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kevin_standlee) wrote2024-05-18 09:32 pm
kevin_standlee) wrote2024-05-18 09:32 pm
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Weathering the Festival
Today was the second Music, Murals, and Margaritas festival, which took over Center Street (the street on the far side of the East Lot). After our experience last year with people parking in and crossing the East Lot (in part because the organizers did not realize we owned it), we took precautions this year, and it seemed to work.
We bought some posts a couple of days ago and yesterday Lisa installed some of them along the First Street (south) side of the East Lot. We strung yellow tape between the posts in the hope that it would discourage people from crossing into our lot. I made a sign (the photo didn't turn out) saying "No Trespassing" and stuck it to a chair that I set in the gap between the end of the fence and our driveway.
This morning, vendors arrived and started setting up booths and trailers on Center Street, parking along the east side of the East Lot and also on First Street (to the right of this photo; the photos I took along First Street were out of focus). To our relief, people did not try to cross the lot, and they took the hint from the yellow tape and parked along the street. Lisa did have to shoo some people off who started the park across the driveway to our garage, though.
I was worried about the Front Street (north) side of the lot, but fortunately, the posts (without tape) and brush that we piled up seemed to once again give people the hint. They parked there in front of the Rolling Stone and didn't trespass on our lot. However, I decided that we needed to leave our vehicles, including the RV, exactly where they were to keep people from taking the space or possibly driving onto the East Lot to use it as a parking lot. Fortunately, people parked elsewhere, including in the railroad yard across the street.
This afternoon, Lisa and I decided to wander over and check out the booths. It was mostly craft fair stuff, but there were also food and drink booths, including one vendor called "Fryday's" which sold french fries with fancy toppings, which I would otherwise call poutine.
I got the grilled chicken, bacon, and ranch dressing over fries. I liked them.
We did not begrudge some people coming over to stand in the shade of the large tree in the east lot, but I do admit to being nervous when some of them were smoking there, because I didn't want them setting the lot on fire. Fortunately, with the North Lyon County Fire Department paramedics there, had anything broken out, I reckon we would have had a fire truck on site in about three minutes.
As the sun set, the vendors broke down their booths and the musicians started getting louder and louder. As I compose this at 10 PM, they're still going strong. Based on what happened last year, I suspect they past the scheduled 10:30 PM end time. It's not our type of fun, but a bunch of people seem to be enjoying themselves. OTOH, given all of the alcohol on sale over their today, I think it's just as well that we're staying home. I somehow think the streets of Fernley aren't going to be that safe tonight.
We bought some posts a couple of days ago and yesterday Lisa installed some of them along the First Street (south) side of the East Lot. We strung yellow tape between the posts in the hope that it would discourage people from crossing into our lot. I made a sign (the photo didn't turn out) saying "No Trespassing" and stuck it to a chair that I set in the gap between the end of the fence and our driveway.
This morning, vendors arrived and started setting up booths and trailers on Center Street, parking along the east side of the East Lot and also on First Street (to the right of this photo; the photos I took along First Street were out of focus). To our relief, people did not try to cross the lot, and they took the hint from the yellow tape and parked along the street. Lisa did have to shoo some people off who started the park across the driveway to our garage, though.
I was worried about the Front Street (north) side of the lot, but fortunately, the posts (without tape) and brush that we piled up seemed to once again give people the hint. They parked there in front of the Rolling Stone and didn't trespass on our lot. However, I decided that we needed to leave our vehicles, including the RV, exactly where they were to keep people from taking the space or possibly driving onto the East Lot to use it as a parking lot. Fortunately, people parked elsewhere, including in the railroad yard across the street.
This afternoon, Lisa and I decided to wander over and check out the booths. It was mostly craft fair stuff, but there were also food and drink booths, including one vendor called "Fryday's" which sold french fries with fancy toppings, which I would otherwise call poutine.
I got the grilled chicken, bacon, and ranch dressing over fries. I liked them.
We did not begrudge some people coming over to stand in the shade of the large tree in the east lot, but I do admit to being nervous when some of them were smoking there, because I didn't want them setting the lot on fire. Fortunately, with the North Lyon County Fire Department paramedics there, had anything broken out, I reckon we would have had a fire truck on site in about three minutes.
As the sun set, the vendors broke down their booths and the musicians started getting louder and louder. As I compose this at 10 PM, they're still going strong. Based on what happened last year, I suspect they past the scheduled 10:30 PM end time. It's not our type of fun, but a bunch of people seem to be enjoying themselves. OTOH, given all of the alcohol on sale over their today, I think it's just as well that we're staying home. I somehow think the streets of Fernley aren't going to be that safe tonight.