Community Craft Fair - Fire Extinguisher Bear

 

Song:  Precious and Few

Group: The Climax Blues Band

My mountain community had an arts and crafts fair put on 

by the people of our mountain estates.  

The arts and crafts were made by the people who live in our mountain community.

This is the mountain estates community center.

This is just down the mountain and a few miles from my home.

They have a year round heated swimming pool...

a steam room, heated spa, a large gathering room...

among other amenities.

They had a free movie night here for the people of the community...

with free popcorn, pizza, and other snacks...

just a week ago.

This is also where I take my household garbage.

It just costs $1 a bag...or flattened cardboard box.

I use this instead of contracting with a garbage pick up...

as, so long as I don't have a lot of boxes to throw away...

it is just one tenth the cost.

I just throw away my garbage bag when I pick up my mail.

As I also have a trash compactor...

I usually only need to throw away the garbage once or twice a week.

Outside the community center...

a food truck also came for this one day event.

There were a lot of people of the community who have hobbies that provide 

extra income...mostly from online sales I would imagine.

The man in that second stand uses a chain saw and woodcarving tools

to carve different animals.

He was the one from whom I had bought Fire Extinguisher Bear.

The baked goods looked good...

but were mostly sweet...

and I don't really eat sweets too often.

I did buy some doggie treats for Bandi from one of the un-photographed venders.

I just thought this Fire Extinguisher Bear would go so well in my home.

I also bought five bags of doggie treats for Bandi.

The lady selling them makes them out of peanut butter...

and other ingredients.

Bandi loved them.

The man who carved Fire Extinguisher Bear

said he got free wood from a neighbor after he had cut down 

some pine trees near his home.

Although the food looked good...

I usually eat...

at most...twice a day...

and more usually...

just once.

As I was not hungry...

I didn't order anything.

Fire Extinguisher Bear now has a new home in my kitchen.

Meet...

Kuma...

the Fire Extinguisher Bear.

He even has carved in straps holding the fire extinguisher on to his back.

Cute...

but most of all...

functional.

I really love my mountain estates community.

Although it is sparsely populated up here...

as most of the properties are weekend or vacation homes...

or are purchased for future retirement...

the people are friendly.

I was happy to buy something from someone from my community.

It was a home christening that flows into the whole bear theme

of my mountain home.