Mindypin

Ack!  I've never been tagged before, but I suppose it was inevitable.  I have now "arrived"!  Thank you, ~RamonaQ (https://www.deviantart.com/ramonaq)!  :-)  So, here is my response to the tagging: If you get Tagged: 1. Post these rules. 2. Each person tagged must post 8 random (hopefully interesting) facts about themselves. 3. Tags should write a journal of these facts. 4. At the end of the post 8 more bloggers are tagged and named. 5. Go to their page and leave a comment telling them that they're tagged. My eight random things: 1) I am an American mutt, of German, Danish and Scots-Irish descent mainly.  My sixth great grandfather was a colonel in the American Revo

I haven't been painting lately, but that's because I have been doing other projects. One of those is scanning and restoring old family photos, and I just thought I'd share this picture of my great grandmother. This was taken in the late 1800s.  The original is faded and has a horrible tear in the middle, but with a little work in PhotoShop it looks almost as good as new. I am now down to two choices for a host for my new website:  Lunarpages.com or Westhost.com.  Both are under $10/month, and I am just going back and forth between the two.  I am a newbie at all of this, so I've been on a long learning curve.  One of my main reasons for doing

Finally, I'm back around these parts!  I was away for a bit because I had out of town company and have been occupied with a bunch of mundane things like carpet cleaners and household stuff.  So, I apologize for the delay in answering messages and thanking folks for their interest in my artwork.  :thanks: Among the mundane things was dealing with a suspected piece of malware on my computer. :ohnoes:!  Although I'm a real control freak about what and who gets on this machine, :paranoid: I know that sometimes something can slip through.  Apparently it did, and I squashed the little miscreant with no harm done.  Naturally, I was highly pissed of