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We took a break this afternoon from our Outdoor Chore Marathon and walked down to 50th and France to check out the annual Edina Art Fair. Libby had walked through most of it with Nick last Friday, but I still wanted to check it out and it was a nice day so we strollered-up the crew went down as a fam. And before you cringe, when we got there we parked the stroller and bjorned the kid. Crowds + strollers = insane Dave, and I'm not about to encourage others with my behavior. Except when it comes to eating churros, I guess. If my churro eating behavior encourages other people to eat churros, I'm totally cool with it.

While it's always worth the trip, I've decided that Edina's art fair is really more of an Arts and Crafts fair. There are just too many booths selling homemade soap and adirondack chairs and brightly painted mirrors and seasonal windsocks to really qualify to be an "art" fair. Not that it's bad or anything, just that it's true. I did notice a lot more wheelthrown stuff this year, though. Maybe it's making a comeback? Legwarmers and wheelthrown pottery: it's like they never left.

The food situation was pretty tame. It was the homestrech of the last day and most of the booths were in partial clean-up mode, so we just kinda sniffed around and talked about what could have been. I did beg a free cheese curd off the cheese curd people, though. The one they gave me was as big as my fist. How mint is that? It was hot and salty, but I managed to resist the $5 lemonade (in the souvenir cup) in favor of nursing my bottle of water from home. Easier than it sounds.

I ended up buying a watercolor from the same painter guy I bought one from last year. It's an avocado. (See pic, I like it.) The dude said he remembered me, which I didn't believe in the slightest until he whipped out a copy of the print I had purchased and said, "here's the one you bought." Holy wow memory.

Fair off.

Scorzelli Watercolor [mac]
How to Make Soap [waltonfeed]