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unicornduke) wrote2023-10-02 08:21 am
unicornduke) wrote2023-10-02 08:21 am
I'm alive, just tired
I kept meaning to make posts about all the things I was doing in the past few weeks but didn't feel like it. I went to a fiber festival, hosted a in-person crafting meetup, taught someone to spin, did a lot of work preparing a lot of seed equipment for travel and use, plus figuring how it would work for various crops. Posts to make this week: Crafting roundup + fiber festival haul, book reading roundup
This weekend I accidently double booked myself a couple weeks ago, but worked it out so that I could do both things. So Friday morning, I left to my parents, arrived at noon, ate food, then worked for 9 hours. I primarily was getting the fall displays in order, which involves running around with the bobcat skidsteer moving bins and tables around so it all looks good. Then filling the displays. I did most of the prep work on friday by myself, making false bottoms for the wooden bins (so the items appear to fill a bin but they make great tall stacks and no one actually wants to get things out of the bottom of a bin), cutting up the spare planks that I had painted earlier in the week to make price signs, moving tables and bins around so that we could fit more in each of the areas.
Then Saturday morning, I was given two minions to help me. They were decent workers and I worked near them on other important stuff while they did tedious things like, take all the tiny pumpkins out of the bin and put them on a different display so the first one could be filled with something else. Or splitting up the items that have different prices onto different displays. (I have a whole system for these things that I can't fully articulate but I Just Know what each display needs to work for each item) I worked on the RST (Rolling Selling Thingy, a moveable tiny barn thing that my parents use as a checkout building), because it was filled with boxes of stuff and not a ton of display room. I moved the extra stuff out, moved the table against the wall and made a hanger bar to hold farm sweatshirts and tshirts for sale. Then I assigned a third worker to label and put out the jars of honey, preserves and other small things in there because they all needed labels before they went on the shelf. They ended up labeling every item, which was awesome, so they can just be put out for sale. I also set up a selfie area in front of my favorite tractor, the international 140 cultivating tractor, which mostly consisted of putting a bench in front of it with some cornstalks, haybales and pumpkins, plus one for the seat so no one would climb on it.
Then we opened for business and I helped with that until my alarm rang at 4pm, then I grabbed my food from the fridge (I had packed everything else in the morning) and drove home. I had left Mara at home with F taking care of her because she just adds so much time to the drive and also she wouldn't have enjoyed it. Plus, my parents had to put their dog down recently (RIP Iggy, sweet little puppo) due to cancer so it was a quiet house.
Yesterday morning, I got up at 5, packed up my supplies for the day, walked Mara and hit the road by 7 to get down to a work event by 8:30. I was early and folks ended up baking out too but we had some people come by and do some seed processing. The main benefit was getting to know the other folks working on seed in the area and collaborate with them and hopefully keep in touch for future things. Otherwise, it was fairly miserable. We were parked right next to the music stage, and in the afternoon, I gave up and put on ear protection.
I was able to leave around 5 but C was stuck behind the band until 7 when they were able to pull the trailer out and leave. Things I learned: rudbekia (black eyed susan) seed heads produce tiny slivers, not unlike plexiglass splinters that make me itch and then I have to pull out of my hands. Gloves and long sleeves next time, but also very fun to run through a thresher. I got home a bit after 6, took care of Mara, then laid in bed and watched tv. My hands are sore typing this from all the things I did in the last three days.
We're supposed to hit 80F on Wednesday which is so weird. Technically we're in frost watch time. Shrugs.
This weekend I accidently double booked myself a couple weeks ago, but worked it out so that I could do both things. So Friday morning, I left to my parents, arrived at noon, ate food, then worked for 9 hours. I primarily was getting the fall displays in order, which involves running around with the bobcat skidsteer moving bins and tables around so it all looks good. Then filling the displays. I did most of the prep work on friday by myself, making false bottoms for the wooden bins (so the items appear to fill a bin but they make great tall stacks and no one actually wants to get things out of the bottom of a bin), cutting up the spare planks that I had painted earlier in the week to make price signs, moving tables and bins around so that we could fit more in each of the areas.
Then Saturday morning, I was given two minions to help me. They were decent workers and I worked near them on other important stuff while they did tedious things like, take all the tiny pumpkins out of the bin and put them on a different display so the first one could be filled with something else. Or splitting up the items that have different prices onto different displays. (I have a whole system for these things that I can't fully articulate but I Just Know what each display needs to work for each item) I worked on the RST (Rolling Selling Thingy, a moveable tiny barn thing that my parents use as a checkout building), because it was filled with boxes of stuff and not a ton of display room. I moved the extra stuff out, moved the table against the wall and made a hanger bar to hold farm sweatshirts and tshirts for sale. Then I assigned a third worker to label and put out the jars of honey, preserves and other small things in there because they all needed labels before they went on the shelf. They ended up labeling every item, which was awesome, so they can just be put out for sale. I also set up a selfie area in front of my favorite tractor, the international 140 cultivating tractor, which mostly consisted of putting a bench in front of it with some cornstalks, haybales and pumpkins, plus one for the seat so no one would climb on it.
Then we opened for business and I helped with that until my alarm rang at 4pm, then I grabbed my food from the fridge (I had packed everything else in the morning) and drove home. I had left Mara at home with F taking care of her because she just adds so much time to the drive and also she wouldn't have enjoyed it. Plus, my parents had to put their dog down recently (RIP Iggy, sweet little puppo) due to cancer so it was a quiet house.
Yesterday morning, I got up at 5, packed up my supplies for the day, walked Mara and hit the road by 7 to get down to a work event by 8:30. I was early and folks ended up baking out too but we had some people come by and do some seed processing. The main benefit was getting to know the other folks working on seed in the area and collaborate with them and hopefully keep in touch for future things. Otherwise, it was fairly miserable. We were parked right next to the music stage, and in the afternoon, I gave up and put on ear protection.
I was able to leave around 5 but C was stuck behind the band until 7 when they were able to pull the trailer out and leave. Things I learned: rudbekia (black eyed susan) seed heads produce tiny slivers, not unlike plexiglass splinters that make me itch and then I have to pull out of my hands. Gloves and long sleeves next time, but also very fun to run through a thresher. I got home a bit after 6, took care of Mara, then laid in bed and watched tv. My hands are sore typing this from all the things I did in the last three days.
We're supposed to hit 80F on Wednesday which is so weird. Technically we're in frost watch time. Shrugs.
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That was a lot!
Commiserations about your hands, and glad to know you haven't died.
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Words get impossible from time to time, yeah.
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It sounds like you're getting all kinds of things done, which is a good thing? But tiring.
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It seems like you also have been doing many things!