Saturday

Thanks to Jeannie, for telling me about the podcast for Bruce Springsteen's 30th anniversary of Born to Run. I listened to a couple of minutes - sounds like it's the DVD that's available, the same as we saw in the theater the night before the DVD was released. I saw in the TV Book that the concert portion is on PBS Tuesday - at 9:00 or 10:00 - check your local listings. If you can get past wanting to jerk that stupid hat off Bruce's head, this is some fantastic concert footage!

Please check out Jeannie's photos linked above - she is amazing. Dad - I think you especially will enjoy all of her nature photographs.

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The page for my holiday cards is up. I only have a link to it on the home page - will be fixing the rest after I post this entry. Buy early, buy often! Free shipping!

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I went to two craft shows yesterday; Lordy, there were a lot available! One was an open house at a row of artist studios off Turk Hill Road in Fairport. I know one of the artists and have always wanted to see what those spaces look like. I have no need to rent a space - just wondered how big and how much. I bought this polymer clay pin - her show special - to wear on my coat. I'm quite sure that center piece is a cane; they just fascinate me. The canes are built with ropes of clay, then reduced by rolling and squeezing. She sliced a thin slice and applied it over a round white clay disk. I've seen people make amazing faces and all kinds of detailed work with canes. Cool stuff.

I then went to the show at School 46, off Blossom Road. I worked that show with MJ last year and she asked me to work with her this year. I agreed to, but only for a few hours because I was going to Geva Theater in the afternoon. Turns out she didn't need me, which was really just fine with me. I went to check it out and get the organizer's name and phone number. MJ had one of her snowman designs machine embroidered on her denim jacket - it was exquisite! She said the woman who did it for her is working on a pattern for it, which MJ will then sell. Great idea!

I also went to say hi to Holly since we've been emailing about our websites. I bought a piece from her at the Museum & Science Center show, as a gift and deeply regretted not buying something for myself. I went with the idea that I'd buy something reddish since I tend to gravitate towards blue/green/purple/turquoise all the time. And I wear a good deal of red. Man, the choices are numerous and the decision was hard! I ended up buying a piece, for a pendant, that has red in it but lots of other colors.

We were commiserating how difficult it is to keep up with updating our websites and she told me she has people 'stalking' her website and buy stuff the minute she puts it up! I should be so lucky!

I'll post pictures of both glass pendants later.

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I met Lynn and Linda at Geva - we saw Shear Madness which was just wonderful! The smile never left my face the entire time and it was laugh outloud funny a lot. It was cool because the characters were onstage when we arrived and stayed onstage during intermission. It's one of those audience participation plays, which turned out to be okay. The characters talk to the audience from the stage - that kind of participation. There were lots of local references and some were very current. Lots of fun.

We went to The Olive Tree Restaurant for dinner. We had a coupon in our Geva brochure for a free appetizer and it's very close to the theater. We had planned on going to the Dinosaur BBQ but there's a notoriously long wait and this was 6:30 Saturday night so we changed plans. We wanted someplace relatively quiet where we could talk, you know?

The food was good - we split a 3 meatball appetizer with lemon egg sauce. I had dish I couldn't pronounce but it was chicken and vegetables in a filo pastry - divine! I ate about 3/4 so I brought the rest home.

Oh - and Steve and I went to dinner at Otto Tomato, in Victor, on Friday night, after work. I had Penne Alfred with Grilled Chicken - and there some of that in the refrigerator too! I guess I know what I'm eating today.

I took some close-ups of the snowmen and snow-related stuff on the mantle but I'll show those another day.