Mamma said there would be days like this Can a person have a painters block the same as a writer has one?? Well today my paintings are not going the way I want them to. Tried to put a raindrop on the cactus, but looked more like a bird crapped on it. Gotta paint that out as soon as it dries enough. Can't get the trees in the other to look like trees. Gave it up. I guess I can just tell you the dream.
Well you know me and my far out dreams They don't seem strange while I am dreaming them, but you know how my dreams seem to gravitate into the realm of strangeness, maybe even bizarre. Any way, Jake would know because he is versed in physics..I'm just a nod-nick, not an Einstine or a Archimedes, I just have strange dreams. I wonder if they did too.
The Dream.
Now how all this came about,I don't know, because if I dreamed that part, I must have forgotten it, but Phillip had a piece of property. I don't rightly know what state it was in, but we decided to go and stay there a while. We loaded up the motorhome and with me in the lead we took off. I was supposed to watch for a road taking off to the left, with a sign that said "End of the road ranch'". Well I was cruising along when Phillip yelled ' stop", over the 2 way radio. I had passed it and would have to back up. Phillip turned in and went to a gate that he unlocked, and I backed up and followed him in. We went up the drive to a bench above a small lake (pond), any way it reminded me of Glidden Lake up in Idaho. We parked by a rundown looking cabin. I climbed out of the motorhome and walked up on what looked to be a nice porch. Some of the boards were a bit saggy, ( no wonder, ahem! me fat?). Believe it or not, Phillip had a key to the cabin, he unlocked it and we went inside. Wow! it was so dark and dreary. Only one window in front. Both bedrooms had only one small window high up on the wall. Anyway we had to do something to lighten things up. Hey! No problem there huh?
Good thing the cabin had a good metal roof. Phillip got up on the roof and swept off all the dirt and pine needles, like I told him to. Then I told him to get a hose and wash it all off good.( Wow, we had running water, ho ho).
Then I got a bucket of something out of the motorhome and had him smear it all over the roof. Stuff was clear and was thicker than paint. Then I got some copper wire down from the rafters in the cabin and had him run the wire all along the bottom edge of the roof and attach it to the roof every foot or so. Then I got a copper rod that was out behind a shed, and had him pound it in the ground below the edge of the roof. I then attached the wire to the rod....Whoa ho! We had lights. (where the wiring, bulbs and fixtures came from, I don't know) but never the less, we had lights. I have no Idea what was in the bucket. It made the metal roof gleam like copper.
Such is the way of dreams.
Granny
2 comments:
I wish I could write a paper about a roof coating that could generate electricity! That would be awesome! Well Grandma, maybe someday your dream could become a reality. There are folks that are working with organic (carbon based) photovoltaics and they have had limited success with "solar panel paint." Problem is that the efficiencies are horrible and the devices do not last long. The upshot is that they are cheap and fast to make. They just gotta figure out how to make them generate more electricity and last longer than a few days or a few weeks.
Wow! I didn't even know they made such stuff. Learn something new every day. Maybe some one else had a dream to. I just wish that some day, I could follow up on one of my crazy dreams. I dream it and somebody else comes up with a solution. My Dad was the same way. I remember when he dreamed of making a cereal that all ready had a sweet coating. He experimented with the idea a lot. We kids had a lot of his failures to eat. They were good though.
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