It's been a week (and it's only thursday)
Aug. 22nd, 2024 02:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
unicorndukeLast week, I saw that a queer market organization in my area was having a Market On the Farm, which seemed really cool and neat. It was a market during the afternoon and then a drag show and music in the evening on a farm out in pretty good middle of nowhere. And then they asked for volunteers since they needed help moving stuff around and parking. So I said I would help!
I took my truck to get an oil change and then headed over. They ended up needing less help than they thought, but I helped last minute vendors set up their tents, I carried things, I directed parking. That was interesting because they had a farm store that was relatively busy with locals so during the market, locals were stopping in to get their milk, meat, etc.
So when parking, I just asked folks if they were here for the market or the store and if they were with the store, they could pull up and if they were here for the market, I'd direct them to park. It was a surprising amount of people stopping at the farm store, at least 1-3 cars at all times especially since it wasn't a managed farm store, just self serve. A couple people asked about the market and I just said it was a LGBTQ focused market and they were welcome to attend and a couple of people did which was nice.
I was supposed to help with the changeover from market to event, but there was some last minute changes and in the end, I left a little after 6.
During the lull, I ended up going and petting a dog that someone brought and we got chatting and it turns out she had been a 4-h kid and worked with horses and goats and in the dairy industry for a bit and was super interesting and neat, so we talked a bunch and exchanged phone numbers to text. Fast friends it was.
Sunday I baked in anticipation of the trip, sables, hazelnut cookies, corn jalapeno corn muffins, bread for sandwiches. F hosted family lunch, so we had some people over. F had made stuff that rested in the fridge overnight and assembled wraps that day with a cucumber salad. Pretty tasty!
Monday was raining and I split my trap route over two days which was good because it left me time to attend a meeting to take notes for my boss, who had covid and to get my old work computer wiped to hand off to another tech. That took almost two hours where I mostly sat there on my phone and the IT guy poked at the computer.
Yesterday I spent a late day out and about, harvesting shallot seed, which took way less time than I thought plus some other small tasks. Then I had two hours to kill, so I went and got ice cream. I got a boston shake, which is a sundae on top of a milkshake. Weird but delicious. Then I was tired and full so I just took a nap in the car. Then there was the late field meeting, started at 6pm in the field, went to 8 and then there was cleanup and talking after. I got to talk to another person who had done farm transition and working with a parent on the farm and got some advice. He thought I was getting a good deal out of it, so that was interesting. But I got home at 10pm.
I took my truck to get an oil change and then headed over. They ended up needing less help than they thought, but I helped last minute vendors set up their tents, I carried things, I directed parking. That was interesting because they had a farm store that was relatively busy with locals so during the market, locals were stopping in to get their milk, meat, etc.
So when parking, I just asked folks if they were here for the market or the store and if they were with the store, they could pull up and if they were here for the market, I'd direct them to park. It was a surprising amount of people stopping at the farm store, at least 1-3 cars at all times especially since it wasn't a managed farm store, just self serve. A couple people asked about the market and I just said it was a LGBTQ focused market and they were welcome to attend and a couple of people did which was nice.
I was supposed to help with the changeover from market to event, but there was some last minute changes and in the end, I left a little after 6.
During the lull, I ended up going and petting a dog that someone brought and we got chatting and it turns out she had been a 4-h kid and worked with horses and goats and in the dairy industry for a bit and was super interesting and neat, so we talked a bunch and exchanged phone numbers to text. Fast friends it was.
Sunday I baked in anticipation of the trip, sables, hazelnut cookies, corn jalapeno corn muffins, bread for sandwiches. F hosted family lunch, so we had some people over. F had made stuff that rested in the fridge overnight and assembled wraps that day with a cucumber salad. Pretty tasty!
Monday was raining and I split my trap route over two days which was good because it left me time to attend a meeting to take notes for my boss, who had covid and to get my old work computer wiped to hand off to another tech. That took almost two hours where I mostly sat there on my phone and the IT guy poked at the computer.
Yesterday I spent a late day out and about, harvesting shallot seed, which took way less time than I thought plus some other small tasks. Then I had two hours to kill, so I went and got ice cream. I got a boston shake, which is a sundae on top of a milkshake. Weird but delicious. Then I was tired and full so I just took a nap in the car. Then there was the late field meeting, started at 6pm in the field, went to 8 and then there was cleanup and talking after. I got to talk to another person who had done farm transition and working with a parent on the farm and got some advice. He thought I was getting a good deal out of it, so that was interesting. But I got home at 10pm.
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Date: 2024-08-23 05:05 am (UTC)The boston shake sounds splendid!
And a pretty sensible thing to select given how much week you've been having.
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Date: 2024-08-23 01:09 pm (UTC)