Thanks for half a million hits or 500,000 views and.......

....the 1200+ followers, this blog is one of the few things that gets me through these days and also I'm a secret paint brush licker!!

Me and Ray are now on our 30 day redundancy notice but still haven't a finish date yet???

Lurker: Stop it!
Ray: What?
Lurker: You threw a date at me!
Ray: Did not!
Lurker: Did too, you have a bag of nuts and fruit open in front of you and you know I don't like dates!
Ray: I know that's why I threw it!
Lurker: Ha Ha! I knew it!
Ray: What are you blogging?
Lurker: Just thanking people for the milestone.
Ray: That's pathetic!
Lurker: You're pathetic!
Ray: Am not!
Lurker: Are too!

See what I have to put up with!

These are called hundreds and thousands or sprinkles in some other places (maybe not 500,000 at my last count) but I digress....last night while painting some figures I always keep the shape on my paintbrushes by inserting the tip in my mouth after dipping it in the water to clean it, I don't know if this common among figure painters but anyway last night I did this to a freshly bladed scalpel that I thought was a paintbrush.......I was lucky that in went in on the flat side and only shaved the what I believe are hairs on my tongue.....I took the scalpel back out slowly and looked at it for a good ten seconds, looked at Ray and put it down, fiddled with my tongue looking for issues but luckily there were none........

.........I'm getting old but the main thing is thanks to all the commenter's, readers and those people who visit by mistake!

THANKS!!