OK--some internet connection problems, some way busy at work (so I didn' want to even look at a computer in the evening) and some just plain ennui--it's been three weeks since the last post. So shoot me.
About the only big event of the last month has been the Jax Con on Feb. 4--an annual convention of scale model builders. Bob usuallly goes with his model making buddies. This year, he and some friends decided that it might be an interesting idea to rent a sales table and perhaps downsize the various collections by sellling them off. Of course, this created the problem of how to man a sales table while simultaneously wandering around looking at all the other sales tables and also admiring all the other models.
I found myself volunteering to go along to man the sales table. Perhaps I was being haunted by the vision of Bob carrying his backpack through the Sheep and Wool Festival last May.
But it wasn't that busy--and a girlfriend of one of the other guys was learning to knit, so we had a small knitting circle and I got pink scarf made. It was originally supposed to be a gray beret--but after the yarn was spun it turned out to be more of a dirty off-white than gray, and the only dye I had mixed up was some used cochineal so the yarn came out a dusty rose, and I couldn't see myself in a pink hat so it's a ruffled scarf instead.
But I digree. This is about Jax Con. Bob entered 5 models--four came home with medals. My favorite one didn't even place. I think it's because it's a sort of "betwixt and between" model--it told a story (being rusted and abandoned) but didn't have figures and not quite a complex scenery to count as a diorama. But it's still my favorite.
So he got to shop, and sell, and get awards. I got a scarf. We both got barbecue. Not a bad day.
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