Day: August 12, 2019

I am completely enamored with the diamond point-style Bow Tie o’ the Day in these pix. Paisley gets my style buds going, and these colors are madly lovely together. Of course, Bow Tie made for a perfect choice for our outdoor evening at Sundance Summer Theatre, for a performance of MAMMA MIA!

For dinner at Sundance, we partook of the theatre’s pre-show bbq. It was ok, but if we go up to watch another show, we’ll make dinner reservations at one of the resort’s restaurants. The bread pudding was tasty, but the rest of the food was kinda bland. My fave part of the bbq was the squirrel that made a slap-dash foray across the length of the picnic table in front of ours. The table was full of folks eating, but the squirrel didn’t care. If it had been wearing tap shoes, it would have made a stupefying clatter. It was a swell floorshow just as it was.

The other thing I liked about the bbq is that the tablecloth fabric pattern made it seem like I picked out my shirt for the purposes of both clashing and matching my shirt with the picnic squares design. I sorta looked like I was wearing a shirt made of a blue picnic tablecloth. I can live with that look, of course.

I must mention to y’all that the couple sitting behind me and Suzanne in one photo have absolutely nothing to do with us. The grouchy photo bombers were simply there, in photo after photo I took. Because you’ve seen them here, they are now famous photo guest stars on TIE O’ THE DAY. And they don’t even know it.

As for MAMMA MIA!, I’ll say the same thing I say about almost any musical: “It was a little too sing-y and dance-y for me.” That doesn’t mean it wasn’t fun. Hey, I’m the one whose idea it was to go to the show in the first place. I think ABBA’s songs hold up, but for no logical reason I can fathom. As far as I’m concerned, it was a fine evening during which we saw two shows. We saw MAMMA MIA! performed on a stage in the glorious mountains. And we saw the bonus show in which Rocky the Squirrel did some bare-paw tap-dancing and table-romping. I’d go again, just for that.

Magnet, wood Bow Tie o’ the Day had to chauffeur me home after my eye doc appointment. I was askeered I would be pulled over on I-15 for DWD: Driving While Dilated.

I was once pulled over on Legacy Parkway for a different kind of DWD that I’ve only experienced in Utah: Driving While Democrat. My bumper stickers about peace, love, and understanding “seemingly” screamed it out loudly to the officer who pulled me over for no other apparent reason that either of us could figure out. (I say “seemingly” because I’m actually a registered Republican.) The officer and I chatted amicably. We had just moved to Davis County, so I figured he was the Davis County version of the Welcome Wagon. No warnings or citations were issued. To this day, I am still wondering what that episode was truly all about. A Utah DWD is the best answer I can come up with. Perhaps the officer just wanted an up-close, real-life look at what he thought was a Utah Democrat. Those things are seen about as often as Bigfoot, jackalope, and snipes– combined.