I Like Thursday # 358 Festivals and Fairs in our areas

 

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Welcome to this week's list of likes...

 Reading

The library returned Covenant of Water for audio book... it's a whopper at 31 audible hours!!! I've now got 6 1/2 hours left to hear!

 

following the lives of a family in India... I'm on the generation where a daughter becomes a doctor despite being harassed by men in school, and she has the pull of career against pull of loving a man who has taken up the fight for liberation. 

we have a neighbor in this neighborhood, who is from India and walks with a limp... I asked about it and he told me it happened in the war... I wish they talked more to us about their lives in India

I'm reading on Ebook

 

two people run into each other 50 years after meeting at college, after they move into a senior living facility they both dislike... forming a new relationship. Very realistically written, and the female lead has a newfie she adores, a bonus

 watching on TV

I found Miracle workers season 4.... same actors each season (all fabulosus) but different irreverant wacky scenario... the kind of show that you find yourself shocked laughing.... did they just say that? 

I'm seeking games for my ipad

I had to get a new ipad with the new IOS which is all advertising all the time, grrrrrrrrrr all that without a home button, but now none of my fave games, the ones that take me out of real life for a while, work on it. I need suggestions for things like matching games, visual puzzle like games (think tetris genre) or little race games where you set up a hotel. 

The prompt today is about Fairs and Festivals near where you live, or ones you love

I am a Festival lover. We were driving from Annapolis to Lake Placid one year, and saw a sign for a festival going on. We stopped and had a great time walking around... can't remember what is was form maybe early Autumn. 

When we were on another trip, we ended up at a "ramp" festival, a vegetable somewhat like leeks, somewhat like garlic and it was hilarious... they may have had a Ramps queen.

The Maryland Sheep and Wool festival was awesome, it had sheepdog demos Llamas and Alpacas, shopping, plants, music, so much. We went yearly. 

Milo shops at a craft festival

Here in Colorado we tried to visit craft shows in Golden, in Denver, In parking lots in neighboring towns.... I love a gathering. We visited the Lavendar festival connected with the Botanic Gardens, and went to a ghost tour at the Botanic Gardens. There is a large fancy art show in Denver yearly... we went one year but it's hot here at festivals. Crowded and hot and no parking. 

The zoo had a free day, sort of like a festival so we went, having to park mile away and walk in the heat to the gate. 

I grew up with the Gasparilla Festival,  with parade (sort of like a local mardi gras feel to it) but with pirates (rich business men dressed up shooting off blanks and giving the shells to little kids. I marched with our high school band in it every year, and as an adult I was in it with the Renaissance Festival group. I was also on a float one time with friends who had a hot air balloon, and we threw out black beans instead of necklaces or shell casings! 

We can't do any of that now, as it's unsafe from disease, and real bullets since so many Americans are so angry and bring guns to events it's never safe. Why are so many Americans, so bitter against other Americans. Wouldn't the quality of life be better if they didn't hate other Americans?

Milo's moment

Milo is self aware. He does not like to be uncomfortable in any way for any amount of time. He is a joiner however, so when we get ready for a walk, he's right there, pointing out his harness and leash, by the front door (silently hoping we forget the leash this time) ready for the adventure. 

Mostly he wants to be with us. The problem comes in when his comfort meter goes off, saying,

 "ooops too hot!" 

gotcha!

then he seeks shade, stops, pretends to sniff or need to do some business that might take a while. Important business. He won't look at us, doesn't respond to a snapped leash or our voices to come on. He steadfastly looks at the ground, or gazes into the distance away from us, ears no longer taking in our level of sound. 

I guess it's cool enough

 

If he's thirsty and he's often thirsty. That boy can knock back a bowl of water in no time. He can't settle down til his bowl is refilled, but he gives no sign of that being the problem. 

"I don't want to complain he blinks at me" 

my lab used to pick her bowl up, come in front of me and drop it on my foot. 

If he has to poop, he paces, then bites the daddy's arm. Tugs at Dad's arm, growls, wrestles. 

my last poodle went to the door and tapped it with his long toenails til we let him out. 

Milo likes attention, hates the tv... the tv coming on means, annoy the pawrents til they play with you. He has an unerring ability to time any length show to the last 15 minutes, then he peacefully lies down. 

He doesn't want to eat til he's ready. The kibble must be coated in warm water to make a sort of gravy, and increasingly he wants to dine al fresco on the back porch with one of us holding the bowl. He must stand a certain way so he knows if anyone is walking next to our yard. He likes green beans, but not every time they're offered. He likes scrambled eggs but not all the time. 

He is tuned into his physical and emotional needs.but like a bad date, he expects us to just KNOW what he needs and give it to him. 

I love him so much, he gives me so much, I'll do anything he needs gladly in order to make him happy

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