Weeknotes: 7/9/23-7/15/23

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This Week:

We picked up my mother-in-law in Niagara Falls for a visit. We also took the opportunity to see the Falls, and to visit the wonderful Butterfly Conservatory nearby. We also availed ourselves of some wonderful Jamaican food, which I miss very much from my Toronto days.
I got some stuff around the house fixed, including a noisy furnace and a leaky basement pipe….in the sense that I called the guy who did it. Progress!
We did some more installation and preparation work on “Velocity and Position: The Human Figure at Motion and at Rest”
The Museum held another Crafternoons, this time with “masks” as the theme. This gave us an opportunity to get out some of our wonderful Mexican mask collection.
I finished reading Skandar and the Unicorn Thief with my kid, which felt like a post-Harry Potter literary version of The Mattel and Mars Bar Quick Energy Choco-bot Hour.
With my wife and mother-in-law, we watched Howard Hawks' screwball comedy “Bringing up Baby” on the Criterion Channel, which is completely bonkers and a lot of fun.
I’ve been rocketing my way through “The Books of Earthsea” which are as delightful and enchating as everyone says. This week I finished both “A Wizard of Earthsea” and “The Tombs of Atuan”, with illustrations by the great Charles Vess.