eggs in the bacon grease

this past Saturday I lost my grandmother. I shouldn't say lost cause she still here with me , but she passed on . She was ill for a while, and over the past couple of years , just got worse and worse. Me living in Ohio I wasn't a witness to her deterioration first hand , and for some reason I am glad. The memories I have, and the memories I like to keep are nowhere near her lying in a hospital bed, or her not knowing who I am due to dementia. We called her Babcci (bob-chi) I guess its a polish word for grandmother.I Remember her as a very strong woman , she worked very hard all her life and raised 4 children, always doing for the familyon holidays and occasions cooking and cleaning. MY memories are of when I lived at home long ago and almost every Saturday my dad and I would go over my grandparents house to do some work, whether it was mowing all the grass or helping my grandfather do something handy. My dad and my granpa would have some coffee and go out and start and my gramma would make me breakfast. She would cook me some bacon and when that was done she would drop some eggs in the bacon grease and cook them till they were done. But she would leave them in until the grease had crisped the sides and bottom of the egg , after she was done she would sit with me while I ate and those were the moments I remember. Those moments just the two of us , goodbye babcii, I love you

Painter 9

well i finally did it ..i broke down and bought a wacom tablet and acquired painter 9. I am absolutly in love with this. above you see a sketch....A SKETCH!!!! i did using the wacom tablet and the pencil in painter 9...im bypassing paper altogether!!!!!....there is still a lot more to learn about this program and i try to spend every waking moment figuring it out....once i get some things tgether ill post some on my website ...stay tuned.

Free At Last

Sometime you have an idea and you think its a good one untill it actually happens and you think to yourself...am i an idiot!!!. I am referring to the decision of having my parents actually stay at the house for fourth of july weekend.....AM I AN IDIOT!!!!, im hoping they had a good time , its just difficult because our lives move at different speeds and paces..and my mom get get on my nerves something terrible.They arrived friday night, whilst i was at work, and saturday we went to an island in lake Erie called "Put-In-Bay"..or as i call it "Pudding Bay"....we also took the boys, Cortney, Jeremy, and James..and my nephew Christian, i think they had a great time.The ride there was a bit longer than my dad wanted,but we arrived and took a nice boat ride over to what the college kids call"Put-Out-Bay"...My mom complained about the wind....having to walk..her hairs...the wind again...and my dad had to pee every 5 minutes, but they enjoyed the little shops that gave them a chance to purchase expensive nick-nacks, and all in all i think it was an ok thing for them. Now you can rent basically golf carts to ride around the island on and we did that , and raced around exploring.....more wind comments......and even ended up in someone's private drive where after we apologized they asked us if we wanted a beer...how nice of the indiginous life of puddding cove. Well the rest of the weekend went smoothly, and tuesday morning they made there way back home and peace was once again restored to the galaxy.