Tuesday....a sunny Tuesday and our second day off in a row!!! The Wilno Film Festival has come and gone and successfully so. I am always amazed at the variety of cinematic portrayals of this area and its people...and more every year. This year we had a great little doc by a student filmmaker...Andrew Brose from Lake Dore who brought us a hilariously funny piece called "Six Packs, Sleds and Pigeons". Watch for the flat dead cat shot! And we had six short pieces from a former student Adam Thompson who is now travelling the world doing all sorts of really professional and interesting films...a Cuban music doc and a piece in Africa on local peace activist Ben Hoffman...And we had a second screening of the Marija Gimbutas doc as well as a piece on Madonna House in Combermere. The goddess in all her forms shows up on our screen!
A day of rest and lounging about with my new hi speed internet connection here at our winter hideaway. Life in Wilno is truly a mixture of old and new technology. Our wood stove is chugging away with nice dry firewood from the bush in Brudenell (my home village) and my internet connection is buried inside old garden hose running under the snowmobile track, through the trees and via the culvert to this house from the main building. Intrepid ingenuity wins the day every time.
Tomorrow we start to winterize the cafe and the inn and send out publicity for the next event which is our Philosopher's Cafe and Music afternoon on November 11. And of course, hunting season starts next week....doesn't have as much impact here as it does in some villages. At home, at Oma's farm...the gigantic bull moose who hung on the tractor forks last week has been cut and wrapped and stowed in various freezers. Farm work has resumed for a week before deer season opens. Marty and Daisy Mae were busily mixing and pouring cement to fill in the gutters in what was the dairy barn and will now house Marty's herd of blondes...(Acquitaines or Limousin or Charolais...never sure which province of France these pricey bovines hail from).
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