Tribute

this is a shout out to the guy who's enabled me to have a REAL computer... though he thoroughly mocked my stone-aged home office, he hooked me up with a pretty sweet system.
Thanks T.Lam!
You're fantastic!

how could I have missed this????

really? how is this possible???? I don't understand.
Thank you Beth-field for enlightening me.

This is what I'm talking about. One of my favorite places in the Burg, quirky, and sadly no longer dank::
The Human Bean

you can find me most mornings reading the paper... and most weekends singing along.

the way to end the day

I will find a book
I will sit
I will be at peace





I'd like to call this the bat cave... but there's no bats... just spiders.
Doesn't it look cozey???? don't you want to come and sit with me?

pass the remote

moments which I would like to have fast-forwarded thru or avoided completely today

1) the moment I left my house for work until I rode my bike home.
(except for maybe the part where I got to stand in the lake and watch the waves and play with the sand for an hour.... but most defiantly the part where the minnows congregated around my legs...) (and maybe not the part where I stopped off at the SVFF office, but most defiantly the part where I became tongue tied and sped out of the office)

side note:: re:the side bar:: I've finally gotten around to adding the "hero of the week" section, don't forget to send out your thanks to our many heros as they appear

point and click::freeze frame

there are times in life where I often want to press a magic button and freeze the moment. Those moments where things are just good.
Nice
Peaceful
Beautiful
Clear
Refreshing.
I'm blessed in that I get to experience a lot of those moments. Or maybe I'm blessed in that I'm allowed the moment to perceive those moments? Whatever. Either way, today I wanted to stop time on five occasions. But, if I'd done that... then I probably wouldn't have experienced all of them... *sigh* this isn't suppose to be confusing.
1) I got a phone call from a good friend and got to catch up
2) On my walk- clear headed rhythm that comes with your feet moving and your arms swinging and no pressing matters to attend to.
3) On my walk- the beach was near empty, the water cool... I walked up and down it a few times in the water singing praise
4) While casing the Marina for picnic tables (I'd heard rumor that they stored the town's old tables there- SVFF may be over for this year, but I'm starting my sourcing for next.) I found the Cobourg Ecology garden- didn't know we had one... So, I spent ten mins or so wandering in the cool shade.
5) After my morning visit to the Bean, walking home I saw a spider spinning it's web. pretty cool thing to watch.

I like those few mornings were I don't have to be anywhere.

someone's just run to the store to pick up a part

You'll have to think WAAAAAAAYYYYYY back to the trip from Addis to Lome to remember the story about the plane parts.....
but today, reminiscing with one of my Togo gals put me to web surfing the flights that may or may not be available at any given time....

and then I found this there really is a plane parts store.

the state of my being

my face is asleep.
my arms don't work.
my back is broken.
i have strange bruises covering most of my body.
i can't seem to complete sentences.
and i can't figure out what day it is.

welcome to SVFF withdrawal.

::side note, guess you might have noticed the picture thing in the side bar by now... some are pretty old (yikes! can you believe that Togo was a year ago?????) I'm going to try to add one or two new pictures each week, so every once in awhile... check them out.
:::: side note to my side note, can you guess which is my favorite t-shirt? LOL!!! hey Meg, even the "lesley sweater" made it into the mix a few times.

done and done

I ate that pie.

life of pie (apple crumble)

ok, several melt-downs later.... a festival happened.
walking around the near empty site today I was hit (again) with (another) wave of tears. So many people worked SO hard to make this thing happen... and it was good.
Real good.
It always amazes me that people can, and will, pull together to make things happen. (no, I'm not going to make some profound statement of what we need to do for our Southern friends... you already know)
Seeing that thousand plus group of people out enjoying their weekend, things running smoothly, people finding what they needed, being able to pray for them (even if they didn't know it), building new realationships, engaging in some really neat conversations... yeah, that was all worth it. And then there's the music... whoa. what a talented group of people... I learned a ton of new music, shmoozed with some top names, made some great friends....I learned SO much!!!

and then there's that whole singing with Aengus thing....

I didn't get to sing with him Thursday at the volunteer thing... that was pretty sad (ok, you know me, I was devistated) Then, due to the busy nature of the weekend... didn't get to sing with him at any of the campfire things (oh my... the campfires deserve their own posting) (again with the devistating disapointment).

But, you'll be relieved to hear... I sang with him on the main stage, during the festival the last day.

Highlight of the year baby...
and then someone bought me a pie just because.
really? can life get any better?

RE: a bet

---

From: "Shelter Valley Productions" <info@sheltervalley.com>
To: "'Lady Lesley Marie Boileau'" <ladylesley@hotmail.com>
Subject: RE: a bet
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 11:53:35 -0500

if it works for Thursday night lets do something like "Lately" or "My Heart has wings"

 

otherwise we'll sing round the campfires

 

looking forward to it

 

aengus

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Lady Lesley Marie Boileau [mailto:ladylesley@hotmail.com]
Sent: 30 August 2005 09:54 PM
To: info@sheltervalley.com
Subject: a bet

ok, so there's a bet out now, after my stellar performance (read:: running like the scaredy cat that I am) at the volunteer picnic when faced with singing with you... some believe I'd never the courage to ask to sing with you. SO, in being the stubborn girl that I am, I'm out to prove them wrong.
Hey Aengus, can I sing a song with you at the volunteer thing? *laughing* I promise not to suck. (at least, not to badly) I don't sing lead on anything normally, harmonies are my passion. Anyway, if you get this message, let me know what you think... but don't let it be a stress issue- you've got alot on your plate right now! (by the way, it's all looking great, I feel so privledged to be part of such a great thing!)

Talk with you later,

Les