cheerful surprise this morning...
Flickr did it! Managed to load the video of The Wench singing a bit from Gilbert and Sullivan's PIRATES OF PENZANCE! https://www.flickr.com/gp/therovingeye/6b7y4J Sign in to see full entry.
Tuesday, September 24, 2019
Monday, September 23, 2019
Here ya go...!
https://www.flickr.com/gp/therovingeye/L02Q7S (I tried to load a video of a song performance, but it won't load on flickr.) Not a lot of photos... I did one walk-about to find food, and that stroll pretty much did in my back. The rest of the time I was hanging around the Compass Rose making sure people didn't make free with it without first putting their name to the waiver. And there were some kids... A local charter school that weaves, they say, art and performance into the basic general... Sign in to see full entry.
Sunday, September 22, 2019
And here we are, back again...
From pulling out of the hotel parking lot to getting the Compass Rose stage unhitched in the driveway was about 2 hours today. So glad we were not making that drive last night after the Fest finished. We'd have been on the road probably the same time, but exhausted and stressed. Driving at night is not my best thing, particularly when hauling a load. The stage looks small, but it is loaded with stuff, and much heavier than other drivers might guess. I want to get a sign for the back to put up... Sign in to see full entry.
Saturday, September 21, 2019
Pirate Fest 2019 Part One
Here are a few shots from yesterday. https://www.flickr.com/gp/therovingeye/60u1nd There will be more... This has been an easier trip than previous years as Charlie and Vale have done the setup without need of my bits of advice and suggestion, so I have been free to relax during the heavy lifting times. We are putting more emphasis this year on donations for the Compass Rose stage, with a table of various 'premiums' to thank donors. My station is behind that table. I did some walk-about... Sign in to see full entry.
Thursday, September 19, 2019
Northglenn Pirates, look out!
And here we are at the Northglenn Pirate Fest. Charlie and Vale are setting up the stage and the crowd-covering canopy. I am at the hotel which has some peculiar qualities. This is the place where last year the bed in my room was so high off the ground, I had to get the step-stool from the truck to get into it. On our way out I was told to ask next time for a handicap room. Well, I am qualified to do that, and did, and this year the bed is about knee-high from the floor, no ladders or... Sign in to see full entry.
Tuesday, September 17, 2019
At home Tuesday
Tuesday soup from Sunday chicken... Or was that Saturday? In any case, today, it's soup. Yesterday it was boiling the remains, and today I added a few odds and ends--beets and eggplant that baked with the chicken, a can of water chestnuts, some onion... garlic and ginger... It wasn't yet right. So... some lime juice, dried parsely, fresh celery... Still nope. Okay, a can of coconut milk and some tamarind sauce that has been in the fridge a while... And there was a bottle of Indian red curry... Sign in to see full entry.
Monday, September 16, 2019
The Hanging Gardens
I have always, since first hearing of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, loved the idea of hanging gardens. I love cascading greenery, I love jungley-looking habitats and uncommon plants. In my new-up photos, here they are... https://www.flickr.com/gp/therovingeye/hU353D I am especially happy with my bathroom hanging garden. It is lovely to look at, and it also cleans the air. With the catbox just below, that means something! Come the days of frost, my outdoor garden will have to find spaces to... Sign in to see full entry.
Sunday, September 15, 2019
Naming the Moon
Woke at 6 this morning... The full moon--mostly full, still--is high over the Front Range in a lightly clouded sky. What is it with hanging names on full moons these days? So, this one is Harvest Moon because it's September. And it's a Micro Moon because it is as far away from Earth as its orbit takes it, just as Super Moon is when it's closest. One is a traditional naming from generations and centuries of humans as harvesters, the others--Well, in an astronomer's family, I never heard it called... Sign in to see full entry.
Saturday, September 14, 2019
One of Summer's final days...
I am roasting a chicken today, because it has been languishing in the freezer long enough, and the day is cool enough to have the oven on that long. It takes a long time because I roast it from frozen, at a low temperature. It will be wonderfully tender and juicy this way, though at some point in the early stages, once it is thawed enough, I will have to retrieve the giblets packet from the inside. There are some fresh beets, a couple of long Chinese eggplants, some sweet onions and some carrots... Sign in to see full entry.
Friday, September 13, 2019
Gentle Friday the 13th
It has been a kindly day, neither extra heating nor cooling required, and sunny all day. If you looked at my flickr photos in the past week or so, you'll have seen the baby spiderling plants that I clipped off my sister's prolific mother plant on my latest visit. I put their dry-looking bottoms in a dish of water, and waited... Some days later, white roots had appeared, and I separated them into individual little spice-jars of water. Today, several of them have shifted to larger homes, and their... Sign in to see full entry.