This tour is the best. I had the chance to meet LuLu and MoKangirl..a.k.a. Connie and Kathy.
We talked about MJF , had a great chicken lunch and then went to work.
Amy Finney, the director, had it all set up for us. We planted new flowers around the museum and the half whisky barrels in front of the cabin and church. Connie was able to take care of this while sitting. She made them look fresh and ready to greet guests. Thank you to Diane Van Horn a.k.a. Fiddlehead Farm for the beautiful stepping stone. We placed it by the steps entering the gift shop. Looks pretty jazzy now. Connie mentioned she might come back to the site and bring clippings from her flowers to add to the flower beds.
Andy Taylor paid us a visit and interviewed all of us for the paper. Tried to get him to adorn and apron, but he wouldn't. Brian is doing a documentary of Laura Ingalls Wilder for PBS and he interviewed Connie. Hope it all works out.
Michelle made us feel like we had stopped our wagon on the prairie. She is a historian for many locations and was dressed as Ma. She even had pantilets (sp) from the 1870 she found at an estate sale. Her presence makes you a part of the story for the site.
It was hot and muggy, but she never broke a sweat in all the under pinnings (sp), etc. Wow!
She looked the part as she stepped out in the tall blowing prairie grass for photos.
Thank you Amy and your staff for allowing us for a visit and work on our project giving.
Off to meet with Kay Hively for another interview for the local paper in Southern Missouri. We have had great coverage at every location. Will include links when we get them.
Today is Mansfield , Missouri. Tomorrow is Bakers Creek Seed Company. If any of you are planning to join us this would be the time. The gifts MaryJane sent are only available on the tour.
Thank you to everyone who participated in this "good will " tour of Farmgirls on the Loose.
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Wende,
ReplyDeleteThank you for the tour and the chance to meet up with other like minded farmgirls. The lunch was terrific, the potato salad and baked beans very tasty indeed. And the fried chicken was done to a golden perfection. Aha then was the time when you wanted to undo your belt and roll around and moan. (alas I wasn't wearing a belt)
Then the work began, planting flowers, as if that could ever be called work. I have a problem gettting around so was assigned the half whiskey barrels. We had cockscomb,begonias, daisys, and indian paintbrush. Kathy and Wende were touring the yard with Amy to see where the flowers need to be planted and to see what needed to be thinned to fill in other areas. I started thinning one of the whiskey barrels of mums to make room for some of the more colorful plants we had to fill in. The girls were digging iris to transplant and there was the cutiest yellow flower that would be perfect to fill in between the begonias and cockscomb, Amy called them egg and butter flowers. We took some of the mums that I had thinned and put them to use in two of the whiskey barrels by the school house, along with cockscomb. Amy started packing buckets of water to water in all the flowers we had planted. I told her she needed to have a golf cart like I have at home to carry the water and tools around, she laughed and agreed that would be a fine idea.
After the planting we were invited in for some lusious chocolate cake and beverage. We all grabbed the water, there is nothing better than good cold water after an afternoon out in the hot humid weather doing something that will help a friend or neighbor out and give you avery self satisfiying sense of accomplishment.
At the end of the day we had enjoyed making new friends, sharing good food and adding some color to an already unique place. And of course we did a little shopping.