Art Studio Blues

Gratitudes:
1. I'm grateful for having plenty of food to eat.
2. I'm grateful to look out my window and see a hillside covered with trees.
3. I'm grateful for a morning cup of coffee.
Plan for the day:
1. Create my September book page on my LJM blog.
2. Organize art table.
3. Make another video - at least, script it.
Currently reading:
1. Kindle/Audio: Evelina, by Frances Burney
2. Audio: Battle for the American Mind: Uprooting a Century of Miseducation, by Pete Hegseth
3. Physical: Driving Miss Norma, by Bauerschmidt and Liddle

I miss Idaho. What I miss: I had a nice two bedroom apartment with tables set up under sunny windows for creating art and for writing. I was in the best third floor apartment in the building. The view was great. The table space was perfect and everything I needed to create art was right there. The pages on that illustration were done there at my writing table, where I had little pans of fountain pen ink for projects like that.

Fast forward three or four years. I returned to my hometown in the mountains because I missed the topography and the people. Nine months after buying a mobile home here on half an acre, a forest fire came through and destroyed 200 homes in one day. My home was one of those. That was two years ago as of September 8, a week and two days from now. Now I'm living in a 30 foot travel trailer which is parked on my property - but I've been told I might have to leave in a few months because I don't have a plan for a home to be built here yet. 

I have no room for an art studio in my trailer, and I don't have a feeling of stability either. Everything gets upset about once annually when we're given another evacuation warning because of another nearby forest fire. This means lots of upheaval. 

Instead of having my art supplies available all around me on the table top, I have art supplies in a big construction-style black and yellow bin. On top of that is an art board with a few things laid out, so I can make things, but it isn't as convenient as my Idaho setup was. I miss having an art studio area in a home.

I don't know where I'm going with this. I applied in January to get a house built. I've waited eight months, and I've been told the applications will be looked at starting in September! Hurry up and wait - that's the message I get from this forest fire situation. 

So, a day at a time, waiting for a better situation, but still, I'm able to create art - just not as conveniently as I'd like. I had a sweet situation in Idaho, and I miss it.