Fifteen Seconds

Fifteen seconds of Fame.  Bruce had his this week.  I only got 3.4 seconds, but that is just fine with me, LOL.

The Leonardo (The Leo, for short), a science/technology and art museum where Bruce works was featured this week on a local Fox news station.  Of the 6 segments they did, Bruce and his newly-developed tinkering studio were one of them.

You can watch it (or not) here:

http://fox13now.com/2012/07/12/museum-helps-kids-create-simple-machines/

And then I was grocery shopping and picked up some of Bruce`s favorite cheese (an aged sharp white cheddar). The Tillamook (a brand of cheese; they are a national cooperative of farmers) were there and stopped me and asked if they could take my picture.  What? Me?  Um… OK, I guess.  Smile.  Click. And then they emailed the picture to me.  Whatever!

http://www.tillamook.com/community/loaflovetour/photos/7563750584

They also gave me a little button to pin on that said “I Loaf You” (get it? A LOAF of cheese).  I gave it to Bruce when he got home from work, as it was our 9th wedding anniversary that day.  And then we went out to dinner.

No cheese, just fish.  :-)

Yesterday I pieced a quilt for one of my grandkids for Christmas.  Today I will square it up and hopefully pin baste it.  Can’t decide whether to begin quilting it or move on to piecing the next one. Decisions, Decisions.

And since we do not want a pictureless post, and it has been as hot as hell (literally) here and around the country, I thought I would just insert a picture from winter before last. A shot from Wheeler Farm, a block from my house in January of 2011.

Let’s pretend it’s cool outside!   

Feel better now?

Until next time,

Arts Festival

I should start right off by saying I thought the Utah Arts Festival was awful, and so were my pictures.  It was so hot, we were there in the closing hours of the last day, and I was really not in the mood.  But all that negativity aside, I truly believe that most boutiques and Farmers Markets I go to have a better variety of wares.

I was impressed with these sand sculptures, though. They were created as one piece, two sides.  Back in the day (in the 1980’s and 1990’s) when I was a mall marketing director, we used to have sand sculpture contests on an annual basis.  This is a lot more complicated and larger than anything we ever had.

Then there was this gentleman, below. I don’t know what he was doing/proving/saying/singing, but he was a fun photo op.  Also, I deduced that he must be crazy; it was over 100 degrees, and look at what he’s wearing.

We watched the belly dancers for awhile.  Sorry I couldn’t get a better picture; we were not close at all, so I was using the zoom feature.

One corner of the sprawling venue (one city block wide and several city blocks long) abutted up to the old Salt Lake Library.  This building is now the home of The Leonardo, the science, technology and art museum where Bruce works.  I came uptown to meet him there, then when he got off work, we went to the Festival.  Again, it doesn’t look very crowded because this was a remote corner and it was near the end of the final day.

Here is a closer picture of The Leonardo, with its odd logo. 

And here is Bruce wearing his Leonardo staff shirt. Their color is hot pink!  He is checking out the dulcimers in this booth.  Bruce plays the dulcimer in addition to guitar, banjo and harmonica.  He also says that if they ever have an older version of American Idol (he proposes “American Geezer”), he will audition!

Today, Sunday, we are waiting for my son Shane and DGD London to come over. London will swim in our little kiddie pool for awhile, then we will all take Shane to dinner for his 33rd birthday, which was yesterday. 

Take care and keep cool! (unless you’re in the southern hemisphere, then keep warm!)

Hugs,

A Few Links for you to Check out

I have been battling a cold for a few days and have not felt up to getting much done in the way of stitching or working on my Etsy shop.  But I think the worst is over, so I will spend some time photographing things I want to show you this weekend.  :-)

In the meantime, I thought it might be fun to show you a few things.

This video was made by UTCX (Utah CycloCross) - it was a cycling race held at Wheeler Farm three times during October, right in the middle of our busiest month.  But it was fun to watch, and even if you don`t dig the soundtrack, the footage has a lot of wonderful scenes of Historic Wheeler Farm, where I worked for 3.5 years as a bookkeeper (I just retired).  The Farm is literally a one-block walk from my home.

http://grizzlyadam.net/2011/10/utcx-5-video.html

Secondly, DH Bruce is now volunteering at The Leonardo, a newly-opened arts, sciences, technology and culture museum.  In fact, he is not only on their home page, but was a featured interviewee on Veterans Day.  See that article here.   Later today (Friday) he is volunteering and will get to meet the first US Adaptive Bobsled Team. Each of the members wears a prosthetic limb.

So, that`s my short, picture-less post for today. But I`ll be back to talk to you soon.

Hugs,