Tuesday Round Up

SHAR-PEI A DAY:  In case you've somehow missed it, CJ is obsessed with Shar-Pei (the really wrinkly dog), and Annabelle is obsessed with making art.

Those two facts have intersected in a new project: Shar-Pei a Day, in which Annabelle will draw and share online a Shar-Pei each day. She's primarily doing it from this Facebook account: https://www.facebook.com/SharPeiADay/, but she hopes to expand it to Twitter, Instagram, and her own art site soon.

Her first post was a mug shot, literally.

That first day she also had to make a cover banner for the Facebook page. She settled on Shar-Pei doing ballet, or Bal-Pei (atop this blog post).

One theme that has emerged from the Pei drawings is the fact the dog is pretty aloof. From what we've read of the breed, they're really not the type to fawn all over people and beg for attention. Quite the opposite, in fact. The Pei are not easily impressed, one might say.

On Sunday, the Pei was pictured after an arduous day of watching football.

Earlier in the week, inspired by this viral photo of the world's most pissed of cat fleeing flood waters of Hurricane Harvey ... 

Annabelle drew a Shar-Pei distinctly displeased with hurricanes.

Yesterday, she quickly drizzle doodled a Shar-Pei using a ketchup bottle while dining at Wing Dome.

Today, she decided to draw a patriotic Shar-Pei, or a Shar-Pei-triot, if you will.

He's wrapped in the Chinese flag, because that's the country of origin for Shar-Pei.

My favorite so far was a send up of The Little Mermaid. Annabelle's version was The Little Mer-Pei.

We'll see how long Annabelle can keep the comics coming. 

UNDER THE SEA: Today, Vulcan, LTD. (one of Paul Allen's companies) replied to a post of mine on Paul Allen's Facebook account. A couple weeks back, the astounding news broke that Allen and his team had found the wreckage of the USS Indianapolis. Her sinking resulted in the greatest single loss of life at sea, from a single ship, in the history of the U.S. Navy. On her way back from a super secret mission to deliver materials used to build an atomic bomb, the Indianapolis was torpedoed.  Of the 1,196 crewmen aboard, only 317 survived. Many of those who perished died due to dehydration, exposure or shark attacks. Horrible. 

Tomorrow evening, there will be a broadcast with live footage from the wreckage on the bottom of the Philippine Sea, some three miles deep. It has been very touching reading some of the victims' families' comments today, about how much finding the vessel means to them.

Vulcan's reply to me today was about where and when we could watch the program. Here's the answer: https://www.paulallen.com/watch-live-tour-uss-indianapolis-wreck/

As the site says, "On Wednesday, September 13 at 10 p.m. ET / 7 p.m. PT a live tour of the wreck of the USS Indianapolis will be broadcast here on PaulAllen.com and on PBS.org, the PBS Facebook page and PBS member stations. Produced by Vulcan Productions and Miles O’Brien Productions, LLC for PBS and with production services provided by Peacock Productions, USS INDIANAPOLIS LIVE – FROM THE DEEP will allow viewers to see parts of the wreckage of the Fifth Fleet’s naval flagship where it rests more than three miles below the surface of the Philippine Sea.
Read more at https://www.paulallen.com/watch-live-tour-uss-indianapolis-wreck/#UI9B5upTyGcD1HwG.99

ON THE HOMEFRONT: Today, I spent 2-3 hours scrubbing the old stone floor that is in our 'new' dining room. Wash and rinse, wash and rinse, wash and rinse. After nine passes (no exaggeration), the rinse water was still coming up dark. Shudder.

Here I thought the stone floor was brown and green. Turns out it's gray and white. :o

I'll bet it hasn't been sealed since 1962, when it was installed. And it might not have been sealed then, either. 

Can't wait to get it totally clean and then gloss it up a bit. It's going to be beautiful!