...but before I was sick...

Wendy, Jade, Danielle and CB bag in the snapshot shanty

Wendy was here for a visit! Ahhh, it was so nice to spend some quality time with my girl, W.


We went to see the Art Shanty project on Medicine Lake before the bout on Saturday afternoon. What a beautiful day for it! I had been reading reviews about this little DIY, renegade art project for years now, and was so excited to finally make it out and take it all in. I LOVED it.

I think my favorites were the ice shanty where you were asked to leave something behind that was in your pockets, or purse, or whathaveyou, and they would catalogue it. The shanty was meant to be a commentary on the entire rooms full of junk that scientists will leave abandoned on the ice in Antartica with no thought to ever coming back to clean up the mess.

But several shanties were just hilarious. There was one on a bicycle-like contraption that took about seven people to peddle around a shovelled out course on the ice. It towed a person on a tobaggon behind it. One was meant to be a downed airplane with "survivors"--a bunch of guys, standing around, drinking Icehouse. There was a karaoke shanty. There was an artist who took three random words from passers-by and generated fun drawings for participants based on those words...(Wendy's was totally awesome). I guess NPR had been out doing interviews the week prior, and I have a feeling that this little "fringe" festival may be on the verge of blowing up into an Uptown Art Fair spectacle...and that would be too bad. Part of the charm is the very nature of these vagabond artists just creating their own little world out there on the ice.

One of the shanties was entitled "Snap Shot Shanty" and Wendy, Jade, and I got our picture taken there and found that they had a blog they were posting photos on.

http://thesnapshotshanty.blogspot.com

Such creative, weird, and fun people were out there and we really enjoyed ourselves.
I snapped a few pictures as well, and I'll post them in the next day or so.

If you want to check out the website for this funky little festival, I'll link it below.

http://artshantyprojects.org

Sick

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...went to Target clinic and left with a diagnosis of Bronchitis and an Albuterol inhaler. Second bout with this funk in as many months. They said if I'm not feeling better by Monday, I have to go and have my lungs x-rayed for Pneumonia.

Been stuck in the house with the animals since Wednesday night. Jade is about to kill herself from boredom and Elvis is about to kill himself from Jade barking at him. Me, well all I want to do is sleep, soak in a hot tub, and repeat.

I'm sweaty, coughy, and phlegmy. Good times.

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Pug in Boots

Not so much.

Jade can't walk much in the snow because the salt hurts her paws and her paws get cold, so my thoughts were to put her in some booties so she could still get some exercise.

Two booties on the front happened, but still the back feet came up off the ground after half a block in zero weather.  Limping pug.

Two booties on the back was obviously going to repeat the same scenario.

Four booties.  No movement.  Frozen still, concrete pug.

Even after being brought inside and lured with treats.  No movement.  Refusal.

She wins, this year.  Next year, the boots will be accepted!  I will not be deterred!

(Oh, and how about that cute coat with the star on it?  Total North Star tie in there, and she rocks it!  Thank goodness she doesn't seem to mind it.)

Meet Jade

Jade at the Morgan's house

This is my new pet, Jade!  I adopted her about a month ago...she's a pug that is approximately 6.5 years old and was previously owned by a woman on my roller derby league.  

She's been everything I could have hoped for in a dog---she's healthy, housebroken, and a sweet girl.  She's lively and has a typically mischievous pug personality.  I've had a blast getting to know her and learning to sleep next to a snoring pug.

She's turned Elvis's world upside down, but all in all, he's coping pretty well.

Now if I could just broker a peace treaty between the two animals that includes a barking/hissing and chasing cease fire, we'd be all set.