Skating around at the gourd show in a costume is a great way to meet people. Here I am trying to pick up a new gourdfriend. Good thing Vidya wasn’t watching.
Actually she is a dummy used by the lady in the booth next to us. Her head is made from a gourd and her hair is made of sweet grass braids. Those are hairclips made from gourds on her braids.
We just got back and are catching up so I will post more about Gosh’s Big Trip To Chicago later.
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Driving up to the temple after returning home I noticed that most of the forsythias are still not blossomed out. While I have mine on a south slope to encourage early blooming, part of it may be varietal. I don’t know what variety mine are as they are divisions from one that was planted by the house where we put in the greenhouse so we had to move it.
April 7, 2008 at 10:45 pm
looks like you are holding a gourd weapon and wearing gourd armor.
April 8, 2008 at 6:42 am
It’s a large rattle. I used to have like shekare beads on the outside to avoid that appearance, but they fell off and I didn’t get it repaired before the show.
I had it that way for that very reason, so spectators weren’t intimidated at all.