It was a seasonable day for the start of December, or maybe slightly warm, and sunny. Any time you can get to a crafts sale in December and unload without snow and ice underfoot, and without snow or rain falling on you, is good news.
This crafts sale is in the Newton South High School cafeteria, run by the city PTA council to benefit the schools.
We had the same location as last year, with plenty of space behind us and live music immediately to the right. Don’t get me wrong, the music was one amateur trio of string bass, quattro (a Puerto Rican 4-stringed guitar), and violin; a piano, clarinet, and vocalist trio from the senior center; a high school a capella group; and two jazz groups from the high school. But everyone was pretty good and fun to listen to. Charley, Nicole, and Emma showed up and hung around for a little bit of the afternoon. We kept selling stamps the whole time — business started early in the day and kept going at a fairly steady pace until fifteen minutes after the event was supposed to be over. Arlene sold two monotypes, too.
We went out to dinner at Lam’s in Newtonville afterwards. I had a big bowl of Burmese chicken curry noodle soup, just what I wanted.