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Saturday I was busy. I was working. I mowed the lawn, I did the laundry, I filled and emptied the dishwasher and then I supported the arts, twice.And then it was time for lunch!

I had to schedule. I knew that the laundry had to get done and the earlier I mowed the lawn the better, but one fo the arts things was held outside and the earlier I went there the better too, art event number two was inside and was billed as an “Arts and Crafts” sale. “Bedazzled forks, over priced Recycled Jeans and Crap” is what it really was, but I guess that was too much to put in the ads. More on that later

Okay. I had a long list to get through and I was going to get through all of it. Damn it. The weekend end is not for relaxing, the weekend is for seeing how much stuff you can get done in the least amount of time and still sleep past 8am. I slept until 9:30. I’m that good.

Dog was fed, kitty was placated and laundry was started. I decided that since no one else was mowing their lawns yet, that it was not up to me to get the late sleepers up and around before they were ready - they pay a lawn man to do that for them, why step on his gig?. So first up was the outside art.

The Larkspur Party

Or “The We Have A Ginourmous Garden and We Know You Want to See it For Yourself But We Hide it Behind Pampas Grass to Thwart you Party And Art Show and No You Can’t Have Any Seeds.” . It’s very nice. Its also very nice that I can find it and even though it’s a little bit of a drive, it’s a straight shot from my house. The garden was of course as lovely as ever and made me hate my yard just a little bit more. I’m going to start Operation Lawn Jewelry as soon as I can work up the courage to delve further into the Shed Of Fear and rescue my genuine folk art butterfly and get it up on the fence where it belongs. They had a lot of gorgeous yard art at the show.


This would look nice if I had $300 to spend on my yard art. I do not. But it was very pretty. I had to mess with the colors to make the metal stars stand out more, there were a lot of “lawn sculpture” there and most if not all of them would have photographed better then this did, but I had been out in the sun for a while and my judgement was impaired. Sue Me.



Okay, there would be an image here of a large metal wind sculpture thingy but for some reason the server hates me, it could not possibly be my fault.And if it magically shows up later, it will be because of my awesome code fu.

After the show I went home and mowed the lawn. At Noon. I told you, my judgement was impaired! After that I was off to the Craft Show. I define “crafts” as what you do in your spare time with your own hands. It’s your cousin Cindy’s bead earrings or your brothers workshop wood projects. It does not include anything made by Cousin Cindy Inc. Or Brother’s Woodshop Co. Humph. I would have been happier if anything I saw there was made by the people actually manning the booths. I don’t want to buy things from the store you work at, I want to buy the stuff you work at. Whatever. It was air conditioned. I wanted hand made, one of a kind NORTH CAROLINAcentric “stuff” to send to my friends at home for Christmas! if I can’t find that sort of thing at a Craft Show, where the hell am I going to find it?!