A painter by the name of Paddy Murphy, while not a brilliant scholar, was a gifted portrait artist. Over a short number of years, his fame grew and soon people from all over Ireland were coming to him in the town of Doolin, County Clare, to get him to paint their likenesses. One day, a beautiful young English woman arrived at his house in a stretched limo and asked Paddy if he would paint her in the nude. This being the first time anyone had made such a request, Paddy was a bit perturbed, particularly when the woman told him that money was no object; in fact, she was willing to pay up to $10,000. Not wanting to get into any marital strife, Paddy asked her to wait while he went into the house to confer with Mary, his wife. In a few minutes he returned. "T'would be me pleasure to paint yer portrait, missus," he said. "The wife says it's okay." "I'll paint ya in da nude alright, but I has to at least leave me socks on so I has a place to wipe me brushes."................. Rusty

excerpt from book (The Collected Regrets of Clover) I am reading: 'If you want something you don't have,' he'd said 'you have to do something you've never done' I have always heard it the opposite way (If You Always Do What You've Always Done, You'll Always Get What You've Always Got), and the above is far more inspiring.

Neighbor's new cat. It was in a store, in a nearby rural town, in a cage, offered by the Humane Society. It slept on the dashboard on the way home. They are in LUV! 💕

^^^ -- Or in a car. We still need the manual to reset the clock on our 2005 sedan. Excuse: It's written in Brit-speak.)