YESSS! I just treated myself to a larger filbert brush! I've wanted one for several years but these things are so darned expensive.
And now I found a shop that sells the size I wanted $20 cheaper than my regular art shop. I could not resist!

Normally they sent out orders on a Tuesday, which makes sense if it concerns frames they have to make or large orders. But one brush??
So I phoned them :p
They had 1 brush left in stock of that size and they will ship it today!
YEEHAAA!
Good thing I called them :)
With a bit of luck it gets here on the morrow!

YESSS! I just treated myself to a larger filbert brush! I've wanted one for several years but these things are so darned expensive.
And now I found a shop that sells the size I wanted $20 cheaper than my regular art shop. I could not resist!

Normally they sent out orders on a Tuesday, which makes sense if it concerns frames they have to make or large orders. But one brush??
So I phoned them :p
They had 1 brush left in stock of that size and they will ship it today!
YEEHAAA!
Good thing I called them :)
With a bit of luck it gets here on the morrow!

I didn't think it would have to do with my computer either. i also don't know what causes it.
Not 100% certain but I believe it changed to this around the same time the forums drastically changed. You know, with the mods and stuff.
I think it's to do with the board itself, something in the script not working right or not for every system.

Still glad to hear you've got it as well!

Hahaha, I agree!
But in that sense one can wonder why the hell anyone stayed anywhere outside of Europe in those days. I mean, usually there were all kinds of unpleasant animals, whether bears, alligators, crocs, snakes, spiders, scorpions and whatnot.
And they were all chit scared of the indigenous people even though in many places these people welcomed them and even helped them survive.

So why stay?
I think I'd have run back to the ship I disembarked from, screaming bloody murder and "Mummy!!! I wanna go home!!"
Something must've been seriously wrong with those colonists, or their sense of adventure was of the scales compared to mine, hihi.

Great solution! I didn't even know there were mini chain-saws. (because over here I have no need for one)
But definitely a good option!
I still prefer the man though and have him sort it out, hahaha.
An attractive fit masculine man who knows how to treat a girl right, and a sex-drive that can vie with mine

Thank you so much, Merry!
Happy to see you're still following :D

I suppose we will have to agree to disagree.
His post doesn't belong in my thread as it doesn't tie in with my OP question. So first off he should've started his own topic for this.
And he is asking TexasGal personally (????) about her sex life/sex drive, if she still has a wild person inside. That is rude, way out of line.

How else could he find out? Eeehh... read a book maybe? Or use the internet to find the info. That's how I find out anything & everything I want to know.
And if you do think it's okay to ask that online you can at least ask in a respectful way and keep it general, not single someone out.

Also... he's not that young. He's 35...

So yeah, we have different views on this.

As good as there now :)

Dust cloud is lighter. I'm happy with it, except for the part next to/underneath the horse so I'll try to fix that.

Bridle is a bit wider & lighter and has buckles.

Some twigs and sticks here and there in the foreground.

Added a tail and manes to better show the speed with which he's coming down.

All that's left are some details, like the horn on the saddle, shadow on his face from the brim of the hat, fix the horse's nose etc.
And I think I will make that dark bit of his beard, under his mouth, just a tiny little bit lighter.

Until I found that show a few months back I didn't even know there were cowboys in Canada, hihi.
To me the concept is rather alien as we don't have cowboys over here.
But you're never to old to learn :)
I also recently found out that when the European colonists got to the Americas there weren't any horses there. They went extinct after the ice age.
The Spanish re-introduced them.
I didn't believe that as I always thought that horses were already there and hence the Nat. Am. Indians were such awesome riders.
So I Googled it. Turns out it is correct. I still find it difficult to believe, haha.
I will have to change my entire image of 'the wild west' and its history.

Feeling good :) Just finished painting.
Now it's deciding on what I want to eat for dinner.
All I know is that I don't want to cook, haha.

I went over your post again, but still feel the same way.
It's a ridiculous question to ask a stranger on a public website. It's way out of line.
How would you feel if we ask you if your dick still gets as hard as when you were 16 or if you're getting E.D.?

You do not ask such questions online and certainly not to a stranger.

If you'd come across a woman in the street or a shop would you then ask that woman the same question?
I can guarantee you'd get scolded or slapped in the face or both. And rightfully so.

Apart from that, no one judged you. People said "WTF??"
That's an exclamation, indicating shock/surprise/disbelieve.

Fact it needs to be explained to you is ridiculous in itself. You're an adult, or at least posing as one. Then behave like an adult!!

I have had the experience that it can 'stockpile' hahaha.

As for the rest, there's no one size fits all. It's a very individual thing.
And could also be that you're quite high in testosterone with all the work you do in and around the house as that's kind of like resistance training. And resistance training ups testosterone, which is also related to sexdrive.

For me, I noticed it go up a bit when I'd started HRT. I hadn't really noticed it had gotten less as for me it always tends to be somewhat lower when I'm single. It usually wakes up at full force when I have a partner so for me it's strongly related to my feelings for a man.

It looks odd to me as well as here in Europe you only see English saddles AND normal reins, stirrups and bridle.
But I watched 6 seasons with approx 12 episodes per season of him riding his horse with this saddle and bridle.
Then I looked it up, as I was like WTH???, and turns out traditional Western bridles are like this :)
And believe me, if you'd watch the show (reality)... the man is by far the best rider I've ever seen! A professional cowboy from Alberta.
I think he was born on a horse, haha.


As for the rest, I think I'll indeed add tail & movement to the manes to show motion.
Thanks!

Thank you, Zee!
As for the horn and bridle... not finished yet :)
And typically a traditional Western bridle does not have a nose or chin band :)

Also for you the question... should I add a tail and waving manes to give it more sense of motion or not?
Or in other words... as it is, does it seem as if the horse is standing still?

Thank you for your feedback! :)
And yup, I have yet to do the horn.

The bridle... traditional Western / cowboy bridles typically do not have nosebands. I Googled that especially to be sure as over here, with English saddles, the bridles do have nosebands, so the absence struck me as odd. But it is correct.
Also according to the example photo I'm using.

In Western riding the horses are trained to be ridden with neck reining.
No noseband is also more comfortable for the horse.

As for the rest... the bridle isn't finished yet. I'll make it a wee bit wider and it still needs small buckles here and there.
I have another clearer photo for that so I put them in the correct place, hihi.

I am in two minds about adding a tail and maybe showing some manes to give it more sense of motion. It shouldn't look as if the horse is standing still :/
But not sure yet.
Feel free to give me your opinion on that. Do it or not?

Sounds way too hot for me as well!

The gallbladder isn't a filter. It's a storage place for bile which is produced by the liver.
The bile aids in digestion of fats.
Without a gallbladder there's no more storage but the liver still produces bile which is then directly dumped into the digestive tract.
When it comes to eating I haven't noticed any difference whatsoever.
But then I must say that my fat intake isn't crazy either.


I'm nibbling on beef jerky, YAM!
Supermarket was out for days and I asked about it 2 days ago. He immediately ordered a new batch which was in today :D
Me very happy, hihi.

When in touch with a potential partner you have to be in your feminine.
A man cannot feel anything romantic nor fall in love when you're in your masculine.
That's another problem these days: many women being too much in their masculine, oftentimes so much so that they don't even know and argue till they're blue in the face that they're not.
You need polarity for romantic feelings to come up and there's no polarity when the woman is in her masculine.

There are a lot of other things women tend to do that put men off. Especially now that we also have a lot of men in too much feminine energy.
These men talk too much, can whinge, are needy etc.
A quality man listens to the woman talk. The woman should talk more than the man. And she should talk about her feelings as that raises her oestrogen which in turn raises the man's testosterone. Men can smell oestrogen. Which is also why men often cannot fall in love with an older woman because she a) is too much in her masculine energy and B) doesn't have oestrogen anymore.
He can then be friends with her but he cannot fall in love with her.

Another thing women often not do is ask a man to do things for her. Not necessary big things. Just things that take a few minutes, and then show that you're grateful he did that.
That raises his testosterone. Men need to do, give, serve (not on a 3D level). He should give to his woman. That makes him feel better.
Thing is, most women don't ask anything of their man because she can do it herself, sometimes even better. Big mistake!
And often women give or do too much for their man. Even go as far as to solve his problems for him.

You know, there are a ton of things like that and most people don't even know!
We were never taught any of this as in the past you married, stayed married. End of story.
But the knowledge is out there. That's how I learnt, but most people cannot be @r$ed to educate themselves.

Jake Woodard, excellent coach although he presents himself as motivational speaker, even offers webinars and/or courses for men so they can learn to become quality men & partners as opposed to lame @$$ed Beta men.
He's really good, doesn't beat around the bush either. Stuff like, "If you do XYZ she doesn't want to F you anymore because...."

Stupid thing is, a lot of women do do the work to grow & develop, also concerning being a good partner, feminine etc.
And men... they fiddle with the remote? Then come on here to complain about women, hihi.

Indeed we don't but... we do need good levels of oestrogen in order to be sexual.
As women become post-menopausal the levels drop and are basically zilch.
Also, our testosterone drops which can also have a serious effect on our sexdrive.
You can remedy that by using HRT.

Aside from all that our sexdrive (and oestrogen levels) for a very big part depend on the man:
We need to feel (emotionally) safe, we need to trust the man and know, sense, feel that he's there reliable. This goes for any woman, regardless of age.

That's why casual sex doesn't work for core feminine women --> the safety, trust etc. isn't there. Without that it's very very difficult to surrender and let go.
We have to be extremely vulnerable to open up -figuratively & literally- to allow a man to penetrate us -again also figuratively & literally.

Almost done! Just a few details left to do, which no doubt will still take me quite some time, hihi.

Changed the face a little bit as it wasn't quite right, fixed the ear as well.

Re-did the back- & foreground then started that dust. Was hard work as the largest brush that works for me isn't nearly large enough for that, but yeah... The size brush I'd need for that would cost me some $45.

Anywho, I'm really happy with what I've got now!

To add to my post above ^^^^
What you then get is many women deciding to go and stay solo.
I'm on the verge of doing that as well. Zee says she's done that too.

Women are very good at living solo. Men not so much.
This is also physical, I'm not 100% sure of the reason, but if memory serves it has something to do with a hormonal change in men.
That's also why men often enter a new relationship directly after leaving a partner.
Women generally cannot do that. We need time to heal.

Again if memory serves, the reason we can go solo and lead a totally fulfilling life also has to do with something hormonal, the way we're wired.
You see this happen more and more these days as there simply aren't a lot of quality men anymore who are rooted & anchored in their masculinity.