July - One Busy Month!

July was a very busy month at the farm. Don and I drove out from CT on the 14th, and were joined a day later by friends Karen K. and Carol H. who arrived to help road-test the idea of a summer commune for friends, family, and kindly strangers who drop in unexpectedly. We shared a very pleasant and relatively quiet week together, before the craziness of Farm n Fun began.

Took Jack and Helen to see their first major league baseball game - watching the Indians trounce the White Sox at Jacobs Field, which is a terrific place to watch a ball game. Cleveland is in second place in the Central division, which is not too bad!

Mid-week I had to head out to a board meeting in Boulder, but Karen and Carol amused themselves with visits to the West Side Market, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and our alma mater, Oberlin. (Photo credits to Ms. K) Down time was filled with catching up on each others lives, and learning to knit. Here's Ms. H. demonstrating her progress! Karen and I decided next year we'll plan a quilting week and all make squares of our own design and then put them together and tie-quilt it.

Don is usually pretty bored in Ohio, but this year he kept busy playing with my new toy, the husky Husqvarna lawn tractor that I have always coveted and now finally have a real need for! Oh, yes, all the boys had fun with this and I hardly got a chance to use my own tractor!

Friday afternoon, Farm n Fun campers started showing up. As Paul says, this is really three parties in one: first, from Friday night until about 5pm on Saturday - when everyone comes back from the softball game and hops in the pool to cool off. Second, from evening Saturday - the pot luck, the pinatas, the jam sessions - to the evening stage show and the bonfire and then party into the wee hours. And last, Sunday morning - breakfast around the campfire, everyone pitching in to help clean up, and ending with the Frisbee golf game in the mid-afternoon. Next post will have party pictures!