Monday 2 October 2017

Day Two

The prompt for today was 'Red Barn'.  This is obviously a very American thing as I can't really recall seeing red barns as such here in the UK or in NZ - sure we have barns, but they aren't generally painted red, although quite often the roofing iron is red.  So I had to look up 'Red Barn' pictures on the internet.


This is my interpretation of one of the pictures I found.  Painted freehand, very quickly quite late this afternoon as I wanted to get it done while there was still some natural daylight.

My 'Photo a Day for the Month of October' is: 


'If you go down to the woods today...'

I wasn't sure what I was going to do for today's photo, but it ended up 'Potters Bear' out and about.

Meanwhile my husband has been pruning trees at our son's house.




Mowing lawns.


While I admired the Hebe.  

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On the health front I am  being referred to both a Vascular Surgeon and a Rheumatologist as the outcome of my appointment with the specialist on Thursday last week is that I have different things going on.  Hopefully those appointments should come through asap as I could hardly walk today with the pain in my left hip - which has migrated from the usual hamstring tendonopathy I have.  We won't even talk about the rest of the pain that is going on in my body at the moment!



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  1. That barn looks great and you say you painted it quickly. Oh to have some talent in that area!!
    The reason barns are often red in North America is because farmers used to seal the wood on their barns with linseed oil which is orange coloured and then they'd add ferrous oxide which made it even redder. Nowadays people just keep up the tradition of painting barns red. Although I grew up on a farm with a yellow barn ( the house and all outbuildings were all yellow).

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    1. Thank you for that fascinating history on why the barns are red, I never knew that (obviously!) and found it really interesting. A lot of 'barns' in NZ are made of corrugated iron. Some of the older ones are wooden with corrugated iron roofs.

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    1. Thank you Sally. I like it better this morning - it looks different from how it did yesterday, I guess with the paint drying completely.

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  3. Barns were often red in the past in this country too. Look up Red Barn Murder Suffolk!

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    1. Thank you for telling me this, gosh what a story! I see this barn had a red tile roof, hence its name. Fascinating to learn more about the history of 'Red Barns'. I will be looking out for more 'red' barns now on my travels!

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    2. and I forgot to say how much I liked your painting!

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  4. Thinking of you and hoping you will be pain free soon. Loved the painting of the red barn.

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  5. Hope the appointments come through soon and that they will reveal the causes of your problems so that hopefully something can be done to alleviate them. You are amazing that you can keep so cheerful and achieve so much despite being in constant pain an inspiration to us all.

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    1. Thank you Jane. I hope so too, it has been so long!

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  6. Beautiful pictures. Have a day.

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  7. I wish for you the very best that the NHS can provide.

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    1. Thanks Graham, but I am actually having to go privately, having given up on the NHS!

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