Off to the post to ship all of these loverly pages for the loverly people who participated in the A Distant Soil donation drive. I am flattened with happiness and appreciation! Might make it hard to drive.
I hope you all enjoy the pages I have chosen for you. I had no problem giving everyone a really nice page featuring the characters they wanted. That said, I noticed that all the really sexy pages of Bast seem to have been picked over. I’m sure there are a few more in the pages which haven’t been archived, but I haven’t had a chance to go through that stack yet.
I’ve been holed up here on the farm for weeks and weeks, and I have hardly had time to go out for a burger.
That said, if you go to McDonald’s, skip the Holiday Pie treat. Damn, that was nasty. I don’t have a clue what was in the middle of that pastry food item. I get out so seldom that going to McDonald’s seems like fine dining, but I will be a long time losing the radioactive glow that sparkly cake gave me.
Here’s a look at the doings in my hothouse:
There’s a small milk heater in the hothouse which turns on and off automatically. While everything in the greenhouse is going home to Jesus, the hothouse is toasty and everything’s coming up, including the roses. Except this is a picture of Impatiens.
Quite nice to be in here and to see the snow falling as I putter with my plants. I wish we had clear glass instead of the heavy plastic. I’d love to have a better view.
But no call to be choosy. This hothouse was given to us by a neighbor – country neighbor definition, which means “a few miles down the road”.
Her husband built it, but passed away long ago. It was rotting and damaging her house, so she offered it to us if we would cart it away. My dad got the handyman to help out, and they attached it to the barn. Almost all final work has been done by my dad. The handsome board slats inside also come from an old house which had been torn down. They are very thick and sturdy: better than we could buy.
It’s delightful to be able to grow flowers in the winter. The herbs love it in there. Not so much luck with veggies, yet.
UPDATE: any and all ebays and donation incentive art has now shipped.
And now I have to get back to the commissions and limited editions.
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I will be eagerly awaiting the package slip in my box so I can rush to the post office!
The ignorant city boy in me in curious – is there a difference between a greenhouse and a hot house?
Yes. The hothouse is meant to keep plants hot in winter. It is VERY hot in summer. It’s great for starting seedlings in late winter/spring.
The greenhouse we use in summer. It filters the light coming in and regulates the temperature of the plants inside. It tends to stay a few degrees cooler than the air outside in summer, and a few degrees warmer in winter.
It’s pretty handy to have one of each. Neither is fancy, but they do the job. The hothouse is a good quarter mile away from the greenhouse, so it’s also nice to have two different locations for tools to be used in different areas without dragging them all over the place every time we need to dig up a weed.
I understand why it’s considered a “donation,” because it’s voluntary and all that. But I’m getting something of real value in return: a beautiful page of artwork. Plus I’ve derived great value from your many blog posts through the years. So it felt less like a donation and more like finally giving something in return.
Also, Bast is hot.
LOL!
Yeah, well I discovered after these many months studying the amazing webcomic phenomenon, that the donation button gets clicked when people actually get something for their donation.
So, it’s more like a purchase.
Which is sort of how I feel about Public Television donation drives where I get a Sarah Brightman CD for my donation.
I’m VERY happy people are happy. I am looking into other ways to get people value for their donations.
Though I have to say I am extremely pleased with the rise in the traffic. The ads are finally bringing in some money.
Which is sort of how I feel about Public Television donation drives where I get a Sarah Brightman CD for my donation.
Yes, except that to get the free gift you probably had to give a pledge that was worth multiple times what the free gift was worth. Whereas I think $100 for a page of your artwork is quite a bargain.
Anyway, if it helps you to keep on keepin’ on while getting me something with which to beautify the walls of my studio, then everyone wins, right? In which case, I say, “Cool.”
OK, this caffeine is making me have diarrhea of the keyboard. I am cutting myself off from anymore posts anywhere online for at least the next 12 hours. Goodnight.
“Also, Bast is hot”
Yes, I received my pages yesterday.
Thanks.
What a great page of Bast!
Thanks, Thanks!
Did I say Thanks!
Wow, that was fast! Great, glad you got it!
Neither snow nor wind nor unshoveled sidewalks deterred me from going to the Post Office today to pick up these pages.
The pages are wonderful, Colleen, thank you very much!