We took Long Meadow Farms Quilts to Island Pond, VT this forth of July just to see if the tent would blow away this time. Actually that’s not true since we brought both her old station wagon and my old Jeep Cherokee, the latter to which we secured her display tent. The wind did indeed blow but no matter how hard it tried the old Jeep and subsequently the display tent that was tied to it did not end up in the pond.

The Pond
(A few wannabe swimmers—too cold though)

Our friend Kathy was putting up a booth there to see if she might get a few of the cats she takes care of adopted off and she invited us to go along this year. Since Laurie has been trying to do at least 3 or 4 local shows each year we said why not? We had the Jeep for ballast didn’t we?

Our friend Kathy is a one woman humane society for stray and abandoned cats (she currently has 31 plus 2 litters of kittens to contend with). How she does it I’ll never know. I’ve been to her home on several occasions keeping her PC updated and despite the number of feline type guests that may be staying (indoors only) it always seemed as if no more like only 2 or 3 hanging around at one time. And how she manages to accomplish this little miracle I’ll also never know. Unfortunately it busted loose with the rain while I was out and about with the camera and didn’t get a chance to snap a picture of her booth.

I did manage to snap a couple photos of Laurie’s display tent before the rain broke loose.

Long Meadow Farms booth
(Doesn’t she blend in well?)

And, of course, there’s always that one thing that ends up missing even though it was just put down where she could find it.

I really wanted to get a picture of one of the many downpours we had to put up with interspersed with bits of sunshine here and there but when I went for my camera while we took shelter in the booth I realized I had left it in the ballast…er…Jeep. So here’s a reasonable facsimile to give you a good idea what we had to put up with every 40 minutes or so.

Now a typical Vermont type “celebration on the green” like the 4th of July wouldn’t be complete without entertainment now would it?

To wit:

Morning entertainment
(A guy singing to country music we couldn’t hear. We heard the guy…not the music)

Afternoon Entertainment
(The Merry Men—much better and very good. Nearly all instrumentals too)

And last but not least, the traditional pony rides for the kids.

(Looks more like a small horse to me but hey, this is Vermont)

I actually asked them if I could possible have a ride too (I never had pony rides when I was a kid) but they said I wasn’t short enough and besides, I scared the horses.

So except for the rain and not getting a pony ride, we were happy with the whole affair if not very tired and achy when we finally had the booth broke down and the vehicles loaded back up. Will we do it again next year? I’d say the chances were pretty good although these days you never know what’s going to happen a week down the road never mind a whole year.

If we do though, the rain can definitely stay home—and I’m getting a pony ride if even if I have to bribe them.