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Fiasco

This is a photo of Tootsie - just because I think it is a lovely picture of her.

The fiasco?
The fiasco was River Rhythms on Wednesday night.

After spending much of Tuesday and a lot of Wednesday preparing food for River Rhythms, it was pants.
Donna and Lauren had a previous engagement but it was cancelled and they wanted to attend River Rhythms too.
Brill......more of us.
Gary, of course, would be there.
The band were not Yeehaw's so all should have been well.
We arrived to find Gary already had secured a spot and we set up our chairs, tables etc and shared out the grub.
Then the band started.
They were awful.   They were possibly the worst band we have ever seen there.   The leader singer was nowhere near as good as he thought he was and it was so loud, his piercing voice hurt my ears.
I looked at Donna and she had her fingers in her ears.
The soundman at River Rhythms is usually very good so it was quite a surprise that he had totally messed this up.
After getting tired of sitting there with our fingers in our ears (Lauren was ok because she was listening to her ipod so she had her earphones in her lugholes), someone had the brill idea of stuffing tissue in our ears.
We scrunched up bits of napkin and poked our ears full of the stuff...........ahhhhhhhh....bliss.
Trouble was - we couldn't hear each other speak.
The interval came and was a blessing.  We managed to have a chat and the decision was made to leave as soon as the band started up again.
Which we did.
This was probably only the second time we have ever left early.
Strange thing was that there were far fewer people over there than there are normally.
Obviously they knew something we didn't know.

Now for something completely different.
We have another cow bird baby in the garden.
I thought we might get another as I noticed an adult cow bird during the Spring.
They are like cuckoos and lay their eggs in another bird's nest.
It amazes me that the host parents don't realize something is up when the baby grows to more than twice their size.
I expect they blame each others side of the family for the "black sheep".

posted by Sue Banks @ 1:16 PM