I Like Thursday #411 outdoor concerts, books and a poodle tale

 

 google won't let me add my own pics this week, sorry! but I can add words for the moment and a couple online images. The one above is from the folklife festival we won't be attending this year.

frustrated with trying to blog with all these restrictions and issues. Pain level is high, so short post:

reading on ebook, LOVE this author , the humor, the characters

Prompt this week: 

have you ever gone to an outdoor play? tell us about it.... Or a concert? do you like outdoor performances?

hope this image makes it in!

 

I've been to many outdoor performances and find them magical and special. Now that I have spinal injuries, I can't sit on the ground or in folding chairs sadly. Over the years, I've gone to a lot of concerts outdoors... 

*  I remember dancing outside to live bands so many events

*  I heard Gloria Estefan in Ybor City (Tampa)  just before she became a National star

* I remember a concert at Sundance with Robert Redford introducing the orchestra 

 

*As a child visiting NC in the summers, we went to "Unto these hills" each summer in an amphitheater 

*In Annapolis the Summer outdoor theater put on shows that were always fun. Hearing the dialogue amid the sounds of the city beyond the walls, seeing the moon rise, being "inside and outside" at the same time

* in summer, we used to dance in the bumper car pavilion at Glen Echo each Sunday night... live band and contra dancing with little fairy lights, a slight breeze, stars above

* I belonged to a cajun dance group and we had many outdoor dance events

* I volunteered with a fund raising group who held outdoor concerts in Tampa

* wine festivals always had live music outdoor stages, you could listen as you walked around, one craft festival with music in Colorado Springs had a lovely mountain backdrop

 

*The Queen of outdoor events was in Washington DC at the yearly "Folklife Festival" A several week celebration of other cultures/countries with several venues housing a daylong roster of performances all day into the night. We could participate with dancing to native music, we could dance long into the night with the Washington monument back lit to one end, the Capitol on the other end. I loved the year we learned more about native American cultures (food, crafts, music, stories, dances) The year we learned more about India and I discovered Mango Lassies, the year Wales was highlighted. SO many cultures celebrated. I nearly passed out from heat once at the festival, they held a contra dance during the heat of the day and we danced with hundreds until we couldn't go on. 

we walked across to the American History Smithsonian building, I laid on the cold granite floor til I recovered! 

* remember the excitement as a child, of going to the drive-in movies? Outdoors, but inside a car, as kids we could run to the snack bar where they had playground equipment and a bathroom, we went alone in the dark, that enormous screen playing a move, the stars above. 

It's that sense of being inside while being outside that I love. 

as an adult, sitting at an outdoor cafe, with a musician singing right there, sipping a cool drink

 

 

Milo's moment

Mama! Come quick! bark bark bark. (running to the front door) 

Mama: What is it honey? invaders? 

Milo: it's the growly little truck where an arm comes out and touches our mailbox! 

Mama: oh, the mail carrier.... 

Milo: (running back to the family room) well sometimes he comes RIGHT up to our FRONT door!!! 

oh, shark! my shark must be guarded! I'll carry him in my mouth for safety.... okay sharkie, that is the mailman who is scary and you stay away from him! I'll just move you to the far side of the table for now, but stay back here. 

while I have you in my mouth, I'll carry you on a trip around the table...... oh that's the Daddy he's not dangerous but don't go with him anyway, that's the mommy and she might put you in the washer so stay away from her, that's the talky talk (TV) and it's just loud like those dogs next door. 

Okay, you can take a nap til I need you! 

Mama, I need a cookie to calm my nerves! cookies = poodle punch

Bye Bye for now!

 

please visit these folks to read their likes this week

 

  http://3poodlesandanana.blogspot.com/

https://canadianneedlenana.blogspot.com/  

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https://comfortspiral.blogspot.com/

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https://knittingquilter.blogspot.com/

grammajudyb.blogspot.com

https://lavenderdreamstoo.blogspot.com/

 

taking a break: 

the knitty quilter

  http://imworkingonaproject.blogspot.com/

chasing my stories

https://www.homesewnbyus.com/

https://scrapatches.blogspot.com/ 

 

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https://brianshomeblog.com/ 

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http://goodrandomfun.blogspot.com

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