Where does an hour go?

Day six is all about the works in progress and some random dog type facts...the gerbera is slowly getting there...way too boring to go into detail of what I have done on it, and even I am struggling to see where the hour I went on it this morning , but hey I put in a solid hour... thinking the deadline trick from the dahlias may the only way to save it, and my sanity, at this stage... have made tea and am contemplating it...

Had a go at the whole bright, play and patterns type thing and kind of like it... humidity is a cow today though so everything I put onto it is just sinking into the paper, so will need to let it set before I do much else to it... don't think it is quite finished yet...

Random fact number 1...Mushu has randomly started doing his laps of the pool in the opposite direction. For the last three years, every day, several times a day he goes out into the back yard, up a step and around the pool in a clockwise direction. The pool is just outside my studio window so I just see this flash of white fur out of the corner of my eye... bit disconcerting at first, especially as he gets quite a bit of speed up, but you get used to it soon enough, but now all of a sudden he is doing counter clockwise laps... and every time he almost falls in.... I swear if we trim his nails he is wet... 

Random fact number two... the first year we had the pool Mushu has a swimming action something like a humungous rock... put him in and he just sank... didn't try to dog paddle or anything, just sank with his little snout the last thing to go down... the next year he swam like an olympian... so either he watched us and learned somehow... or it is some sort of doggy swimming miracle... third year he learned how to jump in when he was hot , whether we were in the pool or not, and then come and shake all over us, the carpet, the house, the walls, the washing... pretty much anything that would be annoying.... this year... who knows... I have money on finding him sunbaking on his back floating on the body board...

Random fact number three is that the grass is getting so long in the back yard it looks as though Mushu is hurdling when he walks... with all four legs... he sort of kicks one leg out sideways, then the next, then the next... it is oddly fascinating to watch... 

Should remind Matt to mow, but he is ironing so we are all being as quiet as good little mice to not break his flow... the secret to a marriage lasting almost 20 years... a man who will iron!! And no he can't come to anyone else's house, or be lent out...