SCHEDULE
Thursday, July 30th
4:00 pm REGISTRATION ROOM ASSIGNMENT. You will have a place assigned in the rooms. You can negotiate with others if you want to make an assignment swap. INTRODUCTIONS GAME 5:00 - 6:00 DINNER PREPARATION (In the meal section, refer to groups to know who is in charge of preparing and who in charge of cleaning) 6:00 DINNER ELEPHANT BOOK EXCHANGE GAME. Instructions are included in this document. SNACK TIME SESSION 1. History and Heritage, by Silvia Cachia |
Friday, July 31st
7:00 - 8:00 BREAKFAST PREPARATION 8:00 BREAKFAST SESSION 2. Nature Study Intro/Dry Brush/Walk (by Heather) 11:30 - 12:30 LUNCH PREPARATION 12:30 LUNCH. Jen Snow shares with us her experience at the AO Conference, and her thoughts rest, atmosphere, and relationship. SESSION 3. Harmony Moore presents 4:00 - 5:00 DINNER PREPARATION 5:00 DINNER (Early dinner planned on purpose, to stay up as late as we wish, and snack and chat away). ELEPHANT GIFT EXCHANGE GAME SESSION 5. June Butchee presents SNACK TIME Time to Share. Ask, answer, talk, and ramble till our heart’s content. |
Saturday August 1st
7:00 BREAKFAST PREPARATION followed by BREAKFAST Cleaning See ya later, friends! (We must leave the facility by 11:00am) We could make plans to eat lunch together at a nearby restaurant, or pick up something and go to a park to stay longer if we wish, before we start our trip back home. |
Meal Arrangements
Meal Rotation Each person is responsible for one meal that will feed approximately 8 people. Please include everything needed for the meal - ex. salad, bread, ect. if you desire such things to be part of the meal. Please have the meal cooked, ready to heat or assemble. Please label the meal: ex. Thursday dinner, Soft Tacos, heat meat in microwave. Frozen meals will need more cooking time, so please note when your meal will be served and, how much time the meal will need for warming, and plan to put the meal in the oven on time. Thursday dinner Beth S - 1 dinner that would feed 8 Beth P.- 1 dinner that would feed 8 Harmony Moore - 1 dinner that would feed 8 Friday breakfast Amy - 1 breakfast that would feed 8 Fredericke- 1 breakfast that would feed 8 Friday lunch Rosa - 1 lunch that would feed 8 Kristyn- 1 lunch that would feed 8 Friday dinner Vanessa - 1 dinner that would feed 8 Jen - 1 dinner that would feed 8 Saturday breakfast Kate- 1 breakfast that would feed 8 Patricia- 1 breakfast that would feed 8 Snacks and quick fix meals (bread, chips, and any snack foods you like for 8 people each of you) Daphne Dawn T Papper Plates, drinks, some surprise treats and goodies Heather and Silvia |
No shame in bringing ready made meals such as frozen Stouffers lasagna. Keep it simple, unless cooking is your thing. These are just suggestions for those of you who don't want to have to think about one more thing. Feel free to invent your own menu. Silvia and Heather will bring drinks (including coffee and an assortment of hot tea), paper plates, napkins, and plenty of snacks.
Dinner - 1. Chicken tacos/ Burrito rice bowl two rotisserie chickens, deboned and pulled, cheese, salsa, one can refried beans, corn and/or flour tortillas, cooked rice 2. Stew or chili or some other such meal in a bowl 3. Casserole, salad, french bread 4. Taco soup |
Lunch -
1. Sandwich fixings - bread, cold cuts, tomatoes, lettuce, mustard, mayo, chips 2. Pasta salad and fruit 3. lettuce wraps with some meat filling, coleslaw 4. burgers and coleslaw (frozen microwavable burger patties are good for this) - don't forget buns and burger fixings 5. Lettuce wraps (you can have ground turkey or beef precooked for the wraps) Breakfast - 1. oatmeal with fruit 2. breakfast tacos - eggs, chorizo, salsa, cheese, tortillas, bacon 3. frozen waffles and frozen sausage We wish to keep things simple so that we can all relax and enjoy this retreat. We have devised a plan so that only 4 people at a time will be either preparing or cleaning up after a meal, so that the kitchen does not get too crowded. Each person will be assigned a group letter with corresponding kitchen duties. Meal prep will rotate with meal clean up. |
HOW THE WHITE ELEPHANT GAMES WORK
Exchange #1 A Book. Pick and wrap a book you love and that is relevant to you, describes you, or you love for a particular reason. At the end of the exchange we will reveal which was which. Exchange #2 A Gift. Pick a present that also says something about yourself, something homemade, or bought, something that describes you and that has a special reason why you like it. · All gifts should be wrapped. · Don’t mark your gift with your name and don’t indicate whether it’s intended for a male, a female or either. · All gifts will be placed in a pile on one table in the room. |
The Game Basics…
· Everyone will draw a number that will determine when they will take their turn. · The game consists of ‘rounds’ where gifts can be stolen from other players. · Anyone who has a gift stolen from them becomes the ‘player’ and can steal from another or open a new gift. · Every ‘round’ ends when a new gift is opened from the gift table The Rules of ‘Stealing’… · Each gift can only be stolen once per each round. · When a player is trying to decide what to take, you should hold up your gift if it’s still eligible to be stolen. (Hiding gifts is not allowed.) · Decisions for stealing should be made as quickly as possible. If they begin to take too long and the game seems as if it will go on forever, a kitchen timer will be used to limit decisions to two minutes each. (We can decide to make it a rule in which a present can only be stolen twice, or a person only be stolen from twice). |
The Rounds…· Round 1: The person who drew #1 picks a gift from the gift table and opens it.
· Round 2: The person who drew #2 can either open a gift from the table or steal the gift from person #1. If the gift is stolen from #1, then #1 opens a new gift. · Round 3: Person #3 can choose to steal the gift from #1 or #2 or open a new gift. If the gift is stolen from #1 or #2, they become the player and can either steal the gift from the remaining player or decide to end the round by opening a gift. · Rounds 4 and on: The game continues with stealing and opening until the last gift is opened. We may add the rule of no more than 2 steals per gift or person. · Possible last round: If the person who drew #1 still has the same gift the opened and never had a chance to steal, one final round will be conducted with person #1 starting as the player. Hints and Strategy… · Gifts usually fall into one of two categories: ‘duds' and 'hot' gifts. If you are unfortunate and open a ‘dud’, it will probably be yours for the rest of the evening. Our sympathies will be with you. · The ‘hot’ gifts will be obvious. They will be the ones that everyone is stealing. You should consider stealing a ‘hot’ gift even if it’s of no interest to you. The chance that it will be stolen from you is what can keep you in the game and allow you to continue to chose. · There may come a time when you are the ‘player’ and must choose from a few remaining exposed gifts that are all ‘duds’. This will probably leave you looking at the pile of unopened gifts, trying to decide which one you should open. If you’ve brought a great gift that you suspect will become a ‘hot’ gift, and if it’s still there, unwrapped, you should think about opening it. It may get stolen from you and could keep you in the game. (However, you may want to keep it to yourself that this was the one you brought.) |
Blues - ultramarine (green shade), Yellow - cadmium yellow , Red - alizarin crimson,
Windsor blue Windsor yellow pale Windsor permanent rose
Windsor blue Windsor yellow pale Windsor permanent rose
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About the dry brush session
Please bring your nature journals if you have them. You will need watercolor paper for the session. If you don’t have any or unable to buy it, loose sheets will be provided. My paint of choice is Daniel Smith watercolors.
The best prices are at www.dickblick.com. I have used Winsor and Newton in the past, but have found that Daniel Smith is of very good quality, and competitive with Windsor &Newman. My palette has very few colors.
I have a cool and warm of each primary color (so six pigments total), plus Bloodstone Genuine (a Daniel Smith) which I use often for shadows. I do have a green called Undersea Green (also Daniel Smith) because I like having a ready made green for speed and this particular green is a good fit for many of my needs. I also have yellow ochre, and burnt umber. I do have a chinese white that I never use.
The best prices are at www.dickblick.com. I have used Winsor and Newton in the past, but have found that Daniel Smith is of very good quality, and competitive with Windsor &Newman. My palette has very few colors.
I have a cool and warm of each primary color (so six pigments total), plus Bloodstone Genuine (a Daniel Smith) which I use often for shadows. I do have a green called Undersea Green (also Daniel Smith) because I like having a ready made green for speed and this particular green is a good fit for many of my needs. I also have yellow ochre, and burnt umber. I do have a chinese white that I never use.
I use tube paint. To make a palette, squeeze out a good amount (enough to fill the pan) of each pigment. Let dry for about a week before using. You want it to form a hard cake. For a palette, anything will work. You do want it to have a cover so it can be closed when not in use. The smaller the better for field work. I have repurposed an altoids tin as a travel paint palette.
For brushes specifically for field work, I like the waterbrush that contains the water in the barrel or handle so that you don’t need to carry a separate water container. My favorite brand is Pentel. I do not use different sizes. I just use one brush. I will bring some extras with me, but there will probably not be enough for everyone. I also have some spare palettes that I can bring and people can share, but they may not have the same colors as I’ve mentioned.
You do not need to purchase a lot of materials for the tutorial, but keep in mind the higher quality the materials, the better the end result. I will provide as much of our materials for people to use during the session, but when you go home, I would suggest beginning to purchase good supplies a little at a time.
For brushes specifically for field work, I like the waterbrush that contains the water in the barrel or handle so that you don’t need to carry a separate water container. My favorite brand is Pentel. I do not use different sizes. I just use one brush. I will bring some extras with me, but there will probably not be enough for everyone. I also have some spare palettes that I can bring and people can share, but they may not have the same colors as I’ve mentioned.
You do not need to purchase a lot of materials for the tutorial, but keep in mind the higher quality the materials, the better the end result. I will provide as much of our materials for people to use during the session, but when you go home, I would suggest beginning to purchase good supplies a little at a time.