You know that old saying “You learn something new every day.”? Well, that’s just a crock. I can go several days at a stretch without leaning anything. If I put my mind to it I can ward off new knowlege for up to a week and a half before the strain becomes too much. But sometimes I just learn things. I can’t help it.
Things I have learned this weekend…
If I am going to be out in the sun for a couple of hours, I should wear a hat.
Always resurface a driveway in long pants.
If you are an idiot and resurface your driveway wearing shorts, and you brush up against the bucket, and you get a big smear of sealer on your leg, and it itches so you scratch at it, and it starts to peel up, and you figure you’ll just yank it off, stop right there.
When you rip a half-dollar size patch of hair off your leg with driveway sealer, it stings like crazy.
“Odorless” mineral spirits, aren’t.
Raspberry flavored peaches aren’t that bad. Go ahead and get the big can.
No matter how pokey, any Church Festival in the Greater Cincinnati Area will have a beer booth, “Bars and Bells” and funnel cakes.
Saving Silverman is a stupid, stupid movie. It made me laugh. A lot.
I really need a haircut.
I can’t manage to stay away from the Message Board for more than a day.
-Rue.
I also have learned both of these this weekend in addition to:
Six Flaggs/Great America is the biggest scam to hit this country since…well, I don’t know. NOW, there are only General Admission tickest and child tickets. Children are defined as the following: under 48" or 4 feet tall. If you have an eight year old who is 4’1", guess what? Its going to cost you another $20! And they still can’t go on all the rides.
Today I learned that it is a bad idea to take a three year old with a sword fetish to an event where they sell swords, if you do not intend to buy him one. But at least I know better to buy a sword for my three year old wherein my five year old would become “the target”.
ShibbOleth, I’m not convinced you actually live in Blue Ash. Well, maybe you do. The Church Festival is bigger on the West side of town than the East.
“Bars and Bells” is a standard game at Church Festivals. For a quarter you get a card. It has three pull tabs on the front. You pull them off and they reveal one of several symbols. Like a cardboard slot machine. If your card’s symbols match a winning combination on the back, you win a prize. Traditionally, if the prize is less than $5.00, you take an equivalent number of new tickets, and try some more. If it’s over $5.00, you can keep the money, but usually you spend it on Split the Pot, Hi Lo or the Beer Booth. The Little Woman won $25.00 at the beginning of the Festival Season, so we’re ahead. Ha ha! We have God’s money!
(Festival Season starts the week school lets out and continues through the summer. It overlaps the start of school by a few weeks, so all the Catholic Churches in town can have their festival without too much competition. It’s a Cincinnati tradition.)
And the raspberry peaches are just something I found at the grocery store. They were pretty good.
-Rue.
Oh, they have them on both sides of town, it’s just not something I do, really. We have gone several times to Panegyri and when we lived in E. Walnut Hills there was a church near Eden Park that also had a little bitty Greek festival which I would stalk just to get stuffed grape leaves. And shortly after the first time I moved here (I am on my third go round) I stopped by St. Rita’s festival, which is also very close to where we now live. I was kind of tickled by all the gambling that goes on, I almost expected to find strippers or porno somewhere in a booth in the back. Conservative Cincinnati lets its hair down kind of thing. I played some game, maybe black jack, but not for long. Sounds like one of these should be the site for our little dopefest some time.
On the other topic here, petting zoos, there was one at the RenFest, a small one with horse rides, swans, llamas, goats and swamp buffaloes. No piglets. IIRC the “petting zoo” at the dairy is just a stinky little stable with a lot of flies trying to get at your ice cream. Maybe it has been improved, last visit was more than five years ago.
And your song made a few rounds, but then we had to switch to the CD and here Mama Mia, Super Trouper and Dancing Queen a few times.
