My Movie Sock
My family bought the Jackie Chan movie Shanghai Noon so we could admire my sock.
My younger sister worked on the movie (it was filmed near Calgary), and recommended me when they needed someone to knit a sock. The original request was for a sock and a half, but they couldn’t afford my time at union rates. They then requested half a sock, but I explained socks are knit from the top; half a sock would just be a tube, and unidentifiable. I recommended two thirds of a sock, and they agreed.
I was paid $60 an hour, so this is perhaps the most expensive two thirds of a sock in history. But it made the cut, and has a second of fame in the movie.
To admire it, watch for the older lady knitting on the train.
The rest of the movie is pretty good, too.
Maureen
Musings: Banff National Park bears deer Golden Rockies
by Maureen Bush
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Three Bears
Another trip to the Rockies. We saw at least a dozen deer, at different times, a cluster of mountain sheep (accompanied by a serious bear jam and people way too close), and three black bears.
We drove up to Lake Louise for the first time in summer in years. My first glance at the lake left me thinking I could walk across it. Then I remembered it wasn’t frozen. The glacial till that makes it milky also stops the eye from seeing down into the lake – that’s my excuse for imagining it frozen, anyway.
Highway construction is grotesque – stretching for miles and miles (I guess that should be kilometres and kilometres, but that has no flow at all), through the highway twinning project in Banff National Park, to the major roadwork around Golden. This is all desperately needed to make the highways safer, but in the meantime . . . sigh.
We visited a lot of lakes. Our favorite was . . . oh, maybe I won’t share that. It was delightfully quiet.
Maureen
