The Leland Awards went well this past Saturday. I got to see people who hardly ever make it to the Museum any more. And I learned that the Museum Director was not merely tolerating my plans for a "mini special event" this July 20th, for the 50th Anniversary of the Moon Landing, but was fully supporting the project. This past Sunday, things didn't go quite so well: The plan was a concert at Disney Hall (organist Paul Jacobs in a recital program of Bach, Mozart, Ives, and Liszt). Unfortunately, something I'd eaten disagreed violently with me, and before I'd even made it to the Blue Line station, the fireworks had started going off in my lower intestine. I had to turn around, and even had to stop twice on the way back home, to lie down for a few minutes. Then, after "the runs" subsided, either my cold relapsed, or I'd come down with another cold. This weekend will probably be a fairly uneventful day at the Museum. Maybe I'll find the time to set some more type for the Apollo Day event.
The Apollo Day event (of which I have living memory!) sound exciting. Sorry to hear about your illnesses. Hope you are 100% for the weekend.
I still have to check the weather to see if we can go where we planned. May head south to Death Valley instead.
I couldn't help but think as I got up this morning at 4:30 to go to work that if I had gone to the beach yesterday I would currently still be in bed fast asleep...oh well. I will be stopping off at the store after my mini-happy hour with Cheryl to pick up some essentials including some wine for the snow days to come. Where were you guys planning on going this weekend? If it's anywhere in OR/WA I would turn south to Death Valley too... Bummer about last Sunday @Marlin Perkins . I hope that this weekend yields plenty of planning for your Apollo event.
The whole state is covered with clouds. Where it is not raining it is snowing. Even Death Valley is expecting 1.5 inches. So, I think I will go out and sulk in my RV!
Very bummed about the weather "event" over the weekend. It didn't even stick around long enough for me to get a snow day off of work. I should've gone to the beach because I only would've been snowed in for an extra day instead of the five they were forecasting.
Saturday: I got to the Museum, and with no other immediate project, I decided to see if I'd learned anything by watching (and occasionally assisting) Juan, when he printed bags on the Windmill. (Flat paper merchandise bags have a well-deserved reputation for being horrendously difficult to print on a power-fed press, both because the thickness is uneven, and because they are often stuck together.) And as it happens, I had a nearly-full carton of souvenir-card bags. So I took a stack, and tried feeding it, with a setup like he'd used. Remarkably, they weren't being dropped, and they weren't being double-fed. So I threw a forme together, and inked it up. By 1 in the afternoon, I was washing up the press after going through the entire carton with surprisingly few problems. As I was getting the last of the ink off (I have a very simple standard on washup: if you can eat off the ink plate, you're done; if not, keep going), a fellow docent, who had, for a couple of years, been content to do the most menial "grunt-work" jobs nobody else wanted, approached me with a stack of note cards she had rescued from being thrown out, wanting to try printing on them. I finished the washup, we discussed it while I ate lunch (I'm assuming she'd already eaten), and then I gave her a quick introduction to the Ludlow machine, so she'd have a type forme to print from, and then I got her started on a simple hand-lever clamshell platen press, slightly smaller than the Pilot press I'd used in college. Because time was short, and she'd had no prior graphic arts experience, I did the more complicated tasks myself. And then, yes, I finally cast some Ludlow slugs for the mock newspaper front page for my Apollo Day special event. Sunday, I'd hoped to find time to change the oil on my car, but the periods of clear daylight were all too brief for that.
Our weather was not nearly as bleak as predicted here either. But Rod now has some obligations so we are stuck at home. Hopefully, next week will be better. My daughter got all that was promised and then some. They have no school for a couple of days. This weekend will probably be spent cleaning up in general.
I have no idea what this coming weekend has in store for me. I am hoping that I will be able to spend some time with my cousin before she goes back home on Saturday. She lives in the Bend area, and doesn't always make it into town very often.
This Saturday is a Boy Scout Merit Badge Day at the Museum. Imagine 80-100 Boy Scouts doing two Merit Badges in six hours, with little or no homework involved.
Well, we are having dinner out with friends on Friday. Then it looks like we will be doing Valentine's Day with our daughter's family on Saturday. With the grandkids and school; weekends work best for family get-togethers.
Probably printing another batch of slug request forms, given that we are running out, and the "Krazy Krafts Day for Kids" and a Book Arts Patch Day for Girls are both coming up next month. And they have to dry before they can be cut to rough size, padded, and trimmed to finished size. Also, that fellow docent I mentioned will probably get a more in-depth lesson in letterpress printing. And maybe I'll do something with the Christmas lights that still haven't been put away yet.
>>>And maybe I'll do something with the Christmas lights that still haven't been put away yet.<<< LOL! I have a bin in my bedroom to catch Holiday stuff that is still out. I add something to it almost every day still. We have tickets tonight to see the Chieftains. My husband's favorite but not my cup of tea. I will do my best to enjoy it. The rest of the weekend will be spent mowing, cleaning and packing so we can leave next week.
Well, remember that I pre-mount all the "architectural" lights on mouldings, so they can be put up and taken down quickly, and yet be arrow-straight and evenly spaced. In this case, I found that the cables were (1) getting caught between the moldings and the fascia boards when I was putting them up, and (2) were sticking out like a sore thumb. So before putting these strings away, I'm fastening the cables in place with hot-melt glue, and camouflaging them with the same color of paint as what they're mounted on. But given that I was fighting two colds and a case of the trots, when I wasn't off to a concert, the past few weeks, and it's been rather cold in the garage, I'm not quite half-finished with that process. Then again, with the storms, those strings were still up for most of January, because the ladder would have sunk into the mud.
Meeting with accountant this afternoon, then off to have an early dinner of Mongolian bbq. Hopefully, we'll have plenty of time to watch movies on tv. Sunday morning, as usual, I will go with my Dad for an early breakfast.
Ah yes, Mongolian barbecue. The Asian cuisine that's custom-made for the picky. Of course, you do know why it's called Mongolian barbecue, even though it's neither Mongolian, nor barbecue, and the supposed backstory about Genghis Khan throwing a party if he was able to conquer a group of people without bloodshed is pure fiction, don't you? It's a much catchier name than the more technically accurate "Taiwanese teppanyaki." BTW, my student did show up this past Saturday, and she managed to pick everything up much more quickly than I'd expected, and with much less supervision. And I was able to get the slug request forms printed, and get the Apollo 9 limited-edition souvenir card forme set up on the high-speed proof press. And while I didn't get the light string I was working on put away, it's now mostly ready for that.
I didn't know the history behind Mongolian bbq so I had to look it up. We've been going to the same restaurant for years. It is so filling that I can have it as a late lunch/ early dinner and refrain from eating anything else for the rest of the day.
We are leaving Wed afternoon and spending the night in Roseburg, OR. Then on to Renton Thurs. For the weekend we will be attending a dance at our grandchildren's homeschool co-op. I am excited cuz the theme is Disney. Trying to figure out which of my many Disney themed outfits to wear. I am leaning toward Sally. I would do Gazelle but am afraid my hem would get ruined.
