Mouthy

Still more progress.  I'm done with the mottling now and he has a mouth.

New Shawl

I found this shawl at the Gaucho Festival.  It's in my colors and handwoven of wool.  It's nice and thick and feels nice for the nights that are beginning to get chilly. 

Guess the Colors

Yup, that's right.  I added more black and red to this this week.  No other colors in the piece, so it'll always be red and black.

More Petals

Including one petal completely filled in, I've been adding petals to the piece.  I'm officially behind now, though.  The next page was released today.  On the other hand, I've got some stitches almost to the bottom of the first page and I like the way it's looking.

New Year's Fireworks

Fireworks in Montevideo are a frequent and unregulated thing.  You can buy huge ones on street corners around Christmas and New Year's.  Because of this, Montevideo has no organized fireworks show.  People just set them off whenever and where ever.  Back yards are popular.   These pictures are from the engineering school grounds.  It's by Parque Rodo and across the street from the summer theater.

Two More Buildings

I got two more buildings done this week and some work done on the rest, so hopefully it looks like a lot of progress this time.

Sociedad Anonima - Carnaval - February 20, 2010

Sociedad Anonima is a humorista group.  They won an award at the end of Carnaval, so we'll be seeing them again tonight.  If you saw the video of the trick drummers, this is the same group. 

Even without Spanish, this skit was cute and funny.  A poor guy trying to impress his lady love ended up with a mariachi band instead of something more romantic... and the band only knew one song.  The completely stereotypical song you think of when you think mariachi.

I never quite got the reason for the huge feet on this skit.  They had a guy doing great rope tricks during the middle, and it was about this group of what we in the US would call hicks or hillbillies.  Uruguay has them too.  But the big feet?  Absolutely no idea...

And here's a picture from their finale.