Straw Hat Up Close

18 May 2008

I cannot remember the last time a faire day passed so slowly!  And so bizarrely.  Hot, humid.  No Donny. No Mary.  Dull and slow, but after all was said and done, business didn’t suck.  We actually did better this Sunday than the last couple of Sundays!  Go figure!

I chalk some of it up to the help I got from Stephen!  He agreed to come in and help fill the void left by Donny and Mary’s absence.  I figured he’d be able to greet people and answer some basic questions—he certainly knows the history and has been a costumer for longer than I have!  But, as it turned out, he made some pretty good sales happen! 

Next weekend, I’ll have help from Allyson on Saturday, and I’m not sure yet what the rest of the weekend will bring!  Donny is hoping he can be at faire, but we’re pretty sure Mary will not make it back this season.  She is where she needs to be, with her family, and she has the gift of lots of “time off” accrued from her government job.  What a blessing that is!  So, our warm thoughts and prayers continue to be funnelled toward her and her folks in a Tyler hospital . . . the coming days and weeks will be hard.

All day at faire in the heat meant those icy margaritas were calling our names at the end of the day.  We stopped and had a great Tex Mex meal with Denise and Ken and Janet and Rod and Amy and Stephen.  Yum.  Home again, and doing reports and such before I realized there’d been no photography in my slow, dull day.  <sigh>  So, one of the hats I recently wrote about—up close.  Cool knitted straw patterns . . . lines and curves . . . kinda fun.

~MB