Got a great nights sleep, and started the day early. At 6AM the temperature was in the low 60'sF. The High today is predicted to move into the mid to upper s 80'sF. with winds out of the east at 10mph. A very nice spring day in Palmdale.

I began the day with finishing up on the foiling I started last evening. I foiled until I ran out of silver foil. This morning I went out to the Studio and collected the materials I need to continue on with the project. After I had finished all of the foiling I needed to complete the projects I was working on I started straight away on the Number 9 lay-out and the 9-by-9 with a split Blenko Rondell.

Here is the latest Number 9 with silver stained glue chip dichroic bevels and Wissmach Amber Granite boarder, in layout. It turned out to be much better than I thought it would. The silver stain was consistent throughout in color and tone. The dichroic really jumped with the heavy application of dark Amber. The only thing that I will do different on the next one is to utilize a newspaper to dabble the back of the bevels, after the silver stain application, in order to give a different body and texture to the dichroic glass. In either case, I am well pleased with the results of this little research and development project.

I finished up Mr.& Mrs. D's yesterday, and started work on Terri S's panel. I am working through the cutting and grinding and foiling process. Tomorrow this project will be completed and (hopefully) we can have a pick-up by weeks end.

Here The Bluedog is watching the process. She lays underfoot for a few minutes with me, and than into the studio to be next to Sherry.

Sherry took over my inventory replenishment projects today, while I continued on commissions. It is a great help to me when she picks up my project and does the finish work (the hardest part, as far as I am concerned). She also has completed two dragon fly bevel cluster panels, a ton of nautilus shells, bevel clusters, sun catchers and a load of other projects. She is a great partner, a great wife, and a great friend. I love her deeply, and very much appreciate all that she does with and for me.
I stopped briefly this afternoon and did a little citrus grafting. I took a shoot off of a Sanginelli Blood Orange, and grafted it to a wild grapefruit. The Grapefruit root stock will make a hardy foundation, if the tangelo shoot will take. If it does graft successfully, and if it lives to be old enough to produce, and if I live long enough to see it bear fruit, it should be an interesting mix. I do this all the time, take shoots off of my good citrus, and attempt to graft them to the local sour orange and wild grapefruit. If the graft takes, great! Maybe a good fruit will develop. If the graft does not take, nothing ventured, nothing gained. So, by next fall, I will check these attempted grafts, and see if any worked or not.
We went for a walk around 5:30PM. This beautiful corn snake (?) was making a run across Broadway when we happened by. I snapped a photo, and off we went. We got home, and no rain this evening. We had a cold supper of chicken salad and garden salad.

My last duties of the day, after closing down the outside studio, was to gather up the dichroic bevels and other glass necessary for my next project, "Comet". I am getting excited about doing this one again. We are really low on inventory, so I could be doing anything, Starry Nights, Starry Night Transoms, Wright Transoms, Number 9 with Dichroic Tiles, etc. etc. etc. The "Comet" is such a beautiful panel, and it sold pretty fast. So I am going to knock out as many large panels as possible, between now and Siesta Fiesta as possible. We are currently working through how we are going to get over to Columbus, Ohio to pick up our new Forest River Work & Play. The heat is coming down now, that we have to pack up. So much to do. So little time. Well, off to work. Time to get back to foiling.