I feel irresponsible. I
haven’t been writing as much as I usually do on the website, and I thought I’d better tell you why. There are three reasons. (ren’t there usually?) The first is that I have been getting together a short power point for my upcoming call with the county supervisor and flood control regarding the Oakley beaver incident. Apparently I’m supposed to present the options for coexistence using Martinez as the example. Okay. I can do that.
The second reason is that I’ve been reviewing history and getting ready for my interview Thursday with the master’s student from Humboldt who wants to learn about what went on in Martinez lo these many years ago. I just signed off the human subjects consent form for his research and it gave me a PTSD flashback for my own dissertation.
The third reason, and honestly the most fun-filled reason, is that I’m working on a project to put together a film of the last chapter of ‘In Beaver World’ read collectively by the grand cast of beaver founding fathers. The film is a third finished and I’m doing some using the new imovie and some as clips from powtoon the finishing the entire thing on imovie. The very best version of imovie I have kept alive in suspended animation on my very old mac, but it can’t live for ever. So I thought I would try learning this new version which I’m told is the least awful since the horrible improvement that ruined everything. There probably will never be a better time to learn, right?
Just so you get the idea, here’s Kent starting it out.
Ahhh my favorite chapter, thanks Kent. And a nice snippet of the project read by Mary O’brien. It has an extra slide at the end so I can splice out the comercial in the final project. It’s actually very moving hearing everyone’s voice reading this. I’m hoping the last section will be read by Sherri Tippie but the hip recovery might just get in her way. Fingers crossed. Still waiting for Joe Wheaton’s part. Ahem!
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