Deb Space

I’m bummed.

I just heard that Chanel’s Mobile Art Exhibit was cancelled. I guess with 200 layoffs in the Paris office, it was not feasible to keep the show going. I wonder if the show had been cancelled earlier if that would have saved any jobs.

In a small note of good news, it looks like the pod will be used for temporary shows. I don’t care it Karl Lagerfeld prefers the building as a sculpture and an empty space. I think it’s a beautiful space to show art. As long as it’s around, it should be used for the purpose it was intended: to show art.

After going to the fitness center last night, my husband and I had a leisurely walk home by the pond in the center of our apartment complex. The fountain was burbling. Soft lights glowed behind the shades of the first floor apartment windows and sliding doors. I could see lawn chairs, potted plants and grills in silhouette. What really caught my attention was a garden decoration. It looked like a squirrel, its front paws spread wide apart, its bushy tail curled back. I was impressed by the detail, which was too fine for the little statue to be cast in cement. As I was wondering about what it was made of, I saw the tail uncurl at the same time I heard a short, angry hiss. My husband suggested we run so we did all the way back to our building.

“That wasn’t a squirrel, was that?” I asked.

“When I saw the white on the tail, I knew it wasn’t,” he said.

Thankfully the skunk had been facing us.

I finally found one!

For some reason I like reading mysteries in the summertime. I got hooked on Peter Ellis’s Brother Cadfael series a number of years ago. After I was done, I discovered the Sister Fidelma series. Frankly I’m not sure why ecclesiastical medieval mysteries delight me. I just sit back and let myself be entertained.

I’m currently reading The Haunted Abbot. It starts off with a snowstorm. The setting is all the more delightful since the temperature this weekend was in the 90’s.

I hadn’t made any plans to see fireworks last night. Scott and I had had a lazy day at home and were finishing it off with “Fawlty Towers” when we noticed the fireworks. We turned off the lights and started to watch the pyrotechnics. After a few minutes we noticed another show and then another, five in all. Every town around us had it’s own show. To the south Mother Nature had her own show going. Brilliant flashes of lightening lit up the sky, more often than not, in sync with the shows.

I missed the exciting new stuff in New York this year. I’m still looking for video of the fireworks that were aimed at the water.