I'm in Edmonton, Alberta, headed to the Shambhala festival in BC, busy making hammocks and about to send a package to Norman in Uganda via Chris in Toronto who is flying there this week. The package holds ID photos of the kids in Norman's school, penpal letters from 5th grade kids at Forest Hills school, veggie seeds and $200 for fabric and rope to make 40 hammocks. I sent $1000 to Life in Africa USA last week for the rest of the beads sold thus far, plus $500 to get them started in the hammock busy-ness.
I bought a light-weight sewing machine for $100 to make hammocks while in the car driving across this vast country through small towns, around great lakes and straight in big sky prairies. The machine sat on an Atlas, on my knees, hooked in to the cigarette lighter, which worked great until I started sewing fun fur into a hammock when I got to Edmonton. Yesterday I took it to get fixed, and ended up buying a sweet new machine that should stitch through anything. I'll be at Shambhala and We Are Many (Saskatoon, Aug 20-22), selling hammocks and seeking people who'd like to go to Mexico for the Mazatlan Awareness Festival, and go to Uganda to visit Norman's village to develop his school and play in the mountains.
I'm at a net cafe with one eye on the parking meter, so I'll make this short. I'll create a facebook photo album sharing our cross country journey on the Ghetoblaster Rollercoaster Floating Couch.
Wishing you all a fun-filled summer,
Mr. Funbags
