Friend, Kathy B, invited us to see REFUGEE NATION at the Intermedia Arts Center tonight. It's a three person stage show of the Lao experience of war and being refugees. Very well done. A very interesting book besides Yang's THE LATE HOME COMER is Dervla Murphy's ONE FOOT IN LAOS. She rode a bike all over Laos.
Factoid: The US dropped a plane load of bombs on Laos every 8 minutes, 24 hours a day for nine years for a total of 260 million tons. Laos is about the size of Minnesota.
Thursday, October 14, 2010
Saturday, October 9, 2010
Trygve's such a leader!
Trygve, the wonder dog is such a leader. Yesterday he took me over the Stone Arch Bridge to St. Anthony Main. Today, not to be out done, he led me to the new bridge...the 35 W one that replaced the one that collapsed. However, I think it was all a plot on his part because we came back through Farmer's Market. I think it was the smell of elbeskiever frying that attracted him.
We must be moved in because we had our first over night guest. Linda, from Williston, ND, got the honor. She's in town for her niece's wedding and went with us to the Guthrie Thursday.
At the Guthrie we saw the stage adaption of Louise Erdrich's book 'The Master Butcher's Singing Club.' I enjoyed both the book and the play. I thought the play was a good adaptation of the book. It's nice to live withing walking distance of the Guthrie.
We must be moved in because we had our first over night guest. Linda, from Williston, ND, got the honor. She's in town for her niece's wedding and went with us to the Guthrie Thursday.
At the Guthrie we saw the stage adaption of Louise Erdrich's book 'The Master Butcher's Singing Club.' I enjoyed both the book and the play. I thought the play was a good adaptation of the book. It's nice to live withing walking distance of the Guthrie.
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
That's why we moved downtown!
Several times a day little things happen and I think "that's why we moved downtown. Take Saturday night for example. We have tickets to the Minnesota Orchestra and there was a concert Saturday evening. From our condo we walked two blocks to Nicollet Mall to catch the free bus. (It runs Nicollet Mallfrom Washington Ave. to the convention center every ten minutes during the day and every twenty five minutes at night.) We got off near Orchestra Hall, had dinner and then went to the concert. After the concert we left Orchestra Hall and caught the free bus just outside the Hall and rode home.
We not only saved the $9.00 parking fee we decided that we enjoyed the concert more when we did not have to drive. That's why we moved downtown.
We not only saved the $9.00 parking fee we decided that we enjoyed the concert more when we did not have to drive. That's why we moved downtown.
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
Still alive!
On Thursday, 9/30, 8 men in two trucks made quick work of emptying our house. It took them only an hour and a half to load and slightly longer to unload. The condo had reserved an elevator for their use so that worked well. Everything came through in good shape.
Now it is Tues. evening and we have the kitchen and both bedrooms quite settled. We've also made some progress in the rest of the area. The number of boxes left is dwindling. That's a good thing because space is filling.
We took time off yesterday to close on our house which had a couple of minor wrinkles. Susan, one of the buyers, had an expired drivers license. According to the terms of the Patriot Act buyers must have a valid id and an expired drivers license doesn't qualify. We felt sorry for her. They had closed on the house they sold in the morning, loaded their stuff, were closing on ours and then moving in all on the same day. She had to go get her license renewed to finish signing the papers.
Before we got home we were called back because a typo was found in on the deed. Susan uses her maiden name plus her husbands name but doesn't hyphenate it. The deed had it with a hyphen so the document had to be retyped and resigned.
We decided that we had done our grief work because all we felt at closing was elation. We couldn't have picked a better couple to buy our house. He, like Joanne, is a Concordia grad. They have a three year old boy, Gavin. So, for the first time, there will be a child living in the house.
I'll likely post more regularly now. I have some downtown stories to tell.
Now it is Tues. evening and we have the kitchen and both bedrooms quite settled. We've also made some progress in the rest of the area. The number of boxes left is dwindling. That's a good thing because space is filling.
We took time off yesterday to close on our house which had a couple of minor wrinkles. Susan, one of the buyers, had an expired drivers license. According to the terms of the Patriot Act buyers must have a valid id and an expired drivers license doesn't qualify. We felt sorry for her. They had closed on the house they sold in the morning, loaded their stuff, were closing on ours and then moving in all on the same day. She had to go get her license renewed to finish signing the papers.
Before we got home we were called back because a typo was found in on the deed. Susan uses her maiden name plus her husbands name but doesn't hyphenate it. The deed had it with a hyphen so the document had to be retyped and resigned.
We decided that we had done our grief work because all we felt at closing was elation. We couldn't have picked a better couple to buy our house. He, like Joanne, is a Concordia grad. They have a three year old boy, Gavin. So, for the first time, there will be a child living in the house.
I'll likely post more regularly now. I have some downtown stories to tell.
Many thanks for all the expressions of support, concern and well wishes. We feel blessed by your concern.
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