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The Farewell

Movies

A Chinese family, living in New York, receive word that their matriarch is dying. All of her family return to China on the pretext of a wedding because no one wants to tell her that she is dying.

Seems sad, but it is all quite humorous and I loved the relationship between the grandmother and granddaughter (who feels her grandma has the right to know).

Pat and I sat through all the credits just to find out the name of one of the songs in the soundtrack! Although we could hum along to it and knew the words we didn’t know the name.

Barely a dent

Journal

I was aiming to get a lot done today but I’ve barely made a dent in the pile. I had an opening at the Hall this morning so I told Pat I’d buy him breakfast at the Magpie Diner. I was a bit early at the Hall and it’s a good thing – the contractors were just beginning to move their equipment out of the Hall and everything was covered in dust. Since it was a Somatic Movement class (on the floor) I knew the Hall had to be clean so I got to work. Fortunately the renter was a bit late so by the time she arrived I had cleaned everything up.

I did a bit of computer work but for most of the day I’ve been emptying and refilling bins. My Tuesday bin has been sorted and is ready for tomorrow’s session. I cut and sorted a lot of scraps and squared up 96 half-square triangles for tomorrow’s project. My Show and Tell for tomorrow night is ready to go, even if my report isn’t.

The bag that Pat brought back from Texada for me is unpacked – that resulted in a whole bunch more scraps that need to be dealt with. Do those scraps ever end?

The file folder of paperwork I was given yesterday at the Hall still needs to be dealt with but the cheque has been written so it is only for my own record keeping that I need to sort it all out.

In the time I have between now and the movie (Cinematheque Night) I’ll work on my report for the Guild meeting tomorrow.

I’ve been busy

Cards, Journal

Tuesday, October 1, 2019

I spent the weekend on Texada and managed a bit of sewing. I made this Scottie Dog block for my friend at the Guild who gave me the tin cup last week. I don’t generally piece over there but I wanted it done for today so there was no choice. The plaid fabric is from Mum’s bin. I also worked on quilting a quilt but I ran out of time to get it finished. It is my Show and Tell for the November Guild meeting so I still have enough time to get it done.

With cooler fall weather I’m finding the workshop quite cold. We still haven’t had the stove looked at but this week we are going to buy a small heater for the space. Even once the wood stove is working it will take awhile for it to warm things up; we might get something that cools as well as heats so the studio won’t be quite so hot in summer.

I came home on the noon ferry on Monday as I had some Hall work to do. Once I was home I had requests for show tickets and then I had to have some an extra cheque signed for the Hall. There were Rental Agreements to pick up, deposits to prepare, and a couple of Hall showings to work out the timing for. Fortunately I was able to find someone to do a Hall opening on the weekend but I’m heading out soon for a showing and then again tomorrow morning for an opening. It never stops but I guess I must like it or I’d quit.

It was fun to be back sewing today. Although the new UFO Challenge was probably posted yesterday I worked on my September Challenge today. I’m happy with my progress on this for the month; I finished the cutting and sewing for five clues and I managed to get the first block put together today.

Seven Days

Books

Author: Patrick Senecal

I read this book very quickly, not because it was short (300+ pages) but because I couldn’t put it down. I was quite a few pages in before I realized this is a Canadian writer and the crime is set in Quebec.

A young girl is raped and murdered and the man arrested for the crime has confessed and DNA evidence proves he was the monster. For the first few days her parents mourn her death but after the arrest her father, surgeon Dr. Hamel, goes completely off the rails. He kidnaps the killer and plans to torture him for seven days, at which time he will kill the monster and turn himself in to the police. Will the madness prevail or will the police find his hiding place in time?

Some of the descriptions of the torture are quite brutal and I was glad to be reading, for the most part, on a sunny day.

Goodreads Rating: * * * *