Events of 9/12 - 9/14/08

Friday the 12th was a typical friday. Left work at noon, went to lunch with Lisa. Today it was the Edge Cafe. Had one of those great (cappucino?) muffins. Went to Whole Foods shopping then went to pick up Olivia at school. I had promised Olivia that we could have a fire in the chiminea in the evening but it was raining, not a good sign for Saturday and the Pawtucket Arts Festival, but we get up the next morning and it's only overcast thank goodness. Setting up the canopy goes well, we get the bags all displayed and we're ready to sell. I get to meet Lisa's Arts in RI people who are all quite nice and very talented. Lisa has a great day and sells alot. The weekend proves to be one of indulgence in the cuisine of Slater park- hot weiners, fries, dough boys, fish and chips, sausage sandwiches, frozen lemonade and as if that wasn't enough we added some Dunkin Donuts. For half of Sunday it rained quite hard. We got there in the morning to find that our booth was now in a puddle, so we had to move. We huddled under the canopy until noon, soaked. Very little business, but it picked up somewhat in the afternoon and she sold 4 or 5 bags. A nice feature of the weekend is the Stone Soup Folk festival. Sunday two groups stood out to me, Low Anthem and the Bluegrass group Northern Lights. Both were really good, too bad there weren't more people there. After we packed up our damp stuff (the hanging paper globes were soaked so we chucked them) we went to East Side Pockets for greek salads and went home to watch the Pats-Jets game won 19-10 by the Pats. All in all a very nice weekend, if only the weather had been better.