Passports

We will need to renew our passports this year.  I think they expire in October.  Yes, a lot of fuss and $$, but a necessity, if you want to travel at all.  I expect that we'll have to pin down some dates fairly quickly, as Lyala has already expressed the need to negotiate lake time.  She wants to spend the entire summer down there, and doesn't see why we would object to her being around.  I have decided not to apply for the Sioux Narrows Festival of the Arts this year.  So there will be nothing pinning us down to a specific time.  But, I may be forced to apply for the Pinawa show in mid-July ( don't ask!) but I think I'm prepared for that, and that weekend is usually fun.  When we go to the States we usually get rooms (usually free, or almost free)at the Shooting Star Casino, then drive into Fargo for shopping. We have also spent time driving all around the back roads of Manitoba and Minnesota looking at trees.  (???) We usually don't travel further west, but we have been up through Boisevein, and the trip through the Turtle Mountains is nice.  Amber is planning a holiday this summer, but, as far as I know, doesn't have any tentative dates.  We haven't been able to get anything at the Duty Free on our last three trips.  It would be nice to do that.

Just putting in time right now.  I'm working in the studio, but it's going slowly, as I have to take frequent breaks.  We've been watching the theatre listings in the paper carefully, as we got a couple of theatre passes for Christmas, but there hasn't been anything that we can agree on, so far.  I try to read the reviews whenever I can--most of them are for movies locally made and with no recognizable names, but then there are no recognizable names in any of the supermarket magazines either. Maybe all of my favourite actors have died.

David was able to get out and move snow today.  It's been so cold that he has put it off, but the temperature was up a bit today. )(Our new neighbour was out shovelling on concrete at 7:30 this morning.  It could be heard in our bedroom, bathroom and kitchen. Breakfast was early today) Otherwise we aren't leaving the house.  So I sit and eat chocolate chip cookies and then curse at the scale.  Life is normal.