Rain Rain Go Away

A boy get's his photo with Buttecup and Olivia
Folks coming in for the Oak Ridge Boys

Our stage area.

Friends of ours from last year...Elvin, Maryjo, Gil's wife, Gil and Jim

The main stage during the mid day rain...more to come...a lot more and more and more.

According to NASA and other agencies solar activity is at it's lowest level since 1938. Likewise, the average temperature of the earth hasn't changed (up or down) since 1998 except last year when temps actually dropped. But politicians and nuts push on about man made global warming....then there is the rain, the cool rain, all across the US. The liquid sunshine rained down on the fair goers and kept potential fair goers away. None the less, we did three shows and all three had great audiences and in spite of the weather they were good sized crowds.

We REALLY click with the New York audiences.

We cut the Michael Jackson jokes since his death is now a manslaughter investigation. Sympathy has grown for him more and more so we thought it best not to pick on him.

The Oak Ridge Boys were the headline today and in spite of the rain a lot of people showed up in the heavy rain. Their show started at 8pm and we were all done by 7. But just as we were about to leave at 7:30pm the rain came down in buckets....15 minutes later we capitulated and needed out to the car in the deluge. We were drenched to the skin by the time we loaded into the van. The boys had an extra stop when the snack box tote fell off the cooler-on-wheels and spilled out a bunch of stuff. So in the pouring rain they repacked it.

We ran into many of the folks we met last year and have met a few new folks as well.

I just got back in from a food run for tomorrow. Amazingly, the clerk was really nice and as I was returning the cart an employee happily took it up for me with a cheerful salutation. Up to now, most New Yorkers here have been aloof or un-friendly (not mean...just not friendly). I lea end that New Paltz is more and more becoming a bedroom city for the Big City due to the outlandish cost of living there.