Nix/86 - Diary Comic - Days 108-114
21 Jan 2026 - Day 108 - 0 Steps
Ordered some goodies from Dick Blick with some gift cards from KP's mom. I ordered some extra empty half pans so that I can make her some pots of new watercolors. Excited to have some new art supplies and have plenty of sketchbooks for the year.
I have not been getting steps in on Wednesdays cause KP is in ceramics class in the morning. When I walk KP follows me with my chair. I need to start doing am + pm walks so I can get in some steps every day.
In the bottom half of the page is a drawing of a scone with Scone - bacon cheddar written above it.
22 Jan 2026 - Day 109 - 41 Steps
Winter Storm Warning
Over the next few days we are supposed to get ~6" of snow and drop into the single to negative digits. KP loaded up a wheelbarrow from the wood stack and put it next to the house for easy access. Excited to stay in, read, drink coffee and get cozy.
I finished setting up Almanac #1 in Draft2Digital and published it out to the world. It'll be out and about officially on 31 January. Scary to put it out there but nothing ventured nothing gained. Feels good to make forward progress on this project.
There is a picture of a snowglobe in the bottom half of the page that is a blue globe with snow falling and the words 'Ready for snowglobe world'.
23 Jan 2026 - Day 110 - 0 Steps
The top half of the page is a box with a picture of a cardamom cookie - Cardamom cookies from Samin's cookbook (they are sooooo good!)
The bottom half of the page is a drawing of a green cardamom pod of the genera Elettaria. Cardamom a spice made from seeds of several plants in the genera Elettaria and Amomum * (my favorite spice)
24 Jan 2026 - Day 111 - 31 Steps
The background of the page is a pale yellow with a swirly line in pencil.
SNOW
Woke up to ~3" of fresh snow covering the landscape. No wind. Quiet and still. Finished reading Kabu-Kabu and we started to watch Foundation. (love me a good space opera).
Most of the snow melted by evening! Boo!
25 Jan 2026 - Day 112 - 0 Steps
The background of the page is a pale blue-green.
Caught up on my drawing exercises this morning. I was a couple days behind. I'm excited to keep up a daily practice in a looser/faster way. The giant blob of extreme cold is moving in but we have the wood stove going and lots of hot tea. I woke up super achey. It's not been a great week in terms of pain levels. But I persist!
26 Jan 2026 - Day 113 - 0 Steps
Editing Almanac #2 ebook today. Drawing fancy letters. Feeling ok today. Wrists have been bothering me lately but not too badly this morning. Quiet Monday and cold.
The page has the letters A-H in a fancy elaborate script inside a blue lined box with squiggly blue lines coming out of the bottom and top. The outside edges of the page are pale green.
27 Jan 2026 - Day 114 - 0 Steps
So freakin stiff today.
The page is covered in purple pen marks.