Summer Fun

[offcntr]

Cross posted from www.offcenter.biz.

I never really had a summer vacation, growing up.

Summer on a farm is the second busiest season of the year (fall is first). Planting and weeding and harvesting the garden. Baling hay, first and second crop. The annual cattle drive, where we ran the yearling heifers a mile down the dirt road to summer pasture. Butchering chickens.

This on top of twice-daily milking, weekly barn cleaning, spring clean-out of the pig pen and chicken coops. So much manure.

So the whole idea of summer vacation, much less summer camp, felt alien to me--still did, decades later when I taught ceramics at a summer camp in Connecticut.

And of course, summer is now art fair season. For years, I was all over the map, doing as many as six or eight road shows a year. That's eased up quite a bit in recent years. Since 2020, my Saturday Market sales have increased to the point that I don't need to go out on the road nearly as much anymore. Last year, I only did two summer shows.

This year, I'm doing one.

This isn't entirely by choice. I applied to both the UVA Summer Arts Festival in Roseburg and the Anacortes Arts Festival. I was accepted to Roseburg, wait-listed by Anacortes.

I may still get a call from them sometime before August. If so, I'll let you know on my Find Us page. In the meantime, look for me at the end of June at the Summer Arts Festival in Roseburg.

I hope to make quite a splash.

Comments

made me think of that Oshkosh B'Gosh ad

[chefxh]

"been farming long?"

I only had to be a dairy farmer for 3 years and that was PLENTY.

No WONDER you can't be idle.

Re: made me think of that Oshkosh B'Gosh ad

[offcntr]

I often get the comment from people seeing my booth for the first time, This looks like a lot of work!

I reply, I grew up on a dairy farm. Nothing will ever be that much work again.