Festival time

[cornerofmadness]

well since i have been to the Mothman festival twice (and there having been NO difference between them) I decided to go to the Paw Paw festival at Lake Snowden over by Athens which is always the same weekend. The website made it sound like fun and I'm a sucker, as I've mentioned, of festivals. I get there and it is gloriously cool, like 68 degrees. WHee (I'm the only twit in shorts but I like it cold)

I had high hopes since the first guy I meet is handing out heriloom daffodil bulbs with a website (I'll need to send that out to my gardening friends). But after that...let me just say I would love to take this festival over and give them pointer. Okay the paw paw beer (which I went there for) was good, a nice smooth beer from the Marietta brewing company (with no fruity accents to be honest, tasted like lager) and the music was jammed packed, no problems there.

They had special interest groups of course, for the Athens area which meant they didn't interest me. But ALL and I do mean ALL the vendors were selling beaded jewelry (or Indian beaded jewelry). There was no variety except for the loan woman who did ceremaic leaves and the one who did glasswear that was hideously overpriced. and about a dozen or more jewelry makers who were on par with ME for skill level. And all the stuff on the website, the paw paw tasting, the pawpaw products consisted on pawpaw soap at the love tent (more on that) and ONE, let me repeat that, ONE vendor that had paw paws (not counting the one pizza place that had paw paw smoothies, which was good, but unadvertized, the people at the love tent had to tell me).

There I am, all excited to be trying my first paw paw (it's kind of custardy and mellow and a bit bland). I liked it but the products I stood in a long line for that everyone was oooing and ahhhhing over, they were lying. They were awful. I mean dear god get it off my tongue awful. I ended up buying none of them.

As for the love tent, I went there to find the soaps and to see about the tarot card reading. Suddenly I'm grabbed and dragged into a line and they tell me I'm the first person in the angel walk where we walk the gauntlet and everyone tells you good things about yourself. Push and away I go down the gauntlet where old hippies (in their love in clothes) and dreadlocked youngsters from the college are all laying on of the hands and of course I didn't get to run away (that would be rude) so I'm there holding hands with these people while some amateur photography student from Ohio Unversity is going to town. With my luck I'll be in the paper. The old hippie wanted me to put my Green Man on the 'peace' altar for recharging while I got my fortune read. When I cut the cards (asking about ye ol' novel) Got some power cards like the King and Knight of swords, King and Knight of pentacles, temperance and the empress. When she did a three card lay out there came the magician, the sun and you know it, my all time favorite card since I always get it, the ten of swords.

Since I drove all the way to Athens for this, I head into town (this is a 50 mile one way trip), see a Shoe Dept. and go looking for black leather shoes since the ones I just bought didn't last three weeks. No luck. So Halloween USA. bought junk I didn't need but wanted. And foolishly decided, eh, the chinese buffet is here so why go looking for Lam's Garden, my favorted chinese place. big mistake.

Speaking of Halloween, i love it. But my neighbors are making me sad. One of them put their stuff out on Labor Day, the rest did it today. Seriously I don't need TWO months of looking at it. It makes it less special.

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Comments

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

Oh, I SO would've been dying over you having people lay their hands on you. *grsnkr* I mean...bwahahahaahah.

Did you put your pendant on the altar? C'mon, inquiring minds wanna know.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

i mean gah, people touching me!

yes, i was afraid of the hippies

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

BWAHAHAHAHA. Photographs...I'd have been taking so many pictures of Dana with the hippies and the laying on of hands. *grsnrk*

HEE. Did the Green Man come back recharged?

Did you get your massage?

What about pawpaw soap?

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

green man seems much the same, unhappy he's on a cheap cord

no massage (they scared me)

and the soap will be opened tonight

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

Poor Green Man.

Awww, no massage.

Yay, soap!

[chaos-by-design.livejournal.com]

I don't like random people touching me. Hugs from friends are fine.

I think tarot cards are pretty but I don't believe in them.

oh, are you still thinking of doing the Ren Fest up here?

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

nope, not at all to the renn fest

oh I believe in the cards, in so much as you need to be a good judge of person to read them right.

i don't like touched. period.

[rain-oubliette.livejournal.com]

The festival sounds a bit blah. I am thinking of attending a fest. here but only if I can get my fin. aid in first. IF I go, I will take photos.

The Love Tent sounds like fun! HA ha. Were these bathed hippies or haven't bathed hippies? ;-)

If you want/need anything Halloween, I may soon be clearing out my stock. Let me know what you collect. JK in MA will want some of my skull stuff, I'm sure. :-)

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

bathed hippies.

I don't collect anything halloween wise. i just get what appeals to me at the moment. I don't really collect things per se (barring my fandoms)

i was thinking of doing mothman tomorrow but like you, i need to do legal/money stuff imperatively

[rain-oubliette.livejournal.com]

I have a massive collection of Halloween stuff. My obsession for a long time were the toys that light up/make noise/ or move. Like the dancing Snoopy dressed as a skeleton, things like that. My favorites are the skeleton that lights up and dances to "Puttin' on the Ritz" and the Frankenstein's Monster that dances to "The Monster Mash".


Once my financial aid comes in (I sound like a welfare loser, sigh), I'll pay down the cred. card. I will also try to sell some stuff on eBay as I just want some fun money to go to the ren. fair or the Mother Earth festival (the one I mentioned in a different post - or this one. I dunno.)

meow

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

oh my collection of halloween stuff was massive (the mice got some of it) but i have no real favorites I just buy what i like


i'm getting sued so...but i will go to the renn fest.

[0-mother-0.livejournal.com]

Sounds like fun (with perfect temps for it too!). I swear, you and Bear could talk beer for hours. He's a connoisseur too and has been sampling the micro-breweries for quite a while.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

I love microbreweries. I've been doing that since the early 90's myself. My one friend used to shove me off on 'dates' with her husband so he could go to microbreweries and ethnic restaurants since she hated them.

[0-mother-0.livejournal.com]

*snort* Sounds good to me. It bothers Barry to no end that I don't like beer (and don't drink).

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

snort. I actually do like beer

[silvrethorn.livejournal.com]

Festival season! Ours starts next month, sigh, but at least that gives me some time to save/raise money. Had anybody tried to make pawpaw ice cream? If so, I bet it wasn't half as successful as Guinness ice cream. I want more Guinness ice cream. I've only seen it the once (at a dog show, oddly enough), got hooked, and now I can't find any more. It's unfair.

There should be a law against putting up Halloween decorations in September. I haven't seen any around my neighborhood--yet--but I'm sure they'll appear soon. I'm gritting my teeth. It's bad enough to be burned out on Christmas by early October, but spoiling Halloween is a mortal sin. (I have nobody to go with me to Mickey's Not-So-Scary Halloween party this year, and that's bumming me out, too. I have no excuse at all to don fangs and lace and funny makeup. Bah.)

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

ours is almost over. I've not had Guinness ice cream but i have had bailey's irish cream liquor (hagen das makes it)

tell me about it. I just want to hit my neighbors and what's up with christmas crap being out all ready in the stores?

and i was just whining about Disney since they've updated the haunted mansion. Wails. maybe we can save up for next year

[silvrethorn.livejournal.com]

I can understand seeing Christmas stuff in the craft stores--you have to give people time to make stuff if they're doing home-made gifts--but coming out of 90-degree September heat into Wal-Mart and getting socked with Christmas carols is sacrilege.

I'd forgotten about the Haunted Mansion upgrades. That definitely needs to be checked out. I want to see the Harry Potter/Hogsmeade thing at Universal as soon as that's finished, too (whenever that's going to be). We have a lot to save up for.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

yeah I was ticked at teh hobby lobby then thought oh right, we're MAKING the stuff (but not always 90% of the stuff there was done) but yeah seeing it at Big Lots was annoying.

I didn't even KNOW abotu the Universal thing.

[silvrethorn.livejournal.com]

How did you miss the coup of the century, when Universal emerged from the fray with the rights to Harry Potter clutched in their sweaty little corporate fists and spent the next three weeks crowing about it? They're building Hogsmeade on an undeveloped end of the park, and the Dueling Dragons and that flying unicorn mini-coaster will be assimilated into the new attraction.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

it did not make news here. big shocker. Hell i didn't even see it on yahoo n ews

[silvrethorn.livejournal.com]

It's huge news if you live at Ground Zero, not so much if you live in Ohio. I think it was front-page news in the O'do Sentinel (natch), but I can't see anybody else getting excited over theme-park expansions. You might have heard about it if Cedar Point were building it, though.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

yes probably that is true. Now I think I vaguely remember ELD wondering if they would tear down Dueling dragons when the theme of that side changed

[mzzgoddessblue.livejournal.com]

cos you mentioned it was the first time you'd eaten paw paw, i checked to see if i was thinking of the same fruit. we have paw paw here and it's one of my favourites...but it's not 'custardy and mellow and bland' so i looked it up.

this is our paw paw:

http://www.organicfood.com.au/Content_Common/pr-Fruit_red-paw-paw.seo

and the picture on the wikipedia is absolutely nothing like it
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pawpaw
(that picture kinda reminds me of custard apple)

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

you've just demonstrated the need for scientific naming. Your paw paw is NOT our paw paw. Ours is the wiki one