Things Done
Jan. 17th, 2025 04:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bunnGoing to try to resurrect occasional Things Done posts because I remember they made me feel like progress had been made, rather than things instantly forgotten as they are ticked off.
Yesterday I took three paintings in to a tiny exhibition my art group is doing at the local library. It gave me much grief to pick them but eventually I decided on two local landscapes (bottom right, grey and blue) , and a sort of still life that I painted in 2020 and never got to exhibit because Events Happened (top left).
I am not sure how many people will actually see this exhibition as I don't think there's been any attempt to promote it or do anything much beyond booking the room and hanging up some paintings. But hey, it was free!
Today, I contacted two customers who are on our old server7 and warned them that I was going to move them to server8. This is part of the running down of my website business to focus on the Shop on the Borderlands, which is something I urgently desire, but which some of my customers are less keen on. I feel I was very brave. I WILL move the last of them and discontinue the server next week, which will save me a whapping 250 quid a month. Server8 is sufficient to support the Shop and the smaller /low hassle sites that remain, and is also newer with all the latest Stuff.
There was some blanket-weed in my tiny pond-pot, which I suspect arrived with the water forget-me-not I added this summer (which seems to be thriving). Today I scooped it out (well, most of it) and put it on the compost heap. I began other weeding, but Theo got cold and insisted we go back inside.
I brushed up the christmas tree needles. I'd done this once already, but they have an amazing ability to hide.
I went to art group and finished painting this woodland scene, which I rather like although it's a pity that I did it on this new paper which clearly is not up to the application of much water. I had hoped it would flatten out if I put it between two books, but it hasn't.
Yesterday I took three paintings in to a tiny exhibition my art group is doing at the local library. It gave me much grief to pick them but eventually I decided on two local landscapes (bottom right, grey and blue) , and a sort of still life that I painted in 2020 and never got to exhibit because Events Happened (top left).
I am not sure how many people will actually see this exhibition as I don't think there's been any attempt to promote it or do anything much beyond booking the room and hanging up some paintings. But hey, it was free!
Today, I contacted two customers who are on our old server7 and warned them that I was going to move them to server8. This is part of the running down of my website business to focus on the Shop on the Borderlands, which is something I urgently desire, but which some of my customers are less keen on. I feel I was very brave. I WILL move the last of them and discontinue the server next week, which will save me a whapping 250 quid a month. Server8 is sufficient to support the Shop and the smaller /low hassle sites that remain, and is also newer with all the latest Stuff.
There was some blanket-weed in my tiny pond-pot, which I suspect arrived with the water forget-me-not I added this summer (which seems to be thriving). Today I scooped it out (well, most of it) and put it on the compost heap. I began other weeding, but Theo got cold and insisted we go back inside.
I brushed up the christmas tree needles. I'd done this once already, but they have an amazing ability to hide.
I went to art group and finished painting this woodland scene, which I rather like although it's a pity that I did it on this new paper which clearly is not up to the application of much water. I had hoped it would flatten out if I put it between two books, but it hasn't.
