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Posting 5 days a week about the realities of earning a living as an artist in Tulare County, California's fly-over country.

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In addition to my tech battles, the power was off for a day at home in Three Rivers. When it was restored, something weird happened in my studio. I went
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Taking a Blog Rest

In an attempt to fix the subscription feature on this blog, I spent almost an entire day doing the phone hustle, the robot runaround, the giant corporation calisthenics, being batted
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Taking Labor Day Seriously

Yeppers, off schedule for Mineral King on Fridays. Sometimes that just the way it all works out. All I did was work over Labor Day. I labored, beginning with helping
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Ready to Sell

These paintings are finished: detailed, varnished, scanned, priced, and ready to sell. The goal was to get them into Kaweah Arts before Labor Day. Well, oops, they were ready to
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Painting Three Rivers Paintings in Three Rivers*

“Painting” can be a noun or a verb. In this case, it is both. After 3 wifi-less days, there were many little tasks** to attend to, and when I finally
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