PaintsOnSlate

@PainsOnSlate (21852)

Canada

Joined myLot 9 years ago

Born in the States, lives in Canada, loves camping, painting, being outdoors, travel and my family.

PaintsOnSlate's Discussions

I've been Busy and miss Mylot

PaintsOnSlate @PainsOnSlate (21852) • Canada 23 Oct 19

I have been busy with my art and couldn't be here for a few weeks and when I tried to get here....0pps, you don't belong here.... So this is a test. Lets see if it works. I miss my friends and if you get to see this, I hope I can...

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What Did You Do For Your Summer Respite?

PaintsOnSlate @PainsOnSlate (21852) • Canada 3 Aug 19

I know a lot of people don't do something special during the summer but I have for many years because when my sister and I were visiting our elder father years ago, he said at the dining table: “I want you two girls go up into the...

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Wine Signs...

PaintsOnSlate @PainsOnSlate (21852) • Canada 1 Jul 19

When I started painting I had several business that wanted my wine slate signs. Five wineries, that let people taste the wines and they have a huge area of interesting things to buy and they loved my signs.. I got really tired...

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The Kingston's Womens Art Festival

PaintsOnSlate @PainsOnSlate (21852) • Canada 14 Jun 19

For many years I rented a spot in the Women's Art Festival. Lately I haven't been participating. My art is flying out of a store and keeping me busy - too busy to make art for a show. My daughter lives near Kingston. So this...

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My Parents Loved To Travel

PaintsOnSlate @PainsOnSlate (21852) • Canada 5 Jun 19

When I was a kid our parents took is all over the north east of the USA. My parents had cousins and family all around from Maine down to New York. We also had relatives we got to meet on a trip to Maryland down to Florida when I...

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Cemetery Road by Greg Iles

PaintsOnSlate @PainsOnSlate (21852) • Canada 21 May 19

While I paint my graphics on the top of the roofing slate I use as my canvas, I listen to books on CD. I picked up Greg Iles book Cemetery Road from the Library and I am loving it, I want to hear more but I need a break. I like...

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The Worst Neighbor We Ever Had

PaintsOnSlate @PainsOnSlate (21852) • Canada 6 May 19

I enjoyed "@VivaLaDani13" post of noisy neighbors and it reminded me of our first home when we married 51 years ago... If I already told this story here on Mylot, I apologize. I looked for it and I couldn't find it. My husband...

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Niagara Peninsula Hawkwatch Open House

PaintsOnSlate @PainsOnSlate (21852) • Canada 17 Apr 19

It's a lot of fun to go to a hawk watch. I've gone many years. Its up on the mountain and in a park. It's a favorite place for me and my friends to visit all summer to walk the trails and see the view of Lake Ontario and other...

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I Think Spring Is Trying To Come to Canada

PaintsOnSlate @PainsOnSlate (21852) • Canada 9 Apr 19

My porch windows were covered in condensation yesterday because the porch is cold and the outside was getting warmer. It was awesome. I spend the day going outside without a coat. It really felt like spring. The birds are...

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tired of snow

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“April Fool” Came A Day Early

PaintsOnSlate @PainsOnSlate (21852) • Canada 31 Mar 19

When I went to bed I fell asleep to the soft noise of rain on the roof of our house. When I woke up at the crack of morning (about 5:30) I got up and went to the front of the house and was surprised to see so much snow. I was...

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Winter is almost gone....I hope.

PaintsOnSlate @PainsOnSlate (21852) • Canada 11 Mar 19

It was supposed to be a nasty night yesterday and it didn't happen. No Freezing Anything. My snow is almost gone, I can see my sad grass all over the place. I hope to see green on my yard soon. Also looking forward to my Tulips....

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I’m Still Tired Of Winter..

PaintsOnSlate @PainsOnSlate (21852) • Canada 3 Mar 19

I will admit I liked yesterday. It was snowing but I was in my basement studio painting until a friend sent me a message and said go to a window. I did and it was magical. The snow was coming in very large flakes and there was not...

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The Biggest Snake I Ever Saw.

PaintsOnSlate @PainsOnSlate (21852) • Canada 24 Feb 19

First I must say I am afraid of snakes...not little ones but the big ones make me think twice... A few years ago I went with friends to an event for the communty. It was a fun place with all sorts of animals shown off and if you...

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I'm Getting Really Tired Of White

PaintsOnSlate @PainsOnSlate (21852) • Canada 18 Feb 19

When we arrived home to Canada from Florida, we had our layers on and a good friend picked us up at the air port and took us home. It was cold. Our house had been taken care of by a good neighbor and it was waiting for us. We...

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Ocala, Florida

PaintsOnSlate @PainsOnSlate (21852) • Canada 13 Feb 19

It was and still is a horse country, you hear planes several times during the day flying in for buying and selling race horses. My husbands sister lives in Ocala so we stopped and stayed with them before and after our vacation on...

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Freezing in Paridise

PaintsOnSlate @PainsOnSlate (21852) • Canada 21 Jan 19

We arrived in the far south, on Marco Island on a beautiful day. Before coming here we spent a couple of weeks with my husband’s sisters place in the middle of the state of Florida. Got to see Mylots, Belle Star... We moved on...

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Looking Out The Window

PaintsOnSlate @PainsOnSlate (21852) • Canada 6 Jan 19

This morning I looked out because my husband was standing at the window and said Ruthie is back... two of them. So we watched for a while. There was a young one that was huge one, so we thought she was looking for a birth place....

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A Happy End Of 2018 and Hello 2019

PaintsOnSlate @PainsOnSlate (21852) • Canada 6 Jan 19

One of the reasons I love Christmas is all my children show up at the same time and its so much fun to be with all of them again like when they were babes. Plus their partners... The kids all in their 30's and 40's know there is...

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Speaking of Driftwood...

PaintsOnSlate @PainsOnSlate (21852) • Canada 29 Dec 18

I made this big Santa years after we left the house on the shore of Lake Ontario. While walking on the beach on Lake Ontario in a park in Hamilton I found a pretty big piece of drift wood. I took it home not knowing what I was...

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Santa Clause

PaintsOnSlate @PainsOnSlate (21852) • Canada 17 Dec 18

When we moved to Canada we were not landed (a legal term), John had a job that brought us to Canada but I could not work. We lived on the shore of Lake Ontario and I often walked the beach to see what I could find. One day I...

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