Hey I’m sorry, I just can’t seem to crank a column out this week. My brain is in overload thinking about all this stuff that is coming up.
Tomorrow I’ve got to go to a Family Peace Project Board Meeting where we are getting ready for our Annual Waffle Breakfast on May 4.(Want to buy a ticket?) Then I’ll leave there and go to my third acupuncture session. I’ve had two, and they have helped my knee. I’m looking forward to see how much better they’ll get me.
Then tomorrow night, I get to go to the Master Gardener’s Annual Banquet and Plant Sale and play hostess to Jo Ann Surls’ table since she had to do something else. Then Friday, there is the Henderson County Performing Arts Center Annual Fundraiser Gala. My grandson Beau will be performing, and Cedar Lake has a couple of tables. I’m thinking of putting on some makeup for that one.
Then the weekend starts. This is Cornbread Festival weekend. I hope by the time you are reading this you are getting ready to be there for all the fun. We start early: 7 Saturday morning, with the Rotary Club Pancake Breakfast at the Community Center. Just $5 and surely I’ll get there before they close at 9 a.m. Maybe I’ll wave at the 5K runners or walkers or whatever they do, but that’s it for me and the 5K I’ll try to get a quick look at the 14th Annual Texas State Knife & Tomahawk Championship going on over at the park behind the Community Center, but I’ll mostly save that till Sunday, since it will still be going on then.
I’ll be spending most of my time hanging out at Cedar Lake Home Health and Hospice where the Cornbread Cook Off will take place. I hope a bunch of you have entered, and the rest of you will come by and get a sample of the winning cornbread and a cup of good old pinto beans.
After the cook-off excitement, I’ll be checking out all the vendors, and maybe get another feather in my hair from the face painting and hair-feathering lady. I might even get my face painted. The library is going to be having a book sale, so I’ve got to make that for sure. The Favorite Things folks are going to be there with their famous chicken salad and pineapple walnut cakes among other goodies. I’ll have to have some of those goodies, along with good stuff from many other food vendors who will be there. I don’t want to miss any of the games and contests of which there will be plenty: Corn eating, corn chunking, hat contests, dog contests, I don’t know what all. I understand there are going to be some big sales at the antiques stores, and at least one huge garage sale. I don’t think I can get over to the Volunteer Fire Department’s Barbecue for lunch, but maybe I can get some to take home before they close.
I hope I’ll get a little rest for a couple of days after Cornbread is over. Then we have to get in high gear to get ready for the big Sculpture Garden Tour, which in addition to the Surls and Stewart Gardens, this year will feature open house at the Bartlett House property. That is just two weeks away. You really, really don’t want to miss this. (Advance tickets will save you money, and I just happen to have some for sale.)
I hope you’ll come take all this in with me. We can rest in May.