Left Home around 4:45 AM heading for Waitsfield to swap out the payload in my Van into the Cabot Van and headed on over to Catskill NY for the Festival.

 When I passed Mt Tabor it looked like it was being eaten by a hungry cloud:-)

As I passed by the Bennington Memorial I thought of John Stark and his promise to defeat the British in New York that day or his Mrs Stark would sleep a widow that night.

I was thinking that I would come home victorious as well and I believe I Did, but with a lot less at stake and also a much better chance at victory than the General.

I always enjoy looking at the Big Moose General Store and Deli as I pass by, one of these days I will make it a point to stop in and look around, but not today.

I arrived and located one of the organizers and found my spot to do business, everyone was hard at work trying to beat the whistle for the start of the day.

I found my location and got in gear and a little later I all set up and ready to go, other than putting the cheese in the bowls, which was chopped and in the cooler under the table.

Kind of a cramped location this year with a smaller table and squashed against the tent wall but it was fine as far as accomplishing the goal I had set.

My neighbor to my right was the owner of a company that made various things from baked goods to some flavored cheese spreads, which he featured today.

He was also selling goods from his table, as were almost everyone who was there.

Not sure how his day went sales wise but being next to us at least he got some product awareness out of it.

I'm pretty sure he got tired of hearing people say all day,

"Cabot has the best Cheese on the planet" :-)

So when the gates swung open people flocked on in and it did not take long and the place was jumping.

View of the South end of the main building once things got going.

North end of the building at the same time.

The Patio of the building paralleled the Hudson River and made a nice place to hang out and shoot the breeze, eat, drink and enjoy the view.

I did not have a camera or video today since it was broken and my cell phone visuals and I do not get along very well, so I did not get very many good picture but enough I suppose.

I did not get any of the entertainment videoed but I could hear them quite well, and talking over a band all day gave me a bit of a raspy throat <again>

As the day wore on the customers were getting pretty relaxed and cheerful by about 4:00, so about 5:00 they were ready to stay over into the night.

But they trickled out gradually and by about 5:30 I was packing up and heading home.

So I did a reversal of my drive down so topped back in Waitsfield swapped out Vans and got back to the ranch about 10:45 PM and went in and hit the sheets.

 I believe it was a very successful day enhanced by 

a safe and uneventful ride down and back.

Although I only had one taste of a local beer myself but as people were passing by on their way out I could readily tell there was a much different mood and tone as they departed.

Being an old country boy this slightly applicable country tune by Luke Bryan kept popping in my head..

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So I left too
Till next time Ovr'n Out