We're having a Harvest Festival!

Sorry I haven't said much lately, guys and gals. The farm has been in high gear for a couple of weeks to get ready for our Harvest Festival! The Harvest Festival is tomorrow and Sunday. Even now, I'm upstairs in the barn helping the garden crew make signs and potato stampers. Well, the stampers are finished. We made every letter of the alphabet, plus an exclamation mark, a heart, and a star. They're adorable. And the potatoes they're made of were harvested just this evening. By me! And some other folks. About half of them are red potatoes and the other half are purple potatoes. Purple potatoes, by the way, are fantastic. The first step to making stampers was (obviously) to wash the dirt off. And I knew the potatoes were purple, but while scrubbing them under the water, as that layer of dirt came off, they looked like jewels. Amethysts, perhaps. They're SO PURPLE!

So there will be potato stampers at the Harvest Fest, along with lots of other stuff. There are lots of garden games, plus a pumpkin patch and farm stand for our vegetables. Also, several evenings this week were devoted to making a hay maze in the barn where the goats usually are. (They have been put in a pasture for the weekend.) The maze is going to be super cute. There will be animals in it and everything. And even though we'd made it and should have known our way around, we kept making wrong turns while working on it. That's how you know it's a good maze: When those who built it can't find their way out. It's labyrinthian.

Plus, us education folks will be out in the Global Village. One of us will be in each site and we'll be doing activities for each country. I am in Peru tomorrow and we will be threshing amaranth. And I am in Guatemala on Sunday where we will roast and grind and make and drink coffee. And if I can swing it, I am hoping to switch with someone and spend some time in Poland where a local spinning club will have set up shop. Spinning as in yarn. I'm trying to get myself adopted by them.

So, anyway, we have an early day tomorrow and I'm pretty much completely exhausted from today. This also may be the latest I have stayed up since arriving here. But getting ready for things like festivals is fun, so I am having a good time. The only damper is that there is a 100% chance of rain from 11 to 5 tomorrow, which are pretty much the exact hours of our fair. Oops. But Sunday should totally rock! Now, we must finish laminating and gluing things so we can sleep! Goodnight!