Escape to Maine~ The Odyssey Expands... Part 3

Now, onto the next chapter in the odyssey. Getting closer to artwork stuff...I promise! 

When the trailers arrived, the boss (see below) inspected them from top to bottom. The "boss" is my granddaughter who 

I was raising for the foreseeable future. She was the very good reason not much work of any kind got done.

The plan is for her to go back to live with her parents in Illinois in the near future. 

Until then, she has been so much fun.  Many paintings of her are planned and I hope to share her wonderfulness with the world. 

In this pic, she is a year and a half old. Now she is nearing 3 and LOVES Maine. 

After the external inspection, we opened the trailer to find it was the half filled 

trailer that was mostly studio stuff. My easel, the press, flat files, etc. I was really eager to load the barn

and the weather held for the few days we had to unload. 

After wrestling everything off the truck (trying not to let it fly down the 

icy ramp and crash into oblivion), especially the press on wheels, we found water damage. 

There had been a hole in the roof of the trailer and unbeknownst to me, my son had

packed my best books and flat files right under it. Not his problem, but when the 

trailers had to sit for several weeks due to "covid", ice built up and melted and built up 

and...dripped.  This was January so by the time it got to me, the floor of the trailer

was frozen along with my boxes of books. The previous melting and dripping 

damaged my father's desk, several drawings, many drawing papers, and about $800 worth of art books. 

The company had insurance, but was only able to offer about $400 for the damage and 

I was lucky to get that. 

All part of the adventure!