Thanks, as always, to Nancy over at A Rural Journal for hosting the Random 5! Please visit her site and the rich, quality blogs that connect with her.
Here’s my Random 5:
- Today starts the Port Townsend Film Festival. Karen Allen is our special guest, and if we see all the movies on our schedule, we will see 13 films in the next three days! It’s going to be a rainy weekend, so it’s a great time to watch films.
- As part of the Film Festival, we host visiting film folks. This year we are hosting a juror and a friend of hers, so we will have a full house. It’s a fun way to meet new people and broaden our horizons.
- In non-film-related news, I pulled my tomatoes up this week. I saw the first sign of late blight, which can infect the plants very quickly, so I pulled all remaining tomatoes and now have them ripening in a variety of ways. So far, the winner in the best method of ripening: just putting them on the counter!
- One of the movies we’ll be seeing is A Person Known to Me, a short film that includes a few seconds of footage in which my husband plays a drunken brawler. He now has a page on IMDB! The directors filmed in Port Townsend right after last year’s film festival, and we’re eager to see the finished product.
- Earlier this year, a local yarn shop was booted from its location…they were renting without a lease, and the landlord decided he wanted to do something different with the property (he hasn’t yet). I had a small part in helping them relocate to a gorgeous new space where their business is now humming along. Since Karen Allen, our film festival guest, is also a fiber artist, they will have a fashion show of knitwear as part of the festival, and Ms. Allen will attend. The fine women (and men!) of The Bazaar Girls have truly landed on their feet and created something magical, and it will be fun to applaud their success this weekend. They work hard, have a great team, and deserve all the good that is coming to them! I feel like a proud mom.
Enjoy your weekend! I’ll be visiting blogs early next week, after the festival, so I can see what’s happening with y’all!
Tina Fariss Barbour says
That is too cool that your husband will be in a film! I hope you two have lots of fun at the festival this weekend. That’s neat that the yarn shop is doing well. I love going into such shops and to browse and dream about what I might make–if I only had the skills! 🙂
admin says
We saw the film! Henry shows up just very briefly in the opening scene, which is a bar brawl. It was a fun little film, 26 minutes in total (but will be part of a series).
It was so much fun to see the yarn fashions this weekend. The store was filled with people, and everyone had a good time. I must say, Karen Allen is a very sweet lady, and she seemed to enjoy the show as well.
Nancy Claeys says
Sounds like a busy, fun weekend for you Nadine! Enjoy~
admin says
It really was, Nancy. Thanks. I’m sure I’ll write more about it!
Julie Farrar says
I love reading about how active that town on the edge of the continent is. Here in St. Louis, a lot happens but sometimes too many things at once and then nothing for awhile. September is so busy with outdoor festivals because it’s the month with the best, most reliable weather. I want to go to all three festivals happening today, but I can only choose the outdoor dance one.
admin says
I bet September in St. Louis is lovely! It’s frustrating when there’s more than one thing that you want to do. When we lived in Houston, it was like that…and the drive anywhere was stressful. I’m enjoying just walking down the hill to all these activities!