Last week, TW was making those scarey noises. Not the house noises, the noises about theme parks and kids and trips and stuff. Those are seriously scarey noises. So scarey that they pushed me to search for some OTHER alternative. Something safer. ANYTHING would be safer than theme parks over Memorial Day weekend. Actually ANYTHING would be safer than theme parks at anytime. So I surfed. And just as I was about to give up and face my fears and give in to the theme park I found salvation in the form of sweet corn and country music. The Zellwood Corn Festival!
I like to say that I don’t like country music and it’s mostly a true statement. But when I see Terri Clark something clicks in my head and I’m a country music fan. (Can the woman wear a hat or can she wear a hat? umm err ummm sorry I got distracted for a minute.)
I sent the link to TW and crossed my fingers. TW is less of a country music fan than I am. She didn’t spend four years in love with a huge country music fan. When you do that, the music sort of rubs off on you and it has a tendency to stick. (It isn’t JUST Terri Clark – it’s also Reba and Kathy Mattea and Faith Hill and The Dixie Chicks and Trisha Yearwood if she would see the light and ditch that jerk Garth Brooks but since she won’t, she’s scratched off of the list) TW said "Sure, it sounds fun." Yes!
I think Saturday must have been the hottest day of the century or they piped in some extra heat just to sell more beer to the rednecks and more lemonade to the kids. (By the way, it was a surprisingly mellow and happy crowd. No loud or obnoxious drunk behavior anywhere in sight. Way to go beer drinking Zellwood people!) It was HOT. So hot that we took a break after a couple of hours of FUN to drive around the county in AC comfort. (Who knew Mt Dora was such a tourist mecca, by the way.)
After the cool down and some ice cream we went back, found a shady spot to sit in our chairs and on our blanket and ate a lot of free sweet corn and listen to Cowgirl Crush (they weren’t bad). It was sweet and it was good and it was a rare treat for TW and her special colon. The kids rode more rides with TW and ate more food (turkey legs and Italian sausage) and I listened to Neal McCoy, who was surprisingly funny. We moved our chairs mid-way through his set, for a better view and because we apparently needed more sun beating down on us. We ate more food, (swirl fries, rootbeer floats and snowcones this time) and waited for Terri Clark.
We played gameboy. We played rummicube. The Gameboy battery died and suggesting a book was met with the cold stare, a child was not so good at rummicube while her sister was very good at it and a wee bit of frustration set in. More rides for the two frustrated children and another Canadian country girl whose name I can’t remember sang remakes of great songs. Finally, Terri Clark. (Can that woman wear a hat or can she wear a hat????)
She sang some olds ones, she danced around with her guitar. She sang some sort of new ones. She sange a verse and a chorus of Emotional Girl, which made the frustrated Emotional Girl very happy. She sang Pitiful Me which made the emotional and no longer frustrated Warren Zevon fan very VERY happy. Life was good for some of us who don’t love our Gameboys more than really excellent country music. For those with Gameboy loss, it was just ok.
Nice bit of family fun, nice to be reminded that country music isn’t so bad and nice to see a woman who can really wear a hat. Nice, nice, nice!
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Not a country music fan either, but getting out to such a thing can be fun. I actually bought a Dixie Chicks cd (newest) and like it lots, does not really sound like c&w.
She can wear a hat well. lol
Oh jeez, country music. I’m going to be stuck listening to that when I go home next month.
Sounds like you had a GREAT day!
(I love amusement parks but no way on a long weekend. Yikes!)
Amusement parks on a long weekend must be scary… I’m not a huge fan of country music but I do like Garth Brooks….
I love warren zevon. not a big country music fan, grew up (tormented by) listening to it.
Excitable boy is my favorite Warren Zevon song.
Hello from Ruthie. I finally read your comment when I logged-in here today after staying away from the Blog-Her site for almost four months.
I’m not impressed with Blog-Her and have not been able to even post a photo of myself there!
Blog-Her appears to be filled with a tribe of female cyber-snobs!
You want to show me another side of it?
Well then you just go right ahead!
By the way, I am a huge Country Music fan and I also love folk music. My favorite folk singer is Gordon Lightfoot.
I recently returned from a trip to Tennessee. Country music central.
A friend of mine refers to Country as “wrist-slitting music.”
To each their own, I say.
That person just adores screamers like Kid Rock.
Go figure.
Hi Ruthie,
As I stated in my reply to you, I’m not sure why you feel it’s a group of cybersnobs – What were you expecting from the community that you didn’t get? Have you visited the blog entries and commented on them? Have you commented on other forum posts and interacted with members?
I’m also not sure why you’ve been unable to post an image in your profile, other members seem able to do so. Is your image very very large? If so, you might try reducing the size or posting a message on the forums regarding the problems you’re having with images. Be very specific about what happens when you try to upload the image.
Kid Rock is an interesting guy, not one of my favorites but I’m not opposed to listening to a song or two of his now and then. Gordon Lightfoot, lol, you’re an oldies folk country sort of person – I can respect that.
Thanks for visiting, whether you’re happy with Blogher or not. 🙂