The quilt bomb was declared a success. The YouTube video hasn't exactly gone viral, but has about 2000 views and has spawned at least one copycat already. The museum was so delighted, they have decided to remove the installation and make the pieces a permanent part of the museum collection. Peggie's group has "officially" made history!
Now she is engaged in her online class on abstraction. If you thought abstract art was what toddlers do with finger paints, you were wrong. There really is a lot involved in properly executed abstract art. The good part is that she gets to spend hours in the studio. That can't be bad.
Meanwhile, I am trying to get that re-landscaping work done. We acquired some adobe blocks many years ago when some friends were moving. I just got around to paving a section of the yard with them last week. I am not breaking my back, or acting like there is a deadline. I work when I feel like it and stop when I get tired. I am sitting in the shade, sipping lemonade, reading, listening to birds, and watching lizards between moving shovels of dirt and placing of rocks. I have noticed a pair of birds in the yard which I have not been able to identify. They must be strays. Probably up from Mexico. We have several hummingbird feeders up, drawing a nice crowd of colorful hummers. Even the woodpeckers and finches are finding ways to get at the nectar.
We've been to see a couple of movies. There is an experience that has changed in our lifetimes. As a kid I could see a double feature on Saturday afternoon for a dime. Usually, at least one of the films was black and white. You could go in, find a seat and stay as long as you wanted. Meaning they didn't clear the theater between shows. If you came in after the feature began, you stayed until you got to the scene you remembered came on again. Even if there was another movie in between. The phrase "this is where I came in" originated from that experience. Most people would then get up to leave. But you didn't have to. You could watch the entire movie again. But, one other thing. The theater, 500 seats or so, was always more than three quarters full. The first run movies that were shown in the evening might be so popular that they sold out. Go to the movies now and you get a theater that is one of a dozen in the same building, 200 or so seats in each, and it is more than three quarters empty. Fewer than thirty joined us for an early afternoon screening yesterday. But the seats are way more comfortable, they recline, have cup holders in the arm rest, and are arranged so that nobody's big head can block your view of the screen. They clear the theater at the end, so don't arrive late, and a ticket costs more than a dime. Where I used to get two full length features, a cartoon, a newsreel (remember those?) a box of popcorn, a coke, and a candy bar for a quarter, now I pay (senior discount!) $5.25 for one feature, no treats, and I have to watch advertising until the previews (more advertising) start before I get the movie.
Today is the first cold (under 60) day in a long time. It is too cold to work outside without a jacket, and too warm to work with one. Oh well, I have some good books and a few magazines.
2 comments:
Ah, true retirement! Some good books and a few magazines!
Good comment about changes in our lifetime, and the origin of a common phrase. Kind of like "dialing" a phone. As our generation goes, people will have to look up many words and usages like we do to find Old English origins. Funny how age changes your perspective on history!
Oh dad. You just described something regular people do all the time! You definitely need to watch more movies in the theaters, you know so the 'newness' wears off :)
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