At the recent NW Expo (6/3/06), held in Corvallis Oregon, Traci (the show holder) had an Anything Goes class.  Well, leave it to me to figure out something totally off the wall and unexpected.  Juanita and I huddled together (via email) and came up with everything we needed for our Anything Goes entry.  Traci stated "no live animals" could be entered, so we used plush donkeys instead of the real thing.  Hey, we followed the rules to a T!

The entry is based upon the card I'm holding, which shows this older woman sitting sideways on a rather small donkey.  She's much larger than the donkey.  The caption on the card asks "Does this outfit make my ass look big?" - impossible for my twisted sense of humor to pass up.

Besides Juanita, we managed to gather 3 other sick people together.  Including Juanita's husband, Monte, who wanted to be part of the entry when he saw her gathering up our attire.  What a guy!  How many guys out there would be willing to make a complete ASS of themselves in front of lots of other folks?  Not that many!

Juanita supplied most of the long, peasant skirts we're wearing, as well as all of the shawls and scarves. They belonged to her mother, who was from Mexico.  Juanita also supplied all of the plush donkeys.

From left to right: Denise, Monte, Juanita, Cheryl and myself  (all members of the BrayNet mailing list, which is for those of us in the model horse hobby that like longears)

Here we're showing off our Asses - both of them!  Pillows were supplied by Juanita, as we're not normally that large in the rear end.

Needless to say, we garnered lots and lots of laughs, which was the main purpose of the entry.  We laughed ourselves silly while getting dressed in the back room, where no one could see us.  Blackmail was not required to entice anyone to partake of this entry, contrary to the rumors that might be floating around.  Previous to the show, Juanita and I had Traci rather worried that we might have a messy entry, as we told her it involved a large vat of jello.  She told us we needed to do any clean up that was required.  Boy, did we fool her!

We did win a blue rosette for our efforts.  I announced that it needed to go to Monte, as he was a very brave fellow to get dressed up for it.  Later on I asked my husband if he would have dressed up.  I will not repeat his exact answer here, but needless to say, it included the word "no" as part of it.  HA!

Now we have to come up with something else for 2007!  Watch out Traci!