bottled and el ten

september 30: i took the plums from our tree, i let them sit and get a little sweeter and then boiled them with honey & cane sugar. i took the plum musk and added it to the honey musk..... cooled and then the champagne yeast was added.
the oddest foam happened with this batch - HUGE bubbles formed and then once they were gone the gas slowed down dramatically.

november 3 : today gio and i bottled the plum mead..... next pear!


and tonight El ten eleven is at the high dive......

troubles with technology

to remember to fix in the future.....

i just had the problem of reformatting an external drive from simple tech.
- the techy tony that i was assisted by said that if you're running leopard that there are a few extra steps need:
turn your computer off. turn the external hd off. restart computer. when the computer is up again turn on the hd.
you should get a warning sign: initialize - ignore - eject
you need to initialize it. (the tech said it this didn't work that there was one other way, but this worked for me.... i don't have the other way)
then go to applications - utility - disk utility
once you are at the disk utility screen select from the hard drives
931.5GB fv-u35 Media (not the second one below it)
- go to partition: -under Volume Scheme: you need to choose to 1Partition - then apply
-then under Volume Information - name it - format: Mac OS Extended (Journaled) - apply
now you are ready to follow the steps for erasing that come supplied: click erase on the top of the screen. select the desired format. change name. click erase at the bottom of the screen - and once again on the second window.
you should see the icon for the renamed external hard drive.

Austin + Gi Joe Fest = FUN

gio and i headed down to texas last month for the GI Joe Touring Festival. Super great!
the Alamo theater is a great place with great events and i am very greatful to Zack (the Director of programing at the alamo).

The other bonus is the fact that my roommate from a decade ago lives there with her fantastic husban (gio's new Boyff).

here are a few picks for the trip.....

Oh, did i mention the fact that GI Joe Fest just got booked in NYC? At 92Ytribeca! July 25, 2009!

on the set

i was hired by starz to do craft for their night shoot for sci-fi last saturday - oh boy it was cold!
super fun, everyone was great here are some shots i took on set.

we now introduce to you skeletor mitchell!

IT"S A BOY!!!!

heather leGrand mitchell has given birth to her son skeletor (until they name him he will be named skeletor!!)
today (jan 23) at 1:10pm!

he's 8.3 lbs with all his digits and he's bent on world domination!!!

CONGRATULATIONS to the LeGrand Mitchells!!!!

love and kisses to all

Birthday Party Fondue WIsh list

Ok, party guest.

i am glad that everyone will be celebrating elvis and my birthday with gio and me. 

so here's how it works.... here are some of the ingredients that we need for the party.

What every you'd like to bring please leave a comment on which fondue's ingredients  you'd like to choose from and which ingredients you'd going to bring. 

come and toast to elvis with us at 7pm-ish  thursday jan 8th

Classic Cheese Fondue:

1 lb Gruyere cheese

dry white wine

Kirsch (sour cherry brandy) (small)

Mushroom Fondue:

1 lb mushrooms

Chocolate Fondue Ingredience:
12 oz bittersweet chocolate bars

1 pint whipping cream 
Frangelico or Amaretto liqueur (small)
1/4 cup hazelnuts or almonds


For Dipping

Sweets:

Hazelnut or almond biscotti
Salted pretzel sticks
Cubed pound cake/ firm cake

angel food cake

marshmallows

small cookies

ladyfingers

meringues

apples, pears, peaches, pineapple, dried fruit, oranges, strawberries, cherries, raspberries, blackberries, grapes - seasonal fruit

Breads:

mixed grain, whole wheat, pumpernickel, french, italian, focaccia. 

Vegetables:

cherry tomatoes

bell peppers 

celery

etc.

my brasileiro rockstar husband

if anyone wasn't informed that in gio's past he was in a metal band in brasil - here's proof.

SOLD OUT AGAIN!

2nd annual gi joe festival sold out! super crowd! great intermission entertainment! great friend support!



to see more photos go to meltoni's flicker account:

http://flickr.com/photos/meltoni/sets/72157607912346541/

thanks to everyone again for supporting us!

love j.letoni

day zero - gi joe festival

today is the second annual gi joe film festival in denver!



i was thinking back to where did this all come from?
pondpatrol?
gi joe international film festival?



pondpatrol was spawned from the wedding and the turtle obsession - my husbands -

then there was a little film festival that was in denver - inflatable duck- it was a festival open to all types of independent short films. it was around for two years, but by the second year that producers decided to vacation in europe right before the festival; shrugging all responsibilities on a volunteer at the last minute. the volunteer did the best job in a small amount of time trying to re-format: films, video tapes, and dvd's of all setting, to work cohesively. not all the dvd's would replay on the dvd player at the festival, a second dvd player plus a video player had to be brought in an emergency to play the tapes. ONE film didn't get shown: IN THE LAND OF THE BLIND THE ONE EYED MAN IS KING, Gio Toninelo.

the night was hectic, confusing and all together a disaster - i think that the films didn't arrive until an hour or so after the festival was to start?

gio vowed that night that he was going to start his own festival. little did we know then that the festival would happen several years later or that the theme would be stop- motion.

and here it is, the second round of stop-motion in denver!
it's been a whole year of submissions, design work, and organizing. not to mention that gio has been rising before the sun to make sure everything is taken care of.



Congratulation to my husband for another successful dream come true!
i love you gio,
j.letion

ps. if any one would like to view gio's movie please go to
http://www.zerogerman.com/
to the downloads page

DNC + DENVER = fun?

this past week has been interesting.
gio and i had a mini vacation in town - the morning girl at work wanted to go out of town and we switched monday afternoon for wednesday morning. so gio and i got 2 1/2 days off together!

we decided to take part in a few events for the dnc by dialog city



http://www.dialogcity.org/

Rebecca v has been working with dialog city putting together events and she did a great job! she's been working her ass off!

the first event was the dj spooky "large-scale multimedia performance Terra Nova: The Antarctica Suite at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House. "

http://www.dialogcity.org/artists/djspooky.html

we met up with sam, mary morrow, carmela and flynn. after the show we tried to go out to dinner, we were c. blocked by msnbc ass wipes filming in sam's no.3! mary ditched us and we ended up at the paramount for a late nite dinner.



sunday nite was quite with the cops arresting people but there were riot teams of 10 - 12 cops on almost every block. we had cops on horse back, cops on bikes, cops on suvs (riding on the out side swat stlye)





monday we headed down town to be part of ann hamiltons love letter to the dnc. it was wonderful. a full chorus 4 levels high with a childrens chorus on the 1st balcony and the rest of us down below with our scripts to join in at the appropriate time.








walking to the event we came across two protester. they were dresses all in black and had a cartoon dialogue sign above their heads stating "THIS IS WHAT A POLICE STATE LOOKS LIKE!" . they weren't really disruptive, they chanted "just because your paranoid doesn't mean that their not out to get you" stuff like that. but by the time they passed the second bridge 12 cops on bikes swooped in to rip their signs off and arrest them.
this is what a police state looks like.







after the ann event we went over to a bar where joshua novak (gio's old band) was playing. we hung out and heard their set, they were sounding great! the new bass player john has been learning gio's bass lines. john is doing a great job playing gio and mixing some of his own heavy metal sound in to the music.

we were heading home down 16th street where we were passing to clock tower when we saw the burlesque show was about to start and gio's friend garret, the sound guy for the clock tower, invited us to see the show! so we went down to see the show.

we walked home to see all of the cops that were here for our protection (?).

Xmas in August!

this is the first year in a while that xmas is going to be big in denver!

seu Valmore and Maria Helana as well as Daddy LeGrand and Cathy are are planned for xmas destination! a white xmas! with a hopeful stint in the mountains for some altitude time in the winter! hopefully we'll have snow to go sledding.
i hope everyone will be here!

my first website!

ok, so i started on my own (with the help of a template) and then carmela came in and helped answer my questions and teach me a few tricks!

thank you again teach! and i look forwards to learning more!

www.naturalcleanersdenver.com

check it out!

another theater

Gio's GI JOE FEST has had another offer and confirmation!

Austin TX - July 14 & 15 at Alamo Drafthouse cinema

Winnipeg Canada june!

SUPER CONGRATS to GIO!!!

Prom 3001

Prom 3001
Originally uploaded by carmelatoninelo

gio and i celebrated out third anniversary! the party was brilliant!

if you'd like to see more follow this link.....

http://www.flickr.com/photos/meltoni/2570356559/

Prom 3001
Originally uploaded by carmelatoninelo

Prom 3001

Prom 3001
Originally uploaded by carmelatoninelo

stinkweed got married!

the trip was beautiful! the wedding was magical.