So long...

Olivia traded her long hair for a major style improvement today. She's been wanting to do this for some time now, and, with the beginning of a new school year just days away, it seemed like a good time for a fresh look.
Shana, who cut Olivia's hair, made sure that this cut had lots of texture and "stacked" it in the back.  

She's sending her ponytail to Locks of Love, where it will be matched with between 6 and 10 other ponytails and eventually made into a hairpiece for a child with a long term medical illness who can't grow hair.

For more info on Locks of Love, visit www.locksoflove.org.  

A Good Week

Lauchlin's first week at the H.C. Porter gallery has been good, so far. She has been organizing files and getting settled. We've had a few friends and well-wishers come to see us, which is always encouraging.  It's interesting for us to work together because we don't sit around at night and compare what went on at work that day. All that will change next week when Olivia goes back to school. Today, we hit a minor road block when we were not able to figure out what was wrong with the music system in the gallery, but, after lunch, Lauchlin turned the volume louder, and it was as good as new.  We also sold a serigraph to a couple from England, which felt good.  

Reality

Couch potatoes that we are, we admit that we have watched this show twice this summer. It's hard to believe that any parent would lend these unstable teenagers their children. Perhaps the people who didn't want MTV on their cable access stations in the nineties knew that one day the station would create "The Real World."


Girls wear fat suits to mimic pregnant bellies while their boyfriends make jokes at their expense.

Totally Bummed...

We had a great weekend catching up with friends, but a couple of things were real downers...

When our friend, Tom, came by and surprised us with the coolest video game ever,"Rock Band,"in tow, we were saddened by the fact that we could not get the game system to function properly. Maybe our TV is too old or we just didn't know exactly how to hook it up, but even Tom's skills as an engineer couldn't help us.


Olivia was particularly excited when this movie arrived via Blockbuster.com. Although this show is on a variety of stations at any given time, we thought that a full-length movie would be a real treat...until we started watching it. What the movie contains in length it truly lacks in wit.


Finally, and, most sadly of all...

an over-excited dog decided to take a bite out of our beloved pool. We've already patched it once this summer, and we're afraid that now the fat lady has sung.

L-A-Z-Y

Yep, this is where we will be all day today...on the lazy river at Grand Paradise Waterpark in Collins, Mississippi. It's our only time to get away before Lauchlin starts the new job and Olivia goes back to school. We hope we don't come back too much looking like lobsters. At least we'll be rested!

Stop the Press!

Today is Lauchlin's last day at The Vicksburg Post. "Scoop" Fields will soon leave the building at Post Plaza to begin a totally different gig downtown at the H.C. Porter Gallery. Leaving The Post will not be easy. It's been her lifeblood for the past four and a half years. But, she's looking forward to a new set of challenges when she starts the new job Monday. So, go buy some art!

Spit On the Ceiling

So, we're behind on the blogging. Sorry for that. But, as Lauchlin was clearing stuff off her desktop at work, she found a video of May talking about Vaughn, Lauchlin's dad and May's granddad. He died two months before May was born, but she has, apparently, heard some stories about him. She's a bit confused, though. It's pretty funny. The video is hard to see because of the lighting. And, she gets her words mixed up a little when she is re-telling a story she was told about how he wanted to teach her to lie on the floor and spit on the ceiling. It's worth watching, though.
And, since his birthday (he would be 68) is Saturday, we thought now was an appropriate time to share. Enjoy!