Busy Weekend
It's been a busy weekend, as most are. I think I must like to be busy. I remember Daddy always saying to me, 'Don't you know how to just sit and relax?' I guess the answer is, no.
Saturday I took a class on buying and using a digital camera. This is one of the classes I 'coordinate', so I thought it would be a good idea. And since I am thinking of being in the market for a digital camera, I thought it would be a good idea. Actually, I just wanted the instructor (a friend of mine) to just tell me which one to get. He didn't. Oh well, at this rate it might be a little while before I get it. Though I think I would like to have it when I come to Israel in January.
Then I did some errands on the way home, nothing exciting. When I got home, Kristin, Daddy, Mendon and I went out and picked cherries. Monty is looking a little pale (actually, I think powdery mildew might be the problem) and there weren't very many cherries this year. But enough for Kristen to make a pie (her first!) and I made cherry pandowdy, froze enough for another pie and 6 pints of jam. I haven't done that for quite a while and it was fun. Of course, I don't actually eat jam much anymore, but if I should want some, well,there it is.
Then tonight, I went over to Aunt Cindy's and picked her blackberries. She has plenty this year and was happy to share. Actually, she invited me over to pick. I froze some of those and left the rest for us to eat tomorrow with cereal and such.
I also made Merry buy some art. We had had a discussion in the office a while back. Gloria had been to a store in Beachwood (there is a new shopping Mecca there -- like the one in Columbus -- Easton? Eaton?) that sells prints of famous art for around $5000. I commented that I prefer original art and for $5000 you could make a living artist quite happy. Well, Merry called me an art snob. Whatever. So today when we went to the art festival at Wildwood (quite small and intimate -- nice) she found some photographs that she really liked. As revenge for calling me an art snob, I encouraged her to buy these. Of course, to save money she bought them unframed, so who knows how long it will take to get them hung.
Next week I am going to go to Fort Wayne Indiana to cook for an extended Ruhi class. It is a long weekend anyway and I am taking Thursday and Friday off to make it a little longer. I think this will be fun. I am taking my own knives, of course, and didn't want to lose them, so I got out the Dremel that Daddy had given me about 2 years ago and engraved the handles. It was fun and now I'm not afraid of the Dremel and might even use it for some other projects. Oh the possibilities.
Life just keeps getting better and better.
See you all in my dreams . . . (I'm off to bed.)
Comments
Congratulations to Kristen on her first pie! I am jealous... as for the cherry jam, maman, if you can't figure out what to do with it --- save it for when we come to visit in November. We'll be more than happy to eat some of it up!
I remember when Amina & Whitney first got their dremel ... she couldn't find enough projects for it - she loved it! Very versatile :-) we used it quite a bit when redoing our kitchen floor, too.
And by the way, I wouldn't pay that much for a reproduction either. Err, IKEA? Yeah, it's Easton, so there's one in Beachwood now, too. I'm not too surprised. Beachwood has always been crazy expensive.
Posted by: Mara | June 28, 2004 6:39 AM
What does IKEA have to do with anything? I don't think that was where Gloria was, nor do I think there is an IKEA around here. No, this was more like a gallery of print art and very expensive, in my book. As I said to Merry, I like supporting living artists. I am going to stop over tonight after class and look at what she has that I can help her frame and hang. Apparently, she has a bunch of artwork -- which really doesn't surprise me, knowing her as I do -- but none on the walls. Which also doesn't surprise me.
Yucky, rainy, cold day today.
Posted by: Maman | June 28, 2004 3:20 PM
Art - living artists - mmmm. I bought some art in Norway. The frames cost more than the painting.
I blew my whole paycheck to bring home three paintings: one for Bj, one for Maman and one for Liza.
Bj used his as a door stop of some kind, or paperweight or something. Maman hung hers up in Mendon's room. Liza put hers on a hallway wall.
I wanted this very stark painting of an ice floe in a fjord with a tiny seal way out on the ice, off in the distance, but it was 2300Kr and I couldn't afford it.
Cherry jam...hmm, well, as my lovely and talented sister has pointed out, the recipients of any jam largesse would be very grateful indeed!
:)
Posted by: Nathan Dornbrook | June 29, 2004 8:14 AM
And I would gladly share it! But how? The 'getting-it-there' is problematic. Now, anyone who visits is welcome to take a jar with them. . .
Posted by: Maman | June 29, 2004 8:46 AM
No, I meant IKEA as in places that sell reprints of artwork CHEAPLY. I mean, so many places sell that sort of stuff, and then you just go and get it framed yourself. The reprints of Picasso & Modigliani that we had in our house in Columbus were from IKEA.
Posted by: Mara | June 29, 2004 9:59 AM