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| Dancing to the Younger Brothers at the Wild Bunch Luau! We know how to have fun! |
Good morning, all, hope your week is going well. It’s hump
day and we’re on the home stretch to another glorious weekend filled with
warmth and flowers, just around the corner! Man, once again, we had just an
amazingly beautiful weather day here, yesterday. It was hot all day and then we had a little
thunderstorm to wet the plants last night.
It wasn’t enough to do anything, the wind was evaporating it faster than
it could land, but it was nice.
So, far, and I’m keeping my fingers crossed here, Thistle
doesn’t seem to react to thunder one whit! Our last Golden, Tumbleweed, was
terrified of storms and we tried everything with her to get her to make it
through them. Towards the end of her
life, the only remedy was xanax and being held while she trembled terribly and
her tongue practically turned purple from panting so much. Many a night, I woke up with a 70 pound dog
on my head! I’m going to forgive Thistle
a lot of things if she can just keep it together through storms. She seems to not even notice them, though and
for that I’m just so grateful. I figure
if she could handle that huge storm we had while we were down in Oklahoma a week ago, she
probably won’t have any problems here.
I spent most of yesterday conspiring with Sherry about this
benefit we’re going to do for our friend, Peg.
Sherry is a dynamo when it comes to arranging stuff like this. For years, she was the backbone of a huge
memorial pool tournament for her brother’s memory, until that just got too big
and moved to Sheridan . We’ve got the Moose reserved for the 30th
of this month for the benefit and Sherry is working on getting us a band right
now. I got all the flyers done yesterday
and we’ve already started to get donations for the silent auction. Like I told you, this town rocks when someone
is in need! Looks like we’re going to
offer a big fried chicken dinner for everyone, with the grocery stores and
hopefully Peg’s employer, here in town donating the chicken. We’ve already had all kinds of offers for
side salads and Sherry’s niece has offered to do some amazing desserts. Any
time I have a party of my own, I call Shelby
for the desserts because she not only makes yummy stuff, they are always so
pretty!
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| Our sweet friend, Peggy |
So, that is going to be taking up a major portion of my time
until it happens at the end of the month.
Last night, Rob and I went to a big meeting at the high school that was
a public meeting about the future uses of Lake Desmet Sheridan County ,
who owns part of it, wants to do a 99 year lease with the Game & Fish for a
bunch of acre feet and Johnson
County
Today, we’ve got our first “Cash Mob” event here in
town. If you don’t know what that is, I’ll
explain it a bit. Once every 4-6 weeks,
we are given the name of a business here in town and everyone converges on the
business and goes in and buys something for around 10-20 dollars. It’s sort of like a flash mob of dancers,
only we are coming in to spend money. We’re
all starting today from 4:30 to 6:30 and cash mobbing Artful Hands. I just can’t wait to see how this turns
out. In this economy especially, I think
this is an awesome idea! Other towns who’ve
done this are learning that there are even lasting benefits to the small
business owner, besides just the day of the sales. It should get some people into some of the
shops that don’t normally frequent them and hopefully, they’ll come back to
shop on their own at a later time. I sure hope they cash mob our photography
business one of these days!
I never did get over to see Rebekka yesterday. First, she texted me in the morning and rescheduled
me to come up in the afternoon because she got a last minute carpet job and
then I got too busy with Peg’s stuff to make it over in the afternoon. We’re going to try again today to get
together.
Other than that, my day is pretty sane. I may go insane, however, because I’m getting
eaten alive by the insects outside and pretty soon I may not have many spots
where there aren’t bites! I’m one of
those people who has a high normal temperature (which came in handy in school,
they always thought I had the beginnings of a fever) and so I attract the bugs
before anyone else does. My normal temperature
sits around 99.2, just perfect to attract mosquitoes. So, I’m running around like a freak right
now, scratching huge welts all over my arms and legs. Believe me, I wear protection, but the little
buggers manage to sink their teeth into me anyway. I’m afraid because of the
extremely mild winter we had this year, we are in for a banner year for bugs.
Well, I’m just yakking now, aren’t I? I hear the rumblings of Rob arising upstairs
already so I better get this day started
I hope you have an exquisite day and everything just runs as smooth as
glass for you. Don’t forget to smile at
a stranger today, you might be the only smile they get all day. They are free
and do so much for the psyche.
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