New Dog, Film Festival

This weekend I enjoyed the brisk autumn turn of the weather. Saturday I met up with a friend from my old work, Marie. We’re taking an upholstery class together in a few months and so met up at a fabric store to peruse for our next projects. Our morning jaunt turns into a whole day journey. Good food at High Rise, a stroll around Fresh Pond discussing life and challenges and approaches, checking out my local fabric store and a bunch of stuff around my town (including my wonderful library and two stores I keep wanting to pop into but are always closed in the evenings), another fabric store, Calico Corners who is sending me some free samples (fell in love with a Ralph Lauren plaid that was $154/yd – ouch) before we hit the road around 5 pm for Connecticut! Road trip! This is the cute little reason why:

[I gave up - blogger doesn't seem to like uploading my pictures.  Second time I had to give up.  Any ideas?  It seems to be a new interface, but it's still pretty forward.  It just sits and pretends to load the picture.  Hopefully later I can share the picture - he's a cute lab with a a little retriever, mainly white - you'll have to use your imagination for now.]

Champ! Marie is adopting a dog and we were heading to CT where the foster family lives. Champ had only been there a week and is actually from Kentucky. Apparently, the folks in the northeast are pretty good about fixing their pets but the south is horrible about it and there are tons of kill centers down there. Champ was rescued and brought north to be adopted. He was a real sweetheart when we picked him up. Poor thing, you could tell he’s been in fights and a bit confused about what’s going on, where home is. But give it a few good solid months and I’m sure it will all be a thing of the past. He was a bit nervous as we were heading back, but once we hit the highway, he settled down in the middle of his dog bed and curled up. This picture is after an exhausting run yesterday. Good thing I already have pets and a small place otherwise I would have been tempted to grab him.

So that was last weekend, next weekend I’m heading over to Chatham for another year of the Film Columbia film festival. I think this is my third or fourth year now. A nice little tradition. I was trying to figure out what year I started going and realize some of my favorite movies I discovered on Netflix (i.e. Lars and the Real Girl, the Host) had been previewed here. There’s nothing like autumn in the Berkshires, enjoying movies with my old college buddy like old times. We used to go see movies all the time during our college years – making our way over to the independent film theater two towns over. Unfortunately the film line-up is not weekend friendly so I’m taking off a couple days. There’s always featured a film Saturday night, Saturday Sneak Peak. Last year it was Young Victoria (I think), year before it was Atonement, before that I forget. I’m curious what it will be this year.