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Monday, March 6, 2017

Final packing

The dishwasher is running, the laundry is in the dryer and will soon be in the suitcase along with little thises and thats for Elsa and her mom. She can't get Wheat Thins over there, or Yoshida sauce... I will bring back some foods and other things hard to find here, or more expensive here, and a few things to remember England when I use them here. My house has a lot of little things of that sort: clothes bought in New Zealand, a bit of jewelry from Singapore, bits of artwork, balls of yarn...... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, March 4, 2017

Auction House

Gormann Auctions has a sale alternating Fridays and Saturdays. Fridays are odds and ends, usually, laid out in long rows and the auctioneer strolls down the rows auctioning off the lots one by one. He can choose to offer one lot--an item or a box of items--or will offer several in one group as 'choice.' This means the winning bidder has the choice of any one item/box in that group, and if he/she wants more than one, pays the winning bid amount for each item. One strategy if you really want more... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, March 3, 2017

Perfect Storm at the bank today

The line at the bank was so long today that I saw people who had just gone in coming out again just before I went in. I said something to the guard by the door, and he said, "It's been like this all day." When I finally got to the teller--one of three on duty--I asked about it. Friday... Military payday... Soc Sec check day... Closed on Monday... And several of bank staff are out sick or out of town. For all that, the line moved along despite people like me digging fruitlessly through my purse... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, February 27, 2017

Nothing doing

That's been today. Doing nothing much but watching the Great British Bake Off and resisting the impulse to write snarky comments on facebook. There is quite enough snark there, flying in every direction, and I am tired of it. For now, anyway. I feel maybe a cold coming on, all nasal and sneezy and apathetic. Might be I am just tired and after a night's sleep I may feel fine again. I hope it's one of those, since a week from now I will be preparing to fly out to England again. The Wee Child is 3... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, February 26, 2017

Shows over

The Ralph Vaughn Williams show with the Castle Rock Orchestra went off well to great audience response. It is a community orchestra and their sound is sometimes, to my ears, dubious. But there was a young violinist, high school senior, who offered up an exquisite solo in a piece called The Lark Ascending. Here is a sample by another artist: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=the+lark+ascending+vaughan+williams&ia=videos&iax=1&iai=huUvk6WPTMY Charlie doesn't want the Shorn photo shown yet but by next week... Sign in to see full entry.

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Day after, Day of...

Friday afternoon through Saturday night we spread out the new brochure and a batch of photos of the Compass Rose Traveling Theater on a narrow table in the hallway of a once-poshish hotel. The Antlers used to be rather fine, the place to stay in Colorado Springs. Now... well, there are two in-house eating spots, but I recommend walking a block or two to good food. Edible food. And the hospitality... well, the first evening there were water stations around for the GalaxyFest participants to stay... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, February 23, 2017

Family news

I had a call from my sister in Estes Park this evening. She called to let me know that my long-estranged sister Kathy died this afternoon. It has been over 30 years since I have had anything to do with her, or had much news of her. I grieved for that relationship long ago. It was toxic between us, because of who she was and who I was, and while I had reasons to walk away, she never tried to reconnect, either. I imagine we could have worked through all the angers and disappointments and hurts, if... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, February 22, 2017

Rabbit's Busy Day...

Yesterday......began with digging into my theatrical makeup supplies and assembling a kit for...after dropping Charlie off at the school where he has been working Tuesday afternoons with kids putting on their own adaptation of HARRY POTTER, driving across town to the school where I was doing a makeup workshop with kids who have just started up a theater club: 15 kids, ages 10-11. The kids were great, enthusiastic and engaged--though easily distracted, they were paying more attention than one... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, February 20, 2017

The excitement never stops...

Just a couple of days after I get back from England again in March, we have tickets, front row balcony, for JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR, here in CoSprings! I've seen it before a couple of times, and love the music, and especially love to see how each production creates and re-creates the set. It was the first of Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical extravaganzas, I believe. And there was a movie. Not everyone does appreciate the departure from the classics of the 1940s, 50s, and 60s. I love THE KING AND I,... Sign in to see full entry.

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Here's the story...

A few days ago, an artist on my facebook 'friends' list posted a query for landscape photos to serve as inspiration for some of her paintings. While her initial post indicated that stock company licensing fees were way too high for her, we discussed by private message what would be reasonable for her, for access to my albums on flickr. We agreed on an amount considerably less than the stock photo companies, agreed to write up a contract confirming what we'd discussed, and I sent her the albums... Sign in to see full entry.

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