Valhalla was fantastic as usual! The turn out was great, even thought the weather was not always cooperating. Danse Macabre were great hosts backstage as usual!! I took a great video of the DM after set durring the "Roundo" I was in the middle and going around to get everyone in. It was great!!

So getting back to the weather and such...

We were staying at my families house in So Lake Tahoe. Very modest, 5 bedroom tutor. My father in law is getting ready to sell the house, so we were also cleaning out the cupbords and dressers and closests and such while we were there. So to say my vacation was not really is vacation is an understatement. But I was more than thankful that we were staying there!! The rainstorms durring the week were un-real. Flash foods, thunder, lightning, rain, hail, and I even saw a bit of snow at one point. Needless to say by Tuesday night those who were staying on site were soaked!, I told Smiley, if we had been camping during the week, I would have packed up and gone home without doing  the second weekend. I was having issues with the dampness and the altitude. You don't realize how much that stuff effects you physically as you get older. Yikes!!! Anyway we got a call from Rabbit, he was feeling real bad too, so we did a Renny Rescue Mission.

As we were driving to Camp Richards I told Smiley that we were gonna take some people home with us. I just couldn't sleep if I knew all of them were sleeping in the rain. So they came on over, they did laundry, and we cooked dinner and watched old movies on the TV. (Gotta say that with a southern accent)

The dogs were having a great time, and the night we put the gabage out was interesting. They had cornered a chipmunk under a cinderblock in the backyard, so I brought them inside to give the little guy a chance to get away. About dusk, Smiley says, " It's about dusk, I wonder if there are any bears out there." He pulls back the cutains in the front room and there is a bear going through the gabage. We saw the neighbors shoo him away, so he walked over the the side of the house, and climb the tree that was right next to the fence, then swing his rear over the fence by climbing around the other side of the tree, and down, then he crossed the back yard just a big as ya please, and climbed the other tree on the back side of the lot and did the same thing, climbed the tree next to the fence and them climb down the tree on the othere side of the fence. Which is US Forestry land BTW.

I got some great film of Fiona chasing bubbles, where she ran up a tree, unfortunatly I lost when I transfered it to my computer. I just love technology, it's great... when it works!

The very next morning I woke up to see coyote's... yes plural as in a pack... running down the street at about 5:30 AM. I guess you could say I got my National Geographic fill for the trip.

We had a good time staying in the house, even though we did work hard getting stuff packed up. I hope we were some kind of help to the family.

The show was good! At least for me. I know the bad weather was bad for a lot of the vendors and some of the performers. But for me, the rainy days with little of no wind are the days I treasure. I was out dancing in the rain. I hope some pictures come back to me of those days, I was doing some of my best outdoor work on that day!! One of the highlights for me was when one very large slow moving bubble was just lumbering down the street and past the ale stand, and I was just following it blowing bubbles into it slowly. It must have had 25 or 30 bubbles inside, and it lasted for at least 40 seconds, maybe even a minute. It was great!!!

The kids were playful and mostly curtious... Hey their kids! The big kids were even more playful and mostly curious... hey their kids!

I love it when boothies invite me to gig in front of their booth and that was happening a lot. The thing is this... I do draw a crowd. And I try to bring some stir to the quieter less visited parts of the shire.

Overall this was a very magical faire!! Next year will be interesting! Just a prediction.

Blessings & Bubbles,

L