Ahh yes, was it the Carpenters who sang that song? Rainy Days and Mondays? I hope you’re having a lovely Monday. Woodstock Early Bird, back from a trip to Maine, is enjoying the cool downpour and the return of her laptop. Also, planning and prepping psychologically for the preparation of a homemade blueberry pie crust…I’m going with the half butter, half CRISCO model. Chilled, of course. Sampling blueberries while I ” consider” the project. Nonetheless, a cool rainy day means you can get your oven going without fear of passing out.
For any other bloggers out there, you might be interested to know that WordPress is still working to optimize the blogging experience on the Ipad2. Yes, it’s true Early Bird did enjoy the wine sampling at the Taste of Woodstock and that MAY have caused some upload errors, but Bird was not helped by compatibility issues between a blogging template provider and whiz-bang Apple technology. No, I am NOT getting into THAT discussion. For now.
Speaking of ” Taste of Woodstock”, I did write a whole blog item on this a few days ago, but alas, it disappeared. So, now, a mention that it was a really nice effort and fun to meet and greet everyone on a lovely, warm-ish day. Particularly enjoyed hearing local band “The Current Flash” despite some technicals there.
A note on technicals: That’s generally why one should have a built-in half hour prep time for ANY technical operation anywhere — Bands, Powerpoints, Interactive teleconferences, Stage Shows, Business meetings. Anyone out there ever been delayed or had their time wasted by the always befuddled question: “Uh, well, looks like it’s not working!….Hold on a minute…Okay, maybe it’s this button?”
“Taste of Woodstock” Woodstock Early Bird hears some chirping that all is not well in the nest.
Woodstock downtown businesses who sell clothing and jewelry were not particularly appreciative of seeing vendors — brought in by their very own Woodstock Chamber of Commerce — selling their notably non-member wares at various booths. It does seem a reasonable point of view that i f it’s supposed to be a food-oriented TASTE event meant to bring people downtown so they might also buy clothing and jewelry from local stores during a sidewalk sale, then inviting or allowing outside salespeople seems to defeat the whole purpose. We hear that some otherwise hard-working organizers may soon be getting an earful. If nothing else, it is something to consider in the future.
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Julia Carlisle
Woodstock Early Bird 