I was bumped and jostled, fortunately I was standing with a group of nice people getting the same treatment. “Excuse me, I’m just cutting through”, “Pardon me, I’m sorry, just passing through”. Even when I moved up, the traffic diverted to that space and I was still in everyone’s way. There were a ton of people at the venue for that, that ton of people choose right where I was standing to be their way to travel from one side of the sale to the other.
This entire weekend was “A Sale to Benefit the Charlie Russell Museum”, that means a Western Art Sale with guest speaker Ree Drummond. Unfortunately the first hour I moved only 5 feet which meant that my position was somewhat in a path for a long time.
It took 2 hours, no I said it took 2 hours. It was just a couple of hundred feet from where I was at. This is the line in front of me, see the screen, she was sitting just to the right of it. This is the line behind me, I never did see the end of it. After being directed and re-directed to stand in line, we found our places and waited. She promised to stay and sign every one of them. There must have been 300 or more people there just to have her sign their book(s). Immediately afterward was the book signing. She ended her speech, not with the end (pictured above…although I would have been happy for her to leave that slide up) but with a duet with Charlie with Ree singing (almost singing) both parts of my endless love (see above picture, bottom right). She talked about the difference between Herefords and heifers (it was an educational program too), cool stuff she’s done, and her blog. She was very entertaining and 45 minutes went by amazingly quick. I could hear her blog in her voice, seeing the face, the person, the voice, it came together. Ree’s speaking style was warm and friendly. In case you are wondering when she was born (see below)…for those of you trying to count, that makes her 42 years old. I managed to snap photos of her in all her best faces and poses. As a blogger who’s used to print and pictures to help them along, Ree used a slide show, it was live blogging…so to speak. Ree began by saying that she is not a speaker, she’s a blogger and when you think about that, they are polar opposites. You all need to understand, we only get people past their prime time to visit not in the height of it. The crowd roars, a standing ovation before she even begins, no really. Look! It’s a bird, it’s a plane….Heeeere’s Ree Drummond.
PIONER WOMAN PLUS
Plus I was feeling fortunate that the Pioneer Woman had come to Great Falls.Īfter a few mandatory comments and introductions of sponsors, etc. I ended up only two rows up from regular seating (at double the cost) but I did score an aisle seat with a direct view to the podium. I was 30 minutes early so I thought I should get good seats, after all I had a VIP ticket. I decided I wasn’t going to ask any questions, for once I was going to keep my mouth shut.Īfter a massive cluster of cars and parking lot(s) tribulations, I found a spot on the street, cut through the back door and I was IN. As I was driving I was thinking, do I have any questions for Ree? I mean ones that would make me sound intelligent and blogger savvy? All I really could think of, was “do you still shoot in JPEG only or have you gone back to RAW format?” For the life of me that’s all I could think of…I was as nervous as a schoolgirl about to get her first kiss…my brain wasn’t thinking. Not likely to happen, but I scurried about and was out the door and made my way to the venue in a decent amount of time. I intended to arrive 45 minutes to an hour early. *Sigh* oh well, I was sure they would have one for sale there. Seemed like the perfect cookbook for the cabin…Pioneer/Mountaineer Woman, all the same (in my head anyways). As I frantically conduct my search and released the blood hounds to sniff it out, I suddenly remember that I took it to the cabin.
Especially when I think I know where everything is. For an organized person, I’m a horrible procrastinator. I knew I should have got stuff ready the day before. Only, I can’t find my cookbook, McGyver can’t find my cookbook. I just needed to grab my “Black Heels to Tractor Wheels” and my cookbook that Leah bought me. Make-up refreshed, a quick curl in my hair (I worked earlier so there wasn’t much time for primping) and I was almost ready. I went for cute and casual and finished it off with a fabulous orange purse, it had a huge flower and rhinestones. I had carefully picked out my clothes, this was not an affair to dress to the nines in, yeah she’s famous but she’s a rancher’s wife and lives in yoga pants and jeans. I was on my way, finally I was going to see the famous Ree Drummond better known as The Pioneer Woman, blogger, photographer, home schooler (like how I used a made up word for that), gardener, cook, novelist and celebrity.
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