Gramma - stuck at home!

 There is a quote I really like about hope.  "Hope is believing in spite of the evidence and watching the evidence change." Jim Wallis Hope - sun breaking through the stormy sky.  Hope---- waiting.

 Throw.... throw what?  Throw what at what?  and why? It got chilly today, compared to last week.  In fact it got so cool that after dinner I wanted to curl up with a book and needed....... A THROW!  Well, that presented a problem because I have no idea how to draw cloth!  I sat back, looked at the throw lying on the couch with my book.... and decided that was a challenge too far!  I took the THROW  and THREW it over the back of a chair .... ahhh much less 'stuff' to be responsible for!!  This is going to take some practice!  So I'll put my inky throw in here tonight, but I promise I'll let you know how I get better (if I do!).

 So the prompt today is teeth.... which reminded me about a particular trait in our family in regard to teeth.  It seems the next generation has also inherited the characteristic and so of course, being a grandmother I had to try this one!  Her grandfather recognized the smile!

 Busy couple of days so I'm posting two at once. Inktober 6 prompt was rodent.  I think I made myself clear earlier that when I think of a rodent I think of pesky things that get in your garden and eat things you don't want them to eat!  Here that pest (in addition to gophers) are deer!  I spent the day yesterday accepting delivery of and planning gates for new fences!! So the drawing for the 6th isn't exactly the rodent, but the plan to keep the long legged rodent out of my garden!  The openings at the bottom are big enough for the cat to come and go! Today's prompt is fancy.... and I guess there is nothing fancier than ruffles, ribbons and spirals.

 OK, so today I made a wonderful potato and eggplant dish to go with the Greek gyros my brother made for dinner.  We had a socially distanced, masked gathering of the family to go over the ballot propositions so we can VOTE and take out ballots into the SLO County Recorders office this week!  In addition I finished a water color, pulled weeds, took a walk, took a nap..... and didn't do my ink drawing until just now, and it's time for bed!!! The prompt for today is 'blade'.  I toyed with roller blades, razor blades, knife blades.... all of which required more effort than I wanted to exert today (tonight).  So what you get is grass blades... nothing exciting, but at least I didn't skip the day!! Tomorrow the prompt is 'rodent'.  I'm hoping to do better!  Meanwhile, here is a picture of the long legged rodent I found eating my germaniums on the deck this morning!  

 Today the prompt was 'radio'.   This is the corner where I listen to it while I have my morning cup of coffee. Corners are HARD!  And there is too much stuff on the counter!!

  Don't eat this!! Inktober 3 prompt is:  BULGE  opps... It's really "Bulky"  same dif... right? I volunteer in a food pantry and we know that any can that looks like this is ready for the trash!

 So, today the prompt is 'wisp'.  The first thing that comes to mind is my youngest grandaughter and her curly wispy hair!!  She is very blonde, and I'm not sure how you make blond wispy curls.... so this is what I have!  But you really should see the original cutie!!  Love you Mal!

 A challenge!  I stumbled across a challenge... or rather I linked from an art blog to the challenge to do an ink drawing everyday and post it for the month of October. The rules are: Make a drawing in ink Post it Hashtage it with #inktober and #inktober 2020 (Figuring out how to do that will be a big enough challenge for me.) Repeat There is a list of prompts that can be used to get one started for the day...  The prompt for today is FISH. Hmmmm.....   Fish, fishing, go fish (card game), flounder, trout,....... Do squid count? Now how to hash tag it?