Seems some high winds the night before blew my friend around a bit…and while not injured, my friend was hung up and nobody could get close enough to help.

Bonus…got to drive my bucket truck on the sidewalk too! It’s not every day I get to wrangle a 18,000 pound truck on the sidewalks through the center of the city square.  Weeeeee!

Left-handed Fargle-snorkers DO occasionally come in handy.

The right tools make the job ever SO much easier…

Note the official VRCC Inzane shirt…(expecting my residual checks from VRCC staff any day now )

Some wiring for holiday lights had come loose, and the Flag had wrapped pretty good in the ends of it, and then somehow managed to flip the entire set up and snag on a guy wire. Must have been some serious winds. It was VERY stuck. The city couldn’t lower the flag and nobody (not even the fire department) had a tall enough ladder to safely reach it.

Another bonus…all you electrician types know…treat all electrical wiring as live. Fortunately my card says, “Author, Adventurer, Electrician”.

You can see here just how wrapped it was…

Annnd…we’re Free!

Took longer to untangle it than it did to set up the truck, but in the end, no harm done. Nobody died, and “…the Flag was still there.”

The snag on the guy was a single puncture in a folded edge seam so there is no damage…the weave closed right back up. I tied the errant electrical wiring back up out of the way. I even managed not to smush anything with the bucket truck! Plants, planters, poles, statues, cars, trucks, and Chamber of Commerce presidents all survived!

CUAgain,
Daniel Meyer

Lots of food, great music, and pretty good weather made for a fun day. Lots of high-caliber artists with quality wares made for a “target-rich” environment for the discerning collecter.

I sold some books, made some friends, and generally mucked about having a good time.

Krashdragon came all the way out from Cleburne to pick up a book! THANKS for coming out! It was great to meet ya!

I expect to see the rest of ya’ll for next years festival!

CUAgain,
Daniel Meyer

This year the 2010 Clarksville Fine Arts Festival will be Saturday, May 22, 2010, from 9:AM to 4:PM on the historic square in Clarksville, Texas.

This year’s festival is shaping up to be a great one. There will even be glass blowing demonstrations!

I’ll be there signing books and will also have original art and some prints.

Art. Music. Food. Fun. What else could you need? Come on by and see me!

CUAgain,
Daniel Meyer

Y’all familiar with Pilgrim’s Pride Chicken? Big producers in east Texas and west Arkansas and Louisana. Lots of chicken farms…between these guys and Tyson there aren’t many independents left…but that’s another story. Pilgrim’s Pride runs very odd commercials featuring Bo Pilgrim…the owner or such…in a Pilgrim’s hat and touting his chicken over his competetors “Fat yellow chicken”.

He’s also known for unusual and perhaps illegal influence peddling, and outright bribery of state legislators. Apparently, he takes himself quite seriously.

So, Bo, my man…are you hopelessly conceited or what? I mean really, where does one go to get a massive 30-foot fiberglass likeness of yourself made anyway?

I’m ashamed to admit this monstrosity is outside a processing plant here in the great state of Texas on 271 near Pittsburg…

I mean…really…what in the world are they thinking?

Corporate icon or overbearing nutcase. You decide.

CUAgain,
Daniel Meyer

There’s food, music, and art!

It’s going to be a gorgeous day for a ride!

CUAgain,
Daniel Meyer

From this article.

A man of action!

CUAgain,
Daniel Meyer

I love this concept.

Thanks to Jim Murtagh for the pics!

Hmmm….
Plasma Cutter———check
Welder—————-check
Cut off saw———–check
Steel, muscle, blood—check

I’m thinkin’ I’ve just gotta build something like that. Now, if I can just figure out where I need a massive gate…

CUAgain,
Daniel Meyer

I must be a masochist…

I look at that and say, “Yeah, I’d like to do that…”

So little time…such a big world…

CUAgain,
Daniel Meyer

(and don’t worry about the cat…Casper, the 22-pound Maine Coon can give as good as he gets and loves to play)

CUAgain,
Daniel Meyer