Lots of Food

 

Adventure Location: Falcon Heights, Texas

Adventure Date: 3-6-2022

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Apparently the rugged terrain yesterday got to the OFM's leg joints so today had to be a recovery day. That was OK since we needed to hit the Walmart down in Rio Grande City. It was a nice comfortable trip. The gas at the Murphy Station at Walmart was only $3.589 a gallon and the cheapest price we saw advertised in the thirty miles over to Walmart.

Inside the store we found that everything we needed was stocked well and they were having a sale on thin cut boneless pork chops so a package of them joined the OFM Team. They were very good looking chops and we look forward to fixing them in a few days. The vegetables in the store down here looked like they were very fresh.

Back at the Castle the food was put into the proper storage places. The freezer is now full of potatoes, pork chops, chicken breasts and pancakes. Yep we are set for a few days of good eating here in the Texas desert.

Since it was declared a recovery day, the OFM spent a nice bit of time working on the current art project. It is a drawing from an adult coloring book named “DESERT BLOOMS” by Ruth Soffer. This issue is an especially fun one in that the drawing offered on the page is left with opportunities to work your own ideas into the sketch provided. The artist has places to add background, foreground and in between details to the future finished art work as wanted. None of the basic forms are detailed out so we guess that at least 50% of the sketching has to be added by the artist as the artist's part of the painting.

We have reached the point that all of the added features and under painting is finally done. Then a water brush is used to dissolve the dry paint and blend it in like regular watercolor but without all the mess and stuff around.

Our next step now that the under painting is dry (thank you Sir Desert) is to add the colored pencil work which normally takes four coats of colored pencil in the OFM's efforts.

We are definitely looking forward to the next steps as a great way of trying to have tooooo much fun in the cool weather of the next few days.