Rock Festivals, Crochet, Flowers & More :-)

OK, right off I'll tell you that this post is a jumble of different things, but welcome to my life, this is how I think.. LOL

I was reading Nicole and the Bee's blog and read about the Glastonbury Festival which I'd never heard of and it reminded me of my youth when I helped put on 2 rock festivals in the summer of 1969.  So then I decided to Google and see what I could find on the internet about them, and *COOL*, I found some history about them.  This is the first one, the Seattle Pop Festival, the poster is below.  It's kind of a long story of how I got involved in working to put the festival on, but.. when I was right out of high school and working as a cashier at Rub a Dub Car Wash.. oh funny.. my friend Lynn says, let's go to Hawaii.  OK, so I took my paycheck and bought a 1 way student standby ticket and off we went.  My first apartment was 2 blocks from Waikiki Beach and 3 of us rented it for $80 a month.  Yes.  In 1967.  One of the jobs I had over my time there was helping to put on a music festival.. I did a magazine ad and decorated my friends VW bus with advertising, cut out of flower designed contact shelf paper.  :-) 

And I worked on that festival with a girl named Geri Aquino, and so when I was back in Portland, OR, she was in Seattle and was helping her boss organize the Seattle Pop Festival so my friend Lynn found out she was working on that and offered to help, so we were hired!  I did more advertising for that festival in the pre-festival time and then helped work in the office on-site at the festival during the fest. I got to meet all the musicians and was able to get on-stage when I was off-duty and sit on the side and watch the show.  I gotta say, that's the BEST place to be to watch a rock festival. :-)

After the festival was over, my friend thought we should hitchhike to San Francisco to see what Haight-Ashbury looked like, so we did.  Sheesh!!  We stayed there for a bit then hitch-hiked back to Portland.  We had a great time and met only great people and it was quite an experience!!  

Then we heard from Geri that she was working on a 2nd rock festival and did we want to help and so we headed back to Seattle to help with the Sky River Rock Festival.  I think we even got paid. LOL  Here was the line up on that one... Sky River Rock Festival, the second, held on August 30, 1969 in Tenino, south of Olympia. 

Performing at the festival were Black Snake, Country Joe and the Fish, Crow, Flying Burrito Brothers, Buddy Guy, Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks, Juggernaut, Los Flamencos de Santa Lucia, Steve Miller, New Lost City Ramblers, Pacific Gas and Electric, Sons of Champlin, Alice Stuart, Youngbloods, and many others (that hubby thought I should delete :-).

I must say, I have some amazing memories of that time.

Above is a shot of our Mock Orange flowers in bloom now on the end of our shed.

I have 2 clematis in pots that need to be planted.. hubby bought me some trellises and promised to paint them white for me today.  :-)

Our 3 chickens are doing wonderfully laying eggs for us.  Left is the Americauna named Betsy Ross who lays mint green eggs, middle is the Rhode Island Red named Bella who lays brown eggs, and the right is our Buff Orpington named "Rose Gold" who lays rosy pink brown eggs. :-)

I had looked and looked for a pot I had that had a nice plant of Shooting Star and couldn't find it, but our daughter-in-law found it when weeding and it was not happy as it needs to be moist, so hubby set it down in the pond and it's growing nicely now, here is the first flower to open on it.

Hubby has spent 2 days driving his tractor around our 5 acre farm finding things that need to be burned, and even cut down 4 Hawthorn trees that were proving hard to see around when pulling out of our driveway.  Here is his bonfire.  Good boy. What a good boy.  :-)

I'm loving my red and white Fuchsia!

Here is a project I want to work on.  Our shed.  It currently holds a lot of things that need to be sold at a garage sale.. then I want to paint and decorate it as a garden shed.  I used to have cute tied back curtains in here and want them there again!  And hang bunting/banners/flags.  Just like Helen Phillips adorable garden shed.  You must go visit her blog, I'm in love with her style, it's so light and pastel and she's a brilliant artist and author.  Tell her I sent you.  She's very sweet too!

One of my new Fuchsias.. I didn't realize there was a spider on the tip of the pistil until I put this here!

Now..... I will expose one of my deepest darkest secrets.  I love the soap opera The Young and the Restless.  I've watched it since the very first day when Snapper Foster was played by David Hasselhoff.  And for the last 2 days Victoria Newman Abbott has been wearing the most amazing and beautiful hand crocheted lace dress.. here is a bad photo of it.  And below is a bad photo of the back.  I love it!!

And then.... if this isn't the most crazy and mixed up post.. but I made yesterday a 2nd crocheted cover for a vintage wooden clothes hanger.  I got the idea from another favorite blogger, Tif at Dottie Angel. If you want the pattern, tell me in a comment and I'll send it to you.  I had to alter her pattern just on how many chains to make.   I had to do 79 to get 13 shells.  She recommended 65.

I have to say, that these hangers hold on clothing that likes to slip off regular hangers, such as summer cotton tie die t-shirts which I now have 5 different colors of.  :-)

Another shot of my crochet banner/bunting/flags/pennants.. for those of you who want to see that I'm crocheting. :-)

And last but certainly NOT least... I wanted to show you my Lucy bag... inspired by the very first blog I read and immediately became obsessed with.. Lucy at Attic24.  She has done lots of wonderful, colorful tutorials and patterns for her lovely things.  Please check her out if you're one of the last people on the planet who hasn't found her and fallen in love with her. :-)

OK.. if you're still reading, you get an A+.  Hugs and stuff.. I need to pack my swim bag and go swimming!!  ((hugs)), Teresa :-)