2 SHOWS, NO FARMERS PLEASE

Yesterday Pat put on quite a show, finally presenting a seminar after agonizing and prepping it for weeks now. It was a standing-room-only Master Gardener event at a local hall. Topic was how to manage hot dry summers in your garden. Appreciative audience and many requests to repeat it to other groups. (Can I be a Roadie??)

So today we took a much-needed break, a drive through the countryside to the picturesque town of St. Jacobs. It's probably THE major Mennonite centre in Canada. The horse and buggies are everywhere, especially in the church yard on Sundays like today. But the town itself is a quaint walkabout with old mills converted to shops and grand mansions by the river. Where else can you see corn stalks converted to brooms, with blown glass orbs sprinkling rainbows on the floor?

Best surprise of the day, though, was the great acting at the 384-seat local theatre. We saw a performance of Sleuth, the classic British whodunnit with a twist. It's a two-man show and those guys must be exhausted by the final curtain ---- demanding physical posturing layered on witty puns and bombast. Like two prancing Mick Jaggers doing Shakespeare!

But we had to get out of town quick after the show. We both have farming in our heritage and we were in a non-farmer parking spot!!