A day of art, just not my own

Gallery sat for Laura for 3 hours this afternoon. Visited Mary Wells's studio & Ming Wei's studio for the Portland Open Studios blog; will write them up next week and the week after, respectively. That was the whole day.

The movie tonight was Sicko. Michael Moore is his usual self -- it's informative, but you can't help but wonder what he's not telling you on the other side. The bit about Cuba is great. Although watching Moore in France, Canada, England, and then with the whole gang in Cuba, you can't help but notice that Moore and the other Americans are really big, and some are really overweight, compared to everyone else.

Why, those little industrious bugs...

I put in my veggie starts yesterday afternoon, and when I went out to look at them this morning, they were already bug eaten! A few of the chard leaves and bok choy leaves were completely eaten off!

A long and busy day today -- Suzy came out for a visit in the afternoon; worked on the grant assignment (I'm not finished), as well as reviewing Alex's assignment; then it was out to meet at Alex's studio for the critique group. We're still struggling with what to do with the collaborations -- 4 of us are liking the direction of where we're headed and 2 of us are not sure. We tried to work (just to make some thing) and talk about it tonight, but I don't think we can really work and have a serious conversation at the same time. No pictures from today. We're meeting at my place next month.