Well, first off, your bad-boy got flagged again (must be a career trait) by the anal fire department at Uppper arlington, that is NW of downtown Columbus,OH.
God forbid!
They tell us how we must set up our booths with anchors in zee ground. All stakes must be at precisely 45-degrees into the ground--perpetrators will be shot at dawn.
The Fire guy came along to me and yanked my tent-peg out of the soggy ground. I said, "I could put my 45-pound John Deere weight on it." He did not want that. Wind could make the weight dance around on the ground. I was flagged. I put a dog-thether on it.
An hour later the Committee came by and said, "the Fire Dept. Failed you." Oh no! I replied.
They checked my dog-ties and found them adequate. No flies on my stakes.
Geez! Don't these guys have better things to do, like putting out fires on over-zealous gas grilles that do wings too long.
This show used to be one of the best one-day shows in the midwest.
No longer.
Too much beads and non-descript jewelry. Not much original art there, let alone any of the many good regulars I used to see on the circuit.
They mostly bought little precious pieces of paper. Real low, real slow--sales-wise, not worth the eight hour drive to and from.
Don't do this show unless you live close enough not to have to stay at a hotel--it is a shadow of its former self.
And, that is me being nice about it.
Bureau
