February

 January was the longest, hardest, saddest month of my entire life.

February has been better.

Cold, busy and still sad.

But definitely better.

In addition to spending time with Winslow, I have been horse shopping on the weekends.

That seems like it should be fun - and parts of it are - but it's also complicated, time consuming and stressful. 

So many hours in the car.

So much cold.

My non-horse life has also been busy. Seth had a birthday, Ryan's cat had an expensive surgery and James has just been expensive. 

I asked my boss for more hours, and boy, did she deliver. Mixed blessings.

In the midst of all of this, I've also been painting a model...

and administering NaMoPaiMo.

Truth be told, I'm doing better on the former than than the latter. My horse is nearly done, and I actually do like him.

While I'm doing a decent job of monitoring the Facebook page and making Winners' Circle collages...

I just haven't been able to keep up on the blog front.

Sorry, friends and fellow painters. My spirit is willing, but my body is old, tired and still a little bit depressed. I just can't keep all the balls in the air anymore.

That said, it's almost the end of the month, and I really want to do better. No promises, but maybe tomorrow I will have a NaMoPaiMo post or three. We'll see...