Rubber check blues.

We live hand to mouth so it's no fun getting a bounced check. We didn't ask a fee from the writer because if lack of money was the problem we never want to be part of that problem, When they found out about the check they Venmoed us the original amount right away. 
We were surprised to learn the bank charged US a fee. 

Our credit union teller seemed a little amused having to explain the system to some street clowns. 
Both parties get charged by banks we found out. In the end the credit union waived the fee for us. Walking home I asked "Why did they cut us a break?" 
She told me that of all the people in town, this teller knows what is coming in and what comes out. 
We love the Trailhead credit union. They told us they have a fund for just such occasions.
I guess when the fee takes over half the balance it paints a picture they don't want to see. 
YES!
 When we went to the roller derby we were so happy to see Trailhead is a supporter.

Olive was telling this guy

Olive was telling this guy 
"We did a show in a bakery this morning, went home, took a shower together, went to the bank, we will be doing a gig at Know Thy Food cafe next Tuesday and then Pie Spot Pie shop Wednesdays at 4."
 I had to interrupt to tell her.
 "When the waiter asked you where we are "gonna be", he meant what table should he bring our lunch to not where are our next gigs.."
 Olive collapsed laughing at herself.

I do a lot of eavesdropping on the bus

I got an idea. I do a lot of eavesdropping on the bus and if there is one thing I learned from disjointed out of context murmurs it's that folks like two things above all else...shagging and rescuing dogs.
So here is a business idea. How about "Single's Pet Rescue Club"! Where Lonely hearts join and Olive and I pair them up with someone else from our data base to have a combination first date/pet adoption.
That way if they don't hit it off they will be compelled to stay together for the pet's sake. (Take that relationship goals!)
As long as we keep calling the datespace a "facility" folks won't notice that we are actually in the parking lot of Walgreens (Take that Portland rents!)
Sounds sound to me.
Well it sounds entertaining to me anyway. :)
I don't have time to breathe life into that plan so you can have my idea if you want.
I'm sure nothing could possibly go wrong.
Good luck!

Did you know there was a New Burg in Oregon called Newburg?

We spent the evening tailgate party clowning. I made balloons and was funny for college kids, kid kids and parent kids. I love how you can be the boss of the school or a football player or the janitor everyone has to wait the same amount of time for the clowns. We are like the bathroom, if you cut in line a tribe will form to address it. lol Olive got to witness a "privilege battle" between two Moms who insisted their kid was first for Olive's facepainting. I couldn't enjoy the popcorn moment because I was busy scrutinizing the bubbles in my blueberry coconut bubble tea with watermelon pellets. It tasted the BOMB-diggitty-bay but I just can't get over hummingbird food that is colored like antifreeze. I'm suspicious.

Then the game started and all of a sudden everyone was gone. I just assumed the rapture happened and carried on enjoying the bubble tea. Olive stayed a long time painting three kids who were older, loving sisters, and artists., Olive gave them all the bells and whistles because that is exactly what she is,

"Entropy...I'm not half the stain I used to be."

 Bad news. My favorite Portland landmark is going away. It's an Ice Cream spill that used to be a full spilled Ice Cream Sunday that has been residing in a Mexican themed restaurant since I first noticed it circa 2017. It's extraordinary because the place doesn't sell ice cream. The staff is plentiful and they run a tight ship. It's a literal snowball in hell. And that ius why I love it. Underdog! :) 

The gambling machines must be a blind spot for the very religious staff because gambling es el diablo. Anyhoo. We just visited and noticed it has lost most of it's luster. I couldn't bring myself to photograph it. I wanna remember "Spilly" the way it was in this pic from months ago. Even if it fades away I will always remember how long it avoided the wipe rag. It's dying of natural causes. HANG IN THERE SPILLY!

in G.

Y'know how sometimes a car quickly dives into a space and scrapes both tires against the curb. Someone just did that in front of our crib. 
No idea why the leadfoot there isn't another car for half a block. The noise was a real treat. 
It sounded like ripping off about 3 feet of aluminum foil. The sound was so satisfying I'm wondering if the last tone it made was in G.

We really had to earn it yesterday at the street fair. Lots of frustrating challenges. We also had lots of amazing encounters and interactions. Made some new friends, embraced some old friends and in general the Spirit of Portland was with us.

 So the grumpiness started when people took our spot, then we had to move, then other folks asked us to move. The organizers found out and kicked the interlopers out. We didn't rat them out because we used to be them when we started. So we didn't make much dough but we had a blast, Then we went for dinner and managed to trade balloons and personality for meals and wine. We went home happy and crashed hard,

Our friend was just coming out of a theater after seeing IT

photo credit: Adam Haile

Our friend was just coming out of a theater after seeing IT with a date. when they just happened to run into some real clowns. We were hunting but not horror style. Olive decided to make them some flash clown horror themed balloon corsages. We had a lovely time chatting on the corner before disappearing into the night.

photo credit: Aje Feels

50 shades of grey, Clan of the cave bear. Those are two suggestions we got for us to perform an adult storytime.

50 shades of grey, Clan of the cave bear. Those are two suggestions we got for us to perform an adult storytime. 

Folks ask us to do adult shows all the time. A "Spouses of doctor's" club asked us for the first one. I like exploring more colors than we normally perceive but we couldn't find a way to make 50SOG funny. 
Do we have the voices to perform it legit? 
I think we would be more entertaining simply explaining the different wavelengths of light.
 Clan of the Cave bear sounds closer to our audio pallet (plus who doesn't love Neolithic erotica right?) but the problemo with that one is the entire premise is wrong.
 In a story where humans interact with Neanderthals there can't be a tall. blue eyed straight haired lady mixing it up with them. 
Vikings were a few hundred thousand years from being invented. 
I was thinking of doing an adult storytime where we just act out things we did.
 If I find a way I will. If our life was a book it would be in the romance section. .
 I always thought our romance novel should be a flip book.

Interesting read betwixt gigs

Interesting read betwixt giggy poos, 
Check out what vocations Uncle Sam thinks are growing. Right on! 
Three of them are clean energy solutions.

Out on the town. My parents are visiting from San Antonio.

 
We went out after a gig with the P's. Funny that they notice things we don't. I had no idea there was a tallbike graphic on our local ATM.

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Derby night!

  We were gifted a couple of VIP tickets and decided to take the whole crew. We had a blast. The only part we didn't like was seeing players we know and care about hurt. It was really exciting. 

It was funny watching our son have no idea what he was looking at. Our daughter had done some kid's roller derby and was able to clue him in. 

We did an experiment. We got permission to go out at half time and give out hundreds of balloons in the home-team's colors (The wreckers are teal, silver and black). We didn't know if we could even get that many balloons out in that short time or how well it would go over. 

At first it was great. The crowds loved us and everyone wanted a balloon to wave around. Some of the players were down too but in the end it was not so good a result because the players reported that it was distracting when all those balloons began popping. It's cool. We wouldn't know where to plug in if we never try. I enjoyed the food, the VIP seats and the free drinks. Seeing Olive tipsy and screaming for her favorite players was a riot. Thanks for the opportunity Annie Bosworth Foley Everyone was really nice to us and the family had a swell time.

From Mom to clown...well a Mom the whole time...and a clown.

This is the breakfast Olive made for our son. A half peach in yogurt with bacon. 

We took him to his first day of 8th grade and signed him up.

 Then it was quickly off back to our side of town to clown up and clown out for the kidz.

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