Trouble W/ AC & Beef in a Box & Painting

   It's been a long day-well they are all the same hours-haha-but seemed long.

We had a new heating system put in early January this year, and the guys needed to come back out several times to get it working right.  We had replaced the A/C system when we first moved here.

  Yesterday the blowing fan started making loud noises, today it was much worse-our heating system is under warranty for a year for service calls and parts. It took me awhile to locate their phone number-I was never given a card and was not even on the manual. 

     So she was giving me a hard time that the a/c was the issue and I said no it's the blowing fan you put in for the furnace that also is used by the a/c.  So she finally understands but the service call is not until tomorrow late evening. They are booked solid-of course do to the extreme heat. Their service call charges is outrageous-so hoping no issues with that.

  So I had the a/c turned off all day and this evening it is just too hot for us so had to turn it back on always something isn't there?  I was concerned that the loud noise would make things worse but we both need the a/c especially Larry. The high heat plus humidity continues.

   I have been looking for a source to buy quality beef. After talking with the rancher that sells it at the little farmers market nearby I wasn't real impressed on how it was handled.  So  I decided to look into beef boxes as I am very happy with the Alaskan seafood that I have shipped.

 I spent a couple hours looking online. One I really liked a lot but after chatting with them the beef is from Australia and not the USA   So I decided on Good Chop-I liked their cuts-was looking for mostly lean cuts, they did not have free shipping like most do, but it was around $10.00 so not too bad.  Their special today for new subscribers was free shipping, $50.00 off my box and I think my next box too, I also got to choose from a couple free items-I chose the hamburger. The box size I chose--  the smallest-was to pick 6 items and they had many lean cuts to choose from.  The bill ended up at $108.00. Most of the beef packages had two pieces in them, the rib eye is very large. I thought I would get one really nice steak-that will feed us for a couple meals too.  This company represents USA ranchers and they had a high ranking- This company also lets you choose how often to get a box, can change the cuts as well. I could have gotten it next week Wednesday but decided on the second week in July.

 This morning, I found the spiral pad of watercolor papers and found many pieces I did two years ago, with my own made watercolor inks as well as the watercolor paints. Looking at them now-I was too hard on myself  Smiles. I was working out of  a watercolor book in hard cover spiral from Japan-I worked out of that book a lot-It showed you the strokes, and suggested paint colors.  

  This is what I ended up with

Here is the page I was working off of-I will try this again tomorrow as mine is totally different This is an Iris flower. I don't like the green I used either.  It was fun and relaxing-so that's a good thing. I had the a/c situation on my mind too

I also opened up the box of inks I had made two years ago-and I figured as much-they mostly changed to different shades of browns but I like them.  I used the back of the paper of the painting from yesterday for samples. If you  enlarge the photo-click on it-and you can read what I made the inks from. The hibiscus on the far right held it's color the best. I will use these up in paintings-love the muted soft colors.

Some of you may remember this piece-one of my favorites. I used stamps and my handmade inks, along with Winsor and Newton watercolor inks It took me a bit to find the post again-in 2023 This photo cut off Paris--Spring in Paris

Happy mid-week, and stay cool