Friday, January 15

Skipped my exercises this morning, so Hubbie and I could shop at a flea market for bottles, and then go to the grocery store for cole slaw makings, and to the barbecue shack for pork barbecue for lunch. I found several nice bottles at the flea market. A rack of seven nicely shaped bottles intended for oils was very reasonably priced, because two of the bottles are missing, which didn't bother me, since all I want is the bottles, anyway. I found another rack of four cute spice bottles for only a dollar, and two small jars for fifty cents each.



We decided to have barbecue sandwiches and baked sweet potatoes for lunch, so we wouldn't be overly hungry around 6 p.m., when we went to a "Night at the Museum" event. Refreshments at the event included little sandwiches, veggies and dip, pigs in a blanket, sausage balls, spicy roll-ups, and a variety of cookies for dessert.



This afternoon, before the event, Hubbie and I went downtown to the art gallery to help haul items for sale to the museum. The arts council director and one other lady, plus Hubbie and I, moved tables, draped bookcases with black cloth, and then set up art-for-sale displays on the tables. The art included ceramic pieces, raku vases, handmade jewelry, wood art, and stained glass items. Easels between the tables featured framed artwork.

After we got home from setting up the art, I went upstairs to my office and did a bunch of filing. If I'd do this more regularly, it wouldn't be such a chore. But just as with my e-mail inbox, I procrastinate at filing paper stuff, too.

Around 6 p.m., we went to the museum. I wasn't sure what the turn-out for the event would be, since it had been postponed from last week, but there was wall-to-wall people. It was a fun evening that included a very good Charlie Chaplin mime (played by a woman), who thoroughly entertained both children and adults. When we got to the museum, the mime was standing on a stool, frozen in a stance that included holding her arms out. She has to be in very good physical shape to do that. She is an artist-in-education from another state, who is working with kids in the schools here.

At various spots around the museum, local folks dressed in period costumes talked about their eras and the people who inhabited our town during that era. There was an 1800s covered wagon area, a horse-drawn carriage area, a 1940s canning kitchen area, a frontier home area, a Civil War area, an American Indian area, and others. At each, there was an item out of place...for instance, there was a bicycle tire attached to the back of the covered wagon, a piece of tin foil in the American Indian area, a 2010 calendar in the frontier area, and an airborne patch in the Civil War area. There were ten different areas, and participants were encouraged to list the out-of-place items on a sheet that was then entered into a drawing for a Wii door prize. We found all the items, but we didn't win the Wii. Likewise, we didn't win the flat screen TV at the end of the evening.

While the event was going on, a chamber music group from the local arts magnet school entertained.

Of course, as usual, we saw and talked to lots of folks we know. The event ended at 8 p.m., and we headed home. Since I ate very little at the museum, I had a bowl of cereal and some toast when I got back.

Then we watched a movie..."Vantage Point," a PG-13 film starring Dennis Quaid, Matthew Fox, and Forest Whitaker. In Spain, the U.S. President speaks to a crowd and is shot. Then there's an explosion that kills a bunch of people. This scene is repeated over and over, showing the event from the vantage point of various people...the TV control room, the security guard, the president, the terrorist, and various others.