At the spring arts festival, exploring the recesses of the artistic mind in a special threefer. This sequence of comic strips was based on an arts festival once held in April in the small town where I was living at the time it was drawn. Pursuant to our conversation yesterday, the festival set a standard for entry, perhaps a subjective standard but a standard nevertheless. That show was terminated, however, and replaced with another spring festival with—I guess—a broader appeal. Speaking of questionable art, we’re going to get to our own A&J art sale soon, and for a good cause, too.
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Note to Janis: If you want Arlo to hang on your every word, you just have to mix the right words in with them.
Certain words from a woman will always get a man’s immediate and undivided attention.
According to Brooke, tattoo is one such word. Peace,
I am still waiting for the rest of the panels from today’s A&J…
Perhaps.
About art, looking forward to your sale Jimmy.
When and where are you doing your comics appearances? I am not that crazy a crazy cat lady! I am presentable and courteous in polite company.
Three separate rosarians in Birmingham invited me to join their garden club! And I could have chunked a pine cone at Southern Living from the rose gardens, so I passed Alabama standards for Southern ladies.
When I was in college I used to go to the PlumNelly Arts Festival. (That’s Plum our of Georgia and Nelly out of Tennessee, for those that don’t know) I had no money so all I could do was walk around and look, but the handcrafted hats, scarves, blankets, and quilts were beautiful. Now I go to Art on the Square in Gainesville, and everything is made from recycled Coke cans, or by stuffing twinkle lights into wine bottles. Inventive, but not quite the same.
I agree. I put in my time standing in the heat-cold-rain-sleet-wind-heat (this was Texas) and the crafts were still beautiful in the 70s and 80s. Now I just rarely go, I don’t consider them even crafted, much less art.
But I went to one at the St. Louis Botanical Gardens that blew me away with the quality and crafts, all from state of Missouri. Juries of course and wonderful.
Since my old gift shop logo said “Handmade in Texas” on all the tags I think supporting local artists and craftsmen is essential.
Come to Tuscaloosa in time for the Kentuck Festival and you won’t be disappointed. And besides the crafts there are bands performing live music.
http://www.kentuck.org/the-festival/
And if you missed my post yesterday, the Uncle Dave Macon Days in Murfreesboro, TN is well worth visiting.
Re post from yesterday:
Debbe,
Sorry to correct you but this Saturday is the Preakness Stakes, the second crown of the Triple Crown of horse racing. It is run at Pimlico. The Belmont, longest of the three races, is the first Saturday in June. Just a little trivia for the day.
God bless us every one.
Close up, osprey, at former G.H. owl site.
http://cams.allaboutbirds.org/channel/46/Great_Horned_Owls/
Peace,
That’s what the patter sound was: il pleut.
Oh, now I see what happened! Jackie, thank you for helping me out.
Both ospreys at the nest. The m. is calico, she’s b.&w.
http://www.chesapeakeconservancy.org/osprey-cam
Peace,
Just read the cutest little girl anecdote. I am friends with her grandfather, father and two uncles. Never met child but heard stories since birth. She has a boat design named for her. She is about 5 or 6. Playing with dolls, mama and two babies and a dog.
Mama: “Things are too expensive, I can’t keep you. I can keep dog because he’s trained and you aren’t. You will just have to go live in the orphanage.”
Coincidentally the two children were identical twins and adopted by two different families and never saw each other again.
Don’t know why but I instantly thought of the Village orphans. Have we all been adopted by different families, never to see each other again?
Too late. She’s gone, he’s on the 3 eggs.
I believe I mentioned a while back that ACT, Inc. gives an adult version of their test, and based in the results, awards three different levels of a National Career Readiness Certificate (NCRC). They state that “The NCRC® is accepted by more than 10,000 employers nationwide as a reliable way to verify individuals’ work skills.” If you know someone who is seeking employment; looking to change jobs/careers; or wanting to get promoted, you might suggest they check and see if it is offered/accepted in their area.
When I found out about it, I wondered if it might really do what ACT claims it does for employers, so I took (and did pretty well on) the test. Today I got an email from ACT, listing five careers (with their average wages) at which my test results indicated I might excel.
1. Information systems manager – $131,000
2. Public relations manager – $104,000 (I just had to make that manure joke the other day, didn’t I?)
3. Industrial engineer – $83,000
4. Web developer – $64,000
and, believe it or not,
5. Landscape architect* – $63,000
*So, Jackie, I might turn out to be handy to have around, after all. 😀
I already think you’d be handy to have around anyway. Sailing isn’t actually a requirement.
By the way, landscape guys are almost always affable, intelligent, we’ll mannered and have great tans and legs.
A video on how not to fish, by a pro who makes his living fishing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQSDI-GlPBc&list=PLfzJ9bUeuFuRRUYHRt9x4sSR1SsHW3drV&index=5
My cousin, a bass fisherman, had a snake fall into his boat from a tree. He considered shooting it but decided to give the snake the boat and jumped into river. Unfortunately motor was running and boat went on down river leaving him behind. I do not recall how he got boat back but he did.
Snake was still in Boat I think but cousin said he remembered last time he shot snake in his bedroom of our farm, shooting out sheet rock and the house roof.
Here’s a funny conversation from today’s shopping expedition with two store managers. First was a nice medium priced department store chain I like for separates, national chain with not cheap men’s, women’s and children’s wear. Manager discussing how upset she was with store’s policy of not prosecuting shoplifters.
She said stolen panties out numbered sold panties about 3 to one.
In Dollar General the other day my manager friend said it often ran at 90% panties stolen. I had asked why they never seemed to have inventory?
Tonight I was shopping for floral wired deck baskets and as I was only customer in store I overheard manager telling clerk store policy on shop lifters, don’t do anything except call police, don’t approach, etc. Since this was also policy of other two stores, including not actually prosecuting I asked. Neither agreed with policy and we all agreed it was wrong, teaching especially young people it was OK to steal.
Except clerk said “Doesn’t anyone actually PAY for panties? All ours get stolen.” So, I told her what my other two friends said and manager agreed panties were probably number one stolen item!
Maybe they cost $10 to cover the stolen ones?
Can’t help but wonder what percentage of the purloined panties were taken by females, and what percentage by males.
Panties would be more easily concealed than bras, I would think.
Debbe 😉 Yeah, really too early for this one, but what the hey. 🙂
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXt56MB-3vc
Good morning Villagers….
“I hate snakes”…..quick, what movie!!!!
domaucan1…thanks, in all the years of watching these triple crown races I can never keep them in order. Husband and I were married on June 5th, that day it was a Belmont states day….the only time I missed watching the race.
I too, Steve, hope Nyquist can pull it off…he’s a beautiful horse. Every now and then we go down to Ellis Park outside of Evansville. Use to hot walk horses back in the day, they ran them every morning and then I would walk them around the barn to cool them down.
Got to thinking (yeah, I know that’s dangerous). We cannot find an external source affecting plunge in egg production last week (got 192 yesterday…yeh), so I remembered they changed feed, adding something. Before the feed change my eggs were clean. During the feed chang my eggs were dirty (manure). Now production is back up and the past two days, my eggs are clean…so I feel it’s an internal problem….they had the ‘runs’. Now if one is sick, your body calls in the ‘Calvary’ (white blood cells). So, their bodies were ‘out sourcing’ to make themselves well….taking away from the energy that produces eggs….not bad for a blond, huh. I told the Boss this and he then went into further detail…agreeing with me. Thanked me for being an alert employee. (Old Bear…what do you think, you’ve raised hens???)
…and Steve, the rolling hills here in SIN are absolutely beautiful, especially in the fall.
……and it’s payday…a seven day payday!!!!!
ya’ll have a blessed day
GR 😉 couldn’t resist….actually she does a better job than Cher, classier too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aP4GaAruws
🙂 http://cheezburger.com/8797785344