hail with it

the yard is begging for a facelift but it keeps being miserable outside.  I'm taking EMT classes, leaving by 8:45 a.m. and so far we've been cut short two out of the three days I've gone because of response calls coming in.  I've been learning to use the blood pressure cuff and the little finger clip monitor that analyzes the space between the heart beats.  Pretty interesting stuff.  Reading, I've finished the sequel to gone with the wind  which was a real potboiler and I liked it good enough.  Wondering about the summer, if it will ever get here...
Did a painting I called "japanese spring' after the incident in Japan.  Had an easter card from my brother and apparently their airport got blown around in a tornado.  He just bought a new house in the St. Louis suburbs...I guess they're ok according to family but what a thing to happen...
Today I helped the girls next door get the gallery for our women's conciousness raising session and book discussion club.  We generally have the book club on Tuesdays the last week of the month and the consciousness raising gets done on that Thursday, or vice verssa, but we couldn't this month because the girls were away doing their thing so we're doing it today.  I helped mop floors and get it tidied up.  They fed me an egg salad sandwich, which was nice of them.

mermaid icons

I've been working here and there lately.  One day it was absolutely beautiful outside, Saturday.  We got up early and went to the beach at Shipwreck Point where we scoured the beach and cleaned the roadsides
that was pretty much fun.  After that we had barbeque with theother beach cleaners.  Then we came home and unloaded the trash we'd found.  There was a rug and a tire with a rim also.  We tossed the tire and the rug is being cleaned for the rental house.
We're back to Monday now.  Yesterday was Easter Sunday.  I went to the Presbyterian Church breakfast but didn't get up in time for services at the Rock.  Went to Easter Mass at St. Thomas and then had a long nap because the day started so early.  Later on we had Easter supper at By the Bay Cafe and then watched television till bedtime.  I was crocheting a rainbow colored legwarmer. 
Today I am dressed warm because it's raining again.  I have to go to Tops at 3 and then to the firehall at 6 for the beginning of EMT training.  Another busy week lining up it seems.
The mermaid icons have been showing up.  I found one this past week that was oriental in nature but the woman had a fish tail so it qualified as a mermaid.  Not sure where I saw it, possibly the co op when I was in there for juice and milk.  I sometimes feel as though I ought to appropriate the mermaid symbols when I see them but I should just draw them in my own version of what I've seen.  That would be the thing to do.  I have wash on the line from Saturday, getting a nice dose of fabric softener in the rain fall.