June 9, 2008

Well the work continues... slowly but surely.  I'm about halfway finished with the mud walls and I don't think I could be done soon enough.  Somehow I don't really see a future for myself in the field of mud brick construction.  Luckily, though the weather has finally gotten nice again and I've had plenty to keep me distracted:  On Saturday I received a visit from some (more or less) long lost relatives who live in Minnesota and were nice enough to come see the sculpture park, take me to lunch and tell me a few stories about my dad.   Then yesterday, I discovered a really great junk shop in one of the nearby towns.  I bought a couple of things to use in my sculpture and the owner threw in an old "View-Master" projector for free.  It's just like the red plastic View-Master binoculars that I had as a kid (the kind where you insert the cardboard disks with little slides on them),  except that it functions as a projector.  I'm not exactly sure what I'll do with it, but the bulb still works and it was too cool to pass up.  Finally, last night one of my housemates and I threw a dinner party for everyone else at the park.  Everyone came in costume and we made fondue, stuffed pears and chocolate-covered fruit.  So, in the end I suppose stacking mud bricks isn't so bad, when you get to eat chocolate-covered strawberries at the end of the day.

Bunny, Dinner Party and some mud...