Time for Tuesday!!!!

Waiting for Bus 7am

Well twice I attempted to start the blog birthday and twice it said it was uploading and never uploaded so afterwords I walked  a friend  to 7th & Market, then  turned around, to 8th and Market to

At Saxby's

catch the EL.I got to work and didn't have a lot of interviewing for his energy not getting my miscellaneous junk and complete 3 reports just in time! I was quite relieved  that reports got done.  I got this message today and I thought it was funny.  

"The blog is cute - Sure I can meet up with you this weekend. PS I like the same kind of food you do."

What can say I got the cutest blog in West Philly! Correct that all of Philly ha

Cream in Coffee

ha Ha ha ha!! It's 6:50 PM I am now going to the Gratitude meeting at 17th and Delancey. It's a nice day all around.

Just before the gratitude I got a message from someone I got this text from someone I know well.

"What do you do when you want to throw your life away?"

I want to say in blunt terms get with(in) the program. I realize however I can't make anybody do anything that they're not prepared to do themselves. As I've heard many times you have to want it not just need it.

7th Street towards Market

I also heard from new friend in Michigan with her own views of  living in a large city. I found it to interesting. She lives in a small town where it is quiet

'Thank you mark from Philly. it was a pleasure meeting you also. your life is so different than mine. i look at your pictures and think damn, i couldn't live that way...in the city with no trees and all those people. i sit here tonight with no sound whatsoever. no nothing. quiet. peaceful. i couldn't live any other way.

Yes I have to agree with her, trees do make a place more livable and quiet!!

It's nice to meet new people from different lands and experiences. I met this friend at the Wheatland Music Festival earlier this month. It was a gas and I hope to come back in Sept 2014!!
I will wrap this up with a comment about 1992. This is the LAST time the Pittsburgh Pirates made the MLB Playoffs.

"This just in: 1992 was a long time ago. In fact, some who are reading this may not have even been alive then. What was happening in 1992? Tom Brady was a sophomore at Serra High School in San Mateo, CA. End of the Road by Boyz II men was the No. 1 song (as if you didn’t know). And Barry Bonds and Kirk Gibson were teammates with the Pittsburgh Pirates.That’s also the last time the Pirates made it to the postseason — before today."

On my front Porch

Boy that does sure bring me back to the carefree days of yore. The movie "American Graffiti" asked the question: "Where were you in '62?" In my Well, 1992 was when Bill Clinton won the presidency. This ENDED a woeful time to be a Democrat with losses with Michael Dukakis,  Walter Mondale and Jimmy Carter getting creamed by Ronald Reagan. I was going back to work for the Welfare Department and I was fired from the Philadelphia Corporation for Aging after 5 painful months. Frankly, I just sucked at that job. It was VERY depressing.  To my  friends born in the early 60's I want to ask the question:

Appel Farm in Elmer 1992

"Where were you in '92??

My World

Pat

Well, that is all. October is right around the Corner and a trip to San Diego is coming up on Oct 8th to Oct 15

Last day of Wheatland music festival

   Sunday the last day of the Wheatland Music Festival. Time to experience for one last time the joy!

Just Say...

I decided that I would try to see

Having a Ball!!

more music and do a little bit left wondering around. The weather was at just about right no

Betsey and Friends

rain in not too hot. Betsey hung with some old friends that she ran into while I was waiting in line  for my T-shirt. I got a sweatshirt  and T-shirt and a hat and I have a feeling I left the hat back at Betsy's house. 

Running to my two new friends that I ran into the

Susan and her hammock

day before which was pretty cool. One had a hammock and I got the chill out on the hammock. It was in a  perfect location in the back

Kelly and her Wheatland Hat

of the main stage in the shade! The other person I saw on the left side of the main stage watching the dancers do the folk dancing near the end of the festival. I then met Betsey and her friends and we went to the parking lot and hung. Her friends have an old VW Bus which was pretty cool.  The festival ended early on this day

Betsey and I

, so we have the rest of the evening to chill at Betsey's. We

played with her 2 English Springlers. Boy they LOVE to play fetch. One of the

The Duhks. 

dogs is 8 years old and has boundless energy. I do hope to be able to return next Septermber. It was a blas

Billy Strings on the Left

t from the distant past.  can happen in one year. At this moment I am active in meeting women and its feeling more normal and not quite as strange. Its still a crap-shoot but at least I feel mentally better to deal with putting myself out there.

Friday September 6th: Wheatland Music Festival

Well Hello all you seekers. This is Mark reporting from Remus the heart of Central Michigan (I made that up). I

went to  the Wheatland Library to get access to the Internet. Downloading YouTube videos of this trip have to be done a different way since the speed of the connections in this library

Towns East and West of Remus

is WAY slow. I will  have to save it to a key drive and then stick it to a USB drive in the computer at the Library. I am thinking the desktop computers HAVE to be faster then the WIFI.

Remus Michigan

I am in Central Michigan now till next Weds. I am going to the Wheatland Music Festival which is 5 miles from here. I am in Remus Michigan.  Here is more about my time in Michigan thus far. I will be reporting on the festival. My friend Betsey is going to volunteer from 3:00 to 7:30 today. I need to beat it out of this library.
As soon as I got back to Betsy's from the library, we had to make a hasty exit

It has the slowest WIFI ever witnessed by this seeker of the unusual and fun.

towards the Festival. We both drove our bikes 5 miles from our house to the festival grounds but not before my bike pedal had fallen off.

Fun People!

Bike Pedal Fell off on the Way!

Betsey got that fixed and we were only 15 minutes late for the shift that she did for volunteering. I was very

Wheatland Symbol.

Thursday I had four drinks before I ate a walking taco. Walking tacos taco put into a Frito Lay bag so you can walk around with it and just eat.

Betsy went to her shift and I decided to walk around and get drinks and keep from getting really hot. There are tons of campsites with

Had a nice chat.

bearing

Taco in a Bag. "Walking Taco"

amounts of designs. I learned something to say to strangers: "HAPPY

Betsey Volunteered Here

WHEATLAND!" Their vendors that serve up coffee and I'll kinds of

drink and half decent food. The commercial vendors to that cell four quark clothing tie-dyed and the like. They did not have

the T-shirts available today will not be on sale till tomorrow. Saturday. Betsy

Jammin

did give me one of her volunteer T-shirts which are  bright red. I went to all the campsites her is many of them as I could in a 2 time span. And that's a pretty nice people in some pretty fun people as well.There was one woman in cowboy hat dancing pretty

Good Times in Michigan

suggestively that I happened upon. Her friend was pretty adamant about not getting a picture taken. Folks invited me to sit at their campsites and hang

Folks I met.

out. They liked my grumpy cat  t-shirt!!! 

It was a good thing I brought my charger because my phone just hung in there. We rode  back in the dark and got home around 11pm. We watched Alfred Hitchcock like we've been doing each night. I'm returning to the festival tomorrow at 1:30. It was a fun adventure. Here is a video review of my first experiences at the 2013 Wheatland Music Festival. I am what they call a "Wheatee" a first timer to this festival which is 40 year old this year.

Day 2: Wheatland music Festival 9-7-13

At Night

Hey today we drove up here at about 1:30 PM. I started off by having a mocha and actually sitting and listening to the

Main Stage

music today. It's quite festive and enjoyable.

Well I ended up more watching bands and performers today. Did a lot of recording and then putting on YouTube.

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I met a woman Kelly who recognize me and charge my phone and we hung out and talk till she went to bed. I then

Fun for All

recorded some guys just jamming away that was cool. ,This is Don Henry and Sally Barris. They were wonderful!

Don Henry and Sally Barris

Relaxing on the Hammock

 It rained early in the morning and stopped. We then had 1 or 2 spotty rains after that. It turned out to be a very nice evening.Here is Reverend Payton and The Big Damned Band. I

Dancing near Main Stag

was on a hammock! One of my favorite parts of this festival was a late night jamming people did late night. This was really, really cool!   I Ended up missing the Cajun dancing since it ended around 1 am. Here is the tune "Autumn Leaves" done late at night and a perennial favorite "Wagon Wheel".  Lets not forget I got to hear "Walk Like an Egyptian" of Bangles fame. It was pretty fun! I decided not to stay up all night on the festival grounds. I met Betsey at the entrance

A Volunteer at Main Stage

and we headed home. That was a good decision since I would not be wiped out all day Sunday. It was a very groovy time! I shall return! Never done three days of any festival before and I know what I've missed Sunday, September 8 is the last day and

Vendors Galore

it ends at 7 PM.

Frankly. I think my favorite performers were Don Henry and Sally Barris! I think you will enjoy!! I made a whole bunch of videos on YouTube so I could keep videos and get them off my phone.

Late Night Jammin

I did find out they do have places to stick your charger and it's hodgepodge but it works!Maybe I will be able to hit the upper Peninsula before I leave!! I will find away My

I went to her truck to charge my phone

mom visited Mackinac Island so she would be thrilled to see that I went!!