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Oct. 12th, 2020 09:00 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
unicornduke Weekend was extremely busy. I went to PA day early after a busy week of work. Last week I helped grade our entire sweet potato trial which is weighing all individual roots from each 10 ft section. We planted probably 800 feet of trial so there were many sweet potatoes. Then I harvested leeks Thursday and left from work to head to my parents. It was full on chaos from there. I had to get my garlic in the ground so we got the bed layer and I planted that friday morning. After that, I worked on the displays.
Usually what happens is they pick everything and just leave it in bins because they don't have time to do displays. But displays sell things better than bins. So I took most stuff and had at least one display of each thing and rearranged everything and filled all the displays really full. It took a while but they gave me the bobcat and free rein. Then I put prices on everything. Number one mistake for farms is not putting pricing on stuff.
If you need to market farm products, stack them high, put them at waist to chest height. Figure out which products are guaranteed sales (pumpkins for us) then put everything else on the way to the register. And if you sell gourds, put bags with the gourds.
Dad also went to an auction friday and bought a bunch of stuff. They didnt have a great crop this year and they have a ton more customers this year because of covid. Last weekend they set a record for the farm and I suspect this past weekend they set it again.
There were group outings friday night but they cleared out quick.
Saturday was a bonkers nightmare. We ran out of parking and people were parking on the church lawn. Two of our workers had called out and the one usually watches the campfires. We set the woods on fire only a little bit. It was windy and it has been so dry down there that the leaves around the fire caught. Thankfully only 20 feet around the fire burned before we put it out.
Around 2pm (farm opened at noon), when we were busiest, one of the computer registers went down. I went to try and fix it and just took the register over because I could remember what stuff cost and could make change fast. I used a calculator to help me along. Finally Z was able to find another laptop and get the POS system loaded on but it was about an hour and a half I was on register. We had three registers running and still had a big line. (Masks were required in the selling area even though it was an open pole building because there was no way we were all distancing)
Then one of our tractors broke, thankfully one of the less important ones. Something happened and melted the battery terminal. Still don't know what.
I walked the dogs around 6, which is when things slowed down enough to spare me. Last group left the farm right around 9:30 that night and I just passed out.
Sunday was easier. Mostly just display stocking in the morning, with so much less product left. It was less busy and there were two more people. I was able to start packing by 1:30 and hit the road around 3:30.
Now I'm waiting for my coworkers to get here to harvest our potato trial. I'm considering napping. I need to keep a fiber project in my truck or something.
Usually what happens is they pick everything and just leave it in bins because they don't have time to do displays. But displays sell things better than bins. So I took most stuff and had at least one display of each thing and rearranged everything and filled all the displays really full. It took a while but they gave me the bobcat and free rein. Then I put prices on everything. Number one mistake for farms is not putting pricing on stuff.
If you need to market farm products, stack them high, put them at waist to chest height. Figure out which products are guaranteed sales (pumpkins for us) then put everything else on the way to the register. And if you sell gourds, put bags with the gourds.
Dad also went to an auction friday and bought a bunch of stuff. They didnt have a great crop this year and they have a ton more customers this year because of covid. Last weekend they set a record for the farm and I suspect this past weekend they set it again.
There were group outings friday night but they cleared out quick.
Saturday was a bonkers nightmare. We ran out of parking and people were parking on the church lawn. Two of our workers had called out and the one usually watches the campfires. We set the woods on fire only a little bit. It was windy and it has been so dry down there that the leaves around the fire caught. Thankfully only 20 feet around the fire burned before we put it out.
Around 2pm (farm opened at noon), when we were busiest, one of the computer registers went down. I went to try and fix it and just took the register over because I could remember what stuff cost and could make change fast. I used a calculator to help me along. Finally Z was able to find another laptop and get the POS system loaded on but it was about an hour and a half I was on register. We had three registers running and still had a big line. (Masks were required in the selling area even though it was an open pole building because there was no way we were all distancing)
Then one of our tractors broke, thankfully one of the less important ones. Something happened and melted the battery terminal. Still don't know what.
I walked the dogs around 6, which is when things slowed down enough to spare me. Last group left the farm right around 9:30 that night and I just passed out.
Sunday was easier. Mostly just display stocking in the morning, with so much less product left. It was less busy and there were two more people. I was able to start packing by 1:30 and hit the road around 3:30.
Now I'm waiting for my coworkers to get here to harvest our potato trial. I'm considering napping. I need to keep a fiber project in my truck or something.
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Date: 2020-10-12 03:24 pm (UTC)I'm impressed with how you recount a lengthy and excessive busy weekend, consider napping, and wind up at needing a fibre project.
(that was a lot! I hope you've got stuff like this on your resume, because it's impressive.)
"Surprise melty battery terminal" can mean an internal short in the battery; that's time for a new battery.
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Date: 2020-10-13 01:24 pm (UTC)It is difficult to put these things on a resume because I mostly just say. Oh I did stuff. I'm working on it though.
Apparently they had been starting the tractor with a screwdriver at least part of the time which is usually the start of a starter system decline. Not the first time we've done it so shrugs. It'll get fixed eventually