Early September update.

Paul, the audio engineer at daCapo has been masterfully directing the sessions for Urban Harmony, our broadcast project for MTS Video on Demand. Last Friday we recorded Vina Dimayuga and on Tuesday evening Ben Wytinck impressed everyone with his soulful and smooth rendition of the title song Urban Harmony, finishing off with a Cajon box - a drum originating in Brazil.

Tomorrow evening our own Amanda Buhse's vocal group Antiphony will be so fun. I can't wait. Paul looks at each of these sessions as a new creative challenge .....don't ya Paul?

Clark is dutifully recording behind-the-scenes action and capturing the production skills.

In the meantime, we've been doing our best to manage at the Picanteria without Shaun who is enjoying a well deserved holiday in Egypt!! ....And, we're preparing for Kath's departure on a romantic 3 week 25th Anniversary trip with her husband Doug to Italy and France.

I myself got away to...................Minneapolis for the Labour Day weekend and Amanda enjoyed the weekend at ..............her cottage at the lake. Don't worry Manda. Our time will come I'm sure.

Kath and I had a great meeting this afternoon with the Boys in Blue - the amazing Winnipeg Police Service. Mark, Steve, Randy and Ray were so welcoming and so open to our suggestions and proposals...have I mentioned how much I love working for those guys? More on this later.

Amanda has been working hard on redesigning the Bothwell Cheese cheddar labels. Jason is such a pleasure to work with and I think she's really captured their vision....the new Gouda label is a favourite - so much fun to search for just the right photo and then know it's going to grace all that CHEESE! Thanks Ivan and Jason for the privilege.

Our hard-working Art Director has also been working on the new Victoria Hospital Foundation 2010 Calendar and fall newsletter. Not to mention a super-quick Golf Tourney quiz - my brainchild for Paradigm Pharmacy.

We have rebranding projects for credit unions in both Manitoba and Saskatchewan on the go and we're still keeping Adam and Denise from Elemental Motion Media busy with the Edwards School of Business Role Models project.

More Urban Harmony tomorrow and a bigger shoot on Sunday. We'll be filming in the Exchange and at the Zoo.

I love my job.

And, as always, we're thinking about our friend Olaf Pyttlik (daCapo) and his incredible wife Angela as they fight Olaf's cancer together. Sending you all our love each and every day.