A fun evening crafting Chinese dragon puppets. All the students at the school will be making them soon, so we played to build samples and figure out ideas for materials needed.
Three souls expressed in our creative clan of dragons.
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Chinese Dragon Puppets
Jan 7
Chicken Soup for a Fall Day
Nov 15
There is nothing like homemade chicken soup for a cold fall day and it is even better with carrots from the garden and baby bok choy from the farmer’s market.
Chicken Soup
I have been my introverted, modest self and for a year or so not announced my YouTube.com videos here when I’ve posted them. The videos are largely weekend chores around the house that I need to remember how to do the next time around. So YouTube.com is my long-term memory and, it turns out, the videos are helpful to others.
Over the past year or so I’ve posted seven weekend chore videos that have been viewed over 30,000 times. I know it isn’t impressive compared to many videos, but my expectations were low. I didn’t really expect a video showing how to clean a bathtub drain with a lift-and-turn stopper would get over 14,000 views. Apparently I’m not the only one that has had trouble removing that stopper.
Perhaps some of my shyness related to the quality of the videos. Usually I’m on my own so the chore is performed and filmed just by me with the camera on a tripod or in one hand while I work with the other. No fancy lighting, just the camera’s microphone and I try to get it done in one take. (I did have to retake one portion of the Fisher & Paykel Diverter Valve Repair.)
Now of course I kick myself if I perform a chore and don’t tape it. Initially my family thought I was a bit silly posting the videos but the many positive comments received are proof that many of us need help with these small household chores and could all benefit from a shared and expanded memory.
Know Your Mojo
Aug 14
So I’m a matchmaker, I thought for sure I’d be a wallflower. Well at least I know my mojo and am doing my part to promote the new Yahoo! home pages.
PCC’s Poppe Panther
Aug 4
The Panther mascot at Portland Community College is really strutting his stuff as of late. He’s got a new video on YouTube.com and is pawing the latest happenings into Twitter. This is quite a break from the reclusive behavior I had been accustomed to from our Panther. Once rarely seen in the wilds on campus, Poppe is now spotted commonly on campus and across the Web.
Poppe Panther and his brethren form a proud ink of panthers to be mascots of schools. While I am aware of professional and university panther mascots, I was not aware of the population of panthers touting the mission of community colleges.
The first volume of The Chronicles of Goodfoot & Toaster: The Misunderstood Union is now available for the world. This soon-to-be cult classic tried in vain to avoid being posted online but finally relented to the throngs awaiting its release. The Misunderstood Union is loosely based upon actual events in the lives of our main characters.
(The Chronicles of Goodfoot and Toaster is a wedding card produced by a father-daughter team one fun afternoon.)
Kash, er, iKash
May 19
This is the money you could have saved going with Geico!
Daughter is either quite creative, watching too much TV or both.
Direct from phone to you.
Our morning started at the Reading Market which is always an exciting adventure of noise, smells and sights. Today was especially unique as it was Scrapple Fest Day!
Scrapple? You don’t know what scrapple is? Well I didn’t either and I’m still not sure I do. Pork, I know that. The other ingredients are a mystery to me. I know I could look it up but I’m not sure I want to. My impression after viewing and tasting is that scrapple is a browner version of Spam.
The truck below was a “Guess the Weight” contest. I guessed 35 pounds and was told I was close (as I’m sure everyone heard that missed) and awarded a balloon.
While I can’t say I enjoyed my sample of scrapple, I did thoroughly enjoy the atmosphere and excitement that Scrapple Fest brought to the market.
Philadelphia
Mar 21
The trip to Philadelphia has been great. We spent most of Friday at the Museum of Art. The museum is featuring a Cezanne exhibit highlighting his work and the works of the many artists influenced by Cezanne. Obviously I didn’t do my homework, I had no idea on the amazing works to experience including Van Gogh, Monet, and Degas.
The Friday night highlight was the Art After 5 jazz in the main hall. Tonight featured Tim Ries playing music from his Rolling Stones project. He was joined by vocalists Bernard Fowler and Magos Herrera. While the music suffered struggles with acoustics, the music and this event were a nice close to our evening.
The walk to the museum and the views from the museum back to downtown Philadelphia were nice on this cool dry day.
Life is good! Checking email to close out the night and see a message from Powells.com Events. Lemony Snicket is coming to town for a book signing. Exciting, right. Lemony Snicket, a new book, a signing and Lemony is joined at the signing by illustrator Carson Ellis.
The book, The Composer is Dead, is to be released March 3, 2009, and sounds unique from the review and comes packaged with a CD narrated by Lemony Snicket and music from the San Francisco Symphony.
I wonder if Snicket’s handler will be there assisting at the signing? I hear he’s quite a guy.
I’m excited and there is going to be one excited little girl in this house tomorrow morning!
