Middle Foys Lake is ice-free. Firehouse Pond is ice-free. Little Foy's Lake is ice-free. We saw a pair of Common Mergansers yesterday, and a Great Blue Heron on Saturday. No Bluebirds in our neighborhood yet, but we sighted some by Ashley Creek.

NEW -- Modern Dance at: Theater X-Net

Featuring: Ida Rubinstein Belle Epoch Russian/Parisian beauty.
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Webmaster's Notes: Xavier Mathieu wrote to me about my Ida Rubinstein site -- he made a nice website about Antonio de La Gandara, the portraitist who was a friend of both Ida and Sarah Bernhardt. Xavier's de La Gandara Website

Charity Alert: Keep that resolution for Springtime too! Click on The Hunger Site every day.

In The Community: AmeriCorps had a statewide meeting at our college over the weekend, and I worked every morning, even though I was sick with a lingering cold. (I'm better now.) It is amazing how these post-teens can grow when they are given their own projects to oversee and worthy tasks to do! Thanks to insightful Bill Clinton for starting this program, curses on stupid George Bush for trying to end it.
Tonight I'm running the tech for a seminar on Business Ethics. (No cynical remarks, please.) Besides sound and slideware, we are going out over ITV to Libby, Montana -- about 90 miles away. Our guests are John Johnstone of D.A. Davidson & Company, Dr. Dane Scott of the U of M, and Dr. Scott Wheeler, retired History professor from West Point.

Media Watch: I had to sleep this sickness off during the last week, so I didn't catch much TV -- I did see Antonio Banderas' Take the Lead last night in a real movie theater, though. It is inspired by the story of Pierre Dulaine, an inspiring energetic Ballroom Dance instructor in New York City who is teaching this art form to High Schoolers there with great success. It was an entertaining, albiet VERY fictional feel-good flick.


My friend Katie Duck, and dancers Vincent Cacialano, Justin Morrison, & Eileen Standley are lighting it up again onstage in Amsterdam, Holland -- with musicians Rozemarie Heggen (contrabass), Colin McLean (electronics), Michael Moore (alto sax, clarinet), & Mary Oliver (violin, viola), plus lights by Ellen Knops.