Pie Day

Margaret made some last minute pies today. 

Paul at art opening

 Paul is working half time right now. We ran into him at the Fifth Parallel opening for Bree Tabin's "Tomboy" exhibition. 

Puppet progress

 William in the garage studio working on his puppets. We needed to get the space cleaned up as it has become a dumping ground for furniture and other half done projects this winter. Feels much better now. 

Last painting class

 Last day of painting for this course. Did a self portrait in the reflection. Eventually people noticed. 

Hand processing film

 Some good success developing 1500 feet of film in class today. 1400 worked out. One roll needs to be re-shot. Good numbers. 

Country Corner Donuts

 Dropped by the donus shop. No progress evident. The old counter, which as a burn mark on it, has not been removed. 

Geremy and a story plan

 Geremy explains some story structure plan that he has over zoom. 

Writing

 Helped William get started on his re-write of his screenplay. He has all his plot points on cards and needed to get the overall plan in order. 

art shopping with mom

 I took mom out to galleries today, for something to do. The other day, she took all of her art off of her walls and put it all on the floor. Today she bought this new work. 

Painting

 Lori has returned to painting some chickens (and in this case, a rooster) which is very exciting to me. I think they come easy to her, which might be why she has been doing other subjects for the past few months. Everyone in the class admires these. 

Class photo

 Did the class photo today. Had faculty plus 14 of the 15 students. The final student arrived late so we do  have images of all the students (without the faculty) together. 

Story meeting

William, Geremy, and I met about William's project today at Geremy's house. William wants to do a complete re-write - more of a comedy. Geremy dropped a few ideas his way. 
 

Cards with mom

 William and I went to visit mom and play some cards. We couldn't find her at first, as she had decided to attend a video church service. Says she hasn't been to a catholic service in decades, even though she was at one last week. 

Sock-Vile talk

Gave a talk about my puppet films to a (fortunately) small crowd today. Went off the rails and never came back. Probably the worst public talk I've given this century. 

Deaf Tempest

 Kevin joined us at the opening night of the Deaf Crows / Chrystene Ells production of the Tempest, re-designed for a deaf cast. Some really cool puppets, pantomime, and acrobatics. A very good event. 

Funeral

 

Joanne's father passed away a few days ago. We were at the funeral today. Good service. Church based, but accepting that many people there were not church folk. Michael B suggested that we move from middle pew to a front pew. More respectful. 

Painting

 Background sketches in brown is starting to work better for me. Evokes sepia and memory. 

Dennis Jackson in class

 This week Dennis Jackson came in from Prince Albert to talk to my class about his various animation television shows he has produced. He's also doing some promotion (see hat) on his "Chums" show. Great to catch up. I gave him the nickel tour of the department while he was here, as he's not been on campus much in this century. 

The Long Cleaning

 I think we have quite a few days of cleaning and rearranging coming as the insertion of new furniture has cause a ripple of changes around the house that won't be quickly reconciled. 

Snowman in the sun