Tales from the field #32

Tomorrow is Black Friday and I’m a retailer so I’ll be at a show in Palm Springs.  Today is Thanksgiving so I wanted to find something to be thankful for:

The flood got deeper as I continued the setup

This Thanksgiving I am thankful that:

• the rain I set up my tent in was merely heavy rain and not freezing
• that it wasn’t windy so I could put the walls up without having to put the weights on first
• that my booth is on a well drained grassy slope
• that my truck was ignored by Palm Springs finest, alongside the red curb and half in a flood, with the park anywhere lights on
• that my truck has a heater because I was soaked from my head to my hips and my feet to my thighs
• that my truck was able to navigate the floods along Ramon Road
• that there weren’t any crazy fast drivers who caused a crash on the freeway
• that I decided to go for this wet setup so I don’t have to get up at 4 am to set up tomorrow
• that I am writing this listening to the rain on my roof while a turkey cooks

Tales from the field #26

For various reasons I do a lot of trips to the east end of the Coachella Valley.  Shows in Indian Wells, Indio, La Quinta and the studio I work with in La Quinta.  I take Highway 86 north until just past county line and then turn off and go through the fields.  The route is a pleasant drive in the country through fields of various crops and citrus and palm groves.

The drive home is equally pleasant, but one highlight for me is the concept that from that area, directions to my house include the instruction ‘Turn right at the tinsel bicycle’.

It has gathered more tinsel over the years. I don’t know why it’s there. Art or memorial?  No clue.

Confused…

….maybe this is one of those gotchas.   If you drive at 50, you’ll get a ticket for driving too fast, but if you drive 45 you’ll get a ticket for driving too slowly.  In between…. how about driving while confused…

There are two sets of these westbound on Ramon Road in Cathedral City, and another eastbound.