Show w SUGAR t lr AND SPICE by Bill Smiley Sour Note On Festivals Every year the Music Festival Festi Festl val throws our establishment into a tailed ring tizzy And this year It was the same old story In the first place it always takes at the worst time of or year yurt Cne year it will be in th middle of the opening of 01 trout season By the time I get out after listening to a all I II I those thoe crumby little kids play the same old crumby pieces the big fish are all aU gone and I have to thrill over the leftover seven Another year it strikes at t he the c height of those first golden green days on the golf golt course This year it caught me right In Inthe Inthe inthe the middle of about hours of marking exams exams in my spare time as the taxpayers put it But Im I'm not complaining Im I'm Im I'm used to sacrificing the finer things of life Ille for what my wife thinks are the finer things of life lite No I dont don't worry about me Nor do I worry about my son lies He's like me a steady reliable gentle sweet type who takes things as they come Its It's the women in our family who cause the trou trou f t J is isMy 1 My wife and t operate on high C at the best of times hits a new note way above that when Festival Time Jime i t 11 hC b bYoung b bYoung arrives Young Kim has a penchant for d self self s t rue t ion before event At her hec very first music festival when she was six she played ta a pl piece ce called The Littie Little Lit Lit- tl tie tle M Mouse use And you should have seen her hr Under her left ey she had tad little mouse ever hatched size of a rat The d day y before in a rush for tor the teachers teacher's desk with a brilliant piece of art work or sum mat she had collided headon head head- A 1 i on with a little boy She had an ai t teye eye like a rainbow with a hang hang- over Another year she got the flu and played with a temperature of Feverishly Last year she came uj lohie Me about three weeks before the festival and said Guess what Dad I Shed She'd broken a finger r playing |