This is me ... "Monday Morning Walkabout, Doing the Ten on Tuesday & Family Reunion News"

Therese & I resumed our Monday Morning Walkabouts yesterday after a short hiatus.  We decided to go check out the "Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture" instead of braving to outdoor elements.  The Burke Museum has been operating as part of the University of Washington since 1899 and had several interesting exhibits. 

The first exhibit that we looked at was titled "Peoples of the Plateau Arts: The Indian Photographs of Lee Moorhouse, 1898-1915" & "This Place Called Home" and was a traveling exhibit. 

There was an interesting display of basketry, bead, shell & leather work by the Plateau Indians of the Palouse & Columbia River Basin area of Washington state .  It included old & new examples of basketry, bead, shell & leather work by peoples of the Walla Walla, Yakima, Nez Perce, Umatilla & Wanapum tribes.   There was also written & oral testimony's by the artists where they spoke of their heritage, culture and what their art work means to them - Beautiful work.

The "Lee Moorhouse" exhibit is on loan from the University of Oregon and was just a minute sampling of the over 9000 photographs that Moorhouse took.  Moorhouse, "an amateur photographer and agent of the Umatilla reservation ... took over 9,000 pictures in and around Pendleton, Oregon documenting this transitory period of Pacific Northwest culture as it moved from frontier life to the modern era."

The most interesting thing about the photographic collection by Lee Moorhouse was that many of the photo's were actually staged and to be used as marketing Ads for the Pendleton Mills Company.

There were also several other exhibits such the, "Rare Birds of China by J. Fenwick Lansdowne" which is a collection of 32 limited edition  prints (similar in style to John James Audubon as well as several long-term exhibits about Washington 'State. 

It is a very nice museum and it was a great outing!  We even got a small - micro walk out of it as there was some sort of Band thing at the university and the parking was FULL.  We had to park a distance from the Museum and walk back to it (there was a hill involved).

Another Tuesday means  Another Question

What are the
"Top Ten things you could / should be doing instead of watching TV?"

I actually don't watch TV that much anymore - just certain shows off TV.  It is very rare that I just sit in front of the TV and channel surf (which I used to do all the time).

1. Scrapbooking - either digital or paper!  I have recently started doing a minimum of 20 minutes scrapbooking every day.
2. Exercising - I have rejoined the YMCA & started going there 3x's a week.
3. Working my MK / CL business - surprise!  Nothing happens if I don't so I need to start working at it every day!
4. Gardening - while it's not full-on gardening season yet (and I have the world's smallest yard) I do have some grasses that need pruned - pots that need cleaned out etc.
5. Volunteer - I need to decide where I want to volunteer and get started!
6. Read - I have so many books queued up to read.  I am currently reading "The Devil in the White City", "Collapse" and "The Patterson Principals of Selling".  I have at least 75 lined up and ready to go and I won't even mention all the magazine I have sitting in my office.
7. Go to the Movies - there are so many great movies that I want to go see - Juno, Charlie Wilson's War, Atonement, We are the Spartans etc
8. Play a game with another Human - not a computer game!  I sit at my computer far, far too much and I have decided to make a concerted effort to NOT SIT by myself on the computer for most of the day & night.  I am going to get up and move and regulate how much time I spent sitting here.
9. Go see a Play - I was just talking about this yesterday.  I am going to start taking the bus into the city to meet Mike at work at least once a month so we can start going to see some plays, museum etc.
10. Organize my bills, finances & filing - it is an ongoing mess!

Well - what's on your list?

Hey EVERYONE

I made an executive decision (sorry to jump ahead solo) and booked the Cultus Lake Community Hall for the family reunion but  I was starting to get worried that we might lose out if we didn't get moving on it and let people know before it got to late.

We had talked about having in Saturday August 16th but that day was already booked and so I booked SATURDAY, AUGUST  9th to hold it.   

HELP:  Okay, here's the deal - they have to rental session daily on the weekends - from 9am - 4pm and then 5pm until midnight.  I went ahead and booked the 9-4pm session.  Is everyone okay with that????  Any suggestions - Ideas - Input?????

If you look on the :Family Reunion" page it lists the amenities that the hall comes with. 

What next - Jenny volunteered to put together the invitations - JEN should we all start emailing you addresses?  How are you planning to do it?  What are you planning to do. 

Sarah do you want us to email you people's email addresses so you can send out a "Recipe SOS" for the family cookbook?

Any other ideas???????
- N -

Hey Jen - Okay, I'll split the difference with you and accept your offer of 3 more weeks of winter!  Thanks.

Comments

[Sandra]

Ten things I should be doing....probably watching tv...ha ha ha....I don't have cable and spend so much time working (my marking) and doing CityU work that I feel like I never have time relax...but 10 "I shoulds," that's easy:
1. organize my sewing/craft room
2. purge/organize my files (usually a Jan job)
3. well, organize/purge/deep clean every room in my house
4. phone the people I feel I have been neglecting
5. go to yoga regularly
6. go to the physiotherapist about my back
7. stop eating chocolate while fooling around on the computer
8. plan my summer holidays (I promised myself that not another summer would go by without my going away)
9. make a giant "to do" list of all the things I want to do...ie> learn Italian...etc
10. stop playing arachnid all the time - it is my biggest time suck!!!

N, as for movies....Juno is quite fabulous - hard not to like - the sound track is pretty funky too....Charlie Wilson's War was very watchable and the cast is great....Philip Seymour Hoffman is, as always, wonderful.....Atonement was ok...not quite up to the hype I thought....and let me know about the last one...I don't know anything about it...I am still trying to get to Savages...remember the trailer for that??? Anyway, gotta go play Archnid before I need to start marking...sigh......s

[jennifer sullivan]

O.K. I guess what I'm gonna need is a master list of all the family that an invitation will be sent out to , does anyone have a list of all the family , and then yes if everyone can send me any mailing address they have for people that would be great and I will source out the rest through internet and such. My e-mail is
sulldog@shaw.ca
later jen

[Sandra]

Hey Jen - I will check and see what I have left from Grandma & Grandpa's 50th....I should have names and addresses....although, actually - N - wasn't it you who mailed out the invites??? In that case, Nanc would have the list & addresses.....in the meantime, I will see what I have......sand

[Sarah B]

For the recipe part of it; once the list of invites is compiled I will start trying to contact everyone I can via e-mail and letter mail if they do not have e-mail. We will go from there. I would hope to have all of the recipes in to me by the beginning of May so we should probably get started on the invite list pretty quick. Also, people will be in full swing of making their summer plans right now. How are you approaching the cost of everything??

Sarah B