Spring is springing here in Greater Boston. Hallelujah!


I’m realizing now you really just have to paint a lot to truly improve. Watercolors require a great deal of trial and error. And now that good weather has returned, I’m not sure how much I’ll keep painting outside of the class I’m taking.
Honestly, I’m still not sure what my life is actually going to look like longterm in retirement. We are still in a transitional period. My husband’s knee surgeries have been such a huge feature of the past year. We don’t know how much he’ll continue to work once he’s fully recovered.
I feel like my retirement travel budget is not going to be as significant as I had hoped (thanks Trump) but who knows…maybe we’ll become road trip people.
I’m trying to focus on Good Things today:
- It’s 73 degrees F and sunny here 😎
- I have a screen porch, which I just cleaned.
- Hungary dumped Trump & Putin’s buddy Viktor Orbán.
- I get to see my cutie 🥰 tomorrow.
- Dessert – last night I had the genius idea to sprinkle flaked coconut on two Salted Caramel Mochi from Trader Joe’s. So good.
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Painting is gorgeous as usual Mary!
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Thank you CJ!
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