Monday, November 12, 2012

A good weekend

The weekend began celebrating with Jim at the Community Recreation Center's 25th anniversary banquet honoring Manchester volunteers.  Jim was nominated by the Kiwanis Club for his willingness to help in any way at community events.  He was presented a framed certificate of appreciation while Cynthia, Caitlin, Herb, Dad/Grandpa and I applauded.  In the silent auction I was high bidder on dinner for two at  famous Zingerman's Deli and four tickets to the theater/music school event of my choice at U of M..  It was a good evening to be together.

Saturday's main activity is shown in the photos.  Don came after lunch to fire his rifle at the targets.  It takes a lot of preparation to get ready for deer season.  Leaving at 6 a.m. Wednesday morning will be the main push for this week.

After church Sunday Dad/Grandpa and I went to the grand opening weekend open house at the Broad Museum of Contemporary Art at MSU.  The building itself has been controversial and I have tried to reserve comment until I went to the open house.  Check out the building at broad museum@msu.edu, it is too hard to describe.  We waited 20 minutes in line to get in and the line was over twice as long when we left.  I'll go again, both the building and the art take some getting used to.  The 3D movie was interesting and much of the art was like nothing seen in Lansing before.  One of my art friends was quoted in the newspaper saying "New York has come to us!"

 The top blew out of the tree earlier this year.  Dad will call Art Kyler
 to see if he'd like to cut it into firewood to heat his house.


1 comment:

Cindy said...

If Jim had known you were going to be playing with chain saws he would have come up to help. Also the organization is the Community Resource Center and focus on helping families in need in a multitude of ways. They have very little to do with recreation in Manchester.