CATCH UP

Haven't posted anything since August. Here's a quick update: Competitive gardening worked out well. The garden looks wonderful and everything was great for the home tour. The day before the tour Kim came over and edged the whole yard by hand, Lynda trimmed every twig and leaf that wasn't perfect and planted four new plants. By this time, John and I were off to Modesto to go to my high school reunion and see how many people I could try to pretend to remember. Back in Sacramento, it was nearing dark, and Lynda and Kim didn't think things were yet perfect enough. Kim got out her leaf blower, and there was apparently some kin of duel between her and the guy in the kiddy corner house with his leaf blower. I think he may have one, because Kim may or may not have put the wrong mix of fuel in hers and it made a giant bang and quit. By the time we got home the next day, the thing was in full swing and everything looked fabulous. And obviously they did a good job, because John was standing near the gate and a woman walked out and noticed that a piece of turf had been kicked up, and said: "Oh, there really is a blade of grass out of place." So literally the minute that was owner I really had to get to work on the neighborhood art walk in two weeks. Well, of course it was too late, to do as much as needed to be done, but we did spend a number of hours putting up posters, and we got some new plants in the traffic circle, and a bunch of other stuff that doesn't seem like much looking back at it but seems to have taken up most of two weeks. A week before, Lynda talked John into putting some art work into the show, and he had to frame all these things he already had done. Also, kind of late in the game we got a chance to use the firehouse for one of our venues, so we spent two days cleaning that up. Since there were a bunch of us on that project, it turned out to be a pretty fun project. Anyway, the event was more or less of a success. Not that much for sales by the vendors, but a great opportunity for people to wander the neighborhood, meet people and see how much talent there is. And I sold some jewelry. Tomorrow we have a River City Renaissance Band gig in the morning and have a chance to see a friend I haven't seen all summer. Then it's off to New York with Billie, where I hope it's not too cold. Sorry there are no pictures.