Ever get the sneaky feeling you're being watched?

Ever get the sneaky feeling you're being watched?

 I had that feeling yesterday. In a flip of the script, I detected a cop in the neighbors backyard a few months ago.

 I was sitting just on the other side of the fence. We didn't see one another because we happened to be silent and obscured. Then I smelled him.

 I leaned back looking between the slats and spied a cop standing silently in the yard only a few feet away from me. 

We live in a cologne free house in probably a cologne free neighborhood. That smell stuck out like a party popper. 

Whatever was going on next door was none of my beeswax. 

I still performed my civic duty by covering the cologne smell with my favorite smell. 

I was silent because I was rolling a joint.Yeah I quickly blew my cover. Luckily I wasn't doing anything illegal. 

Still it's awkward.

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I was so excited for our morning gig today.

It's a birthday party for one of our biggest fans...and her daughter (also massive fan.)
Even when those two are the only ones to turn up at our weekly gigs, they keep us as enthused as they. We showed up,
Lil one made the cutest freak out seeing Olive and Dingo at her house!!!!We performed for her friends right in front of two O&D dolls they own. Mom brought me coffee and Olive a Mimosa. The 13 or so other kids didn't know us at all. It was a riot seeing them stare at us in stunned silence as the birthday girl sat front center mouthing the words to everything Olive said.
By the end all the kids were on the O&D train thanks to the kid opening the door for us.
That was amazing. I wish they were all like that.
Now Olive is doing a gig alone making balloons behind a puppet show, I'm crunching video editing skill for a journalism project we are working on for Lisa Loving. When Olive gets here we are doing a dance party.
Our third gig only requires us to bring my guitar (to sing happy birthday at the end) This gig is one where the parents are DJs, They met us at another dance party and wanted us to do the same. Dance. OLive rules at dancing, me notsomuch.
I'm as good at dancing as I am at air traffic control. When I do it, it's immediately clear that I'm not qualified. Luckily Olive dresses me up like a disco ball so maybe I can blind them with sequins.

nightclub gig with kindy rockers, Kindy gig with nigtclub artists...beca...

Doing the nervous Dad thing today.

 We just cooked my daughter breakfast and took her to the airport. She is going for a month in Costa Rica learning white water EMT rescue. 
After that she goes to Montana for Glacier rescue training. She wants to save the world and ecology. I'm so nervous for my kid going out on this big adventure by herself. I
t's been a very emotional morning coming to grips that by baby will be too far away for me to rescue her. Olive was great making sure she had everything she needed and her boyfriend was really cute. 
He get's to stay in her pad while she is gone. 
I'm so grateful to the Facebook friends and family who pitched into her travel gofundme. Thank you so much! Good Luck Robin!!!!!

We often have different ideas of downtime.

seen outside our gig

Outside our gig today at Know Thy Food Cooperative. 
I like doing our show at places that get lots of bike delivery. From farm to bike to grocery.

shut down by the shut down

The rooms here sit empty. The last few guests were very disappointed to come to our state just to discover they places they wanted to visit are closed due to the shut down. My daughter was having a really hard time doing her time sensitive college registration because the shut down shut her out of critical info. This is for nothing since it's a huge scam. Pundits have been interviewing folks who have neutral opinions and rarely mention how stupid the border wall idea is.The Wall was a way 45's handlers reminded him to mention immigration because the moron doesn't read or hold on to information. It just happened to strike a chord in his idiotic followers who needed an easy (yet useless) solution to a complicated problem. If they really were "patriots" they would be tackling automation taking jobs, opioid addiction perpetrated by big pharma, underpaid teachers and over paid congressman and don't forget the oil companies burning the world to the ground while better alternative plans rot in their file cabinets.My Dad sold Exxon a patent to a clean energy vehicle when I was a kid. I still have never seen it.