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unicorndukeFriday was a success. I drove down to the location and unloaded equipment, getting it setup to process seed. We did some demos for a master gardener group and got an entire 55 gal trash can plus a ~30 gal bin of rudbeckia processed through the thresher. I did regret this, rudbeckia produces tiny pointy fibers that make one extremely itchy but I did wear an extra shirt that I could take off.
I hit the road by 1:30pm, leaving the trailer behind and took a lovely backroad down to the state border, then got on a highway. Rolled into town at 4:30pm, 30 mins before we opened and I had to shower the rudbeckia off before I died of itchy. There were already customers there of course, but mom was taking care of them. I got my employee going on her tasks for groups and then settled in to get admin tasks done for the weekend. Group schedules, employee schedules for me, etc.
Saturday and Sunday we were open and the weather was glorious, 65-68F and sunny, so tshirt weather comfy and not super sweaty. We sold a bunch of stuff. We've caught up on all the tasks we were going to be super behind on, so we're adding public hayrides back in to the rotation, just charging a dollar per person to take them, which is different than before.
My cash money reconcile continues to go decently, I've been within $5 most times which I call good enough. Mom keeps asking me how the reconcile works and if it matches the register sales and what she's depositing but at 10pm after we've been working all day and I don't know how to words at that point. I told her to ask me at a time that isn't 10pm.
The group outings are the killer on tiredness, the last one goes until 9:30pm, then there's close registers, buildings, clean up sites, reconcile cash means bedtime is 10:30 or 11pm and up the next morning to be out the door by 8am because employees are coming at 9 and we need to be ready to send them out to their tasks.
The thing that was going to be terrible this week for work has been cancelled. We were supposed to go to northern vermont with the seed trailer. Yay! But also that means I won't get a weekend off the farm. Oop. I might see about taking a day off work just to lay around the house and sleep because I'm tired.
Yesterday I went to the Amish auction with my dad which was a delightful time other than my dad forgetting which day the auction started at 12pm. It wasn't, the auction started at 2pm yesterday. Oops. So instead he took us on a long drive down this valley where the auction is, top to bottom, really nice Amish farms and beautiful mountains. Then we sat in the parking lot, he did work emails on his phone, I read for a bit. We both took a nap. Then we went around looking at all the pumpkins and stuff. Finally bidding started. It's a pretty small auction, there was only 2 doz buyers or so and prices were cheap yesterday. Almost everything we bought came in under the ideal price and nowhere near the dropout price point. We were aiming to buy enough to fill the truck/trailer we brought and a box truck they will deliver and we overbought because dad decided to bid on one or two things that I wasn't expecting and I told him to take all four of the last thing we bid on. Aiming for 34 bins total and we got 38. I took notes on what we bought so we'd know how many big pumpkins, how many small pumpkins, etc that we bought and how many bins.
However! Many of the bins are short bins, which are half the height and usually things like small pumpkins, gourds, squashes come in these and you can stack them double. So we did that, got 17 of our 38 bins on the truck and trailer plus ten 1/2 bushel boxes of tiny pumpkins and 24 mums. There's another auction Thursday, so dad will have them buy for him to fill the 24 bins on the box truck and have them delivered. Plus the other 12 enormous mums that we couldn't fit in the truck. Then we drove home, I hopped on crafting in the middle when I had cell service and we got home around 7pm. I did not drive home that night because work did a good thing.
We harvested sweet potatoes today, located between my parents and home, so I hit the road at 6:30am and beat my coworker to the farm for harvest. Busy day but we finished by 2pm ish and I headed home. I'm really tired but I need to call one farm client. I also have a nutrient management plan that I need to write that has been languishing. Mostly not my fault, the client took literal months to get it to me, but now I'm so busy.
I also am supposed to give a demo of tablet weaving for the weavers guild on thursday night which I haven't set up a warp for yet. I'm hoping I can get it done in time. Mostly I need to dig a lot of bands out to show. The warp shouldn't take long, it's relatively simple.
I hit the road by 1:30pm, leaving the trailer behind and took a lovely backroad down to the state border, then got on a highway. Rolled into town at 4:30pm, 30 mins before we opened and I had to shower the rudbeckia off before I died of itchy. There were already customers there of course, but mom was taking care of them. I got my employee going on her tasks for groups and then settled in to get admin tasks done for the weekend. Group schedules, employee schedules for me, etc.
Saturday and Sunday we were open and the weather was glorious, 65-68F and sunny, so tshirt weather comfy and not super sweaty. We sold a bunch of stuff. We've caught up on all the tasks we were going to be super behind on, so we're adding public hayrides back in to the rotation, just charging a dollar per person to take them, which is different than before.
My cash money reconcile continues to go decently, I've been within $5 most times which I call good enough. Mom keeps asking me how the reconcile works and if it matches the register sales and what she's depositing but at 10pm after we've been working all day and I don't know how to words at that point. I told her to ask me at a time that isn't 10pm.
The group outings are the killer on tiredness, the last one goes until 9:30pm, then there's close registers, buildings, clean up sites, reconcile cash means bedtime is 10:30 or 11pm and up the next morning to be out the door by 8am because employees are coming at 9 and we need to be ready to send them out to their tasks.
The thing that was going to be terrible this week for work has been cancelled. We were supposed to go to northern vermont with the seed trailer. Yay! But also that means I won't get a weekend off the farm. Oop. I might see about taking a day off work just to lay around the house and sleep because I'm tired.
Yesterday I went to the Amish auction with my dad which was a delightful time other than my dad forgetting which day the auction started at 12pm. It wasn't, the auction started at 2pm yesterday. Oops. So instead he took us on a long drive down this valley where the auction is, top to bottom, really nice Amish farms and beautiful mountains. Then we sat in the parking lot, he did work emails on his phone, I read for a bit. We both took a nap. Then we went around looking at all the pumpkins and stuff. Finally bidding started. It's a pretty small auction, there was only 2 doz buyers or so and prices were cheap yesterday. Almost everything we bought came in under the ideal price and nowhere near the dropout price point. We were aiming to buy enough to fill the truck/trailer we brought and a box truck they will deliver and we overbought because dad decided to bid on one or two things that I wasn't expecting and I told him to take all four of the last thing we bid on. Aiming for 34 bins total and we got 38. I took notes on what we bought so we'd know how many big pumpkins, how many small pumpkins, etc that we bought and how many bins.
However! Many of the bins are short bins, which are half the height and usually things like small pumpkins, gourds, squashes come in these and you can stack them double. So we did that, got 17 of our 38 bins on the truck and trailer plus ten 1/2 bushel boxes of tiny pumpkins and 24 mums. There's another auction Thursday, so dad will have them buy for him to fill the 24 bins on the box truck and have them delivered. Plus the other 12 enormous mums that we couldn't fit in the truck. Then we drove home, I hopped on crafting in the middle when I had cell service and we got home around 7pm. I did not drive home that night because work did a good thing.
We harvested sweet potatoes today, located between my parents and home, so I hit the road at 6:30am and beat my coworker to the farm for harvest. Busy day but we finished by 2pm ish and I headed home. I'm really tired but I need to call one farm client. I also have a nutrient management plan that I need to write that has been languishing. Mostly not my fault, the client took literal months to get it to me, but now I'm so busy.
I also am supposed to give a demo of tablet weaving for the weavers guild on thursday night which I haven't set up a warp for yet. I'm hoping I can get it done in time. Mostly I need to dig a lot of bands out to show. The warp shouldn't take long, it's relatively simple.
