Mid-week ten! TV hurdles!

I had been working on a pastel drawing of Anemones sitting outside since it is such a messy medium, when I got interrupted by Alex to say that Hydro was here to replace the meters to the new digital ones. All the power was off for a while. Fine! So with the power off , all the electronic equipment needs to be pampered and changed, in this case including our old TV in mom's den. Its the one we all watch together. It decided to lock up and not take any input. After a lot of fiddling we decided the time had come to dump the old one and buy an new Samsung Plasma flatscreen. We've had the old Zenith for 19 years. so no regrets, although I had been thinking that Christmas would have been the time to do this. So off to the store....... has to fit in my car..... hoist it upstairs and get it set up. Took quite some time and effort, but not nearly as much as wrestling the old one downstairs. Weighs a ton!! At any rate, nothing goes easy. Finally broke down to get Rogers in to get the connection hooked up. Some channels look horrible... most look fab!. By now its 10:00 pm. The verdict is that the reason that we don't have perfect reception on all channels is due to the old line feeding the upstairs TV. Should be replaced. So yesterday we decide that this too should be done. They are coming on Friday to replace the cable. Needless to say, I've not gotten much painting done. Worked a bit this morning on  a painting of what I hope will be a Thunderbird and perhaps this afternoon I can get back to the pastel drawing..

Well I did get it done this afternoon. Here it is.

I do love the rich creaminess of pastels, but I'm going to have to practice more to get better control over the medium.