![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
The last big farm weekend is done and now there is only one tiny weekend left of the season.
I drove in friday morning and didn't jump right in as normal. I did some personal printing on their printers since I'm now ignoring mine. I printed labels for the items I'm submitting to the weavers guild show and sale and also did some fiddling with pdf editors and then was able to print a sewing pattern on their 24x36 inch roll printer which worked super well. The copy shop pdf is 36x48 inches, so I just had to figure out how to rotate and split the pages. I have some trimming of margins to do, but overall the patterns look great and saves me a ton of time cutting and taping together 8.5x11 sheets of paper.
Friday night we only had one group so we used the time to get ahead for saturday. Sunny weather forecasted both days and we had 9 groups coming saturday.
Saturday was sunny but also incredibly windy. It hasn't rained in weeks, so I set up our woods worker with an extra helper, a 30 gal tank of water with a hose, a rake and a shovel. I had them clean the areas around the campfire rings of leaves, light the fires closer to the start of the outings than normal, stay down in the woods with them until the groups got there and put the fires out if there was more than a half hour between outings going into the same site. Dad and B briefed the outing folks on what to do with the fires and we made it through the day without a single issue! We have lightly set the woods on fire in the past, so I didn't want that to happen this weekend when we were so busy and a fire would throw things off schedule.
I jammed my thumb at some point Friday or Saturday and spent the day dealing with it hurting on and off which was surprisingly annoying. It still feels a little odd today as I type this but not hurting anymore.
We were busy! Lots of people came out and bought pumpkins and other things. We were starting to run low on some things, so during the day, I had my stockers consolidate some of the squash displays. We finally harvested the hulless seeded pumpkins, so I put those out in the place where all the honey/maple syrup had been since we sold almost all of those. The jams/jellies fully sold out so I replaced them with the goosenecks/bird house gourds.
Sunday was less busy with groups and a little more chilly, so we set up a fire ring up by the selling area for the workers/us. We set out hot dogs/marshmallows for the workers to eat through the day. We were still decently busy with the public so I didn't get a ton of time to hang out by the fire during the day, but once it got dark and only the groups were left in the woods, I got to sit by the fire. Very nice. Love fires.
It was a late night, I got to bed around 11pm and slept in until 7 or so. Got up and got around, then immediately had to help with the monday morning school group outings. Setting up sites (no fires for kiddos), then had to drive a tractor at one point because the groups got all screwy of course. Partially because my mom didn't really do any group coordination and I wasn't really involved with the groups during the week because I wouldn't be there. So it goes. which is why she shouldn't be involved much more, she just doesn't want to manage.
I did get my data entry and money reconcile done and then packed and hit the road by noon. Got home, unloaded and then laid in bed for an hour and a half until crafting time.
Mom is open for last minute pumpkin sales this week, so I think dad restocked the display and they texted they were surprised how many people came out yesterday afternoon to get things. Since we bought so many pumpkins, it was easy to tell what we had left. We emptied all the bins of weird and unusuals, mini pumpkins, gourds. For carving pumpkins, when I left there was all the pumpkins on the displays, two partial bins near the displays and I think four more bins in the storage area. Which is wildly good guess on how many pumpkins we needed when we were buying them.
I did finally figure out the thing that made a good pumpkin display and it's that the pumpkins must be an inch or less apart on the display. So if it's more than an inch, wiggle the pumpkins all over until there's enough room for another and voila, good display. I trained my stocker on this and the displays look better than ever. I can't be out there stocking anymore, so the displays would look a little sad by the end of the day, but now they look great the whole time. I did tell G what a good job he did stocking (once I taught him this) because I simply don't have time to do that with all the things I'm doing in the selling area.
This coming weekend, we aren't really open to the public but we have three groups over the whole weekend, so it should be cleanup and debrief on what worked and didn't work. Almost almost done!
I drove in friday morning and didn't jump right in as normal. I did some personal printing on their printers since I'm now ignoring mine. I printed labels for the items I'm submitting to the weavers guild show and sale and also did some fiddling with pdf editors and then was able to print a sewing pattern on their 24x36 inch roll printer which worked super well. The copy shop pdf is 36x48 inches, so I just had to figure out how to rotate and split the pages. I have some trimming of margins to do, but overall the patterns look great and saves me a ton of time cutting and taping together 8.5x11 sheets of paper.
Friday night we only had one group so we used the time to get ahead for saturday. Sunny weather forecasted both days and we had 9 groups coming saturday.
Saturday was sunny but also incredibly windy. It hasn't rained in weeks, so I set up our woods worker with an extra helper, a 30 gal tank of water with a hose, a rake and a shovel. I had them clean the areas around the campfire rings of leaves, light the fires closer to the start of the outings than normal, stay down in the woods with them until the groups got there and put the fires out if there was more than a half hour between outings going into the same site. Dad and B briefed the outing folks on what to do with the fires and we made it through the day without a single issue! We have lightly set the woods on fire in the past, so I didn't want that to happen this weekend when we were so busy and a fire would throw things off schedule.
I jammed my thumb at some point Friday or Saturday and spent the day dealing with it hurting on and off which was surprisingly annoying. It still feels a little odd today as I type this but not hurting anymore.
We were busy! Lots of people came out and bought pumpkins and other things. We were starting to run low on some things, so during the day, I had my stockers consolidate some of the squash displays. We finally harvested the hulless seeded pumpkins, so I put those out in the place where all the honey/maple syrup had been since we sold almost all of those. The jams/jellies fully sold out so I replaced them with the goosenecks/bird house gourds.
Sunday was less busy with groups and a little more chilly, so we set up a fire ring up by the selling area for the workers/us. We set out hot dogs/marshmallows for the workers to eat through the day. We were still decently busy with the public so I didn't get a ton of time to hang out by the fire during the day, but once it got dark and only the groups were left in the woods, I got to sit by the fire. Very nice. Love fires.
It was a late night, I got to bed around 11pm and slept in until 7 or so. Got up and got around, then immediately had to help with the monday morning school group outings. Setting up sites (no fires for kiddos), then had to drive a tractor at one point because the groups got all screwy of course. Partially because my mom didn't really do any group coordination and I wasn't really involved with the groups during the week because I wouldn't be there. So it goes. which is why she shouldn't be involved much more, she just doesn't want to manage.
I did get my data entry and money reconcile done and then packed and hit the road by noon. Got home, unloaded and then laid in bed for an hour and a half until crafting time.
Mom is open for last minute pumpkin sales this week, so I think dad restocked the display and they texted they were surprised how many people came out yesterday afternoon to get things. Since we bought so many pumpkins, it was easy to tell what we had left. We emptied all the bins of weird and unusuals, mini pumpkins, gourds. For carving pumpkins, when I left there was all the pumpkins on the displays, two partial bins near the displays and I think four more bins in the storage area. Which is wildly good guess on how many pumpkins we needed when we were buying them.
I did finally figure out the thing that made a good pumpkin display and it's that the pumpkins must be an inch or less apart on the display. So if it's more than an inch, wiggle the pumpkins all over until there's enough room for another and voila, good display. I trained my stocker on this and the displays look better than ever. I can't be out there stocking anymore, so the displays would look a little sad by the end of the day, but now they look great the whole time. I did tell G what a good job he did stocking (once I taught him this) because I simply don't have time to do that with all the things I'm doing in the selling area.
This coming weekend, we aren't really open to the public but we have three groups over the whole weekend, so it should be cleanup and debrief on what worked and didn't work. Almost almost done!
