User talk:Ed
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This is where you leave notes for Ed. Ahhhhhh...I wondered what all that mess was on the page--thought Johnny had taken the day off to work on Gumnickopedia!
This is a very helpful feature. See you soon.!
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i like my poll
yo-- Ed-- you can pass this on to Anne too.
I just figured I'd only write in one place....
Be very careful today. It's Friday the thirteenth. I am thinking I should keep my 3 black cats inside so nobody supersticious does something mean and rotten to them....
I have not been contributing much to the site in the last day or so because Rich and I are in the midst of a major home improvement project, the upstairs bathroom. It's currently just a big room with studs and rafters and half a floor (yesterday was tear-out day), but by the end of the weekend we hope to have at least a subfloor, the guts of the plumbing, and the electrical done, maybe even more than that. (I have a long weekend and so does Rich, so we are working our butts off to try to get some stuff done up there.) I am excited and can't wait to have our new master bath and closets up there. It's a long way away still, but I can see it..... I will probably post some pictures later on (right now my camera batteries are dead so I need to charge them) so you can see what we are doing.
Mom and Dad came over yesterday and ate beef stew with us and we showed Dad the upstairs. He was impressed with what we had done so far. We talked about the website and how Johnny is trying to make it into Johnnyland (in other words, take it over and make his own laws and stuff). :-) I am glad he is enjoying it! But I am also glad you are able to place a few restrictions on it, otherwise I think all our pages might end up covered in j's and polls. ;-) Dad has been checking out the site on his computer at work, but Mom only really gets to see stuff from printouts of things he brings home. They are enjoying it though, and I think they really like the fact that it is providing an opportunity for us kids to "get together" in a way. I like that too!
Well, I am off to the dump to dispose of old drywall and insulation. The fun part of the job. Talk to you later on.
It sounds as if you need to be more careful today this we do! Have a very productive weekend—we’ll definitely want to see some pictures.
I was saying to Anne just the other day, “What I’m enjoying most about Gumnickopedia is that this is the most communication I’ve had with Beth in…forever!” (I guess this is the most we’ve been in touch since the last time we lived in the same city, don’tcha think?) It’s a convenient way to keep up an ongoing conversation, and better than e-mail in that it’s less linear and presents far more opportunities for freeform silliness. (And when we want to share some of our silliness with everyone else, we just turn it into a new feature!)
:-* 
Help
Ed, my pets are all messed up. I don't know what happened and I can't seem to fix it. Help! 
It looks fine to me…hmmmmm. I guess you can tell me what the problem is tomorrow.
pretty quiet around here....
Everybody must be working for a change. Me too. The next few weeks are going to be very busy because of school plays and festivals and other stuff. I am participating in the Cleveland Apple Festival this coming weekend and am painting like a maniac to get ready. I also have festivals the following two Saturdays (SOMEBODY has to pay for this crazy bathroom remodel!!). I hope I sell some stuff!
The remodel is going well, but slow. We have half the subfloor down, and tonight I think we will put the rest of it down. We had a slow start on Sunday because we both woke up feeling half-dead, so we didn't accomplish as much as we wanted to. Plus everything takes longer than you think it will. I predict we will be spending a lot of evenings up there over the next couple months! I am hoping (and crossing my fingers) that we will be able to finish the project by the end of the calendar year. That's the plan anyway. It sort of depends on what else comes up. No pictures for you yet because I still need to charge my batteries! But soon.
Anyway, that is the news here today.... I hope all is well in the Southern branch of Gumnick International.... Talk to you soon....
I am still alive, I swear.
Anne and Ed--
Sorry I have been out of pocket. I am in the midst of what is probably the busiest time of year for me. I am in the last two weeks of one school play (the one I do lighting, sound, and props for) and the first two weeks of another (the one I direct). I am not sure how that works, being in two places at once, but the school seems to think it's possible, so who am I to say it's not? Anyway, it makes things insane right now, and every moment during my workday that is not in the classroom is now involved in finishing up stuff for the one play and starting up stuff for the other.
I am also in "festival season" with my art, meaning I am doing art festivals three weekends in a row, and preparing and painting like crazy when I am home. This is my first venture into festivals, and it has been up and down. I did great at the one at the end of September, sold about 6 pieces, but the one last weekend was another story. The Cleveland Apple Festival (Or as I have nicknamed it, the Crapple Festival. That'll teach me to sign on for a festival I have not researched better.)-- At the two day festival I sold.... Are you sitting down?? I sold ONE MAGNET. ONE $5 magnet. That is IT. Spent the whole friggin weekend in Cleveland, TN, paid $60 for my booth and that is all I sold. Bunch of cheap rednecks who don't know art from arse. It taught me a lesson though, not to do anything other than ART festivals. No more county fair type deals where the people are there for hayrides and deep fried oreos. I need events where people come to see/buy art. I was a bit of a black sheep at this festival. I thought there would be more artists, but it was all country craft type stuff, or as Rich and I like to say, Country Crap.
If you are not sure what I am talking about when I say Country Crap-- one lady was selling (I am not making this up) teddy bears dipped in wax. Jane and I first thought maybe they were supposed to be a creative way to start fires (that's probably what we would use them for). But no. My friend Kathy actually asked the lady why one would want to dip a teddy bear in wax. The lady responded (obviously offended and surprised at the question), "They're scented." And we all were thinking, yeah, but after the scent fades, then all you have is a nappy-looking highly flammable toy that you can't really play with. Not to mention how hard it is to dust things that are made of wax. Have you ever tried to dust candles?
I mean, how could I have competed within a market where the customer buys THAT product??
Fortunately, the festival I am doing THIS weekend is actually an Art festival, and it has a decent reputation around here, so I hope I'll sell SOMETHING at it. If I don't, I may just pack it in and forget the festival idea and let the gallery sell my stuff. I don't know. I do know I will be going out of the festival business after this weekend until at least the Spring. (Hey! Are there any art festivals in Houston? Maybe we could road trip next spring and visit and do that too!)
Anyway, as I said, I am kind of swamped right now. Things will ease up some after next week. I can't wait. Until then, my presence on Gumnick.com will be spotty at best. But after that I will be back in business. Just in time for my birthday. :-)
I’m in stitches, as usual
It’s wonderful to hear from you! No need to apologize for having a life.
The wax-dipped teddy bears are the funniest thing I’ve heard in a long time. I would think that Boy Scouts would be a good market. You put the teddy bear in the bottom of your backpack. He’s there in case you need someone (sticky and crumbly) to cuddle through a scary night in the wilderness, and he’s also a sure-fire (!) way to get a campfire burning good and strong.
There are some pretty good art festivals in Houston, most notably the Bayou City Art Festival, which apparently was a couple of weekends ago.
By the way, are you familiar with MesArt?
While looking for some information on Houston art festivals, I came across this very cool site that I’ll need to check out in the ever-elusive “when I have some free time” zone: Artshound.
