Skunk on the back deck, merrily sniffing around the sliding glass door and eating sunflower seeds which fell from the bird feeder. The cats were quiet, and so were we -- but we put up a lattice barricade on the bottom step the next morning.

Footbarn's Celebration of Theatre: Theater X-Net

Starring: Ida Rubinstein Belle Epoch Russian/Parisian beauty.
NEW! Ida's Places in Paris, from my jet-lagged first day by the Seine.
Read more about Ida in Sisters of Salome by Toni Bentley

Visit: Michael's Montana Web Archive
Theater, Art, Flash Gordon, Funky Music and MORE!
NEW! Spitfires of the Spaceways
Watch Dale Arden rescue Flash Gordon for a change!

Charity Alert: Keep that resolution as Autumn settles in! Click on The Hunger Site every day.

In The Community: The Hockaday Museum of Art is hosting two authors this Friday night -- I'll be keeping an eye on the audience. Still reving up for that brown-bag lecture at Flathead Valley Community College Monday, October 23, 2006 about Footsbarn Theatre and France. Our Theater Department also wants me to talk about "In-Tents" technical details concerning Footsbarn 35 during their Intro class one of these afternoons.

Media Watch: More Silly Trash -- Dancing With The Stars' fan voters screwed another good dancer in favor of a bad one. Jerry Springer stayed and Willa Ford was booted off. She might have been personally obnoxious, but she danced well, and was getting better all the time. The two WORST female dancers remain on the show -- Monique and Sara. Respectively, they have Louis and Tony as partners though!

Let's get away!


The Plein Aire stage at La Chausse is one step further along towards completion as Nicholas, Francois, and Sophie finish the assembly of it's lighting super-structure. (I was trucking back and forth from Volvic that day, so I shot this after they were done.)