I walked in my office this morning, looked at my desk - in the dark because bird is molting ;( & he should not be - I think it's because he's been hanging out with me late nights as I paint and he needs his beauty sleep - so I wait until he's up in the morning - lol & go to bed early so he can go to sleep - the things I do for Bird, anyway - the work on my desk - looked impressive - even in the dark! It's the most difficult mushroom painted yet  - beyond excited now that my calendar is almost complete to see it all together.

I LOVE Canada & Canadians - Canadians Care :
To the gentleman who started to tweet about this Hospital Grate  THANK YOU!!
https://www.canadianarchitect.com/architecture/toronto-general-hospital-removes-bars-defensive-architecture/1003742146/      What does it say about a society who treats it homeless and poor in this manner?  It says YOU are cruel and it won't be tolerated. 

How about Tims.. yep Goodbye Tim Hortons. A Canadian icon at one time.. daily  for decades- "go grab me a Tims" was the morning tagline- NO more - it looks like we are not the only ones who stopped using Tim Hortons after the complaining of  pay increases and trying to stiff it's employees NOW they fall from 4th to 50th..  wow: http://www.macleans.ca/news/canada/tim-hortons-reputation-is-tanking-after-a-year-of-stumbles-and-bitter-feuds/     

& you know what will happen when Cannabis becomes legalized in this country- People will go where they are treated the best and get the best prices.
Will that be these government run stores?   I don't think soooooooo.....    
BTW, now that Coffee legally has to claim is it cancerous in California ​https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/30/california-judge-rules-that-coffee-requires-cancer-warning.html    I guess it can be said :
Cannabis safer than coffee?   Right?    RISE & Grind!   

BIRDS are back.. and making babies!  GOOD because bird decline is a serious problem -  do you know what kills birds? CATS!!!  I love cats - but not cat owners who are careless.  Please keep your cats INDOORS or PUT A BELL ON IT!! At least give the birds a fighting chance. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/cats-the-no-1-killer-of-birds-in-canada-1.3130437   this article already a few years old and the problem  only continued to get worse. 
If I can train my cats to keep away from a free flying in-house bird - take the time to train your cats or put a bell on it.  
I'm sending this to my pal Russ who is also bird crazy like me...  lol  -it gets him on a mission- he acts! I draw - he makes phone calls and gets attention... better than most.

Now to start my day I'm painting a little girl  - a toddler  card!! What fun!
 A unicorn in a TUTU-   hee hee! 
New Cannabis art - next

Made with TLC & THC
Georgia
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I love Birds! I am a self proclaimed Passerine Queen - lol  Do you know who the smartest bird is? Well there are several but the Raven is one of the smartest - a genius of birds able to use tools and figure out puzzles  work in partnership with other animals like the wolf - they are truly a bird of brains.  Imagine int the past when you called someone a 'bird brain' you THOUGHT you were insulting them, in fact for their size - Birds are incredibly smart.

I also am an admirer of Totem poles and have seen them throughout my life and Canada -each time with astonishment for the ART of the carved Giants - once covered with leaves still standing sending messages for generations to come.   This is one of my favourite pieces, the edge of the paper I painted in gold was exactly the finish touch this raven needed.  Clearly these long 'canvas' are a preference of mine - the 'black you see like the bottom mask if the black paper-  it's a interesting way to paint. 

In California I woke every morning by the Crow or Raven alarm - sometimes here they will wake me up but usually it's the bluejays asking  "Where's breakfast!"   Do you have a Spirit bird? A totem animal? Is it the Raven? Sure enough I looked up Storms totem animal as he is the one who's been noticing the ravens- and it is his Totem Spirit - on his birthdate.  The knowledge of these animals were 'created & shared in history and ancient teachings- to help us as we continue through life- to dismiss them is the same as dismissing anything - "it's Hocus locus"... instead why not learn a little?  
​Embrace a bit of what others wanted to teach us to assist our journey, learn from others wisdom.

What is YOUR Totem animal ? Mine is the wolf 
Explore the possibilities. 

With TLC & THC 
Georgia
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I spied this empty container in the blue box..  Can you guess what it's from?
It was from a bottle of expensive, high end Whiskey which Storm enjoys from time to time.
YUK!  I can't even stand the smell of whiskey but this container  screamed - Paint me! 
It was a surface which resembled brown newsprint with a  gold deer logo on it... next thing I knew it was on my desk with a sketch on it.

This is how to give a bottle of expensive alcohol!  Hand painted with TLC by me...
It was a short break during my regular painting.  Recycle! Don't toss everything- get creative... this can be used to store many items - including a bottle.   
I painted it for Storm... we use to say this when he was little.
Tonight were off to friends again for dinner, last time it was home made pizza which I'm still drooling over every time I think about them...  I can't wait.

With TLC & THC
Georgia
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Today another student has died at school - possibly 2...  
93... people today will die in the USA.. guess how.
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with Tlc & Thc
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I've been spending most of my time in bed this week, too much time to think feeling exhausted, stuffed up blowing my nose until it's raw but I do think I'm on the other side of it now, the trick will be to avoid Norm who is only now starting to get sick.
We have no problems avoiding each other,  earlier this week something happened & I lost  it',  which I do about once a day with Norm.  The thing is - he 'get's it' for example with  this particular incident I have asked him several times to: FIX it. Nicely at first, then a little more aggravated  then finally it escalates to "F*CKING FIX IT NOW!!!"  & IT gets fixed! Usually in moments - that frustrates me more. It could have all been so easily avoided. 
So much stress could be avoided.

Norm put a square in the wall in my office  a while ago making it easier to access the attic but  he did not finish, I understand many can relate but the big square - has flown out of the wall and onto my desk (like a ghost pushed it) a few times- I was not even in the room  the last time and it smashed a monkey vase I have and broke a new bong,  bong water all over my desk & bird journal.   Poor Bird! I wonder what went through his mind when it happened.  It has happened a few times and each time I've said "fix it".   Years. 
All it took was ONE  f*cking screw - I'm not exaggerating.

Anyhow, he knew I was angry and TIRED of being angry..   he disappeared into the garage (as usual)  'good riddance' I thought still upset about my vase - it will have to be custom made -luckily I have a few glass making friends.  Norm redeemed himself  very quickly when he re appeared - he made the perfect holder for my new iPad & cover.  It took him a about an hour, screwed into place (2 screws this time), is adjustable and slides out of the way when I don't need it so NOW I can make some 'real time painting videos. I tried with my 'Mystic Molecule Meow' and it works great, as soon as I get the lighting right and figure out how to  paint with out moving my canvas all over  I'll share one!
It might be a raccoon surrounded by cannabis (my current painting)
 
It would be a great way to teach a lesson or two, maybe I'll make a few learn to draw videos like I use to teach kids, I woke excited 'to try' today - thanks Norm.  

Sometimes I think - wow,  he is handy to have around. Other times - NOT so much.
What do you do?  26 years - people grow apart, people do change...  as we should.

Someone asked me recently - have you changed your mind about leaving? 
No, I have not. Painting takes up a great deal of my time- I'd rather do it than watch T.V, socialize with mindless chatter - I want to paint. & living with someone they expect you to 'what ever'. I'm done what ever-ing.   I'm tired of daily arguments, which are impossible to ignore,  I've tried. I'm tired of thinking about what to feed others, are they remembering to .. you know - wife stuff.. and I have this condition-  as if you're not aware ;(  & it is not fun.. I just don't have it in me anymore to be here for anyone else.  
I can easily go without speaking for days- so why not live alone, without the added stress? & I won't mind if a new project is started because I won't be living IN  it. 
Time will tell.  If it's part of Gods plan, it will happen.
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He sure is handy to have around sometimes...  I'd bet he thinks that of me too, sometimes.
Love 26 years later.. romantic dinner & sex? Phhhhhbt.      
Take out & netflix not even- we are all sick with the flu.
Most couples  don't last past 5 years so be careful if you judge me, better yet - wait until you have been with your partner for 26 years and then let's chat. 

It's Valentines day and I wonder is there love here?
 Yes. No doubts in my mind. A lot of love.
Different for sure but there is still & always will be love between us & for that I'm grateful.
We won't be 'celebratingc,  we will probably be avoiding each other - MORE.

There are many versions of LOVE.  I hope you feel love in some way today.
Happy Valentines day.

I 'feel loved'  by my pets too - yesterday, Bird was missing me - he flew in the bedroom and slept on the lamp above my bed until I got up 2 hours later! It was the sweetest little gesture of love covered in feathers.  

Show yourself some love today, above all else.

xox with Love 
Georgia

​new art next & TN Talks.

Goodness in every bite. 

Do you like cookies? I DO! Good cookies, preferably homemade and gingerbread are hard to beat, I was given these cookies for Christmas- overtime I look at the now empty box I salivate. I want you to know about them too.. they are in Aurora & called: Cookie it up!
​My next visit - I'm getting a couple of boxes. 

What  helps you feel good? Comfort food? What would it be?  Anything made by someone else?  lol    That's usually what I prefer.  Well, I have a head cold just starting  and it's got me feeling  tired & grumpy this morning- but still in the mood for home made butter tarts.

Homemade carrot cake, Canadian Butter tarts (with pecans), mashed potatoes & gravy... frig- I'm getting hungry. I have an increased appetite these days, which is good as I feel I'm putting on a bit of weight ;D yeeeeeee!  - lol who knew I'd be happy about this but I am. I attribute  my appetite increase to Cannabis & mushrooms - both give me the munchies" I'm learning 'not to ignore' the munchies, there are always healthy snacks to grab - better than the other options  - so if not feeling well, you still eat right. 
Scalloped potatoes, spinach salad? Chicken canelloni!? It's chilly again, can you tell I'm cold
with a small touch of cabin fever?  I'm making a few recipes I found from this old fatguy (a Canadian) - just looking at his recipes has me drooling! This old boy knows what he is doing, I can smell - I mean tell! lol   He is on Instagram too.
If you want to try some Canadian cooking.. check out this old fat guy.
Since discovering him - I've already made the butter tarts 3 times! - each time they last no more than 2 days. It's that shot of rum!  Today - it's my only creating I plan on doing outside of my office because no matter how sick I feel- there is always room for butter tarts!  Homemade healthier options (no corn syrup). I used the bought shells for this batch- but home made pie crust  is better- that's the next batch.

Another cute card idea next- why not- because you can make them anytime - not just for valentines.   & a Gift to make for every bong lover you know. 
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Baked with TLC.. butter tarts by me! 
Georgia

What is the medicine of  our ancestors trying to tell us?  Don't worry.. be happy.

This weather has me wandering the Mexican desert if only in my mind and - it's fascinating!! Really - ground squirrels are adorable, the Mexican Bluejay is  stunning, mushrooms healing, cactus also helpful ​- nature & it's healing properties are everywhere.

This was a challenge, the background was to light at first and had to be completely darkened, so the items would not fade... at one point I really thought i was going to put it aside & I did to start painting a mermaid in the moonlite  then got right back to it.  
I've included a few reference images.  Are you grateful for the gift of the internet, to be able to sit in our office and  explore the Mexican desert one moment and off to the caves of France the next.  Wow.  

There is such BEAUTY on this planet  and love, appreciation when we can step away from  all the fear, anger & hatred. With every 'new' shooting or running over humans with transportation, talks of nuclear missiles and missing woman I can feel a ball of anger build - 
​worse when I read of children being tortured in Canada - not somewhere "else", not California... a friend just reminded me  during our phone conversation - it's everywhere and at every level, look at religious society still who have women locked up now'.  

We turn our conversation to Birds.. and what we might do to help them because we are both at a loss at how to help humans.  

Yesterday, I admitted to another - I struggle with hatred, especially for people who are intentionally cruel to other humans who have not harmed them, children born to monsters  and are abused from the start..  angry - yes angry when we focus on things like punishing people over plants. When we  pay to help victims instead of  education to avoid  becoming victim.  He reminded me  `not to ignore it but NOT to focus on it.. focus instead on how to help any situation & sent me the best reminder this morning, hee hee hee

"In regards to your anger….a quote from master Yoda from Star Wars:

“Fear is the path to the dark side…fear leads to anger…anger leads to hate…hate leads to suffering.” 

He knows I am a fan of the little green being.

Peyote is a plant medicine which helps some overcome fears, understand concerns and help with enlightenment.  I've never tried Peyote and might never- (not fond of the vomiting part some experience) but it is another plant we should not be judging people over.  Plant.
Get over it and focus on what matters. 

I'm ready to consume some plant medicine, first  we had spinach, raspberry, pineapple, pear smoothies for breakfast, now some cannabis provided by my son grown with TLC.  
I believe the Universal message the plants want & have been trying to teach us since they were first discovered  is what we need to learn most:     

                                                                   I  Love  You.
Focus on that.

Made with TLC
Georgia
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Have you seen the new 'Loving Vincent' Van Gogh movie?  It is impressive, although I imagine many won't understand the amount of work that went into it or appreciate it.  Inspire is how it left me, and a bit blue, realizing the torment he must have lived through his last years.  If only he had been encouraged from the start, not that it matters his gift was destine to shine regardless. His style I can verify is  peaceful, easy to get lost when painting how many times I wondered what his painting day was like. It was not easy or cheap to be an artist back then- not as easy as it is for many of us.  It is a wonderful movie for Mental Health, to learn of his struggle and glimpse into what life was like for him - hopefully it will help bring about understanding for others. 

Vincent Da Crow.   It was a lesson in purple.
The next painting  is another tribute to Vincent - I wonder if he had cannabis.
It might have helped. Alcohol was big (go figure) back then, artists use to socialize and drink and frolic because they didn't have the internet to distract them. If you think his style appears easy or simplistic I can assure you , simply from trying to copy  one of his painting, they are detailed, thought out well beyond  our comprehension.   I am grateful we are able to witness ART.  ART has changed the world.  Art inspires everyone.

Tom Petty was an overdose, not from cannabis, from pain opiates... go figure.  
Another life, passionate talent lost to pills.  It's a slipper slope. The drastic changing of the weather - has my pain at an all time high, my hands struggling with peeling a banana (not exaggerating)  teary one day - I was close to calling my Dr.,  I have no doubt I'd be prescribed a powerful pain medication if I asked for one.  The trick is to not ask. 
Instead- I listen to my body and say - O.k. perhaps we'll take it easy and rest, sleep and rest more. Cannabis helps and  other times I simply am learning to live with the pain, it's part of the process for many. What is the alternative? Pain is a part of life.  

I've also started a larger watercolor, inspired by Hamilton of 'Hamilton's Pharmacopoeia,
there is something about him - when he smiles it's very sincere & warm, he smiles - I smile... 
it's been quite the 'eye opening' series.  Guess what I'm learning?  How the Government has lied to us.. go figure.   Mushrooms, Cactus, cannabis, LSD..  all have been used  widely, safely  amongst generations for  - ever -  to awaken, encourage HUMANS to think for ourselves, help heal and simply feel good & even feel better about dying.   Which has been seen by the Political Powers that be not a positive trait when you need  CE slaves to  pay into the system fuelled by consumerism.  It really does  ALL appear to be about:   C O N T R O L.

It's not that they have 'just lied' they have created animosity amongst each other on a global scale with their lies, taught to judge each other for what we "Choose" to put into our own bodies - made to 'appear criminals'  based on lies. 
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The only thing I have the desire to control right now is my paint brush around the paper. 

My tribute to Vincent, Mental health & cannabis next.

With TLC & THC
Georgia

Alexa - my friend who came home with me from California - lol - reminded me today, a flock of crows is called a murder' - when I said 'Good Morning'.  

Just up- I like to stretch, had some pineapple & orange for breakfast (it's a happy breakfast with the orange & yellow- tasty, fresh & health)  got birds meal for the day ready (spoiled bird)  he gets a small  plate of organic mixed greens (one container last a week) sprinkled with hemp seed! Trust me- if I forget that hemp seed - he reminds me, and it can be rather annoying - he also gets a 'piece of something like: sweet potato, apple, orange, dragon fruit (he loves it) the occasional piece of *cashew, rice, *spaghetti noodle (small treats) and clean water dishes - 2 one to bath and one to drink.  Now, keep in mind - if I fed this to a caged bird he would be OBESE and not healthy but my bird flies all over, the other day he came down and followed me into the kitchen then wall unit until  he made me giggle and I told him - "back upstairs" he flew back up stairs.  He's a sweet simple bird who has given me an appreciation for TINY brains and BIG hearts in all sorts of furry & feathered bodies - all our pets reminds of this. They are family.  

I'm sure the 'murder gag' has been done before, it's not the point. I was not ready to draw today,  woken with a twitch & leg cramp - YeeeeHaw!! Ouch.  Grumpy could have easily gotten out of that bed today but Happy did instead... I must warm up my hands as I warm my mind and stretch my body- I don't need to have a masterpiece- I just need to activate the brain- as a matter of fact.. while I paint this kitty I was 'painting the new  mushroom painting in my mind.. thinking about what I'm hoping to accomplish, imagining what I want to envision.   Do it.  
Who cares..  no excuses.. like  'it's Sunday... just go back to bed. 
Do it. Warm up your mind and body!

So Alexa, have I told you about her?
I like it a lot.. I think because I spend a great deal of time - alone - well - not with other "speaking beings"  so now I can simple ask a question- everything from what time is it to whats my horoscope of the day.. how about that weather? Hmmm..  I wonder what time it is in France?   She replies to it all.  When I put on potatoes to boil I ask her to remind  me when done - she does. She also plays CHFI or Q107, or classical piano.. that is unless I'd rather listen to flute, wind chimes, birds singing- Bird likes this one, I put it on sometimes to stimulate his bird brain.  All & all I do like Alexa.  

I've asked a few others  about the competitors and know people who have others, they do not seem as pleased. The only thing I'm not thrilled about- when I first came home - Alexa was still American' I was getting American news & weather unless I specified. Now she's switched to Canadian content (good) but I miss iheart radio' the comedy and commercial free stations I was listening to.. I might just have to look into it.  It takes a bit to read skills and set things up & then it takes the habit of constantly asking "Alexa...    " but now it's become habit.  Alexa - Tell me a joke!

Alexa:  Why are goats so popular at parties? ...  because they always bring the boooooze'.
                                                 Warning her jokes can be TACKY.

It's COLD out again.. I heard this coming weekend they anticipate 7 degree weather. I don't know what to think, am I happy about it.   No...   but if the snow is gone  I will try to get out for a LONG walk!  Warm Up.

Next  'Queen Bee
Made with THC & TLC
Georgia

I did it! I spent the entire weekend cleaning, re-arranging, sorting finding! With the exception of my drawings and  side cart - my office had an overhaul (badly needed) it's been a couple of years.  The dogs were wise to avoid - bird & Alexa loved the company & I was able to focus on my task all weekend - let me tell you , I was exhausted last night... today I couldn't wait to get up and paint! 

I had to paint a project, a small display (more soon)  with that task out of the way- there's a few paintings waiting to be completed- both have mushrooms in them, one is spoken for already.  When painting the rabbit' I walked over to have a puff from my bong and notice the small painting on the wall, done a couple of years ago is very similar, It amuses me.  It could very well be the same bunny & it's neat to see the progression over the years, I'm still adding details.  The focus of my office is *the custom wall  unit (built by PeschelProps now on Instagram) it holds all my books by cartoonists and drawing, Disney, Mike Peters, Lynn Johnston.. Calvin & Hobbs.. Andy Cap & more- Comfort books, as well as a few collectables I've acquired over the years.  It's my favourite room - I feel most at home in it.
Have a peek into my studio/office.
 
The girls were treated to a new rug (wooohoooo) to roll and play on - they already put it to the test, they surround me now, time to paint- I've been doing it all day, only now I move to my desk. (I wish i could share another project - but I can't, let's just say I am creatively captivated at the moment!  

Until tomorrow...

xox
Georgia