A preteen girl seemed to be enjoying Glover Park’s Fountain as if a seal or an otter might. She looked perfectly natural splashing around in the water by herself. That was her mother sitting close by on the bench.
Yesterday we went to an arts and crafts festival in downtown Marietta. We got there a little late and some of the booths were getting ready to close up.
We did some arts and crafts Mother’s Day shopping and had a bbq sandwich at either the Civitan booth, Jaycee’s booth, Lion’s Club?.... whichever, it was very good because it was practically free. The people who ran the booth wanted to close down before the storm moved in and they said take what you want for free or leave a donation if you wanted – just hurry! We each had a huge bbq sandwich and Willow had a hot dog…. All for a $5 donation.
While we were sitting on the block looking thing about three feet high in front of the Strand from down Cherokee Street walked the strange little fellow I have seen at previous arts and crafts festivals downtown. All but one time he had a different puppet with him – the kind of puppet that make body movements by sticks and strings that the puppeteer is controlling…. He seems to disparately seek the attention of small children.
Before I watched parents frown at him and hustle their young children away from him before they reached out and touched his puppet.
The one time he didn’t have a puppet he was with a girl. He had a date with a girl taller than he was. He seemed very nervous and uptight as the girl yakked and yakked. I wonder if she is still around.
On October 21, 2007 I wrote a post about him on this blog named The Puppeteer. Either search on this blog for The Puppeteer or click here.
Today he had on black clothes and his puppet was a black dragon with a red stripe running down it side. The dragon looked very sinister, so did he. He also looked focused; he rushed by us with a look of a target on his mind.
I don’t know if had a black cape or cloak on like maybe Mr. Hyde would, but if not, he should have.
Sounds like it had been a neat festival before the storms moved in. Saw the warnings on the TV news and thought about you all.
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ReplyDeleteSpeaking of weather, having bids on a new roof I learned that this area is number #2 in big hail. We are second only to an area in either Oklahoma or Arkansas, the roofing salesman wasn't sure which.