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A heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute.  Edward Gibbon

Damien Hirst is 48 today, Prince is 55.  I wouldn't have thought they had that much in common.

Today's Monkey Wrench:  At 7:00 (yes, that's AY-EM!) I got a call from the AC guy and he's home sick.  Maybe he will come on Monday.  I explain that I am leaving on that jet plane on Sunday, I whined, I sniffled, I pleaded, and 'perhaps' they can shuffle things and get someone out this afternoon.  SO, there go my plans.  And I seriously doubt that with Andrea raging through town and 4" of rain expected that anybody will show up.  So I whine to TY whose response is, 'Are you going to change your flight to Monday or Tuesday?'  As they say in the mom biz, 

AAARUGHHHHH

5:00 PM update-  the AC company called back and wanted to come earlier, of course I said yes, and they were in the driveway in a few minutes, then upstairs for three hours working on the system.  $748.00 later, and  a temporary top-of of the coolant until the slow leak takes the levels back down, he left and I cranked it down to 65, my preferred temperature that I never get to see in Florida.  Apparently there is some new EPA rule that you have to use the super-expensive stuff and the old cheap stuff is being fazed out because it may be a danger to the ozone.  And somebody is laughing all the way to the bank.  Wish I could send a spitball to him.  Bottom line is I got to meet Jackie and we got to eat lunch and then yarn shop for her newest project.  I am one lucky mother-in-law.

So, I have a couple of interesting projects o show you, and since I am TRAPPED like a RAT here for the day, I'll probably find more to add as time goes by!

  "THE MOON"  35.5" x 30.5" Woodcut Print on White BFK Paper, Paul Roden + Valerie Lueth, 2012.

"Flow" is a new installation by Baptiste Debombourg at the Centre d'Art Actuel l'Oeil de Poisson in Québec, Canada. Debombourg used hundreds of cracked windshield arranged in such a way that they resemble a catastrophic flood of polluted water rushing inside the gallery. The work explores the devastating effects of mass consumption. Via the official press release: "Here the windshields surge up like the wave that engulfs towns in catastrophic films such as 2012 or The Day After Tomorrow. They are broken, discarded, ignored objects that take the place by storm, rebel and attack us."  

Kung Fu Squirrels!

(and thanks to Liza, I have lots of them, enough for all week)

 Hope you don't mind I have temporarily gone over to African ground squirrels~

Photographer Francois Loubser, 40, captured the images in Kgalagadi, South Africa.
He said: 'Most people going to reserves wants to see the big five, I just love the interaction of the smaller less noticed animals. To tell the truth I do not even have a proper image of a lion or elephant.
'These squirrels were in our camp and I spotted one of them eating a melon. Every now and then one of them would charge at the other.