I rolled into the holiday season and the new year by doing jury duty on a criminal case. This was my first time serving as a juror on a criminal case, but I previously served as a juror on a civil case many years ago. The whole process was interesting and incredibly exhausting. Everybody should go through this experience. I was terrified but as I settled into the whole process, I became more accustomed. I won’t go into detail about the case or what the outcome was, but I will say our judge, the Honorable Christopher Hite was absolutely incredible and so very fair. I have so much respect for him.

Reflecting on all that I am grateful for in my life, especially this passed holiday weekend. I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday with your loved ones. I had a lovely Thanksgiving at my cousin’s house, which I will be cherishing for many years to come.

I have been participating in the Catober drawing challenge on Instagram and it has been extremely fun! Each day there is a word assigned along with the word “cat” and you need to come up with a drawing for that word. These drawings are small, only 3×3 inches. Here are some of my favorite drawings thus far.

Here is a current drawing I am working on. This is done on my iPad pro with the pencil tool in Procreate. It has been lots of fun and also very time consuming as I can get obsessive at times when it comes to detail. Stay tuned for the finished drawing.

Peregrine Falcon study, my latest animal obsession.

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In honor of the 50th Anniversary of Apollo 11 moon landing.