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Sunday, it was cool enough outside so I decided to cook my favourite food for lunch, fried hamburger and potatoes. Remember when I had cooked the 5 lbs of potatoes about a month ago? Well the freezer creates a lot of frost on everything so it is a lot less than ideal, but I had lots left over for Monday supper....
I watched the men's final at Wimbledon,.. another barn burner of a game! Then I finished the second Conn Iggulden book of the Genghis Khan series. I am still awaiting the next one which someone is holding well overdue from the Library....
I didn't sleep overly well, worrying a lot about starting a week of photos for the girls at FAFA (Federation Anciennes Franco Albertains), translation Alberta's French old farts... I needn't have worried.
I left very early to be able to accurately gauge the time to travel, and even had time to stop at A+W for their Monday special All-Canadian Breakfast....
I arrived in plenty of time on my Gio for the 10am - 11:30am board games session, in which I did not participate. I sat at a table with a deck of cards missing the 5 of hearts and the 10 of clubs.... not exactly great for playing solitaire.... I was surprised to see that FAFA had their own intergenerational game mimicking Snakes and Ladders.
I killed time touring around for almost 1.5 hours before the second session involving painting, which I had also signed up for. It turned out to be acrylic paint to be used only with finger dabbing, not smearing... First try was a 2" x 2" happy face, and I was quite happy with my result. The second one was a 2" x 2" flower, and I was even happier with that result!!!
Then she gave us a larger piece, about 6" x 6" to paint what we liked, so I tried a mountain landscape, getting sh*t from the instructor Katherine for smearing my sky intead of dabbing... Anyway, I didn't like my result after being forced to dab the paint.
Auxanne, one of the FAFA girls, is a true artist and did a portrait of Charlotte, one of the other FAFA girls that was an amazing likeness!
So I may have the painting bug finally and just might buy a canvas or two, some paints and brushes, and try my hand some day.....
Finger-painting is not for me, and I considered myself a succes for not getting paint all over my shirt....
One of the ladies from my building was there for the afternoon session and I actually gave her a ride back on my Gio....
Now I need to figure out a way to kill that boring 1.5 hours over lunchtime...
I hope you enjoy the pictures. That was the day’s excitement.
Al
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FAFA game in the foreground 
Group playing the FAFA game 
Checkers 
Playing UNO 
UNO 
Killing time at lunch 
Outside College St Jean 
Bear spirit 
Paint ready to make a similar Happy Face 
My first 2 tries 
Instructor's examples 
Well done! 
Lady 2nd from left in from our building 
Auxanne with painting of Charlotte! Awesome!!! 
Our table 
Instructor Katherine
