Sunday, July 6, 2025
Time: 5:37 PM
Song: Millions
Artist: Caamp
Mode of Consumption: Listening Midwest Revue on 94.7 FM.
Link to song: https://open.spotify.com/track/66PYWmVolRfCo0oaZp0H7L?si=74c7972aeb554e1b
Pretty much for the duration of our marriage, Jodi and I have entered exhibits in the Carroll County Fair in the hobbies, the baking, the fine arts, and really any other category that we can either find items that we have to enter or that we can think of making to enter.
We are both big fans of the fair, and know that the more exhibits they have the better. It means more entry fee and it means more things for fairgoers to look at. Yes, we win some back, but I think our ultimate goal is just to enter as much as we can so that there are fewer blank spots on the shelves, and hopefully someone walking around sees it and thinks, “I can do better than that!” and enters next year.
About seven or eight years ago, they included an adult coloring book page contest. I thought, “I can do that!”
It’s weird because I wasn’t big into coloring as a child, but I have found that I enjoy it as an adult. I suppose those in some circles would frown on a grown man coloring without a child nearby, but that’s fine. I’ve stopped worrying about such things a long time ago. Life is too short.
Jodi had bought me a Beatles coloring book for a present and I had yet to color any pages in it or thus enter any of those in the fair.
Over the winter, I started working on two pictures in it. They were replicas of the two Greatest Hits albums some of you might remember with the blue and the red borders and the foursome looking down from a hotel balcony.
I toiled on these pictures through the winter and spring, and I felt like I was spinning my wheels for what likely would be a subpar final product.
So, I called an audible. I went with a picture of the foursome with umbrellas. I am sure hardcore fans can conjure the picture from memory. In the coloring book version, there are flowers surrounding them in the background.
I was less tied to what the original art was and after a few weeks, finished the picture today. I’m not sure it’s as good as some of my past entries, but it will have to do. I still have to do a colored pencil art page that I draw myself. The fair is less than a month away.
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