That says it all. I am doing a new festival this coming weekend in Zanesville, Ohio, and the festival is held ON A BRIDGE. Zanesville has the famous Y-Bridge, so each August One span of the "Y" is closed to vehicle traffic and their arts festival is held on the bridge.
The festival committee erects all the tents, and if I am reading the info correctly, we will be permitted to drive onto the bridge, unload our merchandise, then go to a designated parking lot.
And I have a problem with heights. Go figure.
Each tent supposedly holds 4 vendors, Russ with his mother-in-law Kay, Vicki and I are all together in Tent #8. I feel sorry for the poor fourth vendor - little do they know!!!! There are 18 tents listed on their web site with 4 vendors per tent. I really don't know what the three of us have gotten ourselves into this time. At least we don't get bored.
Russ and I have done the Salt Fork Arts Festival in Cambridge Ohio for years, and we have great friends living near Cambridge that have asked us to stay with them for quite a while now. What a wonderful weekend, doing the festival and staying with friends. The best of both worlds.
When Ted and Judy learned we were doing Y-Bridge, they contacted us letting us know the house was waiting for us. Vicki is new to the group in Ohio this year (she does not have a tent so does not apply for outdoor shows, unless tents are supplied) so she has never done Salt Fork. Ted and Judy insisted that she also stay.
We always look forward to our visits with them. Their hospitality is beyond belief. When do you find friends that will actually give you a key to the house, and on occasion move into their camping cabin on their property. This was before they finished their downstairs family room. Now they no longer have to move out so we can move in. And the food - They buy everything they can think of for us to eat, both at the house and to pack lunches to take to the festivals with us, and always come to the festivals.
I don't know what we have done to deserve such friends, but are greatly blessed by their friendship.
Just had to take a quick break. While sitting at the computer my window looks out onto the deck and front yard. Just had a squirrel come right up to the deck, the onto the deck, nosing around. Snapped a couple of quick pics and will share them with you tomorrow.
Now, back to Y-Bridge. We will arrive at our friends' house around 10 a.m.on Saturday morning, to introduce Vicki and drop off our luggage. Then on to Zanesville for set-up, from noon until 5 p.m. The festival opens 6 p.m. until 9 p.m.
On Saturday the festival is 10 a.m. until 9 p.m., then pack up, load, and get off the bridge. Will be spending Saturday night with Ted and Judy, and start for home some time Sunday. What a weekend it will be. Hopefully sales will match the hospitality, but even if they don't it will be a great weekend being with friends.
Mowing the front yard is on the schedule today. Then weather permitting the back yard tomorrow. Thursday will be grocery shopping, then loading the van.
I only have the one festival in August, as I am unable to do Salt Fork this year because that is the weekend Mike and Jerry are flying to Alaska to meet up with the guys from Arizona for another fishing trip. Guess who gets to take care of the dogs? But there is always next year, the Good Lord willing. I am always looking forward, forget the past. There is always something new and exciting just around the next bend in the road, and I am all for it.
So always look forward and God Bless.
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