I'm baaa-aaaack! It be the last month for summer and I'm finally getting around to at least update my Journal and keep everyone up to snuff on what I've been up to.

Okay, my updates.

I've been doing a lot of drawing, but not much scanning. I've also made quite a few trips back and forth to Maryland to get the last of my belongings, and get my furniture out of my apartment. My baby sis, now all grown up and married, is moving into the big house north. And so her hubby has taken a shining to my apartment that's part of the house. Soo, in agreement to renting my apartment space, I've taken all my furniture out and brought up south. I've worked a lot on that.

And I'm constantly trying to get everything organized and find things or artwork that I want to scan and upload to my gallery. Not easy finding what you need around *my* place!

Next to that, I am working very steadily on my fitness. Trying to go to the gym, working out, and lose the extra poundage I SOOO want to get rid of! I'm neither going down nor going up either. Rghh!! Frustrating...

I've been working with the horses and ponies. My serious project right now is playing with my arabian, Oakley, before going to a horse show that's coming up in October. I'm going to be given word back soon from the show folks I sent in an application to, wanting to participate, in September. In the meantime, while waiting for word back if I'm in or not, I'm playing lots with my boy, Oakley. Whenever I can. The damn heat's been a pain in the neck including these afternoon thunderstorms. Because for one thing, I am NOT a morning person. And secondly, I am either at the gym a lot trying to cut the damn fat off my stubborn body, or doing something else entirely.

Yeah I know. I need to stick to my plans. So I'm trying very hard to get time in with my guy, Oakley. And the other thing is I'm also working very very hard with my black shetland pony, Blackie. The dentist's assistant came over not too long ago and gave everybody their vaccination shots. Blackie, Winchester, Gordito, Magic, Reba, and Oakley. However, Blackie has proven to be the MOST difficult pony of the bunch!! If it had not been for Parelli Natural Horsemanship, someone was going to the hospital that day. But my savvy helped keep everyone safe, and kept my pony under managable control.

And so far I've been putting tons of time in now with Blackie, trying to get him to behave safely or more safer before the dentist assistant comes back with the other 2 vacs and get Oakley's teeth fixed a little. He has an overbite and needs to be taken cared of. Fortunately she says it's not a big problem, but I still want his teeth doneth before I go to any horse shows this year.

Artwork: I DID get a new art program I'm excited to get working on. It's the Manga Studio Debut 4. And I got to play with it tonight, and I LUV it!! I absolutely love it. Can't wait to get started on doing comic art with that thing.

In the meantime, it's been hot as hell, hard to get anything done, and I still haven't finished doing my chores, let alone catch up on other peoples' posts, notes, commenting on their art and ect..! So much to do, so much to do... I will do my best to play catch up. In the meantime, I finally logged on and getting the Journal bit updated.