February 28, 2010
When did I start to need so much order in the things around me, so that I
could be free to create without distraction? Have I always needed this? Is this why I prefer to work alone and
away from others, whose disorder I can’t organize? OR is this just another way to avoid committing totally to
the art?
12:13 am est
February 22, 2010
Well, I’m still here in WV and won’t be heading north until
sometime in March. Aside from the fact that I’m not much of a TV watcher, I never watched any daytime soaps, because
my own family is a daytime soap opera – enough said.
I’m
actually working on my sculpture when I’m not rearranging shelving and writing and researching on the Internet –
I hate dial-up! But then again, I should be working and not on the computer;-) But here I am!
This area is similar, except in weather, to much of what I saw in the Southwest, the
towns are a little older with more Victorian buildings, but Sutton and Weston make me think a little of Williams, AZ.
Also the intrusion of sometimes old, decrepit and rusting trailers and mobile homes blight what would be a gorgeous landscape,
just as they do in the southwest. Urban blight is what is usually written about and yet I remember vividly driving toward
the Painted Desert with the most glorious scenery and colors on all sides and suddenly coming upon a crop of truly ugly trailers
and mobile homes in the middle of such natural beauty. I understand that these “modern” shelters have air
conditioning – nice to have in the desert – and other amenities, but what eyesores!
Perhaps that’s why this cabin so appeals to me. Yet, I’ve become used
to nicer conditions and it is trying to deal with the awful iron water and the other things that I take for granted in my
other residence. I think I’m getting old!
February 11, 2010
Although I’m in the mountain lake region of West Virginia, my cabin
is in a valley and less than a foot of snow from the huge “snowmageddon” that hit the east coast mid-Atlantic-states
fell here. Unlike in PA where more than two feet of snow fell in the first storm and another foot or more during the
second blizzard yesterday. Hmmn, I may just stay here longer. Particularly since the owner replaced the old commode
and that does seem to have affected the intermittent gross odor. I’m beginning to be hopefully optimistic –
OK, OK, I know that I’m prone to be optimistic – that the odor problem may be gone. But I’m hanging
out here long enough to see if the problem resurfaces.
Actually
I’ll be heading back north next weekend and will be there for a week to ten days. My plans are to spend some time
with my mother and then organize and pack as much as I can fit into my car to bring back here. I’ll try to disassemble
my large art storage unit and see if it will fit in the car and if so, see what else can fit with it. This might require
more than one trip. I really don’t want to go the truck route again.
Right, no mention of art work being done – BUT it will be eventually. I am painting
– mirror frames – very artistically ;-)
February 2, 2010
Something I haven’t mentioned, but that’s becoming more problematic
is the intermittent gross odor coming from under the floor in the main area of the cabin. At first I thought that a
rodent had died in the crawl space and eventually the smell would dissipate – WRONG! Since I lived with a septic
system before PA required us to hook up to the sewer, I remember only too well what happens when the tank isn’t emptied
on a regular basis. So I’m beginning to think that there’s a “beginning to back up” septic system
happening here. I contacted the owner about the odor and she sent someone down to check the sewer pipe in the crawl
space and he said there was no problem there. Also he said that the tank had been emptied recently, so I’ll just
have to see if this odor disappears on its own. He never came inside first to smell the odor, which was present, but
immediately checked under the cabin. When he did come inside there was no odor – in fact, it smelled as if air
freshener had been sprayed under the floor. He said he didn’t and that I should call if I had any more problems
and left. I’m just beginning to smell it – less pronounced - again….
11:24 am est
