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July 4th and...
Jul. 5th, 2009 08:37 amFarmers Market went pretty well. We got hung up getting there, but happily a bunch of folks helped us bring thing over to our spot and get the EZ-up set up quickly and everything. Very windy, so everyone made sure their tents were staked/weighted down. Uncertain-looking weather, but we only got a brief sprinkle at one point -- blowing sideways, mind, but brief. Got a little spinning done but not much, because the wind was messing with the spindle. Took a short walk down to one of the tag sale spots that usually has some interesting stuff and bought an old steamer trunk and a basket/writing desk. Whoot! The trunk will need some fixing up; we'll need to make a tray among other things. But it's basically in good condition and was only $20. The writing desk/basket is in excellent condition and was only $4!
We started breakdown half an hour early, went home, changed and went down to Amherst. Met up with kungfu folks, did a run-through of some of the demo stuff, stretching, etc. Shifu was there with his son. I got to do some of the performance stuff, for about half the parade I guess, then took the bag of flyers from Shifu so he could do some fancy stuff along with Jess and Phil and Mark. Handing out flyers is probably one of my least favorite types of activities -- having to go up to strangers and see if they want to take some marketing material, yay (bleh). But it went pretty well, and while it may only be my personal perception, it seemed like the Asian and Indian folk were more willing to make eye contact with me than with some of the other folks. Be that as it may, many flyers were handed out, so maybe the school with get new students. They were pushing the kid adventure camp, and the parade's a good place to do that. I ended up doing a lot of running to catch up with our guys -- happily the knees didn't object once! So I seem to be regaining my sprint ability :) J's dad was there to take pics, so I suppose we may end up on the web site or something. Oh, and the weather down there was slightly overcast but not as windy as up the hill, so good parade weather. And as L and I were walking back to where the car was parked (L got in a lot of walking yesterday!), we got thanked by some of the VFW folks for being in the parade -- I think they were probably part of the organizing committee, but that was still very cool. And a lady who's organizing Amherst's 250th anniv. parade asked us about the school and being in their parade -- happily she had one of the flyers so we just made sure she knew that J would be the one to talk to about getting that process started.
Home again, home again, jiggity jig after that, to change into everyday clothing. I still had a bit of a headache from the lack of sleep and all, so I undid my braid -- and was promptly amused. Most of my hair was dry, except where the braid started at the nape, which was quite thoroughly damp still.
An easy evening with a few light chores. No fireworks for us after a long day. Nevertheless, we did have a delightful light show last night :) The moon was up (she'll be full in a few more days) and the clouds were scudding by. There was a small but intense rainbow around the moon, coloring the clouds in pinks and electric to medium blues. And then finally she had the sky to herself and we went to sleep.
This morning, a beautiful sunny clear day! We made a list while we were at the market of things we need to do this summer, and some of it is getting done today!
We started breakdown half an hour early, went home, changed and went down to Amherst. Met up with kungfu folks, did a run-through of some of the demo stuff, stretching, etc. Shifu was there with his son. I got to do some of the performance stuff, for about half the parade I guess, then took the bag of flyers from Shifu so he could do some fancy stuff along with Jess and Phil and Mark. Handing out flyers is probably one of my least favorite types of activities -- having to go up to strangers and see if they want to take some marketing material, yay (bleh). But it went pretty well, and while it may only be my personal perception, it seemed like the Asian and Indian folk were more willing to make eye contact with me than with some of the other folks. Be that as it may, many flyers were handed out, so maybe the school with get new students. They were pushing the kid adventure camp, and the parade's a good place to do that. I ended up doing a lot of running to catch up with our guys -- happily the knees didn't object once! So I seem to be regaining my sprint ability :) J's dad was there to take pics, so I suppose we may end up on the web site or something. Oh, and the weather down there was slightly overcast but not as windy as up the hill, so good parade weather. And as L and I were walking back to where the car was parked (L got in a lot of walking yesterday!), we got thanked by some of the VFW folks for being in the parade -- I think they were probably part of the organizing committee, but that was still very cool. And a lady who's organizing Amherst's 250th anniv. parade asked us about the school and being in their parade -- happily she had one of the flyers so we just made sure she knew that J would be the one to talk to about getting that process started.
Home again, home again, jiggity jig after that, to change into everyday clothing. I still had a bit of a headache from the lack of sleep and all, so I undid my braid -- and was promptly amused. Most of my hair was dry, except where the braid started at the nape, which was quite thoroughly damp still.
An easy evening with a few light chores. No fireworks for us after a long day. Nevertheless, we did have a delightful light show last night :) The moon was up (she'll be full in a few more days) and the clouds were scudding by. There was a small but intense rainbow around the moon, coloring the clouds in pinks and electric to medium blues. And then finally she had the sky to herself and we went to sleep.
This morning, a beautiful sunny clear day! We made a list while we were at the market of things we need to do this summer, and some of it is getting done today!
