More painting

 Getting back into my groove in class this week as the session comes to an end. The black and metal old cameras are really where I am most strongly grounded. Similarly, Lori is jumping back into her chickens and having fun too. 

Painting

I'm looking at my list of cameras that I painted as I was getting started: basically the first 100, and returning to them. I'd like to get up to 600 before my exhibition in May. It is wonderful to continue borrowing cameras and if anyone has more to lend me, I'd be very happy. However, with winter coming and the rest of life so nuts, it is comforting to have dozens of cameras that I've not looked at in OVER FIVE YEARS to pull from. 

William's letter to the editor

This morning Margaret says that it looks like William has a kindred soul as she reads me a letter to the editor in the Leader Post newspaper. She asks me to guess who wrote it. I was a bit stumped but throw a could guesses out there, people who care a bit about design and fonts. "No", she says, then shows me the newspaper. True enough, there is no one that similar to William, the only one who would have written this was William himself. Total surprise to us. 
 

New dogs coming

 George has emptied the garage (first time in about 15 years) so he can house his new dogs there. I slipped in and took this photo while he's on the road going to fetch them. 

Fred's birthday

George hosted his extended family for Fred's birthday dinner party this evening. We stopped in for a few minutes to get a slice of Safeway cake. Conversation seemed focused solely on Simon's barbeque skills. We will not discover until tomorrow that when we were not in the house, the conversation was about George's immanent adoption of two dogs who will live in the garage. 
 

Police cars

 This week I've been seeing police cars with sirens lit up more often than usual. Once a day I think. This one is in front of the library as I'm picking up Margaret. 

One Million Hits

This blog has not had over one million hits. I'm not sure why/how I get as many as I do these days. Probably a bot reading it and preparing to replace me. 

painting coincidence

 I painted this microscopic camera today. I've painted it once before, and that happened to be on this very day, in this same place, exactly five years ago. 

First snow

 This didn't fall for long and will be melting in a couple of days, but a clear reminder of what is coaming. I wore my new Docs even though I knew it would snow. I have new insoles as of a few days ago. Also learned the Ernie, who worked at the show place on 13th and who made my old insoles, retired a couple years ago. Hadn't heard. 

Pizza day

 Afternoon at work meeting with students and then with Erik to walk about Last Mountain Lake cultural centre exhibition for next summer. Very pumped about that and looking to ramp my painting output up again. Hungry day so made pizza. 

Tables and chairs

 This morning I met up with Lori and Shim and Tate for coffee at mom's to see her new table and chairs. She's talking about them being too high now, which is what she liked about them when she sat on them tor an hour and purchased them this summer. She'll love them soon enough (or cut the legs down). Later, our own outdoor chairs and tables got a second tarp and are ready for snow. 

Roboting with William

William wanted new photos of the robot today. The remote tablet wasn't holding a charge so William, the only person who usually operates the robot, couldn't perform and shoot so I became the robot today. I did hand signals and gave gang signs. 

Ruth Cuthand retrospective

 I feel a bit guilty for not trying harder to stay awake during the talk between Ruth and Felicia Gay at the Ruth Cuthand retrospective at the MacKenzie. Only a bit, because I felt fantastically refreshed and had some savage conversations afterwards. 

Lunch with mom

 Mom dropped her phone (her land line, which was hooked to the wall - I didn't even ask how) so she needed a new one. We went to London Drugs with the broken one in hand, got an almost identical replacement, then went for lunch. It took longer to assemble it than it did to shop for it.