Online animation

Shooting extra material and demos for my online animation course. I recorded all of my audio a month ago, and shot a lot of video demos a few months ago. However, the audio is much longer than the video so I need to dig for more material to complete these. 
 

Cemetery visit

 Took mom out to the cemetery for a short visit. She really wants there to be a proper place to put flowers. 

New fish

 One of my two fish died the other day. Margaret picked out this molly today. It seems to be getting along with it's shy catfish tank-mate. 

Treaty Days

William was out in Fort Qu'Appelle a couple of days this week, helping with some faculty contributions with dance and costumes. Van out to the site was full so William drove out with the Dean. 

Columbian Duo

Today Jhazley and Esperanza finally met. Jhazley is one of my MFA students, and Esperanza finished her MFA in our program a couple years ago. 
 

New wood for paintings

Cut Masonite into 9x12 panels to paint on. This will be at least a year's worth (four sheets creating 160 panels). Cut them to size in Visual Arts woodshop. Meanwhile, Jesse took a screwdriver to the forehead. Not so fun. 
 

William planning drawings

 William planning out his last term drawing class. It is a story book about sheep. More to it than that, but is starting to plan out the pages on newsprint. Very free and fun at this point. 

Gerri Ann's cottage

 Gerri Ann and Steve invited us out to the beach today to have a studio tour and much on some wonderful bbq. Weather was great. No mosquitoes, but a bunch of wasps. 

Wordle

 Every time we forget to do the Wordle, our winning streak is broken (even though we didn't lose). Margaret lost one this year, but otherwise we just forget from time to time. Finally we broke our previous 93 winning streak and have reached 100. 

Classroom lights

I try not to dwell on the little things so have not complained for the past couple of years using our 179 classroom where only 2 of the 3 banks of the lights work, and the two that do work have switches that are not intuitive. This summer they got fixed and it made me feel really good. Now the south switch turns on the south lights, the middle controls the middle and the north controls the north. Small things but WOW. 
 

First day of class, errrr... work

 Classes start today at the university. This is William heading off to class, but actually he isn't taking the class, he is a teaching assistant for MAP 001, which is a required course for our students to help them orient to university and learn good ways of successfully being in university. William has three classes left for his degree and will be in class of later in the week. 

Supper at Mercury

Took Fred to the Mercury for supper. I think my club sandwich was the best choice of entrées today. William was less happy with his burger so we shared. 
 

Hanging out at home

 Deck time. Margaret had to spend hours with her dad today (George is on the farm as it is a holiday) but William and I mostly took the day off. Mike was in town so we converged on Kevin's house for the afternoon. 

Swamp Fest day 2

Margaret got back from Calgary this morning and we all headed to Swamp Fest to listen to music and play some croquet. Charity Marsh is playing in this band. Had a short but nice conversation with a young woman who has never played music before but is part of one of the bands playing today. She will just be playing a couple of chords on the keyboard and otherwise hanging out as a performer at a festival for the first time.