Our Red Hat Dinner was in the Belvedere Room at the Padre Hotel. I enjoy the food here. My daughter Shelley found a pink coat that matches her hat. She looked so nice. They have a couple of chairs in the lobby that remind me of Alice in Wonderland because of the exaggerated lengths of the backs of these chairs. So fun! We had to get a picture using one. I had found this most unusual Red Hat at an antique store. It doesn't show in this picture of Evelyn, but there is a doll on top of the hat. It has some weight to it and you would have to be careful how you move for the hat not to fall off. It was perfect for Evelyn as the queen of our group. She want to pick the right venue to wear it. She thinks it would look great, and I agree on a Red Hat cruise. At our dinner, discussed going to another painting class, probably in March- a celebration of spring. We had so much fun with the last painting class which included wine that we want to keep this up. I think that I'll also do this with Shelley and her daughter Heather at another art session where she could go since she is not 21 years old yet.
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| Our Red Hat Group |
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| Evelyn, our Queen, trying on the hat I got her |
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| Pamela, Me and Shelley on the Alice In Wonderland chair, |
Janet and I met at Sandrini's, a Basque/Italian fusion restaurant. The have excellent pickled tongue, a specialty at Basque Restaurants. It just was pleasant talking with Janet.
I went to stay with Kate, my stepmom on Friday and I got back home Sunday around 1:30. On Friday night, we went to an Italian restaurant we had not been before. A friend of hers said they had a happy hour with good appetizers to buy. They did have a good appetizer, but you had to sit in the bar to get the happy hour. So we sat in the bar. I liked what I had which was a pasta dish with mushrooms and garlic. Kate got a pizza, but she thought see ordered a vegetarian pizza, but this had pepperoni sausage on it which isn't her desire. So she ate very little. I ate them the next day for lunch. While there we went to the art store Swain's in Glendale. We went during a very good sale on paper and other art supplies. A little later we went to see a movie called 45 Years. It was a somewhat sad movie about a couple planning a celebration of their 45th wedding anniversary when the husband gets a letter about his first love's body being found in the Swiss Alps. He had been with her, but because of the snow melting, her body was seen in the ice. He gets emotional about this and his wife starts to feel that their marriage might have been a sham. Actually, I thought that might have been the case. I wanted to read up on the movie to see if that was what it was. So the audience was filled with older people who age wise could have fit the profile. Then we went to a Pakistani restaurant for dinner. Very tasty. It was too much food. Next time I won't get a side dish of vegetables, because the main dish had lots of spinach.
On Sunday I picked Kate's brain for her ideas on sketching animals. She is an artist who has primarily done botanical art. She pulled out a sketch book showing me how with time her sketches improved. They did. She was urging me to keep a sketch book on me to do the same thing. She recommended I use my cats as subjects. Kate is a docent at the Los Angeles County Zoo and used the animals there for her sketching. I also showed her the head of a horse I had done. She had a few suggestions, but felt it was fairly good. I will incorporate the suggestions she made in my next drawing. So this week I did nothing in art, so nothing to show. I will next week.
Crystal posted a couple of pictures of Nylah, my great granddaughter.
I went to stay with Kate, my stepmom on Friday and I got back home Sunday around 1:30. On Friday night, we went to an Italian restaurant we had not been before. A friend of hers said they had a happy hour with good appetizers to buy. They did have a good appetizer, but you had to sit in the bar to get the happy hour. So we sat in the bar. I liked what I had which was a pasta dish with mushrooms and garlic. Kate got a pizza, but she thought see ordered a vegetarian pizza, but this had pepperoni sausage on it which isn't her desire. So she ate very little. I ate them the next day for lunch. While there we went to the art store Swain's in Glendale. We went during a very good sale on paper and other art supplies. A little later we went to see a movie called 45 Years. It was a somewhat sad movie about a couple planning a celebration of their 45th wedding anniversary when the husband gets a letter about his first love's body being found in the Swiss Alps. He had been with her, but because of the snow melting, her body was seen in the ice. He gets emotional about this and his wife starts to feel that their marriage might have been a sham. Actually, I thought that might have been the case. I wanted to read up on the movie to see if that was what it was. So the audience was filled with older people who age wise could have fit the profile. Then we went to a Pakistani restaurant for dinner. Very tasty. It was too much food. Next time I won't get a side dish of vegetables, because the main dish had lots of spinach.
On Sunday I picked Kate's brain for her ideas on sketching animals. She is an artist who has primarily done botanical art. She pulled out a sketch book showing me how with time her sketches improved. They did. She was urging me to keep a sketch book on me to do the same thing. She recommended I use my cats as subjects. Kate is a docent at the Los Angeles County Zoo and used the animals there for her sketching. I also showed her the head of a horse I had done. She had a few suggestions, but felt it was fairly good. I will incorporate the suggestions she made in my next drawing. So this week I did nothing in art, so nothing to show. I will next week.
Crystal posted a couple of pictures of Nylah, my great granddaughter.
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| Nylah is really darling! |
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| She is already changing some. |
This week I came upon two car accidents before emergency personnel arrived. One was earlier in the week. A car was flipped over on it's hood very soon after I got on the freeway. I think they got out okay because both doors were open. I could hear the ambulance trying to get in driving on the shoulder of the freeway. Heading home today, I ran into another one just after getting on the freeway again. The air bags were deployed. I have never seen that before. A younger man was helping an alderman get to the shoulder of the freeway. I didn't hear any sirens, and parts of the pickup truck were strewn across the road. I never did hear a siren for that accident.
I feel okay. I just did a lot less this week. Down time is needed and I'm taking it. I hope your week went well and I will see you next Sunday. Rachel
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