Don’t forget, today is the last day of my Official Blog Opening Contest! Leave a haiku comment before 6 pm CDT (um, that’s six hours behind GMT/UTC) to participate. Thanks for everyone who’s already left a haiku – they are witty and funny and wise and I love them all!
Knittymama’s greyhound happily models a bib…
I finished my first non-fiction book for SRP!
Downhill: The Life Story of a Gravity Goddess by Marla Streb, 326 pages. I really like to read about cyclists’ lives and inspirations. Altough I have absolutely no interest in mountain biking (I have a hybrid and prefer paved trails), I found Marla’s tale of leaving the safe life to follow her dream really resonated.
And two more fiction…
Murder by the Glass: A Wine Lover’s Mystery by Michele Scott, 246 pages. Isn’t it a little amazing how many targeted mystery series exist? This series features vineyard manager and oenophile (i.e., wine lover) Nikki Sands, who does a bit of amateur sleuthing in the Napa and Sonoma Vallies. As per usual, our intrepid sleuth is torn between two handsome men…
Children of the Storm by Elizabeth Peters, 416 pages. I was actually looking to reread the first Amelia Peabody mystery, but it wasn’t on the shelf at the library.
Monday evening, my friend Lisa and her two kids took me to dinner at True Thai (yummy tofu pad thai!) and then to see The Wacky Chicken Show: Modern Vaudeville, which was part of the Minnesota Fringe Festival.
I finished turning the heel of my second Trekking sock while we waited for the show to begin. The Wacky Chicken Show was a mixture of slapstick silliness, magic, and poignant interludes about lost eggs. By skillfully not making eye contact, I managed to avoid going having to lay an egg onstage… You can see a video clip here, if you’re curious.
I loved the words on the fence at the the Playwright’s Center – here are a few more:
And I threw together a little collage of some of the postcards I picked up for other Fringe Festival productions:
Once again, Chaos held down the home front:
Poor Chaos. All that work AND you doubt him. No wonder his lot in life is so difficult.
My kitties are just nuts about their cardboard scratching boxes! I’m glad to see they’re not alone in that. It doesn’t matter how fresh the catnip on it is; sometimes they just like to sit on top of them and nap. I just hate the little scraps of cardboard that litter the floor as a result.
I have several drafts sitting in my inbox of failed haikus. I SUCK at writing haikus. I think I might bow out of this contest.
He sleeps on his scratcher?
lololol
(((hugs)))
I have read the Amelia Peabodys mysteries too, great summer reads
uugggg I would die if they pulled me up on stage *sinks lower into seat*
Looks like agood show though!
Loved the greyhound – Chaos, were you watching?
Thanks for the tip on Michelle Scott.
There’s nothing like a good scratcher for the kitties.
I love the Wacky Chicken Show! They’ve actually been around the Cities for over twenty years – they used to perform at the MN Ren Fest.
You seem to have started a trend with the bib modelling. Love the pictures.
That seems like it would be a fun festival to attend sometime!
Geez Chris! Can’t you even buy that poor kittie a bed? Or knit him one? He has to sleep in a box lid?
Yes, the heat broke, for all of about 12 hours. But only high 80′s today due to storms moving through. The 90′s willbe back tomorrow. Ugh! Good thing I am leaving for Chicago. You should come down!!!
Wacky chicken show???
The Wacky Chicken Show looks like a lot of fun, though pulled-on-stage audience participation always scares the crap out of me.
I love the new skin, very nice!
Can you request books online for pick-up thru the Mpls library? I do that here when I have specific books in mind.
Thanks for your compliments on my Color Blox Sox. : )
“I have a hybrid and prefer paved trails…” ME TOO!
I need to visit Minneapolis/St. Paul when all these cool fests are going on. I’m so impressed with the stuff you get out and do!
I’m horrible at haikus, but I do love the Amelia Peabody series.
That’s a scratcher he’s laying on? Poor Chaos! The hairshirt of cats. And after all the bib posing he did for you. OTOH, he doesn’t look like he’s suffering much.
Those words at the Playwright center are great. I love stuff like that.
Appropriate name
For a curious feline
Paws into it all
Cool signage and postcards…
Oh well – I guess I missed all the fun this weekend! But I’m back and ready for tomorrow night’s knitting and return to sanity
This is a lame comment but I’m trying to see if I can actually do it now!
Thanks for the Wacky Chicken Show! yaHA – now that I’ve got DSL I can get all wacked with the videos – yeah – it’s heaven…
You live in such a cool place – and I love your new skin.
Darn, I was going to enter the contest but life got in the way. I’ll enter next time. It looks like a chicken theme lately.
It sounds like a fun evening! Katie sits on her scratch box.
Thanks for mentioning that book of the wine mystery series. I love that there are so many niche writers in mystery series. I’ll have to check out the one you mentioned.
Sock puppet serenade? That surely is a reason in itself to visit Minn. but then there are all the lakes and art fests … Poor Chaos, it’s a hard life being a cat.