tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32192375304738763742024-03-06T13:02:06.804-07:00Art by SaltielThe paintings and life of Alice Saltiel-Marshall SFCA, ASA
Alice Saltiel-Marshallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05017634115891512295noreply@blogger.comBlogger364125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3219237530473876374.post-3461154010304119272019-01-27T08:23:00.000-07:002019-01-27T08:23:15.941-07:00The Big Ones - Part Six<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A short hike above the town of Canmore, Alberta are twin jewels; Grassi Lakes. There, in September 1991, I painted my first ever plein air painting. Nowadays the trail is heavily traveled and the lakes are always crowded but in the summer of 1993, when I made a daily practice of meditating there early every morning, I had the lakes all to myself. A part of me will always be there just as the beauty and peace of this sacred place is always in my heart. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">FIREWEED AT GRASSI LAKES 1994 watercolour 7" x 10" Collection of Mary Shillabeer and Tom Matier</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Back in the 1990s spring kicked off our seasonal, reproduction business and all summer long, when it was in full swing, we kept a hectic pace. The above watercolour was my study. I had the use of the Canmore Artists and Artisans gallery space (mid week) over four weeks in April and May of 1995, but I managed only eight random paintings days before bringing the big oil home, where it sat, unfinished, for two years.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In order to include it in my solo show at Whyte Museum, Banff, I finished it at home, in August 1997. <i><b>Saltiel; Routes Without Limits</b></i> was a milestone for me. The curator and I were like oil and water. Gathering together 39 paintings from over a 25 year period was epic. But the joy of seeing them installed, side by side, in the large gallery (September 13th to November 30th, 1997) made it all so very worth while.</span></div>
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<br />Alice Saltiel-Marshallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05017634115891512295noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3219237530473876374.post-16068061401615226752019-01-06T11:43:00.001-07:002019-01-13T06:33:53.161-07:00Medical Update<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My first chemotherapy treatment, of the last round, was on November 2nd at the Tom Baker Cancer Clinic, Calgary. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A familiar place that makes me cringe whenever I enter.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> R</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ounds two and three were much more palitable at the Canmore Hospital. The 'chemo lite' that Dr. Glaze negotiated with me was </span><a href="https://www.macmillan.org.uk/information-and-support/treating/chemotherapy/drugs-and-combination-regimens/individual-drugs/carboplatin.html#320625" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Carboplatin</a>,<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> 455mg per treatment, which was given by IV over 45 minutes. Although the link says to expect hair loss, Dr. Glaze assured me that would not happen, this time, and it didn't.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Before the second chemo treatment, m</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">y</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">chemistry</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> and blood work were strong so it was recommended I take a higher dose. I did. They increased it to 520mg. Putting that much through in the same time frame caused the vein I my left hand to collapse and to pain for a few days. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">By the third treatment I had lost weight and the dose was dropped back to 430mg. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arialmt";">Pain brought me into Emergency on the 20th, where I spent a night. It was then we determined we wouldn't be flying to Saskatoon on the 21st. That was also when the results of the December 18th PET and CT scans were given to me, here at Canmore Hospital. They are not favourable. The three rounds of chemo did little, if anything, to shrink the tumour(s) which are now plentiful and aggressively growing throughout my abdomen, liver and in a lung. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Fortunately the Scammells were able to come to us for ten great days. In the 11th hour we scored a thawed/fresh, organic turkey from Valbella's and with plenty of cooks we had a full on turkey dinner. As we sat to eat Avery wanted to speak, but last. We held hands and went around the table expressing gratitude for being together. When Avery did speak she said "This may be Gran's last Christmas, so I want it to be a really good one." And it was.</span><br />
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Knowing I needed help to deal with constipation and after the kids departed on New Year’s Day, Bill brought me to Emergency, again. I’ve been admitted and I’m still here. For 48 hours I was on IV, with nothing by mouth. My bowels finally moved on the 2nd and I'm empty. I'm back on a clear fluid diet, my intestines didn't care for the short foray to a full fluid diet. Broth and jello get awfully boring. My stomach is still distended. Palliative radiation is recommended to shrink the one large mass and relieve pressure to my intestines. I have an appointment with a radiology oncologist at the TBCC on the 10th.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Avery is of an age now that she can request the imagery for her birthday paintings. I'm challenged by the topics she selects but because I can paint whatever is asked of me I honour her wishes. I maintain that any artist can paint anything, they just have to want to!</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Avery turned 10 on October 16th. The painting presentation happened December 22nd, the day the family arrived for Christmas</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Rather than a traditional landscape background, I thought an abstracted, fun, turquoise and copper backdrop would create more magical sensation. The shinny textured bits were made using a commercial stencil and copper foil. I textured the grass with Golden Heavy Gel medium. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To preserve the white areas of the horse I cut out a piece of frosted (semi clear) Mac-Tac in the horse's shape to use as a mask ...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I'm often late with delivery of these paintings but in the case of Amira's painting I was a few days early this year. Her birthday is December 9th, when she turned seven. I just happened to have started and finished her painting first. It was at the Pinto Museum, in Manila earlier this year, where I witnessed Amira seeing her first peacock. She was mesmerized by the male strutting with his tail feather spread out in an enormous fan.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The paintings were somewhat larger this year as we didn't need to ship them. With Laura visiting for ten days in November we were able to send the paintings, plus all the birthday and Christmas gifts, home with her in her luggage.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They opened their paintings December 4th, the day before the movers took the paintings along with the sea shipment</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Thanks Laura for this family photograph after they disembarked from their flight in Singapore on December 22nd.</span></td></tr>
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Alice Saltiel-Marshallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05017634115891512295noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3219237530473876374.post-82779844186880339452018-10-24T17:00:00.001-06:002018-11-30T06:39:09.597-07:00Road Trip Goes Awry<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I was home from Lake O'Hara only a couple of days before we set out on our B.C. road trip. To celebrate my 70th birthday and our 49th wedding anniversary our first stop was <a href="https://islandlakecatskiing.com/summer/">Island Lake Lodge</a> for two nights. We arrived September 12th, right on time for me to go directly to the 2.5 hour spa treatment/massage I'd booked. The clouds were down to the ground and it rained for most of our time there. On the heels of the O'Hara hikes (which I will never regret) I confess to not being up for the steep trails at Island Lake. I may have mentioned that both my knees need replacing, well patella resurfacing for sure. My left knee constantly radiates pain up to the hip and down to my foot. Until surgery (likely in the new year) I'm managing with T3s and Diclofenac cream.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The food at Island Lake Lodge is extraordinary. We'd eaten a substantial lunch en route, so we simply grazed on sumptuous appetizers that first evening. On <em>our day,</em> we indulged in a full-on decadent dinner that night ...</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Happy Birthday and Happy Anniversary in the </span><a href="https://islandlakecatskiing.com/summer/dining/tamarack-lodge-dinner-menu/"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tamarack Lodge Dining Room</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> at Island Lake Lodge, September 13th</span> </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">September 14th, leaving Island Lake Lodge. The eco system on the west side of the Rockies is entirely different from that on the east </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Next stop was four nights with Win and John. Meg and Paul, from Canmore, timed it so they would be staying in Creston at the same time. It had been two years since the Skimmerhorn Sextet had assembled at the Dinn's. Unfortunately, it was too cold to sit on the winery's amazing patio - which affords a view to rival any in Tuscany. Their food and wine more than made up for the weather plus the company was in fine form. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">The Skimmerhorn Sextet after yet another fantastic luncheon at <a href="https://skimmerhorn.ca/">Skimmerhorn Winery</a></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">The boys were left to their own resources while the gals played with paint in <a href="https://windinnart.blogspot.com/">Win's</a> new studio - they've moved since our last visit ...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">It was while we were in Creston that I began feeling 'off'. I couldn't get through a day without having a nap, nor could I focus on making more than backgrounds.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">On the 18th, we bid farewell to our pals in Creston to embark on a long travel day along Highway #3 to Tsawwassen where we caught the ferry to Swartz Bay on Vancouver Island. A half hour drive from there brought us into Victoria. Promptly on arriving at our accommodation I vomited for the second time that day.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After gallivanting, with me/us, all day long, hitting all the art supply stores, and other favourite haunts, Sharlene went home to prepare a fabulous dinner for us. The meal stayed down and I even braved some wine ...</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";">The following day Bill drove me, Carole and Sharlene to Sidney for lunch and a look see. On our arrival, at 11am, I was so tired that I crawled into the back seat and slept for an hour while everyone shopped. Driving back into Victoria we stopped in to see "Oh the Places We've Been!" Sharlene was one of the artists in the three-woman-show exhibited at the Coast Collective.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">With Sharlene and Carole. You'd wouldn't know that minutes before this photo was taken I'd barfed up my lunch</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Over the next two days the gals pleaded with me to go to the ER but I held off. I stopped thinking I had a flu bug when I vomited white rice. Then overnight, when I got up to go pee, nothing came. Still unable to pass urine Saturday morning (October 22nd) we took me to emergency at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Jubilee_Hospital">Royal Jubilee Hospital</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">It was a few hours before I got to see a doctor. The results of the blood work, which was done as soon as I arrived, indicated that my <span style="font-family: "arial";">kidneys had failed. Not being able to void was frightening enough but imagine suddenly being told I was looking at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialysis">dialysis</a>? <span style="font-family: "arial";">The Foley catheter they installed produced nothing, my ureters were obstructed. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">My blood pressure has never been high but that morning it was off the charts at 197/89. It remained high during my eight day hospital stay even though I was put on a beta blocker, Metoprolol, which I am to take for one month. My blood pressure has since returned to normal. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Bill keeping the girls informed. I spent a day and a night in the hall of the emergency room</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">On the morning of September 23rd, I had nephrostomy tubes installed. The right kidney drained copious amounts of urine while the left seemed to have little to give. Neither the CT scan nor the ultrasound detected tumours and scar tissue was suspected to be the reason for the blockages.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">I missed the last two nights of our Airbnb booking and when Bill left the accommodation he moved in with Carole, who has lived a four minute walk from the Jubilee for the past thirty-eight years. It was Carole's husband, Chuck, whose memorial we missed, in May, because of my hospitalization then, and subsequent surgery. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There was also bloody, foul smelling discharge from both my rectum and my vagina. You'll recall that both are truncated; I no longer have a uterus and with the colostomy bag my rectum is not attached to my colon. I honestly thought I might be dying. It certainly seemed as though I was rotting from the inside out.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For five days, I was pumped with IV fluid, supplemented with magnesium and potassium. My kidneys responded beautifully and on September 28th the external nephrostomy tubes were internalized as stents from my kidneys to my bladder. I stayed in hospital a few more days to insure all was stable and that I was voiding smoothly in the normal way. I contracted a bladder infection and left hospital armed with a ten-day regime of antibiotics.<br /><br />Our Island friends were so kind and supportive, many visited me daily and I did get to go outdoors on fine days ... </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">I was discharged October 1<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">st. Excited to be free, we met Joe and Carol for lunch before wandering Fort Street and Oak Bay Avenue. Forgetting that I'd been mostly bed ridden for a week I expended too much energy. By the day's end I crashed. It was apparent that our plan to stay on the island for a few more days, with Mary and Tom at their place, had to be cancelled. We spent that night at Carole's and caught a morning ferry back to the mainland on the 2nd. We took two days to drive home, narrowly missing Alberta's freak October 1st blizzard.</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">On October 4th, we were to have flown to Saskatoon to spend Thanksgiving with Denise, Larry and Avery but that too had to be cancelled. I was delighted when they said they'd make the seven hour drive here to be with us for two nights ...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Since being home I've had another CT scan (October 10th) which revealed that my kidneys have made a total recovery but that the cancer has returned. There is a growth in my pre-sacral area and there are hypodensities in my liver. Dr. Glaze, my surgical oncologist, tells me that without treatments I won't be fairing very well by March. We meet with her October 29th to discuss the course of action. For my family and because I myself want to 'buy' more time I've reconsidered and I'm prepared to undergo chemotherapy, again. In spite of the anger I have over all this, <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I'm in a good head space and have no physical pain, beyond the leg. I prefer to say I'm living with cancer as opposed to fighting it. Please root for me in any way you wish - thank you. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I'm thrilled to report that Laura is coming (solo) for ten days, arriving from Manila on November 11th. Denise too will be here with us for the weekend that falls within her sister's visit.</span></span></span><br />
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Alice Saltiel-Marshallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05017634115891512295noreply@blogger.com20tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3219237530473876374.post-82860827378917048382018-10-13T17:54:00.000-06:002018-10-14T18:41:08.840-06:00Lake O'Hara 2018<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.pc.gc.ca/en/pn-np/bc/yoho/activ/randonnee-hike/ohara">Lake O'Hara</a> never disappoints. We paint the same vistas and hike the same trails because they are all just so incredibly beautiful. Although I haven't been on all her expeditions this was the 12th year running that <a href="https://www.fallenleafgallery.com/patti-dyment.html">Patti Dyment</a> arranged a painters/hikers trip to O'Hara. With the increasing numbers wishing to visit the area combined with Parks Canada's lottery system (to keep the area protected from over use) it has become increasingly difficult to arrange a stay at </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">the <a href="https://www.alpineclubofcanada.ca/web/ACCMember/Huts/Elizabeth_Parker_Hut.aspx">Alpine Club of Canada's, Elizabeth Parker Hut</a>. This year, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Patti was given seven spots for three nights, September 6th to 9th. <br /><br />On day one, five of us set to painting the classic viewpoint at <a href="http://www.jssgallery.org/Paintings/Lake_O%27Hara.htm">Sargent's Point</a>, again. Dave and <a href="http://www.sharonlynnwilliams.com/">Sharon Williams</a> arrived the following day.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Pat and Bob Alin created watercolour /pen and ink sketches</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><a href="http://ralphtempleart.com/portfolio_3_cols.html">Ralph Temple</a> joined us for the first time and worked in oils</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Patti and I painted in oils</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Patti's oil from Sargent's Point, 12" x 16", is likely framed and hanging in a gallery somewhere ...</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">... while my oil from Sargent's Point, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">12" x 12", remains unfinished languishing on a shelf!</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Day two, we set off on the Oesa Trail with Victoria Lake and Falls as our destination.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Mount Odaray reflected in Lake O'Hara</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">With Pat on top of Sargent's Rock with Mount Odaray as backdrop</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Our lunch spot, Victoria Lake and Ringrose Peak</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Victoria Falls, just below Victoria Lake, is a particular favourite with all of us!</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Ralph had his own adventure hauling all his oil painting gear, up to Victoria Falls, but ultimately caught up to us. We crammed into what little space there is, at this point along the Oesa Trail, to paint the Falls. Patti, Pat, Bob and I brought our watercolours for their manageable size and weight. Here I made the worst painting of my entire life. No, you can't see it, my pride won't let me post it. Times like these are needed to keep me humble! </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">With Pat and Ralph at Victoria Falls. Even with my wretched painting I'm thrilled just to be there</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Coming down from Victoria Falls, Pat spied this solitary mountain goat</td></tr>
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Day three, was cooler, the clouds rolled in and the wind came up but the rain held off. It eventually cleared off entirely. Everyone, except Ralph who opted to paint from the shore of Lake O'Hara, hiked up onto the Opabin Plateau.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">On the West Opabin Trail Pat is along side my favourite trees. Mary Lake below and Cathedral Mountain in the background</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pat, myself, Sharon, Dave, Bob and Patti at one of the many pools on the Opabin Plateau</td></tr>
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Day four dawned rainy and gloomy with no prospect of the weather improving so most of us called the expedition a wrap and caught the 11am bus out. As is always the case, it was a wonderful time leaving us with delightful memories. <br /><br />I'm over a month late with this post because there was another trip, immediately on the on the heels of Lake O'Hara that presented something quite undesirable. Stay tuned. <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Canmore's Mountain Avens Gallery, as <a href="http://www.theavensgallery.com/index.php">The Avens Gallery</a> was initially called,</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> represented my art from the time Arlene Curry opened it in June 1986, through two subsequent owners, for twenty-four years. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Almost a decade after leaving the gallery, when we returned, last year, to Canmore (from Claresholm) it was both an honour and a terrific boost to my ego when the current gallery manager, Betti Irwin, invited me back</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It isn't likely that I'll resume painting sizeable, traditional landscapes which did and would again work so perfectly in the Avens. Much has changed with me. After considerable soul searching I met with Betti </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">to explain what I wanted to do. I had asked </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Cheryl Baxter, owner of </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.elevationgallery.ca/">Elevation Gallery</a> and <a href="http://whatzthebuzz.ca/">The Hive</a>, if she would</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> represent me. Betti is a compassionate and understanding individual who wished me well. Cheryl accepts that I may be sporadic in suppling art. She asked for my alternative works, on cradled panels, and could I deliver five to seven of them for Labour Day?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Credit must be given where it's due. It was <a href="https://windinnart.blogspot.com/">Win Dinn</a> who inspired me to incorporate mixed media elements and techniques into making art. It was <a href="https://www.fallenleafgallery.com/patti-dyment.html">Patti Dyment</a> who conceived the notion that we could paint on topographical maps ... </span><br />
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<span style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Without a proper studio in our Canmore townhouse, I paint at our kitchen table where the light pours in from the window above the sink and the east facing patio doors. </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: center;">In January, I invited myself to </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: center;">paint with Patti in her ample, open concept kitchen/living/dining rooms. T</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: center;">hinking it would be a one day play date, i</span><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">magine my delight at being invited back on a regular basis. While painting is a solitary act even when we are together, just being in the same space with another artist doubles the energy. We share ideas, </span></span><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">help each </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: center;">other in exploring potential ways to resolve painting problems and we explode in laughter frequently.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Being a real last-minute-Jenny I was truly under the gun when Patti welcomed me to her place for and a three-day painting binge, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: justify;">August 25th, 26th and 27th. These dates were</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: justify;">sandwiched by two days of painting at home where I both st</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: justify;">arted new and completed unfinished paintings. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Please </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">stop in to see my new works. You'll find some in the street level Elevation Gallery </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">as well as The Hive upstairs. Do visit </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Avens Gallery while you are in town as well. </span></div>
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<br />Alice Saltiel-Marshallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05017634115891512295noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3219237530473876374.post-69555999142035877882018-08-26T18:38:00.000-06:002018-08-31T21:30:31.214-06:00Cypress Hills and the Medalta Museum<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For the week of August 13th to 17th we had our granddaughter, Avery, stay with us. With her parents, we arranged that <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cypress_Hills_Interprovincial_Park">Cypress Hills Interprovincial Park</a> was where we would return Avery to them. As we live in Canmore and they in Saskatoon, Cypress certainly isn't halfway for either party but it's a great place to meet for a weekend of camping.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">That first night Avery slept in the trailer with us. Her parents pitched their tent in the dark. It was adorable to see Avery do what she said she was going to do - crawl into the tent with her folks just as soon as she woke up in the morning. Night two Denise slept with us in the trailer and Avery had a tent experience with her Dad. Musical beds, in our family, is not unusual.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When we arrived, Friday afternoon, it was almost 30º celsius but from then on the daily highs were a cool 18º - 20º. Much too cold to play in Elkwater Lake. I was surprised to learn that the elevation of Cypress Hills is about the same as Banff ... around 1400 meters (4600 feet). That explains the sudden temperature</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> change</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. Much to Avery's disappointment, there was no swimming while we were there.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Scammells had to head home on Sunday. Wanting to check out more of the park we followed them almost to the Saskatchewan border. We overshot the road to Reesor Lake so we had to consult the map, which was certainly not to scale, so we blame it for getting <i>Lost in Cypress Hills</i> ...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Twenty-one different stations from raw clay storage bins to the glaze pump are in the old factory seen as they were found after the building was abandoned, vandalized, pillaged and excavated. The company closed the factory in 1954 and while there were a few attempts made to revive the site for commercial use, it wasn't until the 1970s that a campaign was launched to preserve it for its historical value. Now, the Historic Clay District is a National Historic Site, including the sprawling Medalta complex restored as a museum, incorporating a working pottery area and a ceramic studio residency program.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Lisa knew so much bout the <a href="https://hermis.alberta.ca/ARHP/Details.aspx?DeptID=1&ObjectID=4665-0183">history of Medalta</a> and answered my many questions. She told me things about the destruction after the factory's closure that I can't find online. Suffice to say there was extensive damage. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I was pleased to learn about the resurrection and work done to the <a href="http://medalta.org/they-started-it/">abandoned, derelict buildings</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In my <a href="https://artbysaltiel.blogspot.com/2018/06/medical-update.html">last medial blogpost</a> (June 4th) I left you blog readers hanging. In surgery that day Dr. Jenken was only able to repair the fistula from my small intestine to my vagina and he removed 30.7cm of small intestine where the blockage was. Once again, I awoke with the colostomy bag in place. He says that I may have the reconnection later, but at this point in time I want no more surgeries. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It took a few days to transition from IV feeding to a regular diet. More antibiotics were given for internal inflammation and infection. On Sunday, June 10th, I snapped. Eighteen nights in hospital and I simply couldn't stand even one more. I begged to be sent home. Dr. Jenken was tracked down and gave his approval. Once a nurse had removed the PICC line and the staples I was discharged. That weekend the Scammells were back in Calgary so we visited them (at their now sold house there) before driving to Canmore.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On June 19th, at my follow up appointment, with Dr. Jenken, we learned the results of the pathology report. The removed piece of intestine showed ovarian cancer as did one of the three lymph nodes that were taken in surgery. Bill and I were devastated, as were our girls and their husbands, that</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> cancer had returned only a year after completing chemotherapy. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Right after that bomb was dropped Bill and I went for coffee then stopped in a cute shop next door.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> C</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">onvinced I had little time left on this planet, and as </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">a dying person, I thought I shouldn't be wasting money on new clothes. Bill felt otherwise and encouraged me to buy the new tops seen here ...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I was consumed with these thoughts "Was the end of April ski at Sunshine my last?" "Will my 70th birthday (this September) be my last?" "How about Christmas - will this year be the last one for me?" This wallowing went on for a week or so but it had to stop, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">the negative thoughts of death had to go. U</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ntil <span style="font-style: italic;">and <b><i>only</i></b></span> if</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> I had to, I wouldn't panic. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">With the arrival of Laura and children, on June 28th, my spirits lifted.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Not quite a month out of surgery, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">we hiked up the trail to my beloved Grassi Lakes. It took a great deal of effort, but I was so pleased with myself. We opted for the easy way down, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">on the road.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue";">My latest </span><a href="http://www.cancer.ca/en/cancer-information/diagnosis-and-treatment/tests-and-procedures/cancer-antigen-125-ca-125/?region=on" style="font-family: "helvetica neue";">CA125 blood test</a><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue";"> reading was 14. It has been as low as 11. We’re been advised that there is no cause for alarm unless it is over 35. </span></div>
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We were relieved to learn the results of the CT scan. <b><i>Once again, I’m currently cancer free. </i></b>Chemo was recommended as a preventative measure. This was suggested after the initial <a href="https://artbysaltiel.blogspot.com/2016/12/the-undesired-adventure.html">hysterectomy surgery</a> in November 2016. I subscribed then, but this time I've declined further chemo treatments. </div>
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I'm open to alternative ways to keep cancer away, beginning with my diet. This past week, Jan, who is a graduate of <a href="http://instituteofholisticnutrition.com/">The Institute of Holistic Nutrition</a>, has given freely of her time and expertise on that. Also, I'm grateful to the lovely ladies here in town, who are practitioners in <a href="http://healingpathway.ca/">Healing Pathway</a>. Thus far, I've had four consecutive, weekly sessions.<br />
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As there was cake, and we all won't be with her for her December 9th birthday, Amira thought we should celebrate it. So we did, and since his comes before hers, on September 18th, we also celebrated Everett's birthday.<br />
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The summer continues to unfold with an abundance of social and fun times. I'll be sad to see the Koebels return home to Manila on August 8th. On August 12th, at the end of their vacation, Denise and Larry will bring Avery who will stay with us for a week before we meet her parents at (to be confirmed) <a href="https://www.albertaparks.ca/parks/south/cypress-hills-pp/information-facilities/">Cypress Hills Provincial Park</a> for a weekend of camping.<br />
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Tomorrow, marks eight weeks since surgery. I feel well, terrific in fact. I've gained strength and weight, I'm up to 125 pounds. Last week I got a new bike. Although I haven't ridden in two years, you just don't forget, so I'm happily cruising about Canmore's streets and trails ...<br />
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I'm to watch for any signs that things are not normal for me, and if they're not I'm to alert the Tom Baker Cancer Centre. Otherwise my next follow up visit there is on November 8th.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: justify;">It all began back in April, a week after we arrived home from the Philippines. Thank goodness it didn't happen while we were there. It started with severe stomach cramps and when they didn't let up I went to see our GP. We began the investigation with a stool test which ruled out parasites. X-rays didn't show anything so I had a CT scan which showed a low grade abdominal obstruction but not actually what the obstruction was. It could be <a href="https://www.medicinenet.com/abdominal_adhesions_symptoms_and_treatment/views.htm">intestinal adhesions</a> (not fun) or stool. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: justify;">I was advised to eat a low fibre diet of foods that were easy to digest.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: justify;">As passing stool was extremely difficult the Doc recommended I take Lax-A-Day for a few days. This resulted in diarrhea, but it was going where it was supposed to go - into the colostomy bag.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On May 15th, a couple of hours after after a bowl of tomato red/pepper soup I suddenly expelled a mess of lumpy matter (more like vomit)</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> through </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">both my vagina and my rectum. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This in a public washroom. I was shocked and frightened. I alerted Bill to come in and see it. As we were in Calgary, we took me directly to the Foothills ER. After waiting 3.5 hours the Doc deemed there was nothing they could do and I was sent home. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">L</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ater it was established that it was that undigested lunch. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The discharge accelerated over the next few days to the point where every time I ate anything, including drinking a bottle of Ensure, I had the same result. Expulsion out of both rectum and vagina. Another visit to the ER, this time in Canmore, determined I had developed a new fistula from the small intestine to my vagina. The burning of this undigested food exiting via both orifices was so painful I stopped eating for a couple of days. On May 21st, I tried a whole, small avocado and a soft boiled egg. Just over an hour later it exited the same routes. Over several hours, it continued to pour out. Once it stopped, the burned perineum took hours to calm down. Absolute living hell. This was the Victoria Day weekend and we had to cancel our flight to Victoria. On Tuesday morning, I phoned Dr. Jenken who advised me to go to the ER at Rockyview Hospital the following morning and he would find me there.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This hospital is not only beautifully located it's newer, more spacious and a lot less busy than the Foothills. May 23rd, I arrived at 10:30 to find no waiting at the ER. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Dr Jenken was alerted.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Blood work, urine test and paperwork were done. I was admitted and in a bed by 1pm, immediately after which, I was whisked to a procedure room where Dr. Jenken did a scope of both my vagina and my rectum. O</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">n the big screen, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I saw both fistulas. There has been one between my rectum and vagina, as a result of the first surgery in November 2016, but it is of no consequence since neither are attached to anything anymore. With the scope over, I was back in the room by 2pm.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Initially, I was in a ward of four (the scenic photo at the top of this post) but after two nights I was moved to a room for two. Again I was lucky in getting the window seat, this time facing north.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On May 25th I was taken by ambulance, accompanied by, Gord Garrett, the best paramedic ever. He and driver paramedic, Geoff, took me to South Health Campus for a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaginogram">Vaginogram</a> which confirmed the findings of the scope the day before. The two gents waited for me at South Health and brought me back to the Rockyview. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Every day, a substantially large bag of liquid food was pumped, via the PICC line, into me over a 24 hour period. I'm never hungry but I sure miss the taste of food in my mouth. It was days into the feeding program when I announced that I was going squirrelly. Wish I'd thought to say that sooner. At first the feeding time was changed to over a 12 hour period, then it was upped to 16 hours. This enabled me to be unplugged for a few hours, don street clothes and leave the hospital. On one outing Bill and I went to a matinee of the film </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDxgPIsv6sY" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Book Club</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. It was hilariously funny, light and spirit lifting. We smiled, laughed and, like teenagers, held hands, throughout the entire movie. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In an effort to slow the discharge of fluids (yes there still is rather a lot, even though I am not 'eating') every 6 hours I'm given an injection of <a href="https://www.webmd.com/drugs/2/drug-17226/octreotide-acetate-injection/details">octroetide</a>. It stings like hell. Every 3 hours I'm given a tablet of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codeine">codeine</a> for the same reason. As well I am topped up with an antibiotic via the IV. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Dr. Jenken still feels there could be new cancer growth but all tests, scopes and biopsies have found none.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: justify;">When we moved back to Canmore, in August 2017, we secured a sweet townhouse in the complex of my dreams, but here I don't have a proper studio. Although I've painted at our kitchen table, I was pleased when <a href="http://pattidyment.blogspot.ca/">Patti Dyment</a> responded favourably to my request for a painting date at her place. Three days a week her large, well lit, open concept kitchen, dining, living room becomes her studio. We had such a good time we've turned these dates into regular events. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: center;">Sometimes we work on the same subject. Such was the case on this day when we both painted Anastasia, from an image off an online paint-the-model photo website ...</span></div>
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<span style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">That day I came home and worked on her too-small head, and more, for a further four hours.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">With the cradled panels we'd covered, using pretty scrapbooking papers, we launched into the following ...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Although the first paintings weren't finished, we moved on to begin another and worked on different images. By this time of day the sun had moved around to where it was pourin</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">g its brilliance in through the skylight. Here we are shifting around the room to escape being directly in the spotlight ...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I was hoping to get this post out before Valentine's Day, close but ...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We're very fortunate to always spend Christmas with the Scammells. For the past decade we've taken turns hosting the holiday. Last year, when I needed it most, we had the pleasure of being pampered at their home. This past holiday season, our first back in Canmore, we were hosts. I managed well, but certainly accepted help in that last minute crunch of getting the feast to the table.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Meanwhile in Manila ...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On Christmas Eve the reading of the old, pop-up Night Before Christmas is a long standing tradition in our family.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sometimes our daughters give me direction, sometimes the children do and sometimes there is no direction at all. I don't recall asking Amira for input nor do I remember her giving me any feedback, so I was on my own to come up with something a six year old girl would like.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Once again I was not satisfied with the look of the painting, in acrylic paint, so I switched to oil. You might say I retreated to my comfort zone ...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The final touch was adding the row of blue cornflowers, from where the fairy on the left had plucked her flower. I chose to leave Tinker Bell out of the painting.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The parcel, with this painting, her brother's painting and the entire Manila family's birthday <i>and</i> Christmas gifts did not make it in time for Christmas. It's arrival, in January, seemed a disappointment at first but it was actually bit of a blessing in that the family had a second Christmas while Bill and I, here in Canmore, were able to witness the gift opening in a FaceTime call.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The lovely Amira with her painting, February 2nd, 2018</td></tr>
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<b>Happy sixth birthday Amira!</b><br />
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Alice Saltiel-Marshallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05017634115891512295noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3219237530473876374.post-45691550072046960462018-01-23T19:26:00.000-07:002018-02-09T10:25:21.679-07:00Everett's 2nd Birthday Painting<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He's all over trains these days, so for Everett's second birthday painting Laura suggested a train and mountains. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Hudson">The Royal Hudson</a> immediately came to mind as I recalled the only time I've seen this train. It was in the interior of B.C., on our way home from the west coast. It was the morning after we'd sprung </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">the clocks</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">forward. Laura was exactly three months old. The time change had the effect of making me think the babe and I had slept through the night, but had we really? I look so tired because I was!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I scored a Canadian stamp image from the Internet and </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">was rather pleased with myself for</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">changing its denomination to 2, for the little man's birthday, which is September 18th. It was Bill's suggestion to paint the track running right through the stamp which helped the stamp to become a part of the painting. Adding the stamp and the railway crossing sign makes it a bit of a mixed media piece.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Initially all of us were bummed that the Manila parcel, with all their birthday and Christmas gifts, arrived after Christmas but as it turned out it was a good thing. They are 14 or 15 hours ahead of us so we would never have been able to watch them opening their gifts Christmas morning. On January 3rd, the family got a second Christmas and we able to view it all via FaceTime.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Avery turned nine October 16th. That evening, we came bearing gifts </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">but no painting. I hadn't even started hers yet because, first, I had to create a painting each for the Manila kids so they could be wrapped and ready to ship before my hip replacement. Bill dropped the parcel (filled with birthday and Christmas gifts for the entire Koebel family) at </span><a href="http://www.forex-orientalcargo.com/calgary/aboutus.php" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Forex</a>,<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Calgary on October 19th. Sadly it didn't arrive in time for Christmas making the birthday paintings for Amira (six on December 9th) and Everett (two on September 18th) late as well. I made a clean sweep of tardiness last year. The three birthday paintings were the sum total of paintings I created in 2017. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Avery was gracious when I apologized for being late. Later that birthday evening she made this precious announcement "I'm into dragons and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurora">Northern Lights</a>, just some thoughts for my birthday painting." </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As I researched dragons online it came to me that, as fascinating as they are, a painting of an adult, fire breathing dragon, in Avery's darkened bedroom would have the potential to give her nightmares. And so I decided to depict a hatchling because, well, aren't all babies adorable and basically non-threatening? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">... is four weeks old today. Now I have two, but they don't match. The surgery for my first replaced hip (right) was on January 17th, 2014, by Dr. Malcom Chang in Lethbridge. That one is steel. The left hip, replaced </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">by Dr. Jim MacKenzie in Calgary on </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">October 17th, 2017, is titanium. I am healing well and will have a follow-up appointment with the surgeon on December 6th.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In my last medical blog post I told you</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">how my left leg went totally lame and the pain of that hip went completely off the charts. This put me in the Canmore hospital for five nights (August 20th to 25th) while the appropriate dosage of morphine was established. It certainly helped but by no means eliminated the pain. It did not permit me to bear weight on that leg forcing us to buy a walker the day I was discharged simply because I </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">couldn't walk without one.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The three month wait </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">for my consult with</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Dr. MacKenzie, ended September 6th</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: center;">. He deemed me an urgent case. I was so grateful to have been fast tracked, jumping his usual year long waiting list to be given a surgery date of October 17th. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Our friends, Dave and Cathy, hosted a delightful dinner party for me on my 69th birthday. Dave's son is a paraplegic and they have an outdoor lift for his wheelchair which made entering their home really easy for me. Stairs posed a terrible problem for me during this stage. I'd go up and down indoor steps on my butt. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The pressure of needing to paint birthday paintings for our three grandchildren saw me </span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">finally</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> take up the brushes. At the end of September I started my <i>first </i>painting of 2017, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">for grandson Everett, who turned two on September 18th.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> As it hasn't been received yet I've obliterated it in the photo. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I laboured over a second painting for his sister, Amira, who will be six on December 9th. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The paintings plus the young family's Christmas <i>and</i> birthday gifts began their journey </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">October 19th</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">via a slow boat to Manila. When the box arrives I can show you those paintings. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On October 5th I had a three month check up at the Tom Baker Cancer Centre when I was told I am in remission. Yahoo, as far as I'm concerned cancer is behind me and I'm on to becoming whole again.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Immediately after surgery the wretched arthritic pain was gone, replaced by the pain of having all those muscles carved through but this is a temporary pain and my healing is going well. The phase one, twice daily exercises no longer cause me to wince. Somewhere in the second week I found I could use the cane as opposed to the walker and now I can take some steps without the cane. How wonderful it is to be able to walk again. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: center;">On a Sunday drive, around Banff, I even managed the teeniest of hikes at the hoodoos ...</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As for w</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">eaning myself off morphine. I did not quit cold turkey but rather followed the recommendation of both the surgeon and our GP. On October 19th, I reduced the intake from 60mg every 8 hours to 30. A week later I halved it again and another week later I took the last 15mg tablet at 6am, on November 3rd. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Quite simply it has been hell since. </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">I was lucky to have only vomited once.</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The </span><a href="https://luxury.rehabs.com/morphine-addiction/" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">withdrawal symptoms</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> both physical and mental are extensive. Worst of all is the insomnia. I long for an uninterrupted night's sleep. My dreams are vivid and plentiful. Some are highly entertaining while others frighten me to the point where I wake myself up to escape them. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">With further weight loss I'm barely 120 pounds. I've no strength or fitness. The diarrhea (another withdrawal symptom) in a colostomy bag is not for the faint of heart. I'm hoping that my colon can be reconnected to my rectum one day, but right now I have a strong aversion to more surgery.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">To end on a happy note, one of the delights of being back in Canmore is seeing just how the art community has blossomed. It's so inspirational to find it even broader than it was a decade ago. On November 11th, I was so pleased to attend <a href="http://bigoudi.ca/">Pascale Ouellet's</a> 9th solo show, 'Pretexts' at <a href="http://www.elevationgallery.ca/">Elevation Gallery</a> ...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The past year plus has been especially hard on both of us.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> I could never have survived it without Bill. He does everything and is everything to me. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Thanks to family and friends who have been a huge support. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I believe we all take the freedom to easily come and go for granted and so I tell you we are truly looking forward to my strength being rebuilt, enabling us to get out more and to resume traveling.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My grandkid birthday paintings are decidedly labours of love. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Often I'll invite our daughters to have input regarding the subject matter. When Laura requested a Jeepney for Everett I had absolutely no idea what a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeepney">Jeepney</a> was. She sent images and I went into heart failure. What a complicated subject. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I had to give myself the pep talk. The same one I give myself whenever</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> I'm asked to paint something outrageous. In this talk I repeat things like "You can paint anything, you just have to want to paint this." "I</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">t's simply another challenge, n</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ow go and convince yourself that you want to paint it."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A painting that definitely required the pep talk is <a href="https://artbysaltiel.blogspot.ca/2014/09/an-odd-request.html">here</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jeepneys are the most popular means of public transportation in the Philippines. They are known for their crowded bench seating and kitsch decorations. Jeepneys were originally made from U.S. military jeeps left over from WWII.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">With little boys and their attraction to super heroes I decided Everett ought to be portrayed as Superman. Originally I thought I wanted the body of the Jeepney to be metallic silver, but paintings like this one morph of their own volition. The vehicle asked to be turquoise. The rural background didn't feel right so I let it become urban. I had fun texturing the wall.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As is often the case this painting was late, but his sister's painting was almost on time. This is because their birthday and Christmas gifts get lumped together into one shipping box going to Manila (in October to arrive in December). Everett's birthday is September 18th and Amira's is December 9th.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It's not to say that Amira has only had <i>easy</i> paintings. For her 2nd birthday I gifted her with <a href="https://artbysaltiel.blogspot.ca/2014/01/mermaid-two.html">Mermaid Two</a>. For her 3rd birthday I gave her <a href="https://artbysaltiel.blogspot.ca/2014/12/shoe-dreams.html">Shoe Dreams</a>. Both of these paintings were incredibly complex and in spite of the time they took, they were decidedly gratifying.</span></div>
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<b><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Before I sign off ... there is medical good news. On September 6th, at my appointment with </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">orthopaedic surgeon </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Dr. MacKenzie, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">he deemed me an urgent case. He will give me a total left hip replacement on October </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">17th.</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After my May 31st surgery, where the attempt to reconnect my colon to my rectum failed, I was discharged from hospital June 3rd. As I'd only been out of hospital for two days </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I didn't accompany Bill to Canmore for the house inspection on June 5th. Built in 1990, Mountain Shadows is a quiet, complex of 35 townhouses, with an awesome clubhouse, for the over 50 set. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: center;">It's </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="text-align: center;">a spacious oasis of serenity in the now exceptionally busy Canmore.</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Home Care nurse removed the catheter on June 7th. I had been discharged from Foothills with it, June 2nd. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It was an amazing relief to find that my bladder worked well on her own. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Our physician, Dr. Yonemori, used some pretty strong language about Dr. Chang's reluctance and has referred me to another orthopaedic surgeon, Dr. MacKenzie, in Calgary. I have a consult with him on September 6th.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Much of June was spent experimenting with narcotics for relief of the hip pain. In addition to Celebrex, I took both the immediate and the extended release </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hydromorphone</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">capsules which promoted a tiredness that had me taking two to three hour naps every day. The Hyrdromorphone was replaced by Oxycodone. I'm no longer sleeping my life away. Nothing improves my mobility and the pain is still there although it is somewhat reduced.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Home Care returned to remove the staples from my incision June 14th. On June 20th I had the port, through which I received the chemotherapy drugs, removed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Manila family arrived in Canada on June 22nd. It was heartwarming to have our girls and their children with us for a short visit at the end of June. This was the last time we all sat together around this table - in our Claresholm house ...</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">With all our grandchildren, June 30th, at the Scammell's pub/restaurant, Bridges on First. </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">With a great deal of purging and packing yet to do we stayed in Canmore only the one night (June 30th). Before heading home, we joined Susan and Jim, at their place, for a Canada Day BBQ. Dale and Janice are missing from the photo because we weren't on the ball about taking the group shot before they departed to join family visiting them for the holiday.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">The lunch and <i>payment</i> to Gary preceded my July 4th follow up appointment (for the May 31st surgery) with my surgeon, Dr.Glaze. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I'd been having foul smelling discharge from both my vagina and my rectum so a CT scan was arranged and happened in Lethbridge on July 6th. Nothing untoward was found and yet the discharge continues although it is gradually diminishing. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On July 8th, we were back in Canmore, for another single, overnight stay, this one to attend a surprise 40th birthday, which Adam had arranged before they left the Philippines. Again, we stayed in town just one night because we still had a great deal of work ahead of us before the moving truck's inevitable arrival.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Our Claresholm physician was able to squeeze me in early on the morning of July 27th to give me a cortisone shot in the left hip. Unlike the injection I took last September, which I hiked off in a few days at Lake O'Hara, I babied this one so that it lasted nine days. It wasn't a cure but it was a wonderful gift of mobility and pain relief which got me through the move.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Our possession date in Canmore was August 1st. Thrilled to be back we've already enjoyed much of what this community has to offer. Sure it's a struggle to go from 1700 to 1100 square feet but our new home is precisely where we need to be. The moves final stamp of approval was when</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Telus phoned us to offer us our former phone number! I had requested it and even though it was not in service Telus originally said it was unavailable. The serendipity of it all can't be denied.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Photos of the new place will have to wait for another post because suddenly, on August 19th, the pain in my hip escalated beyond anything I've ever known and I became completely lame because my left leg will not tolerate any weight bearing. I spent the night of August 20th in the ER at the Canmore Hospital. The following day</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I was admitted. I'm here until the correct dosage of morphine is established to manage this pain.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">May 3rd </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">took on a life of it's own.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We'd made prior arrangements to meet friends </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">for lunch</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> at Bridges on First, after my n</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">europathy physio assessment. Nothing effective was recommended, what is</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> working is the cannabis oil! </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There,</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> I was loaned a <a href="https://patient.info/health/tens-machines-leaflet">TENS</a> machine to help manage the pain in my hip, but I didn't find it made any difference so, after 2.5 weeks of use, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I bailed. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">During this appointment I had a phone message</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> from nurse practitioner, Pam, advising me that an </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ultrasound was booked at </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">2pm that day </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(to investigate the spot on my liver) <b><i>but she hadn't said </i></b><i><b>where?</b></i> W</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">e'd discussed having it done, closer to home, in Lethbridge or High River. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As luck would have it, Pam was at the Holy Cross Centre, Calgary, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><b>where I was</b></i></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><b>.</b></i> We tracked her down to learn<i> </i></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">the ultra sound </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">was scheduled at the Foothills, Calgary. It meant I could make the procedure, but that I couldn't eat lunch. I watched as Bill, Brian and Alice did. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Before leaving the Foothills, I was adamant about seeing the radiologist regarding results of the ultrasound. It was inconclusive. I would need an MRI, which he informed me could take up to two months. Immediately and frantically, I called Pam and demanded an MRI, ASAP. It was arranged for six days later (May 9th). Two days after the MRI, my surgeon herself, phoned to announce most welcome news. There is nothing at all wrong my liver. Hallelujah.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Less than a month after listing our </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Claresholm house, the fourth showing yielded an offer on May 18th. On the 27th, the deal was sealed. W</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">e are dazzled and thrilled. Our </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">realtor, <a href="http://garylock.realestateairdrie.ca/cir/">Gary Lock</a>, is the best. He's out of Airdrie and has amazing results selling properties all over the province. It's exciting to report we're in the process of buying a Canmore townhouse, in the complex of our wishes, Mountain Shadows.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">May 21st and 22nd, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Meg and Paul visited from Canmore. They made it incredibly easy for us by staying at the nearby Bluebird Motel and bringing a ton of food. While the boys went off to scour the antique shops in Nanton, Meg and I made wonderful art messes on the back deck ...</span><br />
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<span style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Again, Bill was able to stay at Denise's and Larry's Air B&B suite for three nights. They came bringing awesome food from Bridges on First which usurped the wretched hospital meals. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">During surgery, adding insult to injury, my bladder was adversely affected. I came home with the catheter still installed. It's to remain in place for seven days so that my bladder can heal. A Home Care nurse will come tomorrow, June 7th, to remove it. I'm to continue daily injections of blood thinner, for a month post surgery. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On June 3rd, I begged to be and was discharged.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">All the while, Bill was tearing around tending to the things which need attention when you are buying a property. The conditions on our future home are to be lifted June </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">12th. Possession date is August 1st. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In many ways moving is a wonderful distraction from the medical issues and a perfect impetus to heal in preparation of going home ...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When I'm at Lake O'Hara hiking is every bit as important as painting. My left hip needs replacing. Just prior to this trip, I had a cortisone shot that enabled me do two hikes which I wouldn't have been able to negotiate otherwise. The weather forecast was not favourable so, that first afternoon, while there were some patches of blue sky, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">a few of us hit the trail to Lake McArthur ..</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Janet and Tom Novotny, of Chicago, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">are so in love with the Canadian Rockies they'</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ve been vacationing here </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">every year </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">since 1983. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I'm sure</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> s</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">tranger things have happened but even so what are the odds that they would be back at Lake O'Hara at precisely the same time as us, in both 2015 and 2016? More O'Hara magic. You can't help but embrace their enthusiasm, plus they robustly join in on our hootenannies! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On the ride down, we laughed as we recounted another incredible time together despite the weather because even in bad weather it's a most wonderful place to be. At the parking lot we bid one another farewell and happy trails, until we meet again.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For the most part things eased up in April. The burning pain of the neuropathy </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">raged at the beginning of the month but </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">was gone by month end. I still have a tingling sensation on the soles of my feet. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Concerned about it advancing, I</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> phoned the Tom Baker Cancer Centre to insist I have an appointment with my surgeon/oncologist, Dr. Glaze. Remarkably, I was given one the very next day, April 4th. We sighed with relief when she recommended we leave the Paclitaxel drug out of my final treatment all together. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">April brought many visitors. I don't always remember to photograph everyone. It's always appreciated when folks come bearing </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">gifts and</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">food but it's their company I crave. Vicki and Henry stopped in on their way home to Jasper from Arizona. They brought supper and wine. Since it was two weeks after my second to last chemo treatment I opted to have a couple of glasses. It was only </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">5.5% alcohol and tasted absolutely marvellous.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Out in its centre, the ice was off the lake. There was still a great deal of snow nestled in the trees of the campground which meant the road into the Recreation Area was closed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It disappointed me </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">that the can</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">nabis oil didn't alleviate my hip pain. When I got Cannimed's oil (</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.cannimed.ca/pages/thc-and-cbd">1:20</a></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.cannimed.ca/pages/thc-and-cbd"> TCH to CBD</a>) </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">dosage up to 2ml, four times a day, without any relief, I called them. I was told that increasing the dosage further wasn't going to be of any benefit. April 10th, I resumed Celebrex, at 200mg twice a day. I continue to use cannabis oil (1ml, twice a day under my tongue) because I feel it's helping with the neuropathy pain. Also, as cancer cells are famous for rapidly dividing and multiplying the cannabinoids in cannabis oil are anti-proliferative <i>and</i> they can check cancer from </span><a href="http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=4364" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">metastasizing</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My final chemotherapy treatment was on April 13th. Denise spent the time with me and Bill. The video may not play here, but you'll at least see a still of me with her. Ringing the bell signifies that your treatments are finished. It was most gratifying to </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">let that bell peel!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Later that afternoon we celebrated my final chemotherapy treatment at </span><a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/food-city-bridges-on-first-1.4031625" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Bridges on First</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: justify;">with fine food and champagne. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When it was done we opened another bottle of champagne, a gift, received earlier that day, from John Webster who owns </span><a href="http://www.webstergalleries.com/index.php" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Webster Galleries</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> and represents me in </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Calgary</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It was mid March when I announced that I needed to go home. Canmore is home. Bill could be happy staying here in Claresholm but is prepared to honour my wish and so <a href="http://www.sellingcalgary.pro/listing/claresholm/c4111546-142-52-av-w">our home is for sale</a>. Although Gary put the signs up the week prior, the listing went live on April 24th. We've had three showings but no offers, yet.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: center;">The sunflowers, came from my cousin, Claudine, who instructed me to put them in my best Van Gogh vase, against blue. As I don't have either, I placed them on the buffet beneath my painting 'Portes de </span><a href="http://www.france-voyage.com/tourism/roussillon-802.htm" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center;">Roussillon</a>'<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: center;"> 2004 oil, 22" x 30" with the pottery we bought in the Luberon near Roussillon, France.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Bill turned 73 on April 28th. Our family believes a birthday celebration can, and often does, last for up to a month. He managed to squeeze two celebrations in before April was over. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: center;">On April 26th, I had a CT scan of my chest, abdomen and pelvis. The results came back saying all was looking good except for a 1cm spot on my liver, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">hitherto unseen. I</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">t was not detected in m</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">y last CT scan on November 22nd, seven days after surgery. I was told I'd need an ultra sound to determine just what it is. </span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sneaking into May and as this wasn't posted this yet, I can report that I had the ultra sound May 3rd. The radiologist said that he couldn't "characterize" what the spot was. I'll need a MRI for that "It's not good news or bad news" he said. "I</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">t's no news." </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This was not comforting. In fact I was downright frantic. I Immediately called and left messages with my </span></i><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">surgeon/oncologist and my </span></i><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">nurse practitioner. The latter returned my call as we were driving home. She stressed that it's encouraging they couldn't determine anything from the ultra sound. She will book me a MRI. This "liver spot" won't interfere with the colostomy reversal slated to happen at the end of May. </span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Friend and fellow artist, </span><a href="http://www.fallenleafgallery.com/patti-dyment.html" style="font-family: '"arial"', '"helvetica"', sans-serif;">Patti Dyment,</a> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">is masterful at organizing hiking/painting expeditions. On other occasions, Bill and I have stayed at the <a href="http://assiniboinelodge.com/naiset-and-hind-huts">Naiset Huts</a> but, </span><span style="font-family: "\22 arial\22 " , "\22 helvetica\22 " , sans-serif;">this was the first time</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "\22 arial\22 " , "\22 helvetica\22 " , sans-serif;">we joined her Assiniboine </span><span style="font-family: "\22 arial\22 " , "\22 helvetica\22 " , sans-serif;">group -</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">August 7th to 10th, 2016.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Assiniboine">Mount Assiniboine Provincial Park</a>, is part of the Canadian Rocky Mountain UNESCO World Heritage Site. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">At 11,870 feet (3,618 meters) t</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">he Matterhorn-like peak is the highest in the Canadian Rockies. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I've had the pleasure of </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">painting there a time or two before. Once, along with </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">with </span><a href="http://mountainartist.com/" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Liz Wiltzen</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> and </span><a href="http://www.gayeadams.com/" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Gaye Adams</a>,<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> I was</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> fortunate to have a decadent stay </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">in one of the lodge's cabins</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "\22 arial\22 " , "\22 helvetica\22 " , sans-serif;">as guests of </span><a href="http://www.kidner.ca/Biography.html" style="font-family: '"arial"', '"helvetica"', sans-serif;">Sarah Kidner</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="text-align: center;"><br /></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="text-align: center;">On this trip, two of our four days were mostly absorbed by flights. We really had only two full days there. One was exceptionally fine and all of us made the most of it. </span></span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/sevanessen" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center;">Sharon Van Essen</a><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> was brand new to the experience of painting and staying in the back country. For the most part she slipped seamlessly into the program. On August 9th, she and I painted side by side ... </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Accessing Mount Assiniboine by helicopter </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: center;">will always be a huge rush, plus it's a great deal faster. Eight minutes versus eight hours on foot.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: center;"> On the morning of August 7th, a</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: center;">t the Mount Shark staging area,</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: center;">w</span><span style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">e were forced to wait for the clouds to lift before flying could commence. Multiple fights and incredible precision are required to fly gear and visitors out, economically timed with flying visitors and gear in. Lodge guests fly first. Our gang flew last.</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Flying around the end of the rock wall of Mount Caultley y</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">our </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">heart skips a beat while your breath simultaneously catches in your throat</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">because, suddenly, now you can see what we've all come here for - the Queen of the Rockies ...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We were a party of eight, which is the capacity of the largest of the <a href="http://assiniboinelodge.com/naiset-and-hind-huts/what-naiset-huts">Naiset Huts</a>. The huts are self catered, dorm style accommodations. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The five cabins were built </span><span style="font-family: "\22 arial\22 " , "\22 helvetica\22 " , sans-serif;">in 1925 </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">by Alpine Club of Canada founder, A.O. Wheeler. Although some huts have been upgraded, the Aster's interior has not. It's especially rustic. Its </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">two sets of double bunks are pretty narrow. Can you believe eight adults can squeeze in here? Let's just say it was a tight fit ... </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Yours truly painting the towers, August 8th</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "\22 arial\22 " , "\22 helvetica\22 " , sans-serif; text-align: center;">Our group consisted of four painters and four hikers. For Bill and me there were some new faces. It's a good thing</span><span style="font-family: "\22 arial\22 " , "\22 helvetica\22 " , sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </span><a href="https://grant-waddell-lgdt.squarespace.com/paintings/" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center;">Grant Waddell's</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: center;"> warm, easy demeanour stole my heart because he paints altogether too well - if I didn't already love him, I'd hate him. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It was a surprise to find <a href="http://www.mastersgalleryltd.com/artists/john-harvie">John Harvie</a>, and his wife Zel, at the helicopter staging area. I was even more thrilled that he remembered me from the late 1980s when we met at a Sunshine Village Art awards banquet. He's a delightful fellow and a consummate watercolourist. It was awesome to visit</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> with them here ... </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As I am wont to do, in the back country, I slipped out of bed before dawn to see if we might expect a glorious, alpenglow morning. The potential was there and the sky had the right amount of clouds so I went up to the </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">high</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">lookout, in front of the lodge, where I waited for my reward ...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When Sharon and I had finished painting we dropped our gear back at our hut and, with Bill, wandered toward The Towers. We were on the right side of the creek and waved to Patti painting on the left. </span></div>
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<span style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Patti is quick on her feet and hustled to the lodge right behind us. </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: center;">During afternoon tea (b</span><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">etween 4 and 5pm) non lodge guests can purchase beer, wine, tea or coffee and cake at the lodge. </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Every day most of us made our way to the beckoning happy hour. It was grand to warm up in the dining room on the wet, cold days and wonderful to sit out front on the sunny day ...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And suddenly, just like that, the party was over and it was time to depart</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: center;">. On the morning of August 10th it was cloudy and drizzling but there was enough visibility to fly</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I have such gratitude for times spent in places like this. The memories of these experiences fill my soul and will stay in my heart,</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">forever</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. Thank you, Patti, for making this trip a reality. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "\22 arial\22 " , "\22 helvetica\22 " , sans-serif; text-align: justify;">March was a roller coaster ride, some joy, another complication, more joy. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On the first Sunday, I spent a pleasant afternoon painting the young ladies above. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The following Sunday, Bill and I drove to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterton_Lakes_National_Park">Waterton Lakes National Park</a>. It's only an hour and forty-five minutes away making it an easy afternoon drive. Just being in the mountains lifted my spirit and </span><span style="font-family: "\22 arial\22 " , "\22 helvetica\22 " , sans-serif;">filled my soul</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. I miss living in them terribly, plus it had been six months since I was last in their embrace.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.23999999463558197px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.23999999463558197px;">Perhaps I hadn't cooked it correctly, but the Bedrocan cannabis oil was of no use. Over a three week period I gradually increased the dose from 1ml, three times a day, to 5ml three times a day. </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: -0.23999999463558197px;">I was sick of ingesting so much sunflower oil </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.23999999463558197px;">with absolutely no pain relief. I quit their oil the day of my appointment with Dr. Abounaja (March 7th)</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.23999999463558197px;"> who prescribes the medicinal marijuana</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: -0.23999999463558197px;">. He wrote </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.23999999463558197px;">a another prescription, which I needed for </span></span><span style="font-family: "\22 \\22 arial\\22 \22 " , "\22 \\22 helvetica\\22 \22 " , sans-serif; letter-spacing: -0.23999999463558197px;">Cannimed, </span><span style="font-family: "\22 arial\22 " , "\22 helvetica\22 " , sans-serif; letter-spacing: -0.23999999463558197px;">the new provider</span><span style="font-family: "\22 \\22 arial\\22 \22 " , "\22 \\22 helvetica\\22 \22 " , sans-serif; letter-spacing: -0.23999999463558197px;">. They ha</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.23999999463558197px;">ve the ready made oil, with a</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: -0.23999999463558197px;"> 20 to 1 ratio of CBD to THC. It arrived March 24th. It took over two weeks to cancel one provider and get registered with another. While waiting, I caved in and filled a prescription for Celebrex. I was desperate. I've since quit it. Starting low and going slow, I'm experimenting with the </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.23999999463558197px;">cannabis oil looking for </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: -0.23999999463558197px;">the </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.23999999463558197px;">dosage that</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: -0.23999999463558197px;"> will work for me. </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.23999999463558197px;">Some colourful joy arrived March 14th. What are the odds that these two gorgeous bouquets would arrive, on the same day, from Ontario friends we have known for as </span></span><span style="font-family: "\22 arial\22 " , "\22 helvetica\22 " , sans-serif; letter-spacing: -0.23999999463558197px;">long as they have known one another? Our best man, Bob, and his wife, Christine, live in </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.23999999463558197px;">Grimsby and Lori lives in London. They assured me they did not confer prior to wiring the flowers. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The day after receiving the flowers, a care package arrived in the mail from <a href="http://www.ericaneumann.com/">Erica Neumann</a></span><span style="font-family: "\22 arial\22 " , "\22 helvetica\22 " , sans-serif;">. It was filled with wonderful products from</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> the </span><a href="http://chinookhoney.com/our-story/" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Chinook Honey Company</a>.<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> I'd never heard of them or </span><a href="http://chinookhoney.com/propolis/" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Propolis</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. The Black </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ointment</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Propolis has worked very well in settling down the lesions on my legs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Mid month I contracted </span><a href="https://www.livestrong.org/we-can-help/finishing-treatment/neuropathy" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Chemotheraphy Induced Peripheral Neuropathy</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. Simply put it's </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">damaged peripheral nerves</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">N</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ot everyone undergoing treatment gets it. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The soles of my feet always feel </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">numb, there is often a pins and needles sensation but worst of all is the intense burning pain which, thankfully, isn't constant. However it rages at night. CIPN can advance to not knowing where your feet are. Peripheral nerves do have the ability to regenerate if they are not too badly damaged. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Often CIPN goes away over time, unless you happen to be one of a subset of patients who are affected by it for life. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I was prescribed Gabpentin, used for both preventing epileptic seizures and in calming nerve pain. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I took 200mg twice a day for five days before increasing it to 400mg twice a day a</span></span><span style="font-family: "\22 arial\22 " , "\22 helvetica\22 " , sans-serif;">s prescribed. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The morning after the increase I woke up dizzy and light headed. I had difficulty thinking and was so very sleepy. I had two, two hour naps, one in the morning, one in the afternoon and still I slept well that night. Thinking it was a reaction to </span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">something,</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> I quit everything that day, March 27th. It was later confirmed as a reaction to Gabapentin. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="text-align: start;">CIPN often necessitates reducing or even discontinuing chemo treatments. I phoned the </span></span><span style="font-family: "\22 arial\22 " , "\22 helvetica\22 " , sans-serif;">Tom Baker Cancer Centre about it on Friday, they gave me an appointment the very next Monday, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">March 20th with </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="text-align: start;">Dr. Babaier. He recommended </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">two more treatments, </span><span style="font-family: "\22 arial\22 " , "\22 helvetica\22 " , sans-serif;">three weeks apart as opposed to</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> the six weekly </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.oncolink.org/healthcare-professionals/o-pro-portal/articles-about-cancer-treatment-and-medications/dose-dense-chemotherapy" style="text-align: start;">dose dense</a> </span><span style="font-family: "\22 arial\22 " , "\22 helvetica\22 " , sans-serif;">treatments I had remaining</span><span style="font-family: "\22 arial\22 " , "\22 helvetica\22 " , sans-serif;">. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Paclitaxel is increased for these treatments to compensate for the dropped treatments. This gives my body </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">a rest, yet still completes the full six cycles of treatments. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As well, my white blood cells have an opportunity to replenish themselves which meant that </span><span style="font-family: "\22 arial\22 " , "\22 helvetica\22 " , sans-serif;">I could discontinue the <a href="https://www.drugs.com/neupogen.html">Neupogen</a> injections. Home care nurses had administered 24 of the proposed 40</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. This is a blessing since Neuopen promotes joint pain. Also, with this new regime, I'm not having blood drawn every week which is done at the Claresholm lab three days prior to every chemo treatment.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="text-align: start;">On </span></span><span style="font-family: "\22 arial\22 " , "\22 helvetica\22 " , sans-serif;">March 23rd, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">my second to last day in <i>The Chair,</i> two couples visited, Bill is always with me. Jackie and Ed, from Canmore, </span><span style="font-family: "\22 arial\22 " , "\22 helvetica\22 " , sans-serif;">arrived first</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. We four talked non-stop for two hours until Calgarians, Joe and Carol, arrived. After treatment we enjoyed lunch with the latter two, plus we attended the </span><span style="font-family: "\22 arial\22 " , "\22 helvetica\22 " , sans-serif;"><a href="http://calgaryartsdevelopment.com/classifieds/peoples-portrait-prize/">People's Portrait Prize</a> </span><span style="font-family: "\22 arial\22 " , "\22 helvetica\22 " , sans-serif;">exhibition</span><span style="font-family: "\22 arial\22 " , "\22 helvetica\22 " , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "\22 arial\22 " , "\22 helvetica\22 " , sans-serif;">at </span><a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/29-tenants-sign-on-at-cspace-arts-incubator-in-calgary-s-old-king-edward-school-1.3814487" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">cSPACE</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> consisting of over 450 works. Such fabulous art. So stimulating.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The grand finale of the month was a visit from John and <a href="http://windinnart.blogspot.ca/">Win Dinn</a>. Knowing that I have limited energy and that a sleep over would be too taxing, they stopped in for a few hours on their way to Calgary for a couple of nights, to visit with family. Like many of our other friends have done, they arrived bearing lunch, <i>and </i>gifts <i>and</i> much appreciated food for the freezer. And then there was the energy healing Win did on both of us - many thanks. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">With the Dinns March 31st. Behind me you can see the half moon table we bought at the auction</span> </td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Win and I knew we wouldn't get to </span></span><span style="font-family: "\22 arial\22 " , "\22 helvetica\22 " , sans-serif;">making</span><span style="font-family: "\22 arial\22 " , "\22 helvetica\22 " , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">art but she did leave me her </span><a href="https://www.derwentart.com/en/gb/4407/inktense-pencils" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Inktense Pencils</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> to play with. I enjoyed working a journal page layout with them. Their colours are more intense than watercolour pencils. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Win collected her pencils </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">when they were</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> homeward bound. This afforded us a second visit over a Sunday brunch.</span><span style="font-family: "\22 arial\22 " , "\22 helvetica\22 " , sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This grandmother likes little more than gathering her family all together. On July 19th, 2016 our kids, who live in the Philippines, arrived in Calgary. The entire Alberta contingent was on hand to greet them. It was here that Denise, Larry and Avery met Everett (who was ten months old) for the first time. Bill and I hadn't seen him since he was a just few weeks old. He was born while they were living in Columbia, Maryland on September 18th, 2015, just six weeks before Adam was transferred and the little family moved to Manila.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">July 26th, both our daughters and their kids came to spend the better part of a week at our place. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For years, the doll house has been a prized play thing for Avery and Amira. Neither of them have ever thought to climb it. We brought it into the living room and in less than two minutes the grandson was scaling it. I suspect we're on a very different learning curve by having a boy child in the family! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We've got a pretty fine Spray Park here in Claresholm, Alberta. The weather could have been more favourable, but being as it was cloudy and cool, it kept these cousins on the move ... </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Amira got sick during this visit which precluded Gran spending a night in the playhouse with the little girls as we had done in 2014. Maybe this year?</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Playgrounds are always popular and we've got a few good ones here in town. This one, by the tennis courts, where Bill and the big girls played, has the fanciest and largest selection of equipment ...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I didn't think I could manage both granddaughters together in the tiny Anne Frank Room for a painting session. As Avery has often been in there with me, we waited until after she and Denise had returned home so that Amira could have some one on one time with Gran. Amira embraced mixed media and had definite ideas about how and what she was painting.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">At the time, Denise and Larry were managing operations at the <a href="http://corporate.heritageproperty.ca/OngoingProjects/CanmoreHotel/tabid/67/Default.aspx">Canmore Hotel</a> (now closed and under renovations). They too were in Canmore but as it was the busy, August long weekend they were pretty tied up with working the place, so only s</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: center;">ome of us took in the </span><a href="http://canmorefolkfestival.com/" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center;">Canmore Folk Music Festival</a> -<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Alberta's finest and longest running folk music festival.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I found my protege </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">at her festival booth. It does not surprise me that she keeps up her art practise (and there is </span><span style="font-family: "\22 arial\22 " , "\22 helvetica\22 " , sans-serif;">great satisfaction in that</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> for me) for</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> she so very keen to learn when we worked together. I </span><span style="font-family: "\22 arial\22 " , "\22 helvetica\22 " , sans-serif;">participated in the art mentoring program with the Canmore Elementary School. Opal</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> absorbed like a sponge. She would often ask to stay on after our session had ended and I aways said "Yes". </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As per usual we gals hit the studio during the daytime abandoning the men, who are more than capable of entertaining themselves. We spread our play things out all over every horizontal space, then we dive into making art. Any kind of art. H</span><span style="font-family: "\22 arial\22 " , "\22 helvetica\22 " , sans-serif;">ere, a</span><span style="font-family: "\22 arial\22 " , "\22 helvetica\22 " , sans-serif;">nything</span><span style="font-family: "\22 arial\22 " , "\22 helvetica\22 " , sans-serif;"> goes</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When we six reassemble good times are guaranteed. We enjoy having a delectable lunch on the Skimmerhorn Winery's awesome deck, our end of day happy hours, evening feasting and shenanigans. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Back to Alice painting <i>Alice.</i> For the background, I </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">splattered and blotted favoured colours, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">quinacridone orange gold, Indian yellow, aztec gold (how dare Daniel Smith discontinue their acrylic line which included this magnificent colour?). Some burnt umber was needed to darken the top. I went wild with gear and time piece </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">stencils, some I applied with texture, some not. Then, I employed commercial rubber stamps until I was satisfied with all the nuances these toys created. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As the background was so dark I had to paint <i>Alice</i> in a ghost-like white to be assured the colours </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">would be clean and bright</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> when I </span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">coloured her in</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">At home I completed the piece by painting on the White Rabbit and the Mad Hatter. I took great pleasure in the adding of embellishments, the small and miniature playing cards (thanks Win) the gears, the key and the clock button. Here are some close ups ...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">M</span><span style="font-family: "\22 arial\22 " , "\22 helvetica\22 " , sans-serif;">ixed media artist extraordinaire and our good </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">friend, <a href="http://windinnart.blogspot.ca/">Win Dinn</a>, has been teaching her acquired techniques in workshops for years. She conceived and facilitated a fabulous exhibition of her student's (plus her own) work. </span><span style="font-family: "\22 arial\22 " , "\22 helvetica\22 " , sans-serif;">All students were invited to submit up to five pieces to</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> <i><a href="http://windinnart.blogspot.ca/search?updated-min=2015-12-31T23:00:00-08:00&updated-max=2016-09-15T04:54:00-06:00&max-results=40&start=14&by-date=false">Students. Teacher. Play.</a></i> The show was</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> beautifully presented by the folks at Centre 64 in Kimberley, BC, and was on display for the month of September, 2016. It was my good fortune to have </span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Alice in Wonderland</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> placed front and centre at the entrance to the show.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "\22 arial\22 " , "\22 helvetica\22 " , sans-serif;">When </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">our granddaughter, Avery,</span><span style="font-family: "\22 arial\22 " , "\22 helvetica\22 " , sans-serif;"> turned eight last October I </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">gifted </span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Alice</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> to as her annual birthday painting. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Here are a couple of other new pieces created specifically for Student. Teacher. Play. ...</span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Hip Replacement</b> 9" x 8.25" acrylic mixed media, recycled child's board book</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. T</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">he story and contents are </span><a href="https://artbysaltiel.blogspot.ca/2014/09/book-art.html" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">here</a></span></td></tr>
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