Have Your CAKE and Eat It Too

Maybe it could be strawberry short cake.  I'm sure these blossoms and zillions of others will have borne fruit by the time CAKE comes to the Festival.

I'm also thinking cake may be a nice dessert for the picnic baskets or for the booths to serve on Friday, Aug. 2 when the group from Sacramento comes to town. 

I don't know anything about Cake except for the little I've read online.  I'm betting my 30-something kids know all about Cake and Indio Girls and those Australian bands. 

Now I do know the Steve Miller Band dating back to the '70s and could actually see myself going to the Festival to listen and watch them.

And, Roseanne Cash---well, she's not on my top list of Country singers, but anyone related to the great Johnny Cash is okay by me.

One of our most favorite ever concerts during our years of volunteering for the Festival featured The Man in Black and his wife June Carter Cash.  Loved every second of that one. 

I see the Shook Twins are also participating this year.  Papa Dan has got to be the proudest man in Sandpoint.  I taught with Dan (an art teacher)  and had both young ladies in my honors English classes toward the end of my career.

I knew which one was Kate because she had a chickenpox scar on her face.  Now, if I'm wrong about that, feel free to correct me, but I tell you, they were hard to tell apart. 

Back when they were juniors, they wanted to put together a twins travel show, but instead they travel the country showing off their fabulous musical talent.  It will be a nice and a deserving welcome home for these ladies. 

So, now we know the Festival line-up, and it looks like something for everyone.  Oh, did I mention that the Spokane Symphony will perform during one night?

Funny how time changes all things:  used to be the Spokane Symphony WAS the Festival at Sandpoint and when the annual summer outdoor concerts lasted for one weekend.   Now, they get one evening over the two-weekends. 

Still, it looks like Dyno and her gang have come up with a winning line-up.

Oops, Debbie just came with the pups.  She's in a big hurry cuz she has to help my sister Laurie with her Farmin students at the Water Festival out at Laclede.

That Debbie is a busy lady this week, lining up cars for local Distinguished Young Women in tomorrow night's Lost in the '50s parade, doing clean-up with Girl Scouts at Kootenai's Matt Schmidt Park and whatever else anyone asks her to do.

I think we'll see her tomorrow night when we watch the parade during the Keokee Sandpoint Magazine publication party.  

Yup, the Festival line-up, Lost in the '50s, Waterfest, garage sales, the Preakness . . . a busy few days ahead.  

Happy Thursday, and do think about taking cake if you attend Cake in August.