Georgia, thank you!  it’s been a year since we started communicating.  where is that red thing that you used to use?  I always stopped to see what you had to say when  I spotted it. 

 It’s been a while since I’ve had anything to say on wow.  It had gotten so mean and spiteful.  A thread about art is pretty hard to get mean about.  This thread was so pleasant to read.

How is your old car?  Mine is still running.  It has 9 months to go before it has to go through DEQ again.  It’s been quite a year and those of us who are very careful with our resources have a lot of company now.

I’m reserving judgement about wow.  I had no idea that a bunch of women could be so hateful.  Nice talking to you.  Bev.

Where is your adorable picture?

Diana T.

 We here in Oregon are the beneficiaries of many of FDR’s art works.  ——wrote songs about the Columbia River and it’s dams.  [I can’t remember his name.] Timberline Lodge is full of paintings, sculpture and fabrics done for the WPA I think.  Our courthouses and schools all over the state have paintings done the same way.  Just recently one of our art schools held a showing of  WPA work.

Susan, For twenty five years it was a locally roasted French Roast from Hawthorn Coffee and now it is Stumptown which is also locally roasted.  I have an Gaggia expresso machine that I purchased here in Portland Oregon in 1983.  It is still working.   it still produces the best la creme on top.   I learned to drink espresso’s with a cube of sugar and a twist of lemon in New Orleans in the sixties.  I’ve never found anything better.

Are you in New York.  My daughter is an artist in the city.  Lovely place.  Bev.

For me it’s coffee!