This weekend is the Cherry Blossom Festival at the Conyers International Horse Park.  I spent most of today over there setting up my tent, twice.   I got there around 11 AM and had the tent set up in thirty minutes, but a big gust of wind came through and turned it over.  My tent is a heavy professional model which I bought so this type of thing would not happen, but never the less, it did.  This was with 400 pounds of concrete weights on it!   I had to disassemble it just to get the top turned back over and sitting back on the asphalt.   I didn’t take pictures because I was too mad and embarrassed by the whole thing.

The wind just kept pounding the area and numerous tents went flying all over the place.  I have stakes for securing it the ground, but not to asphalt.  So I ran over to Home Depot and bought heavy steel stakes and a sledgehammer.   After pounding these stakes into the asphalt, raising the tent again, and tying it off, I was just about out of juice.  My plan was to have all my products set up and ready to go, but I only had enough energy left to get the tables and shelves set up.  I’m going back over early in the morning to set the rest of the products up.  Fortunately my trailer is sitting about 30 feet behind the booth, so I don’t have to carry them very far.  I had planned to be back home by 2 PM, but I didn’t pull into the driveway until 5.  Thank goodness for the crock pot!  There was a beef roast and potatoes waiting on me that I started this morning.

Saturday is supposed to be nice and sunny, but the forecast is for rain and thunderstorms for Sunday.  This will probably make for a packed show tomorrow.