1/15/09 Painting Everywhere!

The inside of the Oasis getting a facelift! Painting has started this week.

Our maintenance team is just doing a wonderful job this year. You can see improvements all around the park.

Not only is this kind of painting going on by today Gary Pearman came to the park to teach oil painting in a day.

Here the class is just starting, listening to the instructor.

I passed the painters at one point and it was just all blue skies.

In no time at all we had a hill and some trees.

Everyone sees things differently. Thank Goodness!

The next thing I knew there was a forest!

Now remember, these paintings are all done in four hours time. Here's the finished product of Lenny's.

I wanted to sign up for the next class but I didn't make it in time, I did however make the standby list, maybe someone will change their mind. We put the sign up sheet up and within 15 minutes it was full.

This class wasn't the last of the art being made in the Oasis today. A half hour after this class Scratch Art started.

Sandy hard at work.

I've never done this but here's what the finished product looks like.

I'm walking much easier today. In fact, I'm feeling pretty darn good! I have a twinge just occasionally and I even managed to catch one of the dances when I passed the Advanced Line Dancing Class this morning. Maybe I don't need to do that physical therapy after all!

The physical therapists said that sitting in the hot tub would maybe help the sitution so this evening Jeannie and I sat in the hot tub for an hour and a half. We had the whole place to ourselves and it was nice to just sit back and relax. I was surprised there weren't other people in the hot tub because it has been quite busy lately. Bingo was going on, they must have all been in there playing. The air was on the cool side but by no means cold or even chilly for that matter, so we didn't mind getting out to re-set the timer every half hour. I think I'll do this again and again.