The Procession Art Studio(s) are NOW OPEN! Come play with us! The big studio will be open roughly 3pm to 9pm weekdays and noon to 10pm on weekends. See the official procession website at www.procession.org for the workshop schedule as it emerges.
HELP IS NEEDED! What we need most is people to staff the art studio so we can be open lots of hours so people can work on their projects! Our communication ability is even more screwed up than is traditional (hello, this is our big organizational weakness) this year because we have no office, so if you have any questions I'm happy to answer'em. If I don't know the answer after 12 years hanging around the procession, I bet I'll know who to ask.
We're in three, count'em, three spaces this year. Big stuff and batiks will be in the same place as last year: the Capitol Press Building. That's the alley side of the orange building at the corner of Capitol and State, downtown (a/k/a in the alley behind the Spar).
The office, luminaria shop, other workshops that require peace & thoughtfulness (not like my workshops!), etc., will be held at the little Cafe Royal studio. That's at 311 N. Capitol Way, in the alley behind the Royal Bar.
The music studio is upstairs at 525 Cherry Street, a/k/a the corner of Legion and Cherry. That's the upstairs of the actual Fish Brewing Co. brewery (not the brewpub). Enter via the red door on the Cherry Street side.
I'm not really the house writer. I do a lot of papier-mache and take pictures. Here are some of the pictures from Saturday, as we set up and held our open house.
A fence, an elderly caretaker and a Rottweiler are all that stand between you and the Falls.
We've all been to the lovely Deschutes River waterfalls by the old brewery. But did you know that 20 miles upriver there is another park, covering 154 acres and sporting two waterfalls, a 75 foot gorge and a mystical forest dripping with moss? And that you are absolutely not allowed to go anywhere near it?
Attend at least 3 events and earn a canvas bag with artwork by Nikki McClure:
- March 29, 1000 Trees in One Day
- April 5, Moving and Making Land *
- April 12, The Story of People and Fish *
- April 19, Olympia Downtown Cleanup
- April 22, Olympia Town Hall Meeting
- April 26, Priest Point Park Ivy Pull
- May 10, Toxic Contaminants in Puget Sound Fish *
- May 17, Cleaning up Budd Inlet *
- May, Bicycle Commuter Contest
* "What's Up With Budd" Series at Capitol Theatre at 2:00 pm.
I haven't tried these but hope there will be something helpful for those looking for recipes.
From a Vegan Cooking
Community
1. If you're making your own, try a whipped cream recipe replacing the dairy cream with coconut
cream. (skim the top from cans of whole fat coconut milk)
Real, high-fat, coconut cream. Not the coconut milk + carbohydrate gums stuff you'll sometimes
find labeled coconut cream.
2. I had a friend who had one of those semi-expensive whipped cream maker things that they
use in coffee houses. It has those little nitrous cartridges. She used it to make me soy whipped
cream for my coffee one morning. I don't know what she did to make it, but maybe you can look
into one of those things.
I noticed an ad for Olympia (Olympia - Lacey - Tumwater tourist and convention bureau) in the back of a Sunset magazine so I'm checking out the site listed: www.visitolympia.com
Click on the What's New section that appears after the intro and then choose 2. Prelude to the Promenade. The text is about Westfield Capital Mall but the photo is of Olympia Farmers Market.
CLM Design Group created the site, they are based in Reno, Nevada. I don't know if they also keep it updated.
In 2001, prior to the September 11th attacks, my partner and I started taking young men from Africa, Southern Sudan, into our home. Since that time, we have had as many as four young men with us at one time. Overall, as I count, we have had six different young African men in our homes, and two young African women in our home. Only our youngest, David is still with us right now. He is at Univ of Portland studying to become a CPA and is home with us on spring break right now. Number one son Deng Kuol stopped by yesterday, dropped off his laptop for Mom and Dad to fix and I think we have that done this afternoon. Number two son Deng Machuei, his wife and niece are living in Tacoma. About a month to go before we Machuei's wife Riak should give birth to our first African grandson. Pretty exciting and very beneficial to Marylea and I and our biological family to have expanded our family to include these human beings. If we count dollars, the currency of civilized m
I am a big fan of Clean Elections or Voter-Oriented Elections which is about getting corporate money out of elections. There is a new wiki-style crowd sourcing project made by the man who invented Creative Commons aimed at doing just this. It is hard to get laws passed that keep corporate money out of elections because the people who are in office have been elected with the help of corporate money, so it is not in their interests to vote for such bills. This project is a way around that problem...
The project consists of a pledge, a map, and a wiki. The pledge is for the candidates to take to promise to not take PAC money.The a map shows which representatives have taken the pledge and which haven't and also shows political affiliation. The wiki is to document candidates stances and history concerning financing. The hope is that we can wikipedia-style pressure the candidates to take the pledge and publicly shame them if they break it.
In case you are wondering about our representative Brian Baird, he raised 42% of his money ($177,702 of $421,385) of his 2008 campaign contributions from PACs (Political Action Committees).
Stopped at the auto parts store yesterday. Spouse and I have been rebuilding the engine on or 95 Chev pickup. We just can't afford to have a mechanic do the work. Our income is up there is the same range as Merwyn's, under $30K for the tax household of two even as we open our home on a regular basis to friends, grandkids, Africans etc.
Anyway, needed a few last parts before turning the key on the truck and picked them at the parts store. I was in a rush, needed to get back to finish the work in the garage yesterday, today is a work day in the home office. Report due at local court tomorrow, I have several files in my bag from work, and I have a letter to finish to the WA Supreme Court on rule changes that I would like to put in the mail this week, but Saturday was truck day.
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The anarchist infoshop newspaper box has about 100 zines so far. Please feel free to take borrow and add zines to the collection. 
