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I read the most recent Penzys One magazine in bed this morning, as Brian slept and Mal cuddled up to me. They mention an HBO series, John from Cincinnati, that I had never heard of before that I'm intrigued to check out. I'm not quite sure what we're doing with our rainy day, so perhaps we'll head out to Penzys to pick up some things and use our coupon for free adobo seasoning. There's lots of great recipes in this issue. I debate whether I want to continue this magazine subscription, because on the one hand there are excellent recipes and its always inspiring but on the other hand, once I've read one I often put it on the shelf to rarely flip through later (save for finding a recipe). It can be very educational, but I'm far too practical sometimes.
Last night I attended a fundraiser for Webster Rescue with my family. Dad created a painting for the Worcester 6 years ago (inspired by his friendship with one of the members of the station which lost those men), and has since donated proceeds from sales of the prints to various Firefighter related charities. There was dancing and piping Worcester Fire Brigade and various fundraising. Dad donated half of his sales of cards and prints to the charity and donated one large framed (signed, numbered) print for a raffle. I think a good deal of the ticket sales also went to the charity. There were about 250 people in attendance and Dad sold about $300 worth of stuff (he isn't sure yet what the tally on the raffle tickets was). It was fun hanging out with the fam and its neat to see Dad flourishing in his artistic endeavors after all of these years of him painting alone in the basement Wellesley, locking things up in the attic in Waltham for years (during poor financial situations) and then finally picking up the brush again after he and Mom got through a lot of huge hurdles. If you haven't yet, please check out his website. The pipers played a very sweet song again this year that I've heard them do a few times before, which for some reason always goes right through me The Water is Wide. I've never been a fan of pipes through the stereo (Dad always listened to piper albums) but there's something awe inspiring about seeing them live.
Iron Man was wonderful - go see it! :)
Last night I attended a fundraiser for Webster Rescue with my family. Dad created a painting for the Worcester 6 years ago (inspired by his friendship with one of the members of the station which lost those men), and has since donated proceeds from sales of the prints to various Firefighter related charities. There was dancing and piping Worcester Fire Brigade and various fundraising. Dad donated half of his sales of cards and prints to the charity and donated one large framed (signed, numbered) print for a raffle. I think a good deal of the ticket sales also went to the charity. There were about 250 people in attendance and Dad sold about $300 worth of stuff (he isn't sure yet what the tally on the raffle tickets was). It was fun hanging out with the fam and its neat to see Dad flourishing in his artistic endeavors after all of these years of him painting alone in the basement Wellesley, locking things up in the attic in Waltham for years (during poor financial situations) and then finally picking up the brush again after he and Mom got through a lot of huge hurdles. If you haven't yet, please check out his website. The pipers played a very sweet song again this year that I've heard them do a few times before, which for some reason always goes right through me The Water is Wide. I've never been a fan of pipes through the stereo (Dad always listened to piper albums) but there's something awe inspiring about seeing them live.
Iron Man was wonderful - go see it! :)
