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Audience Choice Award – Sonoma International Film Festival Taking My Parents to Burning Man I was plucked from reality and whisked away to Oz, aka the Sonoma International Film Festival where my son and his partner in filmmaking had their world premier. There were swag bags: Fantastic accommodation: Photo ops: Press coverage during and after.…
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AKA Taking My Mom To The Sonoma International Film Festival. This is a continuation of the story of my son's first feature length documentary Taking My Parents to Burning Man, of a mom and dad accompanying their child to the place of his dreams. The world premier was at SIFF to a sold out crowd…
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1. C pointed out that our age difference gets smaller as we get older. M, perhaps this is one of the people from which you inherited the math genes? When he was 50 our age was 8% different. When he turns 100 there will only be a 4% difference. Someone has to think about these…
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According to recent stats, in Canada on the average, you get eight of these. If you reside south of the 49th parallel, you'll average seven. I'm about to have my sixth. I'm talking about the big birthdays that end in zero. They occur every ten years, but over time seem to come faster and more…
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I almost have an actual knitting picture, just waiting for the person who took it to send it. So you get painting. The second in the spider web series: I'm not thrilled with spider webs in real life but they sure are fun to paint. The photo of the covered bridge painting from my last…
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That's good advice for certain life situations. Not really for knitting. In knitting when you're done, you're done. That last stitch is the definitive end with the exception of tying in the ends and blocking, but technically, the last stitch is the official end of the knitting project. Not so with painting. You could fiddle…
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Pattern: High Speed Knitting (TGV - train grande vitesse) by Susan Ashcroft Yarn: Wollemeise Twin Colourway: Rhubarber Needles: US size 6 Thoughts: This pattern has two names as stated above. Me? I call it slow going; 250 meters of 2×2 ribbing… Need I say more? I started the ribbing when I was half way through…
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I know I've written this before, but all you people who have the opportunity to cross borders from one country to another, should make sure you are covered by health insurance. Tripping one foot over the line, travelling from Canada into the US for example, could cost you big bucks. Our family is the voice…
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Now that the holiday gifts are given I can post about the knitting. It's tough to keep a secret in blogland. It must have looked like I had abandoned knitdom, but truth be told, most everything knit was a gift. This one was for my niece, a college freshman. All dorm kids need the huggy…
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Despite having the flu shot in October, the flu bug bit me, hence my blogging absence. As my doctor said "You can imagine how bad it would have been if you hadn't have had the shot." I can't imagine. Thankfully it didn't hit until the 30th making our Christmas in the desert one with some…
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