Last year, the day before I joined the Co-Operative Auto Network, I went the Vancouver Music Festival and spent some time at the outside market along the fence. I decided that I would bring my bokashi buckets next year and so I did.

This was the first time I brought inventory ready to sell at an event. I started getting ready on Wednesday with new flyers and material. I hired J, my neighbour’s son as my assistant and ‘guard dog’ as he called himself.

We started early and got there about 8:30 A.M. All day parking for $5? Can’t beat that. Got a spot between two existing booths and started to setup. Three trips later I was ready for the day:

That’s J, not me. Here I am at work:

All I can say is that the day was very long. It was great too. Lots of information given out and explanations made. I brought bokashi to sell separately and a few people bought that. As well, I have two new bokashi composting customers:

Lisa and Devin:

Kathy and Jeremy:

[Kathy has provided me with two referrals - Thanks!]

My neighbours included Miriam of Flaming Angels Design

had helpful advice about vending to share

and Leslie [taking a break]

who lent us her comfy chairs for us to sit on. Much appreciated!! I went out and bought one on Monday.

Finally, a panorama of the view from our area:

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This sure looks like a sunflower to me….

Sarah – with Jackson and Oscar – ordered a second bokashi bucket when her first one was full.

and here is where she will put her bokashi:

I’ll come back and take another picture in a month or two.

Jerry and Debbie heard about bokashi composting a friend visiting from Australia and looked me up

They are using the liquid version which works the same way. All they need is a spray bottle.

Looking north from the corner of Oak and 7th Avenue:

and at my feet a bag of apples.

The logic escapes me as to why someone would take one bite of an apple and leave the bag on the ground.

I walk by it dozens of times a week near my workplace.

A typical landscape treatment at an Esso gas station at Broadway and Burrard.

Nothing that special. A few evergreen plants and wood chips as mulch. But today when I looked down, I could read something on the chips. What???

“Steel Radial” – not a wood chip at all. Is it safe?

Apparently “Landscape Rubber Mulch Chunks” are used in playgrounds too.

Well, I’m glad to see tires being reused like this instead of burning them for power generation.

South view

North view

Something nice a block away

Back in February, I added some seeds to a new patch of dirt near Cambie Street

March 17, 2007:

They got smart later in the spring and added a huge stone, which prevented people from driving over it. Now look at the results:

Okay. I don’t even know what to call this.

I have found this is my Firestats logs a few times now:

24.75.91.18
2007-07-02 11:22:37
http://www.bokashiman.com/2007/03/a blog entry

.neurosaudio.com/community/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID= 7386

24.185.91.42
2007-07-02 13:27:10
http://www.bokashiman.com/2007/03/a blog entry [same as above]

.rhd.gov.bd/Forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID= 707

Hey! My blog was mentioned in a forum post. But when I visit the site, I see a spam ad for [insert drug here] with no reference to my blog of course. How do they do that?

All other topics in all categories were spam too. Obviously they set up the forum for that purpose.

I cannot find the forum URL in other site stats programs I am using.

Thanks to the Vancouver Jazz Festival and Granville Island for making my Canada Day great!

Spent some time hangin’ with my brother and his family.

- disappearing ink really disappears
- striking two marbles together makes cap gun sound [400 times]
- skipping rocks is hard at Granville Island [few flat stones]
- people stood around and just listened to dhol drumming.

The first time I saw dhol music live was at the Vancouver Folk Music Festival by The Dhol Foundation

They did not let us goras even think about sitting on our hands.

- the Carnival Band [myspace] should always lead the Canada Day Parade or any other parade when they play their samba rythms.

- “have some Canada Day birthday cake. 140 years old. No wait, Canada is 140 years old and the cake was made today.” Everyone who wanted a piece of cake got one. The cake was five feet long. The pieces were one inch square. My nephew managed to get three and was on a sugar high the rest of the afternoon.

- Laura Crema did a great set and sang Oh Canada too. She sang a line or two in French and no one booed. In the early ’90s, I worked with Laura. Her brother worked there too.

- some dogs have dreadlocks

- gypsy swing is beautiful
- Van Django is fantastic

- I’m listening to their music right now.