Tuesday, September 13, 2011

This Little Piggy Went to Market...

Our nod to the local festivities Saturday morning included the short bicycle ride to the downtown area. We parked the bikes and walked through the display areas, visiting briefly with those artists and vendors whom we know.
BBBH, of course, could not pass the "antique" store without checking for treasures. I visited next door with the local barber who did my hair for a quarter-century before I married a hair dresser. The wife located me to advise me that she needed bucks, because she had found the thing she had to have, though she didn't know it until she found it.



BBBH collects Rockwell gewjawry and gimcracks, prints and statuettes. She wanted two that she had located, and of course she got what she wanted! From there, then, we went to the official festival Pork Tent where we had barbeque sandwiches. While they were very tasty, it seemed as though the lid had fallen off the pepper can during the preparation. At the top of the page are the tops of a couple of youngsters who were sitting at the next table. Nice hairdos. You should have seen their mother. Or not. Common as it is these days, I just have a hard time accepting that tatoos are attractive on women.

Here are the gizmos that we brought home with us, along with the mandatory elephant ear, which we mostly consumed along the way.

As I say, that was our nod to the festival. Farewell!

7 comments:

Vee said...

Like the Rockwell - don't like the hair (or lack thereof) - would like to be able to enjoy a good BBQ pork sandwich. In my opinion, many people in our country now don't look as cool as did the African people I used to see in National Geographic. At least their dung-slicked hair had some style.

Anonymous said...

Missed the pork festival and parades this year for the first time. Injured knee would not permit me to go. Hope to see a good parade on channel 19

Bob

Lin said...

Bummer about the BBQ. Well, and the mom. I'm with you--I still find tattoos unattractive--especially on women. I can't wait for that whole tattoo/piercing craze to be over.

vanilla said...

Vee, one wonders if some of the chemicals (called "product" by your friendly hairdresser) may be no better than the "chemicals" those people in Africa used.

Bob, sorry your string was broken. More sorry about that knee. Is it still black?

Lin, the bbq was edible, but a bit "hot." Yeah, one can only hope the craze for body mutilation will expire soon.

Sharkbytes (TM) said...

I didn't even know you could get statuettes based on Rockwell. We all seem to collect some silly thing,

Vee said...

Hope BBBH doesn't read the comment about hair product!

vanilla said...

Shark, what is it that impels us to collect non-utile items?

Vee, I''m okay so long as I apply the glop and keep my mouth shut.