The Hubers' New Groove

Just when you think you're about to find some routine and things are about to settle down a bit... our family goes and auditions for a musical lol. Thankfully their roles are all on the smaller side, but Dave, Sam, Micah, Annabelle AND Zosia were all cast to be a part of the ArtsView Children's Theatre production of Newsies!

And thankfully, my work schedule has been consolidated mostly to the weekends, so it'll help a bit with having to adjust to rehearsal schedules for everyone else and painting schedules for me.

I had a chance to get started on painting a couple things for the set last night (The stuff above will look nothing like what they look like now lol) and even though my arm and shoulder do not agree with my enthusiasm, I'm super excited to get some more painting done asap! And since I'll be painting for the next few shows, I have a chance to get the paint room organized mwahahaha! I am determined to use up ALL the old paint I possibly can!!!

In other news, I spent the last couple of weeks trying to work out a gardening plan for the front yard. I'm almost done with it. My brain likes things to be in order, but my heart wants something "Different" and "Creative" more "organic" in how it flows... so it's hard to agree with myself sometimes and make a final decision.

I'm pretty confident on where I want the compost bin to go, so I'll at least get started on constructing and placing that, hopefully this week. I don't plan on having anything planted for the fall; anything i can do over the next couple of months will just be preparing the ground with layers of cardboard, shredded paper, compost and mulch. I've learned its worth the wait to prep the ground properly, rather than waste time, money and frustration on stuff not growing well.

Thanks to our added comings and goings, I'm going to be riding my bike to work once a week. I'd love if it our south Longview streets were a little more conducive to bike riding, but it's only 2.5 miles, so it'll be just fine. I need the exercise anyways!!

And last but not least, I'll be participating in a latte art throwdown friday evening, so here's hoping my "painting" wrist will let my "pouring" wrist do it's thing when the time comes.