Bob Ross

Hello beautiful ladies!

 

So I’m going to see you this weekend – sad reason, but glad to get to see 2 of my most favorite small people in the world!  Happy Thursday!

 

Your Auntie Paula is having a super crazy week at work – we have internal auditors in, who are people that come to help make sure you’re doing everything right – it’s actually something I used to do years and years and years ago – which is kind of fun, because a lot of times they’re able to help think of new ways of doing things that are better, but it’s also a LOT of work to get ready for, because they ask lots of detailed questions.

 

So I’m going to have to be quick again this week.  I’ve chosen Bob Ross for this weeks’ painter.  Now, he’s not a fancy painter like some of the other folks…but I love Bob because he was on TV when I was a kid, and he taught people how to paint.   Bob was actually from Orlando, Florida!!   He painted really, really fast, which I’ve always loved – because you get to see beautiful things happening right in front of your eyes – and he also donated most of the original paintings he did after he got famous to PBS, which is pretty cool.  I have a few of his instructional tapes…it’s harder than it seems to do what he does, but it’s awfully fun to try!

 

Another thing that’s cool about Bob is he liked to rescue squirrels – he painted them a lot too – but sometimes he’d just have a live squirrel with him on his show, because he was helping it get better after something bad happened to it. 

 

The thing I liked best about Bob Ross…and a lot of other people did too…was that everything he painted was “happy”.  He’d be painting a landscape and he’d add a tree in, and he’d say “We’re just going to put a happy little tree right here.”  And “This is a happy little stream, and we’re going to put a bunch of happy little trees right along the edge of it”…it was always happy in Bob’s painted world, and that is a beautiful thing.

 

Know that I love you ladies so much, and I think that you’re awesome, and I’ll see you on Saturday.

Hugs and kisses,

Auntie Paula