Random things

My husband and I enjoyed our VIP dinner Wednesday at the new Fricker's in Adrian. The food and service was excellent! For an appetizer, we ordered the wings. Those were some of the best wings I ever had. For dinner, Mike ordered the ribs and I had the A1 burger. dinner, we both had the dessert of the day: cheesecake with chocolate dressing. I would recommend Fricker's to everyone! Good food that isn't very expensive.

Good News! One of my co-workers has a friend that knows a lot about computers. After the computer place in town told my husband that they couldn't recover anything from our hard drive, we gave our hard drive to my co-worker and he mailed it to his friend to see what he could do with it. He didn't promise us anything, but he would see if he could recover any data or photos. Wednesday I received a call from my co-worker. He told me his friend recovered EVERYTHING from our hard drive. He is in the process of mailing it back to us. I'm so happy! I had photos on the hard drive that I didn't burn to CD's that I thought I lost forever. As soon as we get the hard drive back, I swear I'm going to be burning about 20 CD's of just photographs. I learned my lesson. Download photos to computer, immediately burn them to a CD.

I just bought my box for the upcoming Box Show at the LCVA Gallery. My theme for my box this year is destruction. I love to photograph abandoned buildings (not too many in Adrian), but I'm going to focus on one and feature some of my photographs on and in the box. Sand down the finish on the outside of the box and spray paint it. Entries are due August 16. I really have to get working on this.

If you're interested in the box show, here is some information:

Member’s 4th Annual Box Show and Auction

Exhibition: August 17 – September 23, 2006

Silent Auction: September 23, 2006

The Box Show and Auction is the LCVA’s only fund raising event of the year. Exhibiting members are given the task to creatively make art that takes the form of a box, embellishes a box, is contained within a box, is attached to a box, or depicts a box. The exhibition includes both functional boxes and nonfunctional boxes and all are available for purchase through the silent auction will be held on September 30th, 2006, 7 – 9 pm. Wine, cheese and hors d’oeuvres will be served. Public invited. This year, juror Peggy Grant, Art Director of Toledo's 20 North Gallery will present awards.

Gallery Address: 112 West Maumee

Adrian, MI 29221

Phone: 517-265-4403