Mothman Festival

[cornerofmadness]

I had a very nice day at the Mothman fest (Unlike last year which rained too much to bother). It figures that it was cool all week but it was in the 80s there. Sigh. I was supposed to meet up with Rain but she got there way earlier than me. My sugar was too out of control to get behind the wheel. Ah well.

Mostly I just run through these festivals throwing money in the air like confetti. I DID restrain myself this year. I only bought three books (seeing as I'm getting a storage unit as a library annex) and I did buy a fan made Dr. Who Silence will Fall plate. I had to have it. Did I need it? No. Do I have a place for it to clutter up? No. But I had to have it.

I got the big book of WV ghosts from Rosemary Ellen Guilley and one on the Ohio reformatory ghosts from a lady ghost hunter who gave me her card. More interesting to me was the paranormal investigator from Chillicothe because he is a science teacher at a local high school. His books were self published but I'm interested in reading it. He had the most beautiful calligraphy.

I went to the State Theater to hear Rosemary speak but there was a time mix up and I also got to hear Faye DeWitt talk. I had met Linda Scarberry a few years ago (she was the original witness to the Moth Man, but she passed now). Faye DeWitt talked about her encounter (good lord, the Appalachian accent). Her brother (16) drove her (14) and their siblings up to the TNT because he wanted to prove Scarberry and crowd had made it up. She described the mothman being outside her car window then chasing the car (Scarberry and the three she was with had claimed the same). It then sat on the hood looking in when they stopped. She claimed it jumped to the roof of a 4 story building. Her brother got out to prove it was wires but was a little too afraid to leave the safety of the car door so he winged rocks at it and it came back down. They tried to go back the next night but by then the military had arrived.

Rosemary spoke about her book and the ghosts of murder victims. Fascinating talk. The first one might work for that story I was thinking about. Dead woman, killed on a lonely mountain road, turned out she had been sleeping with at least 16 of the most affluent business men while her cop husband was out working. Plenty of suspects there.



Down on the shores of the Ohio (one of my former students runs the paegent).

Mothman and some of the MIBs

The historic, haunted Lowe (I've stayed here)

A mothman selfie that didn't suck



And happy birthday to pickamix. Hope it's a good one!




And before I go, a little food porn, very easy to make. Coat asparagus with olive oil salt and pepper and roast at 375 for about 15 min. In a pan fry a little prosciutto until it's crisp.



declutter day 257 item tossed -X-Men movie VHS why kept-Loved it why tossed-Bought it as a dvd

Comments

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

Yum, asparagus!

That is a great selfie of you! Good job.

Looks like a lot of fun at this year's Mothman festival. Too bad it's the same weekend as my sisters' birthday. Yay for the new books!

Did I say, yum, asparagus?

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

it is a good pic.

Yeah that is too bad. It was fun.

99 cents a pound last week. hope it still is!

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

That's an excellent buy. Cider is going cheaply here. Mom bought some, and we keep forgetting to drink it. Oops.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

that happens when I get cider

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

I want to mull it. :D

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

do it

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

Mom doesn't like it mulled. But I could be able to talk her out of a quart of it, since she's not drinking it.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

there you go. i usually buy a quart but last year it was so bad on my sugar i might just skip it entirely

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's too bad, but I understand.

My sisters (both diabetics) were whining because I didn't quarter the ice cream pie for all of us, and cut it into eighths. Like any of us needed a quarter of ice cream pie.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

yeah it's best to not even have that stuff around. too tempting

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

Don't blame you. And this is really good ice cream...it's turtle pie.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

sounds too sweet but i bet it's good

[dragonydreams.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you had a good day for the festival this year. The books you picked up sound interesting.

I probably would have succumbed to the DW plate too.

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

They ought to make it with caramel ice cream for the full effect, but it's yummy. It's a graham cracker crust, with vanilla ice cream. Layered on top of that is caramel topping, and about two thirds out from center is chocolate fudge topping. In the center of the pie topping are caramelized pecans (like you buy at fairs?].

It's quite the yum.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

I went into a diabetic coma just hearing that

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

I hope they will be good and I did

I'm glad I'm not the only one whose geek is stronger than their will

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

thanks. Sounds like the client was type 1, they lose weight like that. I'm type 2. We tend to be overweight (it's a different mechanism of action for how the diabetes works).

I figured I couldn't really turn down an in-person request for me to 'volunteer' myself when the dean showed up. That siad I would have said yes anyhow because it's veterans.

it was a fun day

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

Now you know why I cut it into eighths, much to my sisters' disgust.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

you did the right thing

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

I know. Mom even complained, but seriously, that thing is deadly.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

sounds like

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

I'd make it myself, but I'd wind up as large as my sisters.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

best not

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

Yes, I'd rather not be the typical Evansvillian.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

yes you guys DO keep winning America's fattest

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

Such a delightful thing to keep winning, too.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

oh okay and no I don't. I'm SUPPOSED to go into the hospital when my sugar gets as bad as it does but I don't because I know exactly what they're going to do and I do it here.

thanks

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

no doubt