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NO office appointments till September 9th 2024.

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AUGUST SHOWS: August 1st to 4th 2024: BVJ [Big Valley Jamboree] Camrose, Alberta. Thursday August 1st Noon to 7.30 pm Friday/Saturday and Sunday [2nd/3rd and 4th August] 10am to 7.30 pm.

 

August 9th, 2024:Tofield Promenade, Main Street, Tofield Alberta. 5pm to 9pm. Complimentary Five-minute reads. [please do not drive all the way out there just for a free read. These are five-minute reads as it is a corporate event for me]

 

August 15th to 25th 2024: The Edmonton Fringe. South Side Edmonton on 83rd Avenue. Thursday [15th] 6pm to 11pm and the other 10 days 11am to 11pm. 

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NOW ONTO CHAT 😊

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SO!! Here we sit on July 2nd the day after The Works Festival ended and I thought, damn better get chat started as there is no way I will feel like writing a ton after K-Days and my newsletter has to go out on time 😊

 

Couple of Netflix films to mention before I start. The Proposal was enjoyed on the 24th with Sandra Bullock. Then I wrapped up the jail experiment Unlocked. It was OK I suppose. Lastly, I watched Land of Bad. Totally enjoyed it and recommend it. 😊

 

Then headed down to The Works and set up the supplied tent. Now I HATE tents that are side by side, but it is what it was. However, I wish I had known I could have set up my own tent PLUS choose what days I wanted to be there on. A henna lady set up over 3 of the five days. Man was she busy, UNLIKE me who is used to very busy shows. So, day one Thursday [25th] it poured with rain ALL day. Not many folks came out. I understand this. If I was planning to go to a festival outdoors and the next day was supposed to be sunny, I would also wait. However, in the history of twenty years of doing shows I have never ever just had one read!!!! And so, I sat all day reading my Vince Flynn book that has a series of a character called Mitt Rapp. LOVE these series. Day two, sunny and fabulous and slow as well. Day three it took till the end of the day till I had covered my expenses!!! Now I expect to always cover my expenses on day one LOL!! It was not to be. Then I had the last two days where it was OK but not the profit I expect for a five-day show. Sadly, I doubt I will attend next year BUT!! It is going back to the 13 days so I will see. I would love to find an honest reliable psychic to work some days with. But hopefully by next year a person I know will be ready to help me. My PERFECT buddy who worked with me for quite a few years now does weddings so I can rarely get her for festivals, sniff sniff LOL.

 

Basically, I think when you tell vendors that you advise them to tear down and take all their stuff home every night and then be there early to be able to drive onto the site it prevents them from attending. We only had five vendors and guess what? I left all my stuff in my tent except for what I always take [ recorder etc.] and NOTHING was touched. My tent was not even looked into.

And that started my month. Today I sit with three days off. Well kind of LOL. I have already prepared another six meals and done laundry, sent out my newsletter to the new emails from The Works and the MP3 files when people paid for the. I have fed China, and she sits very happily beside me knowing I am home today 😊

 

Tomorrow, I have to mow the lawn, go for groceries and make more bread and a few more meals and 10 days worth of green juice. 😊

 

Thursday I am setting up my own tent for the Street Performers Festival also at Sir Winston Churchill Square, so I do hope attendance is better and tents are respected. Last year apparently every tent was slashed and robbed. I see it this way though, The Works was in its 39th year and the Street Performers Fest roughly the same. One bad year does not constitute a continuance of that behaviour. BUT!! Running into vendors who have done this festival for years say they are not going back based upon last year. What a shame. One even told me she tore down after two days last year. Now we have new people rather than the ogre who ran the vendors before, so maybe it was the energy she brought to the festival LOL. I will let you know as I leave off here and will take up more chat on the 16th where I get somewhat of four days off LOL 😊  

 

AND!! The Street Performers Festival is over, and I am on my four days off and then to set up for K-Days. Will I do this festival again? NO!! I used to do The Works and Street Performers Festival all the time but man oh man has it changed since they allowed the person who took over for the vendors to work there. Luckily, she is gone now as vendors just hate working with her. BUT!! Obviously, vendors for this show have petered out. There were only four of us. I will return next year to my out-of-town show that gives me the same profit in FOUR days as the FIFTEEN I worked in both of these shows on Sir Winston Churchill Square. VERY slow and I read four books LOL!! I see now why it is called the sketchy part of town. Man has it changed down there. A lot of my business cards and pamphlets were taken so hopefully I get some office business as I open up to full package reads in September. BUT!! 😊 as I always say, do the show and then you will not sit and wonder if you should 😊 I normally give shows a second chance, but I know this one is not for me. People were great that took care of us, especially Ryan. I do have to give him a plug here for his relaxed ways and awesome caring. I also have to give Marcie a HUGE thanks for offering her husband to me to tear down my tent. He would not even take payment 😊

 

AND!! Just a quick mention that the Calgary Stampede had finally accepted me this year, but I had already paid for these two shows so next year, if I am again accepted, I will have to think carefully about this 😊 BUT!! Next year is a long way off and the ‘now’ is the time to focus.

 

So, for this fours days off I have to make more green juice, go and get groceries again as the fruit is all gone, also pick up MORE bird seed, weed the garden as it looks like a jungle out there, mow the lawn, do laundry, vacuum, change the bed sheets, and bake more bread.  Then set up K Days. Talking about my garden, man oh man everything is growing, and I can see I will get some great veggies later. Even my kale grew finally, so today I will pick it all and make kale chips in my dehydrator 😊 YUM!!

 

That wraps this insert up and once K Days is over [28th] I will spend the 29th completing my Chat and upload 😊  

AND 😊 K-Days is over with a GREAT show under my belt but I do wish they would go back to the 11pm closing time. I turn away so many clients at 10 pm. Weather was up and down, but first I was inside and was not affected by it and as Albertans are used to the crazy weather we have every day we still had great turn outs BUT!! The last weekend? Holy moly I think on the Saturday all of Edmonton was there and on Sunday the whole of Alberta LOL. I finished at 10 pm Sunday [July 28] and was not at all tired funnily enough. A vendor friend of mine and I went out onto the midway and I did my once-a-year fried whole onion dish. Shared it with her as my body freaks when I eat fried. It says ‘what are you doing’ LOL. Yup, the more whole foods you eat the more your body says, ‘that is all I want please’. 😊 Anyway, we walked around in MASSIVE crowds and every ride had huge line ups and every food vendor had long, long, long lines up. Yes, I used my vendor badge to jump the line for food. The food vendors are very accommodating to people who work the shows 😊 Then we watched the fireworks and walked back to our vehicles.

 

Yesterday [Monday 29th] I drove down and picked up my booth contents. Did groceries and picked up my pamphlets from my printer. Then I RESTED all day. Read some more of my Vince Flynn book, enjoyed chilling on the patio with China, watched some TV that had been recorded over the last 10 days and did one dishwasher load of dishes.

 

Today I am finishing up this newsletter, uploading it, setting it to go out tomorrow, filing my GST quarterly tax return, laundry, making bread, changing the bed sheets and then tomorrow as many read my newsletter I will be driving out to Camrose [Alberta] to set up my four day show that starts on Thursday. Coming back, mowing the lawn and whatever else needs to be done.

 

THEN 😊 after this four day show other than a corporate event I have a GLORIOUS 10 days off.

 

Lastly as I always mention groceries were bought with 4 visits!!  I buy in between shows. I eat a lot of fruit at my shows as any type of heavy food makes me tired. So without further ado I bought mandarins [3 bags] avocados [2 bags] baby carrots, nutritional yeast, Brussel sprouts, celery [LOTS] cherries [ 2 bags] dried cranberries, eco-max laundry detergent, green apples [ LOTS] tomatoes [whole and mini] melon, strawberries, cauliflower [4] red cabbage, rutabaga, cashew milk, vanilla oat milk, [ I make banana milk shakes with these] cucumbers [LOTS] Silk creamer for my one cup of coffee per day [5] turnip, smart bacon, veg ham slices, sliced vegan cheese, baby potatoes, red grapes [LOTS] bananas [10] vegan mayo, lemons [LOTS], apricot jam, onions, coconut milk [2] vegan salmon and a vegan tuna. I use the vegan fish in my potato salad. Very yummy 😊 I also ran out of my home-made butter so bought some plant-based stuff that was actually very good and some pita bread. I bring fruit and one sandwich to the show. I tried bringing my meals but cold curry and many other home-made meals in my freezer do not taste good unless warmed up. I have to purchase one of those things at Canadian Tire that keep meals hot while I have my 10 days off. 😊 And that list of food came to $537.46. Yup quite high this month as I make sure I do not have to shop while working and stock up nicely.

 

My garden is growing well with fresh peas, tons of rhubarb, some more kale [😊] and clearly I will be getting apples as the tree has tons all nicely waiting to turn color. More on that next month as I am sure I am boring a few of you by now LOL.  

 

And as I wrap up the Chat I wish you all a fantastic August. I cannot believe how it is flying by. I plan to write a wee bit about remarks I get at shows and of course the bible thumpers that feel the need to come and preach from their cult hypnosis teachings to me. I got hit with them more than usual this summer at my festivals. Luckily I always say to anyone “I do not take questions; all answers are in my pamphlets” and that makes them reveal themselves. As I said more on that next month LOL. 

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Positive Thoughts To All till next month 😊