Rain again last night! :) With what we got last night, we've had an inch this week - very welcome after not having any measurable rainfall since the first part of June. I think it came in time to save the corn...would suck if we ended up with almost no sweet corn from the 30 rows my brother planted. (Over an acre!!)

Total cash through Gate 7A for the first three days of Rock Fest is over $100K. Boggles my mind. (Could be more, but we don't have a credit-card reader or a check scanner to do instant debits - those have to go through gate 3 or 8.)

File under "Duh!"...

Two guys drove up to the gate area, where the security bunch checks out all the vehicles (no fireworks, firearms, etc.) with a baggie of marijuana in their car...sitting in plain view on the dashboard. No clue what they thought they were doing, or if they expected to get away with it. Within 30 seconds, the county cops were there, talking to them.

Part two...

Not more than 15 minutes after the drug bust, the cops were called to break up a domestic abuse situation. Some chick was beating the living bejeepers out of her boyfriend, and not being even remotely quiet about it.

Part three...

Yet more weed... A big pick-up truck gets up to the checkpoint, stops, and then does a really high-speed u-turn and peels out of the gate area. Security was doing random searches of vehicles (as opposed to the quick visual inspection while making sure all the people in the car/truck had armbands), and that was one of the ones chosen... They refused to cooperate, but one of the security troop saw a couple of large bags of marijuana in the back of the truck. They got away - but the county cops did get their license plate number.

Final installment...

Yet another car with at least one ziploc bag of weed tried to go through the security area. They earned themselves a 6-person security escort to a waiting area while the police were summoned.

First night of concerts at RockFest. Over $32K through my gate. Crazy. That's more than I made in a year of teaching!

Next interview: Monday, in Bismarck, ND. Can't remember exactly what the job is, other than orchestra...middle school? high school? elementary? No clue. Oh, well - no matter what age level it is, it has to be a better option than Nowheresville, Utah.

Lots more beans cut and readied for the freezer today... I think we ended up with 43 quarts.

Raked hay that was cut yesterday - it was already dry enough to bale. Nothing like really dry weather. Anyone want to send rain this direction?

Found a non-teaching job that would definitely be interesting - Community Education & Outreach Manager for the Columbus Symphony Orchestra. Will have to check it out, and apply - after all, the worst they can do is say "no". (Well, and laugh...but unles they call me up just to laugh at me, I won't know about that part...)

Mmmm....tough to beat a raspberry malt made with just-picked raspberries...

It's good to be back in the Midwest. Southwest Utah/northwest Arizona/southern Nevada are gorgeous, but I definitely missed the green up here. As dry as we have been, that area makes us look like a swamp. (Earlier in the week, Orderville had about .1" of rain...first rain since March!) :O

Sorry, kiddle...I won't be moving to Vegas any time soon. Interesting area to visit, but I don't wanna live there.