2009 Arts Fest

We finished working at the Arts Festival a couple of days ago. It's very difficult, if not impossible, to catch up on all the sleep we lost. Three days later and I'm still exhausted. Regardless of the sleep deprivation, it was once again a terrific event. Over the 10 days of setup, Summer Solstice concert, and several days of rain we still managed to have a great time catching up with old friends and constantly laughing.

We also got to practice our emergency procedure during that horrific storm on Friday evening.

Red Butte Garden - David Byrne

The sun finally (sort of) cooperated. It was a little chilly and windy, but it was all worth it. David Byrne and crew did an amazing performance. It was 2 hours of old and new music, perfectly choreographed, followed by 4 encores. I wish I had some better pictures to share.

Summer Solstice Concert

Last night was the concert. We had to do setup for the conert yesterday afternoon. Guess what? It rained!!!! I'm not talking a little summer shower. I'm talking RAIN. It was cold, wet, rainy but we still managed to have a lot of laughs. The rain finally stopped and the concert went on.

Aimee and Shane did their rendition of "The Sound of Music"

Darin, Anika and I trying to keep warm.

Rich, just being Rich.

Tonight we go to the David Byrne concert at Red Butte....is a little sunshine too much to ask for?

The Lazy (Crazy) Days of Summer

Today is the official start of summer...The Summer Solstice. We've started helping with Arts Fest setup - the craziness is taking off. Tonight is the Summer Solstice Concert with Conor Oberst and The Mystic Valley Band.

The Art Fest Staff has a new Development Director - Aimee. I think she is going to fit in just fine:


The weather is looking a little unsettled. Of course it is. We've had so much rain this month that it's beginning to feel like Seattle. Everybody needs to send out those positive vibes for good weather tonight.

Happy Summer!!

Moab

We spent Memorial Weekend camping in Moab. This is the first time camping in Moab that we have had such cool (and rainy) weather. This is also the first time that we didn't go into Arches. Who knew there was so many other great things to do.

Trying to set up camp and beat the rain storm just exhausted Rich...


On Saturday, we hiked to Fisher Towers....very dramatic. It was about a 4 hour hike and we finished about 15 minutes ahead of a major rain storm.


On Sunday (beautiful, sunny day), we hiked to Morning Glory Bridge. It was a great day for hiking...sunny, but only in the 70's...perfect weather (until it rained again in the evening.


On our way out of town, we took this very long, high, winding, narrow dirt road to Gemini Bridge.


Gemini Bridge...really cool natural stone bridge which can only be accessed via a very long dirt road.


Gemini Bridge - Rich always tries to freak me out by getting too close to the edge.




It's been a long time since we've experienced so much rain, thunder and lighting. There was even a flash flood in the creek just behind (and below) our campsite. It was a great weekend....even with all the rain.

Just When You Think You're Finished

This past weekend I finally finished "The Big Spring Cleanup" of all the beds in our yard. It always feels so good to look around the yard and see all the freshly cleaned out beds.



Now I'm able to see all the spots where I want to add a plant or two, maybe add a little more color, maybe find a good spot for the new tomato and pepper plants.

Then I decided to walk around to the front yard. The front is where I started the spring cleanup a couple of weeks ago. YIKES!!!!! Where did those weeds come from? Oh that's right, once you get all the weeds pulled, they pop right back up again. Hmmm....this is the part I don't like about gardening. Maybe I just need to get the weeds pulled again and get some plants in the ground.




HAPPY GARDENING!!

How Many More!!???

R: "How many more rooms do we need to skimcoat?









W: "But Honey, look at how smooth and pretty those walls look in our office!"


Priming, skimcoating, sanding, priming, painting.....a lot of work....but well worth the finished product!