Sea hunt

If I had any strategy coming in to Anacortes, it was sea life. I'd stocked up on crab and octopus patterns, of course, but also puffins, sea otters, salmon. There was a sea gull, sanderlings, some eagles, even a dessert plate with dolphins.

I say was; most of them are gone. The octopods went early, octo-people sweeping down on us Friday morning. Maybe four pieces left, and I still have hopes for the sugar bowl. Crabs went next, I'm down to two plates as of this morning. Puffins and seagull and otters have all made some sales.

Other things too: bunnies, of course, chickens, dragonflies, moose and flamingos. Aside from the sea life, it's been a pretty balanced sale.

Wind was an issue again Friday, but we worked around it. Took down the grid display for the afternoon, and all the walls. Saturday morning, we moved the right-hand units in about 9 inches, and put the grid up again. Now, even if the wind shakes the canopy, it doesn't move enough to threaten the pots.

We also can't just close the walls overnight. We spend an extra half-hour at the end of the day boxing up pots from the top two shelves, then wrap the lower display with tarp. If it were to rain overnight, we'd have a mess, but as it's dry--but breezy--we're all right.

Once we stop seeing our first-in-show location as a hazard, it turns out to be a benefit. Sales are well up from last year, and I can't help but think that it's because we're the first thing so many people see as they enter the show.

When dinosaurs attack

Stegosaur bank in peril!

...from someone publicizing Jurassic World at a local casino.

ETA: Don't worry, Steggie is safe. Arms were too short to reach his mouth...