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Last weekend I was selling my Paparazzi Jewelry at the Dogwood Festival in Piketon. It went pretty well. while I was there the manager of the Wild Turkey Festival stopped by and asked me why I hadn't signed up for a booth there. I thought I had. so he took my information and assigned me a space. I left most of my jewelry in my Truck after the dogwood since I would only have 3 days between the two events.
What a lot of these small of these small town events do is get the people needing to do community service to work at the events, helping the concessionaires set up and take down, picking up trash. They had assigned 2 young men to help me. one sat in a chair and complained the entire time he was helping me about how tired he was and how hard it was for him to help put up my tent. The other one helped about 15 minutes then he ran off saying something to me about having to see his patrol office. Then another guy stopped to help me since he saw I was all alone. he had his niece and nephew with him. he helped me set up and put up all my displays. so I gave him a tip for helping me.
We finished setting up my tent and stock about 4pm. sales were light on the first day, but mostly it was people just looking at the set up, so I wasn't expecting me to sell much the first day (thursday).
For the last week a large white dog, looks like a Shepard but all white, has been hanging out around our house. So I posted on facebook asking if anyone knew who he was and where he belonged. when I was leaving my house I saw a larger dog, all beige, but built like a rottweiler. I didn't think anything about it. we have 3 dogs and they have friends who come over and play. so off I went to work. had a good day at the street fair. but about 9pm I get a call from home telling me these two dogs were in the house fighting all over the place and they couldn't get the out. and that I had to be home right away and stop playing with my jewelry hobby and get home. I was about a hour away. and I was still busy. I finally was able to close up my booth and leave about 10. so I got home about 11pm. when I walked in Tim had Jasmine locked in his closet inside of out master bathroom and the big beige dog was guarding the closet door and they couldn't get him out. the white one was also in the house but when I got there and told him to get out, he went right out.
I found out that Niota had bought a bicycle and Andrew and her had left the door to the basement open for a breeze and that was how the dogs got in the house.I went upstairs everyone was having panic attacks. I did not understand how they could not get the dog to go out. I made sure all our dogs were somewhere safe. then I went to see the dog in our bathroom. when I reached to get his collar he growled at me so I smacked him and said no. that usually works. but he snapped at me. so I smacked him again. truly this usually works for me. I had a leash to hook on him to get him out of the house. but he was having nothing to do with that. when I reached the third time to put the leash on him he attacked me. he bit at my stomach and grabbed my arm. so I decided me needed a new way around this. there is a bathroom right across from our bedroom. so I opened that door. told Tim, I was going to get the dog to follow me, because I had got him mad at me and Tim would and he need to close the door behind him. I opened the back door and the laundry room door so we could get him out, then I closed to door to the stair down stairs and blocked off the rest of the area between the master and the laundry room.
I went and pissed the dog off again and he started to follow me to get me. as he followed me, I backed into the bathroom and kept "poking" as he was following me. Tim closed the master bedroom door behind me just I slammed the bathroom door in his face. now we had the dog out of all the rooms and the only place for him to go was out the laundry room door. so when he went that way, I quickly left the bathroom and closed the laundry room door so he was tuck outside. I told the kids to get upstairs with me. They came up and closed the door behind themselves. but they forgot to close the outside door. so incomes the big dog to the basement. we are now all upstairs and the dog is now in our basement.
Now I am calling the cops because my arm is bleeding and that dog is back in our house and we were all stuck on the main level of the house. one cop shows up and gets out his pepper spray to keep the dog away from him. The dog came out to see him then ran back into the house. eventually the animal control office shows up as well as the emergency personal to look at my arm and another couple cops. the dog was at the top of the inside stairs trying to get through the door. this guy that was HUGE. goes up the stairs with the stick with the rope on it and lasso the dog and that was all he wrote. I was watching him drag the dog down those stairs and just as he got down the dog realized there was more room. he tried to get away. that huge animal control officer took that stick and slammed it to the ground pinning that dogs head to the ground. I thought it was funny as heck. he said to the dog, "Want to try that again?" then lifted his head and finished walking him out to his truck. I then had Andrew go with me to the hospital to get a tetanus shot. got to bed about 4am. got up at 10am and got ready and went to the street fair (Saturday morning).
When I got to the fair, I found out myself and other concessionaires were robbed. they took someones laptop, another guys t-shirt stock and about 150 of my rings. I am sure more was taken but not sure what else. then I had another good day of sales. Andrew had Prom that day. and I was supposed to stay up till 2:30 to pick him up at the School. I talked to his dates father and he agreed to pick up the kids and meet me closer to our house. so I got home about 11:30 pm and sat on the couch and tried to stay awake till I had to get him. I fell asleep. LOL They called me and told me to I was late. Andrew had a bug bite on his leg that was looking infected, so off to the hospital we go, again. got home at 4am again. then went to bed. got up and 10 and went to the fair for the last day.
Sunday was a completely uneventful day, worked to just after 5pm and loaded up my car and went home. I am ready for a relatively quiet week before my next event in Circleville next weekend. Wish me luck.
