For the seventh or eighth or ninth time – I’ve lost count – Steve and I returned to “adult camp” at The Haliburton School of Art & Design (as it is now known). Those who are reading this might be Read More …
WARNING: As this week is Travel & Leisure Photography week, be forewarned that you are about to be bombarded… (oh, and the cheating continues this week as I’m already pretty proficient with a DSLR camera) Monday – July 7th: Read More …
Monday – June 30th: Flash! Rumble! Crash! Repeat… Day 3 in Haliburton, day 1 at art camp – done – and what a storm! Somehow we managed to get out of the college locations (Steve’s in one, I’m in another), Read More …
Friday, August 9, 2013 OK, so it’s been a month since we returned from adult camp in Haliburton and I’ve been remiss in updating my final projects. Did I mention we had to rent a small U-Haul trailer to get Burton home? Read More …
Friday – last day of Ukulele lessons, last day of Haliburton School of the Arts (this year). Yesterday, we worked hard at our repertoire in preparation for our mini concert today. We chose 5 pieces – Feeling Groovy (strumming chords), Read More …
Day 2 & 3 – week 2: So, moving along at a steady clip, but also going back frequently and reviewing, which is providing some much needed feelings of “I can do this”. On Monday, I resisted the urge to Read More …
Day 1 – week 2: Ukulele!!!! Well that was fun, and a bit challenging, too. I’m going to learn stuff that I’ve either forgotten over the past 40 years (reading music) or haven’t taught myself yet (scales and finger picking). Read More …
Sunday: we’ve been lucky with weather all week. It’s either been hot and sunny or hot and overcast, but we’ve dodged the threat of rain every day – until today. So, we had another lazy morning, hanging around until about Read More …
Day 5 – last day of class! As the rest of my classmates spent a considerable amount of time making the tails of their “big birds” fancy, I was able to catch up and finish at the same time as Read More …
Happy Canada Day!!! Monday, Canada Day, we were up early, fed, and off to camp! What a day! There are six of us in our wire sculpture class, all women, and we’re going to make three different sizes of herons Read More …