Lavender festival count down
So, what really happens on a lavender farm when the "season" is here? To start, allergies happen. Yup, we're a slice of Provence in a sea of grass seed fields; and when the lavender begins to bud, the grass seed pollen drifts and my nose runs.
Other than that, you kick your butt into high gear. Not being a parent, I will stupidly compare this to being pregnant for 9 months and doing nothing to prepare for your child until 2 weeks before the birth. Sure you've made lists in your head, you know what's coming and what needs to be done; but until the pressure's on, it seems like you have all the time in the world (besides, there's enough going on already to keep you runnin' full time).
We're in high gear preparing for our annual lavender festival. Mowing continues, as usual - I was lucky enough to catch a piece of weed cloth in the blade the other day. This gave me a chance to stop mowing, flip the mower on it's end and spend 30 minute dislodging the cloth while I soaked in some sun. Did I mention the mowers have been giving me fits this year!
Festival prep always comes down to a lot to do in the final 2 weeks. Tents and port-a-pots have been ordered, lot of tables and chairs too. Food and wine vendors confirmed, music lined up, hundreds and hundreds of bottles and jars en route for all our products, and I'm sure I've driven Bart crazy by now with last minute requests for this label design or that ad design. Don't worry Barto, I'm sure there's more to come.
Lavender field was weeded this weekend, one more round of mowing to go and we must get the pasture we use for parking cut. It was scheduled for this week, but it looks like rain for the next few days, so we'll try for next week and hope for sun.
I will spend the next 12 days packaging product, taking care of the zillion tiny details that go to the last minute, giving tours to 4 groups, hosting a couple of TV shows and one magazine shoot. It's always stressful, but exciting to know the festival will be here and we'll host at least 2000 folks over the weekend. And, we couldn't do it with out all our friends that rally and pitch in for whatever needs to be done from packaging, to set up, to working the festival - it's our family of friends that make it happen and make it worth while!!
Now, don't go saying, "but darling, you could have done some of this earlier in the year!"... I say it every year and every year I get a little better, but it still comes down to this - it's how I operate, OK. We'll see how sane I am next week.
FYI, no garage or driveway accidents in the past month and Eloise is healing nicely.
Other than that, you kick your butt into high gear. Not being a parent, I will stupidly compare this to being pregnant for 9 months and doing nothing to prepare for your child until 2 weeks before the birth. Sure you've made lists in your head, you know what's coming and what needs to be done; but until the pressure's on, it seems like you have all the time in the world (besides, there's enough going on already to keep you runnin' full time).
We're in high gear preparing for our annual lavender festival. Mowing continues, as usual - I was lucky enough to catch a piece of weed cloth in the blade the other day. This gave me a chance to stop mowing, flip the mower on it's end and spend 30 minute dislodging the cloth while I soaked in some sun. Did I mention the mowers have been giving me fits this year!
Festival prep always comes down to a lot to do in the final 2 weeks. Tents and port-a-pots have been ordered, lot of tables and chairs too. Food and wine vendors confirmed, music lined up, hundreds and hundreds of bottles and jars en route for all our products, and I'm sure I've driven Bart crazy by now with last minute requests for this label design or that ad design. Don't worry Barto, I'm sure there's more to come.
Lavender field was weeded this weekend, one more round of mowing to go and we must get the pasture we use for parking cut. It was scheduled for this week, but it looks like rain for the next few days, so we'll try for next week and hope for sun.
I will spend the next 12 days packaging product, taking care of the zillion tiny details that go to the last minute, giving tours to 4 groups, hosting a couple of TV shows and one magazine shoot. It's always stressful, but exciting to know the festival will be here and we'll host at least 2000 folks over the weekend. And, we couldn't do it with out all our friends that rally and pitch in for whatever needs to be done from packaging, to set up, to working the festival - it's our family of friends that make it happen and make it worth while!!
Now, don't go saying, "but darling, you could have done some of this earlier in the year!"... I say it every year and every year I get a little better, but it still comes down to this - it's how I operate, OK. We'll see how sane I am next week.
FYI, no garage or driveway accidents in the past month and Eloise is healing nicely.
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