Zoe

Last night I finally decided that I was finished with the picture of my sisters dog Zoe, actually I was kind of sick of it to be honest.  I just couldn't seem to get the shape of her head or the portion of her body that shows quite right; but quit.  I hope the next one goes better it is a picture of a friends Doberman dog, Frank.
So here it is, it is done in chalk pastels.

ZOE

Class this afternoon so nothing much else going on with me.

Allan New House Construction Or Is That Combustion---#3

Today when I was sitting outside on the patio I heard a very strange loud hissing air sound, hard to describe. It continued, so I got up to see what was happening.

The machine that runs the jack hammer was smoking in a manner that was not good, to say the least.  I called Roy and went downstairs to have a better look.  As I got closer I could see the machine engulfed in flames at this point.

Allan happened to be home for lunch and he went running over to see what was going on and called the fire department; meanwhile the rest of us watched it burn.  There really wasn't anything to be done.  Everyone that was parked close by moved their vehicles out of the way for the fire truck to have room.

Luckily it didn't explode and the fire department responded within 5 minutes or so.

They quickly went into action and had it out in a couple of minutes.  The police pulled up and had a look around, talked with the firemen and perhaps Allan I am not sure.  One of the firemen went over to Allan with some paperwork.   

A few minutes later both the police and firemen left, job done.

Hopefully Allan will not have to pay for the machine; but who knows.  I have no idea if the owner would have insurance on it or how that works here.  The machine was not working properly from the first day it arrived here so it obviously is out of its misery now.

An out of the ordinary event on our normally tranquil street.

A few pictures and a short video, I had a better video; but someone standing close to me was using some language not meant for a G rated blog so I couldn't post that one.

Machine on Fire.

Machine on fire.

Fireman and Cop.

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Allans New House Construction # 2

On Saturday morning a truck pulled up with the machine that runs a jack hammer, with some pushing and pulling they managed to get it up the hill to the construction site.
They worked for a while that day, I was gone for most of the day so missed it all.  Yesterday they worked again and Roy and I went over to have a look at what is going on.
I guess they are going to build the house on 3 or maybe 4 levels and they are jack hammering down some of the rock of the hill to be able to put in the foundations.
Someone asked about what the view would be like so I took a couple of photos of the view from the top.
They are working at it again today; but we haven't gone up to look at the progress today.

The rock where they are jack hammering.

The machine that runs the jack hammer.

Part of the view.

View of the port and bay, looking East.

View of the bay to the south.

The Art Exhibition At The Casa De La Cultura

I mentioned that the Casa de la Cultura had an art exhibition of the work of the students from the last classes.
There was a beginners class, which I took, and an advanced class, which I am taking this semester.
When I went to the first class of the new semester today I took my camera and tried to take some photos of the exhibit.  They didn't come out very well as they are exhibited in the patio and the sun was coming in and reflecting on the glass of the paintings.
Anyway according to what I understood the teacher to say, the beginners class was to focus on the effects of shadows/shading and the advanced class was to focus on the effects of light.
So here are the pictures, which I said are not very good.

The top one is a lady with a veil and it is great, unfortunately the photo is not good of it because of the glare on the glass, this was done by one of the advanced class members.

I think this is one of my favorites, the red flowers on the black.  This was also one of the advanced class members.  There were others; but the photos were really bad.

I was also given my certificate of participation in the class today.  They always hand these out after you take a class there.