Since someone complained that I had nothing to talk about yesterday. I will go into excruciating detail about today. I got up and went through my email. I ate breakfast, a bowl of Barbara’s shredded oat squares with 2% milk. Then I returned to the computer. I worked on the Irvington Home Tour program book […]
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I just got an email with my travel dates. I’ll be going to Iceland on Sunday, April 24th, arriving Monday April 25th. I’ll work on Tuesday and Wednesday, and then hop on a plane on Thursday. I should be home Friday the 29th.
I spent the afternoon in my favorite coffeeshop, writing and editing websites. They are perfectly willing to let me nurse a coffee and a pastry for hours. And they have WiFi.
This is a submission for the magazine The First Line. I am required to use the first line they provide, but everything else is up for grabs. Let me know if you’d like to read the rest. Rampion      As the warrior guided his horse back home, she pondered what the future might hold. Sybille
The opera went much better than I thought it would. Charlie, the sophmore working the fish, did a bang up job. I was really proud of him. I might be biased, but based on audience reaction, the carp was the hit of the evening. These photos are from a rehearsal, not the show–I wouldn’t take
Installation went very well. The guys the University sent with the ladder were great and very friendly. They got my pulleys up, and the lines installed. The fish goes up and down like a dream. The fellow who hired me is ecstatic. The show is Saturday night, I’ll try to get some good pictures. For
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I was supposed to take the Big Fish down to the theater and install it today, but there was a mix up with the ladder. So, tomorrow I’ll go down and hang–or rather direct the union guys on where to hang–the big fish
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I’m always very careful when dyeing things to wipe up the dye and to keep my hands clean so I don’t inadvertently dye the wrong things. I usually use liquid dye because it’s a little easier to control. Yesterday I used a powder because the store didn’t have teal in liquid. The powder tends to
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Besides the giant fish, I also have to build an even bigger fish. How big is it? Thiiiiiiiiis big. Seriously, it’s eight feet by thirteen feet. Big fish. It is, in fact, the Mother of All Fish. I dyed the fabric for it today, teal. The structure is already built so I’ll just cover and
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Our dear friend, Eve, came over today and studied the wall. She pronounced that I was right and Burlap was horrible–this, despite the fact that she had liked the paint chip too–and further expounded to say that it was “baby-puke brown.” Lovely for kitchen walls as I’m sure you can imagine. However! We rearranged the
We chose a Ralph Lauren color, for the wainscotting, called Burlap. We both liked the color chip but don’t like it on the wall. The color above the wainscotting, Throne, we both like. So I’ll be repainting the lower wall but not till after Iceland. For the record, Rob says that he had no intention
For Rob’s birthday, since he did not want a gift, I gave him a “Nagging List”. It says: The bearer of this list may ask for the following items to be placed at the top of the recipient’s list of things to do. The recipient will cheerfully complete this list before returning to other tasks.*
I plastered a hole in the wall in the kitchen next to the counter. It is lumpy and so a good match with the existing plaster. I’m not sure I can duplicate the way the paint bubbles on some of the other sections, but I may surprise myself later. At any rate, it is better