It's a bit mothy here today
Sep. 20th, 2015 11:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cornerofmadnessI headed to the Mothman Festival today but just for a little while since I had work to do. It was gorgeous today, only 72 so perfect to be out and about. The vendors this year were...less somehow. Yes I got to talk to Rosemary Ellen Guilley again and got her book on black mirror scrying (because what could go wrong there) and with a local paranormal investigator Neal Parks but some of the stuff was just eh. There was one, Courtney B Designs who is a local lampwork glass bead maker/metal smith. I am not too fond of her animal beads but you can see her tree of life beads with silver wrap. They're gorgeous. Way out of my price range for a freaking glass bead mind you. I did buy one (and still it was too much, I blame the sugar in the birch beer) of bigfoot's footprint.
The Nissan Chow Main people where there giving out free samples so that was lunch. Not bad but I was driven away from the seating at the river side ampitheatre by the 1940s female country yodeling. SO not my country music. I got a birch beer. I love old fashioned home made sodas. Yes it was still no doubt more sugar than I needed.
I headed down to the state theatre and found a hot dog wagon in hippie colors there. She gave the couple ahead of me a free hot dog for their dog. It was a good hot dog she gave me too. I listened to Neal Parks' talk on paranormal television and later thanked him for being honest about how stupid it is for shows like Ghost Adventures having Zack screaming at the ghosts and provoking them (he did say it was all for show and Zack is a nice fellow which is something I guess).
From there I wandered into the Mason Jar the antique store/country craft store I always go to when I'm there. The prices seemed a tad high this year. I DID see two leather horses the size of Breyer's and wondered if ELD would have liked them but you know...leather. They didn't seem terribly old either. I was a bit surprised by all the Mamie dolls and other black memorablia, like an old time racist died and the family dumped their crap. I did get scuppernong jelly, gooseberry jam and purple popcorn for the parents for the holiday.
Wandered back to the riverfront. By this time the Hillbilly hot dog people had set up and I got a Mothman dog, i.e. a deep fried wienie (answering the question how can you make a hot dog even LESS healthy) covered with onion rings, 1000 islands sauce, tomatoes and slap yer momma spice. It was good. And this time there was a 70s rock band playing but the lead singer saw someone he knew in the audience and decided to take time out to talk to her. Um....
There was a couple men in black, one I see every year and one much older fellow I've not seen before (I didn't get a picture this time). It was very windy so my pictures look...yeah like I'm in a wind storm.
I succumbed and got a funnel cake (I still have a good chunk of it waiting). And all that sugar made me sleepy. I even forgot to go get dinner from BW3s. I came home and did jack shit.
Other than grade so at least there's that but I was supposed to go out tomorrow but I think I will not be doing that.
As for my writerly ways, i did it over on Jana's blog and I have some details there about my Weird West story. I'd love some input on it. If nothing else there's the link to my giveaway as well. If you want a paperback copy of Soldiers of the Sun you can enter the giveaway and it ends at midnight tomorrow (west coast time) Weird West this way
Mothman & Bigfoot
Me & Scooby Do
They did ask for a donation to take a pic with him and the Mystery Machine and it goes to a great dane rescue
STILL dying over the juxtaposition of these two stores
I saw this pie safe and said ELD needs it
I really liked this flax wheel and I thought it was in the frame but isn't, a huge dough bowl, more like a trough, to the right side. I wanted that thing
wind makes your hair stand up
ETA : okay I decided to put the giveaway here too just in case you didn't want to head to jana's blog. Feel free to share the link.
The Nissan Chow Main people where there giving out free samples so that was lunch. Not bad but I was driven away from the seating at the river side ampitheatre by the 1940s female country yodeling. SO not my country music. I got a birch beer. I love old fashioned home made sodas. Yes it was still no doubt more sugar than I needed.
I headed down to the state theatre and found a hot dog wagon in hippie colors there. She gave the couple ahead of me a free hot dog for their dog. It was a good hot dog she gave me too. I listened to Neal Parks' talk on paranormal television and later thanked him for being honest about how stupid it is for shows like Ghost Adventures having Zack screaming at the ghosts and provoking them (he did say it was all for show and Zack is a nice fellow which is something I guess).
From there I wandered into the Mason Jar the antique store/country craft store I always go to when I'm there. The prices seemed a tad high this year. I DID see two leather horses the size of Breyer's and wondered if ELD would have liked them but you know...leather. They didn't seem terribly old either. I was a bit surprised by all the Mamie dolls and other black memorablia, like an old time racist died and the family dumped their crap. I did get scuppernong jelly, gooseberry jam and purple popcorn for the parents for the holiday.
Wandered back to the riverfront. By this time the Hillbilly hot dog people had set up and I got a Mothman dog, i.e. a deep fried wienie (answering the question how can you make a hot dog even LESS healthy) covered with onion rings, 1000 islands sauce, tomatoes and slap yer momma spice. It was good. And this time there was a 70s rock band playing but the lead singer saw someone he knew in the audience and decided to take time out to talk to her. Um....
There was a couple men in black, one I see every year and one much older fellow I've not seen before (I didn't get a picture this time). It was very windy so my pictures look...yeah like I'm in a wind storm.
I succumbed and got a funnel cake (I still have a good chunk of it waiting). And all that sugar made me sleepy. I even forgot to go get dinner from BW3s. I came home and did jack shit.
Other than grade so at least there's that but I was supposed to go out tomorrow but I think I will not be doing that.
As for my writerly ways, i did it over on Jana's blog and I have some details there about my Weird West story. I'd love some input on it. If nothing else there's the link to my giveaway as well. If you want a paperback copy of Soldiers of the Sun you can enter the giveaway and it ends at midnight tomorrow (west coast time) Weird West this way
Mothman & Bigfoot
Me & Scooby Do
They did ask for a donation to take a pic with him and the Mystery Machine and it goes to a great dane rescue
STILL dying over the juxtaposition of these two stores
I saw this pie safe and said ELD needs it
I really liked this flax wheel and I thought it was in the frame but isn't, a huge dough bowl, more like a trough, to the right side. I wanted that thing
wind makes your hair stand upETA : okay I decided to put the giveaway here too just in case you didn't want to head to jana's blog. Feel free to share the link.
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2015-09-21 10:38 am (UTC)You're right, I need that pie safe.
Scooby!
no subject
Date: 2015-09-21 03:25 pm (UTC)You do. It's 500$. i looked. I think I took you to this store actually
Scooby dooby doo
no subject
Date: 2015-09-22 12:20 am (UTC)$500 is a bit out of my price range at the moment.
Scooby doo Mothman.
no subject
Date: 2015-09-22 12:40 am (UTC)You got Scooby Doo! I saw Daphne at the cherry blossom fest last year! :D
I thought about you while I was away. Apparently they have a ghost tour at Virginia Beach. I saw a coupon for it in one of those coupon books. I never got to check it out, since I never really had the time to do so. XD
no subject
Date: 2015-09-22 01:12 am (UTC)Hahaha cool
Oooo I've never done a beach side ghost tour. too bad you didn't have time.
no subject
Date: 2015-09-22 01:13 am (UTC)for a piece of furniture that is essentially useless for it's intended function yeah.
haha
no subject
Date: 2015-09-22 01:29 am (UTC)Yeah, because ewwww, leaving a pie out when bugs can still squeeze in there. Ewww.
no subject
Date: 2015-09-22 02:33 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-09-22 03:24 am (UTC)Yeah! :D
Yeah? I know, right? I think it would have been interesting. I have to see if I took one of the coupon books home & look & see if I can find it. Maybe next I go, I can find the time for it. :D
no subject
Date: 2015-09-22 03:47 am (UTC)good luck if you do. I always plan too much for one trip
no subject
Date: 2015-09-22 03:58 am (UTC)Thanks! I don't really plan. I find it more fun to just see what happens. :D
no subject
Date: 2015-09-22 04:14 am (UTC)hahaha, well if it wasn't too far away then yeah but if i'm traveling somewhere more distant I need to have a plan otherwise it's probably going to be a waste of money
no subject
Date: 2015-09-22 10:42 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-09-22 03:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-09-22 06:55 pm (UTC)Yeah, that makes sense. As long as it's driving distance & not too expensive, it's okay, but I'm more of an explorer. I have a vague idea of what's there, the rest I want to figure out on my own. :D yeah, sometimes it's a waste, but a lot of times it's not. :D
no subject
Date: 2015-09-22 08:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-09-22 09:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-09-23 12:09 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-09-23 12:37 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-09-23 02:03 am (UTC)XD Even in Florida, when visiting Disney, I rarely went to the pool, if ever, despite bringing a bathing suit with me. I'd rather zonk out on the room's daybed, or once I went & sat in various places in EPCOT's world showcase & sketched the buildings. I had everyone that worked in the tea shop in fake!England come over & watch me & hang out while I drew the place. XD
no subject
Date: 2015-09-23 03:29 am (UTC)oh cool to the drawing
no subject
Date: 2015-09-23 01:11 pm (UTC)Thanks! :D
no subject
Date: 2015-09-23 08:43 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-09-23 08:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-09-24 03:51 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-09-24 03:58 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-09-24 04:10 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-09-24 06:58 pm (UTC)