It's funny how memories from the past pop up and suddenly you find them in your art. I was doodling the other night while watching TV and suddenly Chi-Chi Jones popped into my mind! Now you ask, "who is Chi-Chi Jones?" Well, Chi-Chi Jones was little scrawny chihuahua dog with bulging liquid brown eyes, a quivering damp nose and a veracious appetite for microscopic crumbs! He belonged to our neighbors Chuck and Edie Jones and he was like their little kid, they took him everywhere with them. Chi-Chi Jones was always shaking....either because he was cold or scared or perhaps it was a little of both. Sometimes they would stop in and visit and would always have Chi-Chi with them. Edie would put him down on the floor and immediately his little nose would hit the floor like a tiny heat seeking missile locked onto its' target. His little skinny tail would go up and he'd start to make his way across the carpet in the kitchen vacuuming up every microscopic crumb he could find into his mouth. My mom would get so mad because she vacuumed every day and insisted that her floor was CLEAN and that damn dog was just pretending to find things to eat on the floor!!!! I'm still laughing about it some 30 plus years later! Anyway, this ATC is a tribute to Chi-Chi Jones!
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