All dressed up yet again, and heading to one of our regular gigs. Still feeling a bit elated about this past weekend, and with luck, the feeling won't fade. Watching Jurassic Park right nowm and it's bringing back memories of how Alan was after we had seen it at the cinema. He was totally googled eyed, and was so well behaved on the way home. *snicker* At least his big brother, Paul, didn't tease him or try to scare him.
Oct. 31st, 2005
Great time today
Oct. 31st, 2005 04:59 pmThere is something about having a regular performance schedule that just can't be beat. :) We traded time slots with Andy, a folk singer, just so we could try dancing with the lunch crowd around. Pete was worried we would be in the way of lunch goers, but nothing could be further from the truth. Because of the table set up, we were easily out of the way, and were able to dance between tables and were able to also go to different areas where people were sitting.
Came home, and decided to give myself a pampering henna treatment. My poor mop is a bit abused from all the braiding and twisting. Nothing like a neutral henna to give it some strength, and smoothness back. It's just the 90 mins of waiting that gets to me. Impatient, I guess.
Came home, and decided to give myself a pampering henna treatment. My poor mop is a bit abused from all the braiding and twisting. Nothing like a neutral henna to give it some strength, and smoothness back. It's just the 90 mins of waiting that gets to me. Impatient, I guess.
Technically work safe
Oct. 31st, 2005 08:36 pmCorrective surgery set for Glooscap
By MARY ELLEN MacINTYRE Truro Bureau
TRURO - The Truro Power Centre's 12-metre statue of Glooscap, legendary symbol of the Mi'kmaq, will soon lose an unwanted illusory protrusion.
Some motorists travelling Highway 102 toward Truro claim the statue looks like it has an appendage not intended by its sculptor emerging from its midriff.
Ribald humour and giggling 10-year-olds aside, the illusion is being taken seriously.
"We may have to take the arm off and get it bent up a little bit more and get his fingers on a staff with an eagle on the end of it, to take that illusion away," said Lawrence Paul, chief of Millbrook First Nation.
The chief said Monday that Atlantex Creative Works in Chezzetcook will make a staff to put in the statue's hand, thereby eliminating any illusion.
Truro artist Bruce Wood made the initial design for the statue. "They must have strayed just a bit from the grid and scale of the (model) and designs I gave them," said Mr. Wood, chuckling a little.
"I guess the arm is too long and if you look at it from that angle there is an illusion," he said.
Atlantex made the statue from fibreglass. It depicts a North American aboriginal with rippling muscles and traditional dress.
Kevin Baker, Atlantex's vice-president of operations, said no one intended the statue to be quite so anatomically correct ... or incorrect.
"It wasn't noticed until it was assembled on the site.
"It was really quite a feat to assemble the statue ... and then someone gets at a 360-degree angle to find something ridiculous."
Atlantex, in business for 25 years, makes interpretive panels and custom exibits. One of its best-known creations is the mastodon for Mastodon Ridge, at the Stewiacke exit of Highway 102.
( The 'surgical' patient )
By MARY ELLEN MacINTYRE Truro Bureau
TRURO - The Truro Power Centre's 12-metre statue of Glooscap, legendary symbol of the Mi'kmaq, will soon lose an unwanted illusory protrusion.
Some motorists travelling Highway 102 toward Truro claim the statue looks like it has an appendage not intended by its sculptor emerging from its midriff.
Ribald humour and giggling 10-year-olds aside, the illusion is being taken seriously.
"We may have to take the arm off and get it bent up a little bit more and get his fingers on a staff with an eagle on the end of it, to take that illusion away," said Lawrence Paul, chief of Millbrook First Nation.
The chief said Monday that Atlantex Creative Works in Chezzetcook will make a staff to put in the statue's hand, thereby eliminating any illusion.
Truro artist Bruce Wood made the initial design for the statue. "They must have strayed just a bit from the grid and scale of the (model) and designs I gave them," said Mr. Wood, chuckling a little.
"I guess the arm is too long and if you look at it from that angle there is an illusion," he said.
Atlantex made the statue from fibreglass. It depicts a North American aboriginal with rippling muscles and traditional dress.
Kevin Baker, Atlantex's vice-president of operations, said no one intended the statue to be quite so anatomically correct ... or incorrect.
"It wasn't noticed until it was assembled on the site.
"It was really quite a feat to assemble the statue ... and then someone gets at a 360-degree angle to find something ridiculous."
Atlantex, in business for 25 years, makes interpretive panels and custom exibits. One of its best-known creations is the mastodon for Mastodon Ridge, at the Stewiacke exit of Highway 102.
( The 'surgical' patient )
