Today has been one of those piddling days here at Wild Ozark. It rained most of the day today, rained yesterday, and will rain some more over the next few days.
The creeks are flooded.
My peonies are dropping petals.
It just looks and feels like everything is falling apart, but it isn’t really. This is just another cycle in life.
Fixing a Software Glitch
My Excel wouldn’t open on my computer. Every time I tried, it just stalled at the start and never opened the program. This problem caused me anguish for days so far.
I need my spreadsheets. For the past several days I haven’t been able to access any of them, and the situation was becoming infuritating.
Some of the things I use Excel for include my income/expense accounting for Wild Ozark- the nursery, the art, and the real estate businesses.
I also keep track of my artwork on a spreadsheet, and today I wanted to know at a glance which ones were completed in 2024. But I couldn’t open the spreadsheet.
So, after some searching on line for a step by step troubleshooting guide, I found the solution. One of my registry files was the problem. Renamed that- a useless one I didn’t need because I no longer have the add-in, and the problem disappeared. Yay!
Rooting Clematis
I saw a clematis growing on an abandoned root cellar and decided to take a piece of it. I want to see if it’ll root. These are one of my favorite flowers and I’d love to have some climbing on my fence soon. There used to be a purple one in my garden, but it died.
Piddling Days are Usually Art-Making Days
But not this time. The piddling days this time have been filled with things I needed to do on the computer. And yesterday we went to town to get the oil changed on Rob’s truck between rain storms.
But today, since I finally managed to make Excel work, I could find all of the 2025 paintings and create a print collection product for my shop.
And now the day is done
If it’s raining again tomorrow, I have other things to do. One of them is to work on my old shed painting.
What kinds of things do you find to do when it rains for days on end?
Contact & About
email: madison@wildozark.com
phone: (479) 409-3429
I’m a nature-lover, real estate agent & artist. Sometimes, I also write things. I began using local pigments to paint scenes from nature in the Ozarks in 2018.
All of my artwork is available in prints, and where originals are available, they are for sale. You can find all of that over at shop.WildOzark.com. I have a separate website for my real estate blogging and information at WildOzarkLand.com.
Don’t be confused by my various monikers. For pretty much everything online, I go by Madison Woods, a pen name I adopted when I first began writing and then later with my art. For real estate, I use my real name, Roxann Riedel. And for my fiction, there’s yet another pen name: Ima Erthwitch.
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