We left Mesa Verde slowly…and then headed south. On the way we saw a chain saw art guy’s place that just invited a visit. After an hour we hammered out a trade that let us end up with a really cool chain saw vulture that will hang someplace—he ended up with some turtles—hope his wife likes them…
Then we headed on to Albuquerque—got there, said hi to Ruth—dropped off our trailer amongst the really big artists RV’s—obviously they are much more successful than we are—and then we headed to one of our favorite places—El Pinto’s for their free taco bar and very good margaritas. And then it was the casino—surprise, surprise. Of course I left broke and Stacy left with winnings—we are now $110 ahead for this grouping of casinos. Yuliya was my shadow—she was hoping she was my luck—guess not…
And now it’s our first morning of work—we have to go set up for the show and then help Yuliya figure out her job for the creative kid’s tent. She’s running that again this year and we have to come up with some cute but easy projects for kids 2-14. Shouldn’t be too hard…
Then we might try to play some the rest of the day. After all, it’s best to not just jump right into work phase…
I just watched an artist load his cart and then jump on a little motorized “cart puller”—back to the fact that everyone must be much more successful than we are. Obviously success can make you lazier! Good thing we still have to manually schlep our stuff in the old fashioned way—kind of like going to the health club.
Thursday night in our trailer—
Yuliya is frantically making examples of her kid’s projects. We set up our booth today—still have to put out product in the morning but once that is done this is an easy show to do—unless you have lots of irons in the fire--like we do.
The rest of the day was spent helping Yuliya set up her kid’s tent and then shopping for supplies for same kid’s tent. She’s in charge of the Kid’s Creation Station—same job she had here 2 yrs ago. I will help Stacy set up in the morning and then I have to go draw a mural—never have done that but I figure I can handle it—and it will be on a 5 ft by 8 ft piece of canvas. It just needs mountains, balloons, and a big top tent with artists in it. They’ve never attempted a group project like this before but what the h*ll…If it gets chaotic I can just pretend we are busy in our booth and leave Yuliya to deal with it—after all it is her job.
And then her uncle & aunt (actually cousins but in Russia he’s referred to as her uncle) are coming in from Arizona tomorrow about 3 and staying in town until Sunday morning. She has a lot on her plate but she seems excited about the whole thing—made her feel better when we told her it was ok to be a little stressed about everything. It does look like Balloon Fiesta will start of with some lousy weather--guess they will have to come to the show...
Just watched the debate—oh well—after the last 2 elections I have lost all hope in us as thinking people so there’s no reason to think anything will change now. It’s turned into one of the things I no longer really care about. I have no kids so why worry about anyone’s education or the environment as long as we can get at least another 40 yrs out of this decaying world. Just got to quit worrying about some things.
Right now I’m eating sushi and getting ready to draw the master plan for the mural—wish us luck on both Yuliya’s project, but I guess more importantly our sales! The people I’ve talked to are singing the blues. Not doing shows or having any news for the last 2 months we could imagine all sorts of happy thoughts about possibilities. Hopefully we don’t have to change our world—I’ve enjoyed being clue less…
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