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Well the end is that I signed the divorce papers and it will finally be over. maybe now I can get on with my life. I haven't felt married for a long time but it is still sad that marriage failed.

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Well I am not off to a flying start getting back to this. The person who said I should start back up is doing worse than I am though. I have no idea who reads this. The dashboard says I have 6 followers but for some reason will not tell me who they are. I know who three are and no idea about the other three. I guess it doesn't much matter because I am not really writing for anyone else. I

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I am starting to write again because someone I care dearly about says I should. Why they think what I write is so great I have no idea and some of the things I would most like to write about I can't right now.When I quit my wife and I had separated and I was hoping we could work things out. Not going to happen. She filed for divorce and all that is left to do is agree on what it will cost

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It has been a long, long time since I bothered to write a thing on my blog. I am still taking 15 mg of morphine 3 times a day. It seems to be a level that I can manage day in and day out. Cutting way back on morphine changed my ability to think clearly tremendously and I have also been more active physically even on days when I don't feel great.There is a big downside. My marriage has not

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I seem to have reached a plateau and I am waiting for it to get better after dropping the morning dose. I have promised myself that I am going to give it at least a week before I decide what to do next. Having a sinus infection at the same time has not helped a thing. If I can't do more than maintain where I am now I see my pain doctor on the 5th of next month and I can hope he has other

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I was going to just write in Facebook but it limits you so much on your first post and I don't feel like messing with it so you have to read my blog if you want to know what I say.Today is my 2nd day of just one 30mg dose of morphine a day at bedtime. I have a sinus infection that is 100 times worse than quiting the morphine. I need to recover enough to fix a computer for a customer. I

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I took a little break to have the flu. I really did not care about too much the last two days. I am still cutting back. I am now down to 1/3 of what I was staking before I started cutting back on morphine. I am wondering what my pain doctor is going to say, but that does not change the fact that I do not want to be dependent on morphine any longer.I wish the rest of me was doing as well. I

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This is day 16 of getting off of morphine. I have a choice to make tomorrow. I either go from 3 doses a day to two doses a day so I can stretch the meds I have now until my next doctor's appointment or I keep on taking 3 doses a day and call in for another prescription which I would rather not do. Tomorrow I try taking just 2 doses. I am so looking forward to not taking any drugs that my

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I really think I am going to put this on hold to give my pain doctor a chance to be on my side and help me when I have my next appointment on April 5th.I picked up my pencils and started working a drawing that has been sitting idle for over 2 months. In fact I haven't drawn anything in that time or probably more. It is a drawing of an old barn with holes in the roof from the inside looking out

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I can't believe it has only taken me 2 weeks to cut the morphine in half. Surprisingly I hurt less and when the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is not bad I am getting more done. I do have days that the CFS is really bad and all I do it sleep, but I am still much better than I was.The one thing more than anything else that made me want to get off of morphine was the way it was ruling my life.

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This is day 13 of trying to get myself off of morphine. I felt the best today that I have felt in months. My CFS (chronic fatigue syndrome) was leaving me alone and I made the most of it. I get a good day maybe once a month or every 3 weeks if I am lucky. I did the dishes, nearly all of the laundry and swept and scrubbed the floor in my office space. I am guessing that gets me out of having

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I missed day 11. I forgot all of my evening meds the night before and I was sick as a dog all day. I ended up spacing off the blog. I don't really have much to say tonight either. I am still doing OK but I am between steps down too. I am also too tired to have anything to day.

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I am now on 1/2 of the dose of morphine that I was on and no problems so far. My only problem today is the Chronic Fatigue. I got up a lot earlier than I have been and haven't had a nap so far today.I Had been using a demo copy of Windows 7 and installed a permanent copy today. I tried once before using Microsoft's "Easy Transfer Tool" and Windows was such a mess that it would not download

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OK, Today I dropped another 30 mg a day and by tomorrow I should know if I am going to be feeling it. I really feel abandoned by my pain doctor for never calling me back when I asked for help doing this. I realize I may someday end up back on morphine if the pain gets bad, but I know there other ways to deal with the pain. At least partially. Partially might be enough to help ,e make it.

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I lost yesterday and today to a head cold. I think it may be worse than any withdrawal. Right now I am mor3e worried about getting me head clear enough I can breath and sleep at the same time.Sue Ann has the same head cold so it is not withdrawal. Just my sinuses and some arthritis in my hands. Tomorrow I will drop to 30 mg 3 times a day for a total of 90 mg a day down from 120mg a day. I

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Tomorrow makes a week and then on day 8 I will drop the dose of morphine again. I don't know for sure how my body will react. If I get my family doctor to agree to help me I may wait until I see her, but I doubt it. I am still doing fine.My Chronic Fatigue Syndrome has been acting up today so I am slow getting around to writing anything.I received an ebook reader for Christmas. I have found

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Another day with no symptoms of withdrawal. Just worn out from having my grand daughter here. I have pretty much given up on my pain doctor calling me and helping with this. I guess it is time to call my family doctor and ask for help. It seems to be that or do it on my own. This is really getting sort of boring because there has not been any problems cutting back on the dosage of morphine.

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I am starting Day four and woke up early feeling fine. I have some aches & pains but not much and some of that might be from sleeping in my recliner . Ashley stole my half of the bed last night and it was easier to sleep in the chair than to lay next to her the way she wiggles around. I am up so early because Ash is used to getting up earlier herself. She wants to use my computer so this

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I have made it three days now on 2/3rds of the morphine I was taking. On day 8 I plan to drop one of the 60 mg doses to 30 mg and go for another week. So far I have not had any symptoms that I do not have anyway so I think I can say that there have not really been any with drawl symptoms.Today we went to Des Moines and picked up our grand daughter Ashley because next week is her birthday.

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I am feeling good so far on day three. Actually can't tell any difference on 2 doses from 3 doses at this point. We are off to pick up my grand daughter so I will post more later.

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I am going to make it through another day. The insurance company called a full week after they were to be filled to tell me that my prescriptions were approved. I am on my way to quiting now though. I think I am having some minor symptoms but the way I feel all the time I can't be sure. Thank you all for your support.

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Well I made it through the first day with out taking the noon dose of morphine. I have had to take two hydrocodone for my hands and my stomach has been upset a little is all so far. I am also wide awake and it is nearly midnight. I hope it keeps up this easy.Thanks to all of my friends who are praying for me or supporting me in their own way.

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I want to get off of morphine but not the way I may end up doing it. I have been taking it 3 times a day for over a year. Suddenly my insurance will only allow 60 tablets a month which either means I cut my does by one third right away or I go cold turkey in 20 days. The doctor has already tried to get prior authorization and that was refused. How can an insurance company decide to cut a

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I didn't think I would ever start this up again but there come times in your lives that you want to keep track of and need support of those who you count on as good friend. I have been taking pain medication for 3 or 4 years now and it seems that I keep having to take more and more to just stay even with the pain. Right now I am at the point that I either have to take a higher dosage of

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I am trying to blog more often. I seem to try really hard but get nothing done. I have the attention span of a goldfish. I don't know if it is the meds I take of the things wrong with me that I take the meds for. Either way I get distracted very easily and forget to even go back to what I was doing. I haven't been doing anything worth writing about anyway. Sue Ann has a terrible cold and

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I really have nearly forgotten my Blog. It has been forever since I felt like sharing. It has been too personal and too painful. I still have not gotten to see a decent psychiatrist. There is one my pain specialist has recommended but I have to go in and do a 60 to 90 minute intake session before I can even get an appointment. Then , if I qualify, it will be at least 2 months before I can

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I found a web site describing the difference between psychologists and phychiatrists. It says that phychiatrists earn more money for 3 or 4 15 minute medication management sessions than he does for a single session of actual therapy. I think I have gotten a phychiatrist who is more interested in the money than in his patients. I doubt that I have ever spent even 10 minutes with him let alone

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First I want to apologize to everyone who actually reads this and missed it. A good share of the reason I have been gone is the doctors experimenting with my meds again. The 1st one didn't work at all and the 2nd left me like a zombie until the does was cut way back and I am not sure it shouldn't be cut back even more. They have collectively decided that I am bi-polar. I now understand why

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I made the link to the hawk photos live now so they are easier to get to. The link is: http://lhartfield.pho.to/albums/golden_eagles/index.htm. I have yet to rename the albumn form eagle to hawk.

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My sister Kathi has convinced me that my eagles are red tailed hawks. Still no small bird with a wing span of over 4 feet. I should have done more research, but I guess I wanted the birds to be golden eagles. I still plan to keep watch over them during the summer. Unlike eagles they may have as many as 5 chicks. Red tailed Hawks do not have to have any red on them at all depending on which

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Sue Ann wanted to go check the Golden Eagle nest tonight before it got too dark so off we went. We got there just in time to see the changing of the guard. One landed with a full crop and the other took off to hunt. I actually got one picture of both birds at once. The last time we took photos both were flying at once so there were no eggs in the nest. That was March 23 so we have a close

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Got your attention didn't I! The answer is my memory. I am all the time making people feel that I slighted them. Not because I don't care, but because I don't remember. I forget to call my mom most of the time. I don't mean to offend anyone if I forget about a birthday or something. I would gladly change posistions with nearly any of them if my memory would work right no matter what else

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Today we took a new quilt we had made for my sister Kathi for her birthday. On the way there we saw a pair of Golden Eagles out flying on on the way home we found the nest. I couldn't get a picture of both eagles at once because they never got close enough. Here are pictures of the quilt and of one of the eagles. The quilt is covered with pictures of cats because my sister is a cat

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I stopped and looked around at a local art gallery the other day and while I was there I mentioned that I draw and had a website. When they looked at the website I realized that it had been quite some time since I updated and some of my better drawings were not on the website at all. Because of that I went home and updated my website and all of the links except photographs are live now.

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Here 's quilt I was talking about creating in the last post.I'd been working on this for nearly a month and I couldn't post any of the work that I was doing because I didn't know who might read my blog and I didn't want the persons who I was creating it for to find out.

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Do you ever notice how emotional stress wears you out worse than physical work?one of my best friends spent most of last week in the hospital with pneumonia and since she is in her 80s there was some doubt about her going home even in her own mind. It's very stressful when you think that you may lose what has become a very good friend. Having chronic fatigue syndrome I do not deal with stress

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I placed a new link on my blog to my sister Kathi's blog. Kathy is the oldest of my three sisters but two years younger than I am. She has been writing posts about everyone in the family. She even wrote a very nice one about me although I remember being fairly ornery toward her when we were little. Like mine her blog has a little bit of everything in it but hers is a kinder gentler blog and mine

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Sue Ann and I have found a lot of enjoyment and hobbies that we do together. In the wintertime those hobbies are restricted mainly to indoor sports. Not actually sports but it is sewing, my art, and little projects around the house. As old as this house is we will never run out of projects. Sue Ann has just finished one small quilt which she plans on using for herself. She's working on the

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We have had our granddaughter Ashley for the last three or four days and I think both my wife and I are totally exhausted. I know one thing for absolutely certain is that I don't get anything done while my granddaughter is here. Either I'm spending time with her or I'm sound asleep trying to recover. Chronic fatigue is been acting up again with or without Ashley here. My wife's car

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I finished one of my quilt block drawings and I got a pretty neat sunrise photo both this morning so I decided I would do a double feature. I guess I shouldn't say that I'm entirely finished with the drawing because I'm not. It is close enough to show though. We had seven or 8 inches of snow last night and it was nice enough to stop just in time for me to run this know more before got

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Once upon a time I dreamt of posting on this blog daily. Then I thought at least I can post the weekly with no problem now it appears that I may not even be able to post monthly. My biggest problem is a limited amount of energy which I have been expending on other things. One of them everyone knows about and that is the quilt that my wife is making. She has changed her mind three or four times

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My wife came to me last week with an idea for a quilt.she wants to print drawings that I've made the old buildings on white cloth and make a quilt which is black and white squares. I'm pretty picky about which ones of my drawings I want everyone looking at so that means I'm going to have to draw five or six more buildings in order for her to be able to finish the quilt. the photo posted hereis

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A late Merry Christmas to everyone who reads my blog. I have to admit that the blog has not been the top of my list the past few days.I am still testing my CherryPal switching software around and trying to see if I can find a combination of software that makes it run faster. It has been stable no matter what I have done to it so far. The biggest hangup for the company so far has been in getting

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Things move fast in the computer world and start ups probably move as fast or faster than anythign else. I am joining the CherryPal team to see if I can get support running smoother and make information more available to everyone who needs it. I am exceited that this is the direction of computing in the future. My son wants to know what purpose there is in a computer like this. I have photos

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Several months ago I signed a contract to test a new type of computer and to write about how it works and my experiences with it. I received mine last week and it has been up and running ever since. I was in such a rush to set it up that I forgot to take pictures first. The name of the computer is CherrryPal and you can see photos at http://www.cherrypal.com. It is 5.5" wide, 3.5" deep and

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My wife and I are trying to make a new start and I removed the previous post. There won't be any new news here either.

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Here are a couple of ATCs (Artist Trading Cards) which I recently finished as a birthday present for a friend. They are 3 1/2 by 2 1/2 inches. They are very small and it is different trying to draw this size and still get enough detail.I want to apologize to my wife for mistakenly writing that it would take several months to find out if I could get an apartment when it should have read a

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Removed

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This year my wife made quits for three of her grand children and I helped by doing the hand stitching of tieing and sewing the binding. You will have to click on the images to see them large enough to really see the pattern. Making quilts has been a hobby both of us have enjoyed for the past several years and a lot of grand children have enjoyed (hopefully) their quilts. You are never sure

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There are many artists today who draw very small pieces of art. The reason being to trade art with other artists. They create what are called artist trading cards. They are only 3 1/2" by 2 1/2". The same size as other trading cards such as Pokémon and baseball. Here are two examples of ATCs that I have created. I have created quite a few more but I don't want to show them until I arrange

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First I am wondering if I should make my goal to post once a week. I would have a hard time doing that lately. I have been asked by another family member to draw a portrait of my sister Pam who lost her fight against cancer this past summer. I didn't know it would be so hard to do. It seems it is stirring up more emotion than when she died. At the time I think I was just very glad to see

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I have found out that some people in the small town where I live are enjoying gossiping about what I write here. I think that is great! It keeps them from gossiping about someone else for a few minutes. I had no idea that my life or my opinions were worth gossiping about. If you have an opinion about something I write act like you have a 'little' courage and post a comment. It isn't

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Here is my latest graphite drawing. This is the house that belonged to my grand father's sister on my dad's side. They were fairly well to do and the house was pretty fancy in it's time. This is the best side of the house now. The other side has a collapsed roof with a huge tree growing up through it. I took photos of it this past summer and got poison ivy for my troubles but I got a good

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Not officially, but it certainly feels like it has. I am finding I am affected more by storms and barometer changes this year than last. I am still trying to get to the point I can get enough sleep to function normally if there even is such a thing. Anyway I have not been posting much because it is hard to do a lot of things. I have been helping Sue Ann make quilts for grandkids Christmas

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I had no idea that getting my medications messed up would take so long to recover from. I am just now getting back to drawing. Having Chronic Fatigue does not help much either. The drawing on the left is the latest I have done. I have a very dear friend who is 80+ years old and she loves mushrooms. I had drawn a small artist trading card of mushrooms but she couldn't see it very well. I

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When I started this blog I promised myself that I would write something every day. It is easy to make promises like that but sometimes life intervenes in ways that you would never expect. My pain specialist started me on a new pain medication that worked wonderful. So wonderful in fact that he asked me to quit taking one of my old medications to see if I still needed it. It was a

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I know why I draw, but do you know why you do? If you create art for any reason other than to satisfy yourself you are going to be disappointed. No one will understand your art the way you do. They will not know what drives you to create. They will make comments that you feel are either stupid or insensitive without even knowing it. It will end up causing you to feel bad about your art and

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I found out today that my aunt has been told by her doctors that she can't win the battle against cancer. Her chemo is extending her life, but that is all. last week she went for her regular chemo treatment and was refused unless she paid the hospital $400 first. Her family had to hire a lawyer to get her treatment. What they did is considered refusing life saving treatment which is against

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I had another medical tests done yesterday. This one called a nerve conduction study. Basically they hook wires up to you and run electricity through you until you jump like frog legs in a frying pan. I got a copy of the test report from the doctor but I must admit I don't understand a word of it. The doctor did say that the results were normal though. I guess that's what matters most.As for

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I keep thinking I'm not going to write any more about our government because it stresses me out so badly. Passing the bailout bill is an example of everything that's wrong with our Congress. They put every piece of earmarked pork that they could find on that bill before they voted on. Exactly what has everyone been complaining about the past two or three months? Was it earmarks by any chance

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I really wish I had something to write, but you need to be doing things before you can write about it. I could write about the elections but that would be depressing. Or the economy which would be even more depressing. Or our congress which might be the most depressing yet.I feel personally like there are no good choices for president. There are even fewer choices about the economy.

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Sick days are exactly what I have been taking. Sick enough that there is no new are work to post. Part of having CFS is not dealing with stress. In fact one doctor called Chronic Fatigue an allergic reaction to stress. I am still recovering from Sue Ann being sick and then I had tests that required me being put under which was accompanied by the no eating or drinking BS that goes with

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Here is a bit os sidewalk art I did for my grand daughter today. No matter what I did to the photo it posts it sideways so you will just have to look at it the best you can. ashley enjoyed it which is all that matters,

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Here is a photo of the quilt I am working on. I spent several months finding the cloth I wanted and I designed the quilt by scanning each pattern into the computer and creating square images that I could copy and paste to build the quilt. Both ends match and both sides match like 2 sets of triangles. The small stripped corner on the top left is the back side pattern. I have not chosen the

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For a while I am going to be working on a couple of quilts as well as drawing. Sue Ann does most of the work, but I do the hand tying and also all of the hand stitching. I designed my own pattern using various American flag pattern cloth. I don't have a photo of the pattern of the quilt, but I will get one in a day or so. This is an art form that we do together. As we can afford to we are

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That is what I call my wife and who and what she is to me. She is feeling better and things went better than we expected them to. The doctor was even pleased. She still hurts, but she is already getting stir crazy, cabin fever or what ever you want to call it. At the same time she still does not have energy to do much.I am still recovering from the stress and my be for another day or so. I

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Today was the day my wife had her kidney stone broken up and the doctor said it went better than he could have hoped.  I know there were people praying (probably more than I know) and I am sure that had a lot to do with it.  If you were one of those thank you from the bottom of my heart.  The stress on me has dropped tremendously also making me feel much better as stress is something I do not

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Tonight pain wins and there will not be a blog entry or at least much of one. I can not even type with my right hand. I need to save what I have for helping my wife after hr kidney stones are broken up anyway.

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This is the last graphite drawing I finished. It is the final product from the start I showed everyone on the 12th. I didn't think about the mood or emotions people whould have when they saw this. I was concentrating on doing some experimenting. I was trying to the drawing with just 4 pencils and therfore just 4 values, So far everyone has told me that it is spooky or reminds them of

Larry Hartfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08485809402256962824noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1488330514617160813.post-8265311198144649262008-09-19T21:49:00.004-05:002008-09-19T22:03:18.588-05:00

I few days ago I wrote that i was testing Google Chrome and thinking about making it my default browser. I did something that none of the software companies expect you to do. I read the EULA ( end user license agreement) for Chrome. It says in simpler words that Google has full rights to use any information that passes through your browser no matter what it is. The way it is written they

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My wife has kidney stones and Monday she goes to get them broken up. I am not really in much of a mood to write about art at the moment and I may not write anything for a day or two. It all depends on if something comes to mind that gets through the worry and concern. I know in my heart that she will be fine, but if you have a loved one in a position like this and are not worried and upset

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I find it hard to believe but I bought a set of 72 Prismacolor colored pencils yesterday and have barely gotten them sharpened. I am still working on my negative drawing of the moon lit night. I don't think it will be a master piece, but the concept is interesting and is making me think more about what I am doing. I am trying to decided if the ground in the fore front should be black as the

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jory, I started answering you and it got so large I decided to post it so everyone would catch it.jory,When I start an old building I create a B&W photo the size I want to draw. I cover the back with graphite pencil. Then I use that to do a very light and basic tracing of the very outline rather than doing a bunch of measuring. Some might consider that cheating, but if you can't see my

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Part of yesterday was a bit dark. Maybe I should not post them here and should start a second blog, but my thoughts still stand.Today I used 50% off coupon from Michaels to purchase a set of 72 Prismacolor colored pencils. They are usually considered the Cadillac of colored pencils buy artists. Now I need to create a color wheel and learn how the colors work together. I am a completely self

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I am trying something new and also working on what I do most. Another old building full of memories.  The first is going to be trees, a moon, a couple of clouds and dark.  I plan to use just 4 or maybe 4 pencils. I am roughing in the trees, but then it turns in to negative drawing. The old house is the home place of my paternal grandfather's sister and her husband. In it's time it was a very

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My life is full of so many interests that I really never do know what topic might pop up next.  That means anyone who comes here looking for the same thing all the time will be disappointed.   I promise a second post with some art tonight.Lately I have been searching my soul about what I believe.  Why am I searching this late in life?  Because I feel I have been let down too many times by people

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Here it is late again and I would rather sleep but I did promise myself to write something daily. I have been upset with NASCAR for several years. Being on disability I do not have satellite or cable tv. Just good old antenna. NASCAR in their infinite wisdom (greed) has chosen to put half of the schedule on channels that are not available via antenna. That alone is enough. On top of that

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The day got away from me when I started another drawing of an old house that I am doing in graphite. I don't have the time nor energy to write now. I promised myself I would post a new entery every day or I would have skipped it altogether. Sorry to disappoint you today. I promise more tomorrow.

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Here is the pink rose with a background. I am enjoying drawing with colored pencil more than I thought I would. The next drawing I am working on is giving me problems matching the colors of the flowers though. I still have a lot to learn about mixing and blending to get the correct color. It appears to me that might be a life time of learning. It will keep it from getting dull. Actually every

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I finished my rose in colored pencil. Not the background yet, but just the actual rose. I have been trying for months to draw a real looking rose. I seem to have gone from something that looks nothing like a rose to a pretty good one. I wanted to give everyone a look at it before I do the background because I am not all that sure of myself about how it will turn out. I have started another

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I started a new drawing today. My wife has a couple wrought iron chairs in the yard with flower post where the seats were. The flowers grew up and vined around the chair. It will be quite a test of my abilities. As soon as I get enough done to bother showing I will post it. It is going to be colored pencil on sanded paper. Only my second try on sanded paper.One another note, I thought the

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I have seen that although I have a lot of visitors to my sites many do not stay long enough to have read very much. I am new to blogging and I don't know for sure what people want to read about most. Should I write just about my art or should I share computer tips as I have them. Should I keep my thoughts about the world to myself? Comments are welcome and anonymous unless you want to

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Isn't it still supposed to be summer? There is talk of frost in northern Iowa and more than talk north of Iowa. Sue Ann brought plants in today. Plants that there never seems to be enough room for. If take them outside for summer something else moves in to it's spot. It never fails. Every spare inch of house space becomes occupied as soon as you turn your back. We remodeled the the two

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Not much today worth writing about. I can tell you I like Google's new browser enough that I made it my default. I will be running checks for spyware and viruses for awhile just to make sure. Never trust anything you do not test yourself when it comes to software. Unless of course you are trusting me. Just kidding, but many people can not test software themselves because they do not have the

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I really wanted to write something about my art today so I guess I do 2 entries. I have several drawings that are works in progress (WIP) and I would like to finish some day. You can see my pencil drawings on my web page at hartfield.net. I am working on a drawing of an old country school house a couple miles down the road from the Hargrove Grocery Store. It is more of a challenge than I

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I am trying out a new browser today. I have used Firefox for several years and have liked it a lot. It has more plugins than any other browser. Many of which I have come to depend on. Since version 3 came out though it has been a memory hog and seems to load slower. Google has just released a new browser. Actually it is the beta release, but from what I read it was a lot faster than other

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That really doesn't mean a lot when you are home every day. If you work five days a week and wish you could stay home all the time and not have to work be careful what you wish for. I would give a lot to be able to work again and I have quite a few friends who feel the same way. Having to work may be a PITA but not being able to is a much bigger one.Don't ask me where my ideas come from when I

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I tend to be an independent when it comes to politics. This year I have been very disappointed in the primaries and really felt that all of the candidates that offered any thing great were gone shortly after the primaries started. In short neither candidate impressed me in the least. After the last two nights I feel that maybe, just maybe, there might be hope for our country yet. I really

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Today has been a day to rest after taking on the Iowa Science Center with a four year old. It has also been a day to find some warmer clothes. Yesterday was nearly 90 F and today the high has been about 62 F. Sue Ann thinks winter is here. It is rather unusual weather, but our weather has been unusual all year. I am not in the panic that some are about global warming. Not that I don't think

Larry Hartfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08485809402256962824noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1488330514617160813.post-66331187999138644952008-09-02T19:40:00.003-05:002008-09-14T05:30:14.344-05:00

Today was the last Day Ashley (our grand daughter) could stay with us because Mom & Dad were missing her. It was also Grandma's day off so they had the morning together and then we went to the Science Center of Iowa this afternoon. During the morning Grandma took Ashley to the local donut shop. Ashley got to pick her own donuts and then they sat in the window and talked about all the people

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I had to do something I really did not want to do. I set all comments to be moderated before they are published. I did this because a comment was made to my post about "Christian Hypocrisy" accusing a child of being arrested and charged with a crime when they were not. I would not have even mentioned it except my blog shows that a comment has been deleted. I had thought I could let anyone

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Like I thought today was pretty much dedicated to Ashley. We both slept in until about 10 AM. Then we started the day watching Cinderella on my computer because she wanted to be close to grandpa. and she has figured out that I am usually at my computer. We sat in the recliner next to my computer desk together and did watch part of the movie between naps. After the movie we had cereal for

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We have an angel in our lives over the weekend. This is Ashley who is 4 and thinks she is 16 wearing her Halloween costume. Grandma believes in buying ahead of time. Especially when Ashley is involved. She will take up most of my time this weekend so there won't be any long blogs unless something happens I just can't wait to spout off about.

Larry Hartfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08485809402256962824noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1488330514617160813.post-33482480567685560422008-08-29T14:21:00.009-05:002008-08-29T15:15:39.550-05:00

Yesterday I took a stress test and it was ............well, stressful. That is why I did not post anything. I came home and did more or less nothing. I have Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and have for the past 8 years. Most of the time I have very little energy and that means I don't move much. I was worried that I might not do very good on the test because I get so little exercise, but I managed

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Chronic Fatigue Syndrome pretty much won today. I have slept so much that I haven't drawn anything or gotten into trouble. My letter to the editor came out in the paper today though. There are a few upset church goers who thought they could treat a little kid like garbage and no one would notice. Some how they don't feel my writting a letter to the editor was fair. This weekend is the last

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I Promised a friend I would post a link to some of the best free software to protect your computer and tell what I am using. The site is called Gizmo's and the link to it is http:/www.techsupportalert.com . I put a link to it in the links section on the right side of my blog also. On the Gismo's web site the nav bar is on the left and the 1st link is "Best-ever Freeware" under that it has

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Last night like many nights I slept a few minutes to a couple hours and then the pain woke me up. It is too early to take another pain pill and I would rather not anyway. I guess I will talk a bit about my art and how I got started.When I could not work anymore the doctor (don't remember which one) told me to find something to do that I could have a feeling of accomplishment doing it. I had

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On my Yahoo and MySpace pages I posted that I had been chosen to test a new computer that would only use 2 watts of power. I was and still am looking forward to getting my hands on one to test. There is only one problem. They were to ship on August 1st. Shipping was delayed and I still do not know when they will be available. I called the company today and they assured me that they will ship

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I know this is a long post, but I ask that you please read it all. I consider it to be very important. Thank you!Hypocrisy is a big issue. Especially when it is from one of the major churches in a town. There will not be any names to protect a child and because I do not know all of the names of the adults. If I did know their names I would print them here in large print. They should be

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This is Hawgstock weekend in Winterset. What is Hawgstock? It is an excuse for a bunch of bikers to get drunk and naked and act stupid. I am not against drinking, but I am against drunkenness. When people get blotto they have no inhibitions or self control. I am not against nakedness either, but there is something about public group nakedness and drunkenness combined that seems wrong somehow.

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