow him anywhere. Good karma will follow you while you walk about enjoying the art.
Here's Shelly admiring Mary's wonderful greenhouse in Mary's back yard. John told me the door to the greenhouse is the front door of a house they once owned. Pretty cool.
Today's pictures are a mishmash of last year's tour, this year's tour and my fabulous bowling ball that should be on every tour, but is not asked. An oversight I'm sure. Maybe if I weld a special stand for it? Welding brings out the best in everyone, even bowling balls.
Dinosaurs roam searching for dryer vent water holes. This and more on the 2009 White Rock East Garden & Artisans Tour, May 17, Sunday, 11:00 to 5:00.
Here we are at Lynn's Open House, along with the East Dallas Chamber of Commerce Open House. Are we cute or what? First picture is of my Boy Babe and Dear Husband. Then the girls, you know 'em you love 'em. 
I don't know who this woman is, but I had to take her picture during the White Rock East Garden & Artisans Tour last year. Is she not perfect on a billboard advertising garden tours? If you know her let me know, I want to personally invite her next year.
