Hardi and had had a pleasant after-dinner drive Monday evening so I could scout locations, up in the area where a new factory opened a few years ago. It's considered one of the county's hellraiser towns-- pickup trucks and beer, some drugs but not drug capital. I was looking for a roadside spot..... or the Episocpal church that used to be there, which I never found.

The only likely areas as far as traffic were concerned were the local laundromat across from the porn film store outside town (indoor/outdoor playing options), a couple of small kiddieparks near a newish modular housing development, and the unofficial roadside town dump where some folks are living in RVs among the heavy road equipment that looks abandoned there.

My first choice was one of the parks. But... the right one has a pavilion but no kids, and the playground ones had no space where it would make sense to set up. I'm a little leery of using tax-dollar space.... Also the United Methodist church has a new facility in that neighborhood and it seems wrong to launch in their literal back yard-- not to mention that people would assume I came from that church. Demographically I suppose it makes the most sense but in terms of smalltown resentments, it would be a very wrong move. We all work together up here.

The dump looks like no one stops there. Altho a ministry to the residents would be nice, it looks like no kids.

So it will be either the laundromat or an as-yet undiscovered location out further where the road goes off toward the rest of the valley communities.

We had a ball anticipating the normal questions people would ask. "Why are you HERE?" was the main one-- why would I not be in my own town. So I guess it's time to wash that huge comforter that's too big for our washing machine at home. :~)

~Susan