The fact of the matter is... It's all in the weiner whistle! Good mornin Possum's Peeps and general Sock Monkey lovers!!!!Cool temps have started in Nashville! We are goin down into the 50's this weekend!!! Wow! Fall has finally walked in the door and I introduced fall time to my Oscar Mayer weiner whistles.Makes ones stuffin go all warm and fuzzy inside. Sounds like a soup weekend. Cup of Campbell's finest never hurt anyone! Just don't step in doggie poop on the way to the car!!! May the blue bird of happiness crap on your windsheild. Just kiddin Possum's. The sun is comin up over the Hard rock cafe guitar! It'll make your Nashville button eyes water up mighty fast! May the beauty and splendor of fall time grace ya'lls doorstep! So head on out to the coffee pot and dance a little jig! Labor day weekend is here! Have a safe one!Bubba

Folkart

Good morning blog readers! Bubba is out on a photo shoot and I thought I'd tell you a little about how Bubba and I came together. My name is Mike and I am his Human. We have been together about 20 years. I had always wanted to do such a blog and didn't know quite what to use. So one afternoon while walking through a flea market in Kennesaw Georgia,I spotted my Bubba hanging from the ceiling! I had long since forgotten about Sock monkeys and was so excited to find him there. With a 6.00 price tag on him I knew that monkey had to come home with me! He was in pretty bad shape since he is and was original from the 1960's. I carefully brought him home and pretty much gave him a face and body lift. I resewed everything on him and bought eyes (buttons) for him at the local walmart. I love folkart,so he was right up my alley! And now you ask? He will be featured in the second book "Everthing keeps coming up Sock Monkeys." I collected Sock MOnkeys for a while,but then the collection got so big I had to sale them off on ebay. I have done a web site for him once upon a time,but no longer exist and now pretty much just do this blog with him. I have to admit coming up with ideas is the hardest part ever. I always have scraps of paper on me with ideas written on them. I do that cause the ideas come to me throughout the day. The funniest thing I think I ever did with him was a fellow Sock Monkey lover with her web site of her Sock Monkey Lives out in Hollywood. I emailed her one day and ask her if she lived close to the Hollywood sign. She said she did and I ask her if I could mail him out and get his picture made with the Hollywood sign. She was glad to do it. I packged his Sock Monkey butt up and off he went. Bubba went to Hollywood! The one thing I haven't done is go to the Sock Monkey festival in Rockford ILL. they have every Spring. It is a dream of mine. I know many of the other Sock Monkey folks that attend,but we have never met in person. As the story goes it's always the funds that keep us from attending such a Gayla affair. Sometimes it's the silly things that make life fun. God bless all you guys and go play with your Sock Monkey already! Mike