sweet but not innocent

I shouldn't have encouraged his poor behavior by taking pictures.

(The third and forth pictures were taken just moments after the first two, after I left the room for a bit... sigh... "this is why we can't have nice things"...)

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small but wonderous details of a day

Last weekend I had a day that started with this:

Included this:

And this:

And ended with this:

And I call that a "good day"...

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1. A double-yolker egg. I always read these as a good omen of fun times ahead. I assign superstitious meanings to random events in my life all the time. I once read that this is actually a mental disorder - but it's kind of fun so I remain happily undiagnosed.

2. This stack of post-bread-baking-bowls reminded me of an Aardvark... and I feel it is important that you know that.

3. A friend's baby's first time in a lake. Splashing!

4. Driving home from the lake we witnessed a Cat-Versus-Skunk-Stand-Off. We actually turned the car around to go back and watch it. Our viewing ended with the skunk running away, the cat in hot pursuit. Sort of a Reverse-Pepe-LePew-Situation. I imagine that it still ended badly for the cat...

beautiful bills

My days have been busy busy lately so haven't been able to make much art or post many photos... but I see that the internet has survived without my input. Shocking!

Anyway, yesterday I was back at the Laboratory. Cleaning out the old stuff, making way for new stuff. It's really starting to take shape.

Most of the old scientist's stuff is gone now and there is much more space for the new scientist to work in.

There was a surprising amount of personal effects left in the lab and it was very interesting to piece together a picture of the old scientist's life through the objects left behind. I felt like a private eye.

The dear old man has past on and I shan't tell tales about him here except to say he was Greek and I think he was a good guy and a busy scientist.

Yesterday I found a folder full of old Greek money. I've never been to Greece or seen it's money...

It's beautiful old paper through don't ya think?

in-between painting

layers of paint and shape. i don't know how i started or where i'm going with these - i just do them over to the side of my work space when i get bored, stuck, tired or annoyed with what i'm doing.

Misc.

This is the view from my home/office right now (I'm procrastinating).

I think the whole paddle-boat fleet must have been unleashed out there! Nice day for it.

And here are some gems from my lab-clean-up project from yesterday. I spent most of the day clearing out five over-flowing, 4-drawer filing cabinets. So far the oldest thing I've found is a manuscript from 1958. I found a reprint (from 1962) of Francis Crick's paper "The Genetic Code". Yes, THAT Crick. From science class. The double helix guy. Those were the glory days of science.

The cover of this journal will look familiar to most Canadians. CBC's "Gem Logo" came out in 1974.

These journal covers are luscious enough to make me want to do some Liquid Chromatography!

And a friendly reminder from the Feddy Gov (this message was only on sporadic file folders, not all... to keep you in suspense):

Dress 9 - The Dress Quest is Dead

Well, I made it to Dress Day #9 (which was actually Thursday past but I've been too otherwise-occupied to write here since then).

I started a temporary job (I'm a "casual" Fed for the next couple weeks) that involves being in a Scientific Laboratory. It requires biking to work and having to wear pants and shoes in the lab - so the dress-up is dead. I was growing a little bored with it anyway, truth be told.

The job is a fun one: cleaning up Husbo's new lab space which was previously occupied by another scientist for 30-odd years... and he was a bit of a pack rat!

This might not seem fun to very many people but it is almost heaven for me: old government furniture and surplus, old science manuals/gadgets, and the paraphernalia of a stranger's working life just sitting there to sift through - and getting paid for it!

I enjoy cleaning up and organizing really messy spaces. I find it very satisfying and it's something I'm good at.

So, that's the update on that.

This last dress wasn't even a dress but a skirt and long shirt. I'm mostly posting it because I took some adorable/stupid pictures of my stupid/adorable cat at the same time.

He and this rug really tie the room together. He loves that rug.

the elevator ate my homework

I found this homework/script about Organic Farming in my building's elevator and it is hilarious... I don't know what it says about the state of critical thinking and persuasive argument skills in our nation's youth but I've certainly been quoting it around the house all day...

"That's no moon! It's your vegetable!"

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