13: If the Hat Fits
1. After five days at Floydfest, I can only think in pictures and music. Words are another matter, so this may be challenging.
2. We came home to the smell of a dead raccoon in the garden. After leaving a radio and lights on all night didn’t work to keep them out of our corn, I resorted to putting out poison.
3. There’s a seven-foot fence too.
4. I don’t understand jealousy but do understand being envious. If I envy a trait in someone else, it means I admire them and wished I had such a trait. It doesn’t mean I wish they didn’t have it.
5. Some people have called some of my poems “clever,” and I don’t take that as a compliment. Maybe they mean sharp-witted and inventive, but I tend to think of clever as meaning superficially skillful.
6. Every day at Floydfest there was a new hat. See HERE.
7. Day 3: This (right) is my version of that red cap, purchased for me by Joe at the Visit Floyd booth so that he could keep track of me. 50 years of Virginia is for Lovers!
8. I didn’t lose any hats or my tickets or driver’s license like I have in past years, but I did lose two blank checks and then my cell phone, which were both were quickly turned in to Lost and Found (as were the first few mentioned items, minus the hat). What other festival would that happen at?
9. Someone on Facebook’s Floydfest Family said they were experiencing a post-festival Echoing Silence. I get it. Another said a certain band blew the hippie dust out of their ears.
10. Remember this? Liam Pat wore his hat / all the way to the laundry mat / The only time he took it off / was when he went to the barber shop / Liam Pat wore his hat / seven days a week / The only time he took it off / was when he went to sleep … Read this nursery rhyme in its entirety HERE.
11. I’ve decided I like bluegrass after all, If it’s Keller Williams doing a Tom Petty song or a song from the Grateful Dead.
12. Sometimes all it takes is a basil mozzarella quesadilla and some up-for-grab-fries with friends to say it’s “Floydfest” HERE.
13. Hey, what’s that sound? It’s the co-owners of Floydfest, Kris and John.
______Thirteen Thursday
August 1st, 2019 11:38 am
i miss big Easter bonnets
August 1st, 2019 12:19 pm
Hello Colleen,
I am a former blogger and was looking up Naomi from Here in the Hills and came across you blog. I am wondering if you still hear from her. I miss her post and sometimes wonder how she is doing.
sandy at raguspug.blogspot
August 1st, 2019 1:06 pm
Hi Sandy, I think about Naomi regularly. We visited her in 2012. I know she had been ill but I assume she is still living, just not blogging. I got comments from here on occasion up until a few years ago. Here is the post about our visit. What a woman!http://looseleafnotes.com/2012/02/seeing-stars/
August 1st, 2019 5:14 pm
Glad you had a nice time. I’m afraid I no longer like red hats, regardless of what is on them. Sigh.
August 1st, 2019 10:46 pm
I like how you distinguish between envy and jealousy. Never thought of that way, now I can appreciate with envy and not think I’m horrible for being envious. 🙂
“blew the hippie dust out of their ears” —love that image.