My sources tell me that Eve6 has definitely reunited! (Minus the lead guitarist, Jon… it seems they have a temporary replacement.) Anyway, they performed last weekend at a college in Virginia (bummer! roadtrip opportunity missed..), and there’s a bunch of YouTube videos with the evidence. They even played a track that they’ve never performed live…. “Anytime” from the Out Cold soundtrack, one of my favorites. Their wheels have been turning out some new songs. I hope an album is coming!
If you understand how utterly bummed that I was when they broke up, you can equally understand how thrilling it is that they’re possibly getting back together for good.
Oak has been singing that little ditty from the Charlotte’s Web movie (animated version please! We didn’t make it through the live-action version that came out
recently) for weeks and weeks before we went to the fair.
We did our best to pay tribute to Templeton Rat’s ode to the fair. First of all, the News 14 people had been hyping up the deep-fried fad of this year – the peanut butter and jelly sandwich. It was quite torturous lying there half asleep in the morning, hearing about this delectable treat while eating a bowl of cold Cheerios. So, when I saw it, I made a beeline and got that sucker. The only thing I could hope for in it is some better quality jelly. Better yet, some jam or preserves. But yeah, it was pretty tasty. We also got some nutter butter cookies from the same tent. Also delicious. Basically, if it’s sweet, it’s good deep fried. (Heck.. name something that isn’t good deep fried. I challenge you.)
We wandered around a bit and checked out the exhibits – the garden exhibit, and of course the home making exhibits. We got our requisite jumbo garlic pretzel. Oak was very excited to get a hot and spicy pickle. We saw the racin’ pigs. We even played a few of the cheapo games – Bingo and “I got it”. I actually WON a game of bingo (Holy moly!) and I got a lovely casserole dish. Can we say they should shop somewhere other than Dollar General for the prizes? LOL. Anyway, we called that win as the end of Bingo for the evening and headed to the “I got it” tent after a bit of wandering. We were having a lovely time throwing the balls into the bins in hopes of getting a line of balls, when unfortunately the husband got yelled at because he kept apparently purposely missing the bin and getting the balls on the ground! The carnie was not very happy with us. (Sound familiar, mom?)
Before we left, Daniela and Belinda got chocolate-covered bananas and we had a little bit too much fun posing with wooden cut-outs of characters on PBS. See the evidence for yourself.
I proposed to the crew that we go to V’s teas and treasures for the “Murder mystery night.” (Oak and I have been obsessed ever since the murder mystery night we did on our cruise in January.) We had no idea what to expect. V’s is definitely a place for “Ladies who lunch” and enjoy collecting $500 chairs that you can’t sit on. We got there early, so the girls and I had a look around the shop while the boys ran off for a beer across the street.
It just happened to be on the one night of the entire month where it actually got below 70 degrees. And, of course, the performance was outside on the porch of the store/tea house. We watched an interesting murder mystery performance of Red Rum. The actors and dialogue ran from serious to funny to just plain silly. The murderer was also someone you completely would not expect.
The pastries from Swank Cake design and the tea were excellent, however, and overall made the evening worthwhile (at least to me!). Not to mention the fact that I won a door prize!!! It’s a cute little teapot candle.
