Christmas is Coming part 8

 Cloudy when I got up, but with sun promised, I decided to go up to the Studio today.  I can color at home, but I have a little more space and solitude there, so I did that.  Made sure to get the ones I printed most recently, now dry.  Brought my current watercolors as well.  No sign that Molly had been in there since the last time I was there, meaning my box was still set to CD.  I had brought a disc with me today that I hadn't listened to before, or at least not since I made it many years ago- a Jean Shepherd radio show from 1965.  One of the discs I had made from a tape for my father as a Christmas present back when I could burn discs and I had the ability to record Shepherd shows off the radio.  Again, not particularly a Christmas show or music, but at least it was from around that time of year, a December show, and he did mention shopping for Christmas as part of the show.  My mother had found it recently, with no case, and gave it to my father, who expressed an interest in listening to it.  Of course he then put it in a pile of things he probably won't ever go through, so I put it in my jazz/blues book and it came with me today.  Unfortunately, I could already see some scuffing around the edges of the recording side, and had some reason to doubt what I could hear.  Coupled with the Shepherd show ("The Human Comedy, " from 1965) was an episode of "Richard Diamond, private detective" from 1953, starring Dick Powell and written by Blake Edwards.  The end of each show didn't play, but I will eventually try it on another disc player at home.

However, it was only in taking out the cards to color that I realized that I had not brought with me the earlier cards I had colored, which included my color copy of the original painting.  Which left me to guess at what the colors were.  Some I knew, but some I didn't, so I put down the colors I was relatively sure of, and decided to save the others for a time when I had full color copy with me.  This was still the majority of the image, but I did not finish them today.  I still have time to get them out, and possibly to their destinations before Christmas itself.

As I left the building the place was emptier, but the lights were still on, I heard music playing somewhere in the building, and there were some cars in the lot, so I decided not to lock up, but just closed the outside door and headed home.