Looooong days!!!!!!

[CAframer]

Yesterday I had a bunch of things to complete so I figured I'd make an early start. My framing day started at around 5:30am and by 6:30pm I was about ready to finish, but then in walks this artist who says something to the effect of "I know I'm asking for a lot but ....yadder, yadder, yadder ....etc, etc, etc.".

Yep, she needed two large pastels and a medium sized watercolor framed for an artshow today. The kicker was that she needed them by early this morning, and I had already taken a rush job of three shadowboxes that also had to be done by noon today. As I had already planned to make another early start to do the shadowboxes there was no option but to do the artist's job last night.

One "minor" snag was that she hadn't quite finished them! So she sets about finishing the watercolor, adjusting the pastels, and then fixing the pastels in the middle of my showroom. When she was done I started work on them, but then had a call from her to say that she had forgotten to sign the pieces! So back she came! All in all it was gone 9:30pm by the time I was done and she had came back in a third time to pick up her frames.

Then this morning I was up at 4:00am to do the three shadowboxes (which were finished by 10:30am). Jane was also up at 4:00 as she was organizing the local community pancake breakfast, and she had to be there by 5:30am to get things going. Tonight we are at a ribbon cutting in the new Artist's Village (Jane is MC'ing the event), so it's going to be another looooooong day!

I'm sure glad it's Sunday tomorrow!

:sleep: zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz!

 

[RoboFramer]

Then this morning I was up at 4:00am !

I don't know what it looks like at that time of day!

If anyone wanted me to put that sort of time in then they would have to pay me for the whole of the next day - and that's before I looked at pricing their framing job.

IOW - I would not do it. If I felt that I could not ask staff to do it then I (generally) wouldn't either.

At our age we cannot make a habit of treating ourselves like this and I realised this a long time ago. The only thing that would force me out of bed at those unholy hours would be a mountain bike ride to greet a glorious spring morning sunrise with 10 megapixels - on a Sunday.

 

[Kit]

I don't know what it looks like at that time of day!

I'm well acquainted with 4 am - I see it on my way to bed.

I don't know how I got so out-of-sync with the rest of the world. Maybe just a natural night person. I love being up in the small hours; it feels like I have the town to myself.

It's also a great time to go grocery shopping. There's no one in the store except me and the cleaning crew and one check out clerk who is so lonely and desperate for someone to talk to I get much more help than I need.

Any other owls out there?

Kit

 

[Val]

Hoot-hoot!

Kit, that would be me too. Since I was a baby. My mother used to think something was wrong with me because I wasn't a morning person (still does!). Morning Person Baker-Husband thinks so too. Often, he's going to work as I'm going to bed! Once, he got up to go to work, 4a.m., and found me staining the kitchen cabinets!

I do my best creative stuff at night. Have watched the sun come up many times, surprised at where the night went! Squeeze a few hours sleep in, then up and at it again. A catch-up night now and then when I sleep a whole 8 hours.

It's really weird here on the G sometimes, Pacific time, late, and checking "Who's online" is only me and maybe a guest or two.

 

[Twin2]

Then this morning I was up at 4:00am to do the three shadowboxes (which were finished by 10:30am).

Wow, Andrew! I'm impressed that you were able to do 3 shadowboxes in that short length of time. It seems to take me forever to complete a shadowbox and I can waste a couple hours just trying to clean the glass and remove lint from the suede matboard!

 

[Jack Cee]

You have a lot more patience and energy than I. The sun is over the yardarm by 6 in my shop and late afternoon work is not of a quality that I would recommend. My blessings upon you.

Jack Cee