Tail Gate Party for Seniors

The Tail Gate Party wasn’t limited to seniors. It is just that seniors were there, standing around the trunk of Wyona’s new car as were the younger people: Glen, Janet, Bonnie and Moiya. In the parking lot behind the Salmar Theatre in Salmon Arm, we crowded around eating chicken salad sandwiches, egg salad sandwiches, munching on cheese-stuff celery and eating carrot cake. The opera, Boris Gudonov, startd at 9 am. We are already at the second intermission by lunch time, after which tail-gate party, we were fortified for more opera

People dress up for the opera, in Salmon Arm and even if it is 9 am Saturday morning. We could tell on the streets which people were headed there, as it was too early for shoppers to be on the streets, and those dressed up in their Sunday best, but carrying thermoses and lunch bags were surely on their way to the same theatre we were headed for.

As if a five hour opera isn’t enough for one day, we had to go to the showing of the Sundance Festival’s Grand Jury Award movie, Winter’s Bone in the evening. Thank you to the Salmon Arm Movie Festival for arranging to have us see that 2010 winner as well.

A couple of days ago I was in Blockbuster and could hear a haunting tune as I was skimming the shelves for some biographical movies. I looked up to see what was playing on the overhead screens, and sure enough, it was that beginning tune from Winter’s Bone – a haunting Ozark melody.

The movie cost $7. I can't match that price in the city. Moiya’s ticket was $6, since you could buy 5 tickets for $30. She has four tickets left now, so join up with her if you happen to be in Salmon Arm for the next movie the festival presents.

A few days after our most excellent morning, afternoon and evening movie event, a visitor said to me, "I don't think I could live out here. Too rural." That may be true for them, but for me, if city life is faster than Saturday's rural life, I couldn't take the pace of urban life, anymore.

I am slowing down
Arta