Something New

SO my work gave all the employees a list of items to choose from for an annual gift. Covid has prevented most all of the events that the company usually provides, so they think this is a way to make up for it. I chose this air fryer. There was a lot of junk on the list, and I'm not sure we need another counter top appliance, but here we are. 

I put brats and frozen french fries in it. I was amazed at how well they came out. Set it for 400 and 12 minutes and wow!

I flipped the brats half way through and shook the fires a little bit too. The brats were done clear through-no icky middle, and the fires were almost as good as deep fried ones.  Well, I might have to try something else in this machine!

Ringo rode with me in the car the other day to go buy dog food.

He's a pretty good rider, but hardly ever looks out the windows.

He is not at all interested in hanging his head out an open window either.

Hubs says the dog is broken. HAHA! 

Don't worry, we were stopped at a light when I took these pictures. I'm finishing another long time project, next post!!

 

Art Fest

So TONS of pottery, jewelry, paintings, prints, woodwork, sculptures, metal work, mixed media, clay, stone, wood, paper, copper, rusty iron, fabric, and I don't know what all else.

Music, these ladies were playing for the Iowa City Englert theater booth.

The kids area had tons of activities, color stuff, paint stuff, cut and paste stuff, One of my favorite things is the randomly placed pianos outdoors on the ped mall,in past years they leave them  out all summer, I only saw this one this year.

There were demonstrations-you might be able to tell in this bad picture, there's a group of girls demonstrating Irish step dancing. And this guy was demonstrating blowing glass beads.

Paintings and photographs, and

Didgeridoos!

This guy had these big pieces that were rustic looking barns, about 10" tall and about 3 feet long but only about 5 inches deep to hang on the wall.. They were probably the coolest thing there...including a very cool price!

There are bands and musical entertainment all day long, and food vendors!

The cornroc guys are here and the Johnsonville brat folks with the biggest grill,

Caribbean food, Chinese food, pizza, Greek food, popcorn, funnel cakes, and yogurt!

For my volunteering time I got a free T shirt and a free brat! YAY!