WEEKLY UPDATE 10/21/2012

WEEKLY UPDATE 10/21/2012

This was a week of cult-cha for me. I feel I can drink tea with my pinky raised at any time, and I will fit right in.

On Friday night, I went to a Philharmonic Concert. It was Wonderful! The theme was American music, and they started with the Star Spangled Banner. It went on with An American in Paris, medleys from West Side Story & Porgy and Bess, and ended with an encore of Theme from the Magnificent Seven (better know as the Marlboro Man song). There was more, but those were the best ones.

Saturday night, I went to the ballet. It was Dracula the Ballet. Nothing says Halloween better than a nice ballet performance. Since pretty much my only experience with ballet involves sugar plum fairies and mouse king fantasies, this was a little strange for me.

Illustration 1: a really bad pix - taken from the cheap seats, way up high, on my ipod

The artwork that Hannah made for me was finally finished at the frame shop. I hung it next to the other original artwork (an oil painting of Durand Park in showing the wonderful fall colors by C Andrew Lloyd) I have in the condo. So now, I can feel as if I'm living in a gallery, to add to my high class posing.

Illustration 2: my personal art gallery

No Frankenweenie this week, just high brow.

I did finish making curtains for the beach room. I like that room because it has two windows, and most rooms in the condo only have one (although they are big windows). I had hoped that I might get a cross breeze in there when it's cool enough to have the windows open. But, what was happening was that the afternoon sunshine coming on both the south and west sides of the condo was making it quite warm in there. I found a bolt of the same blue fabric that I had used for the bed coverings when I was making those, and there was barely enough for tab curtains. So, I had that as a project. When I finished those, and the sundresses, I could put all the sewing stuff back in boxes in the closet, so order is restored, everything I back where it belongs, and I can have my familiar surroundings again. I've tried to add a photo of the sundresses. They look better on the hangers than they do on me, really.

Thursday evening was the annual meeting / dinner for the Bonaventure Historical Society. the speaker was excellent; he talked about The Book. Many of the names were changed to protect the innocent in the book, and the speaker had a slide show of who actually was who. No one I recognized as running my circle of friends, but it was interesting.

Illustration 3: at the dinner - does this photo make me look as if i've got a halo?

On Saturday, the Skidaway Institute of Oceanography, a marine science research institute near Savannah, had an open house. They have a small (believe me, if you've visited the Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta, this is NOTHING) that's open to the public, but the center I generally used by UGA for research. They had an open house, with some of the labs open (most interesting was the boat that they take out along the Atlantic Coast for 10 - 28 days at a time to check things like plant & fish life, water temperatures, changing depths, etc), and a wonderful lecture & tour of the history of the institute. The original plantation has been in existence since the 1700's when they tried to grow mulberry trees for a silk business, but that didn't work. It was most recently owned by the Roebling family, who earned their wealth in the mid 1800's when the patriarch was the engineer who invented the steel cables that made it possible to build suspension bridges, like the Brooklyn Bridge. We were able to go inside their family home, which is now used for research, and see some of the things that were here when this was a working black Angus cattle ranch. Very interesting. There was also a lecture on sea turtles, and you know that I have a special place in my heart for the loggerheads. So I enjoyed that very much.

Illustration 4: the new loggerhead

5. Illustration: the floating scientific laboratory

On the plus side - I didn't go to Coach's and therefore saved myself $20 in beer and wings. On the other hand - ONE POINT!!!! There weren't many games that I liked the final score on this week.

Massie school tours, MOW, lectures at the senior center - all the same old same old. I didn't have to go to DH this week, and it was really strange. all day long on Friday I kept thinking it was Saturday. Next week i'll be back on schedule.