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Aug. 6th, 2012 09:41 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bluecastleso.... I just made a list of everything I need to get done at work today, and freaked out a little. then pal CeeCee called to make a date for lunch, so that was good. But before I launch into web stuff, and paperwork and more paperwork ... here I am to say HI!
Our weekend theatrical adventures went okay. it was the first time out for this 1800s theme, so there are surely improvements that we can make. And it was a hideously humid day which I'm sure didn't help.
My station with the stamp and ink pad crafty thing (we were making fake horn books, but it took WAY to long to explain a horn book to the parents much less the kids, so I just called it a Saturday School Lesson.
I was suitably terrified, and not helped by the fact that the girls working at the coffee shop where I had my stop didn't know I was coming. ugh. So NERVES for a little over 2 hours, and I saw about a dozen kids. And naturally the annoying ones arrived about five minutes before I had to pack up and head down to the town park. But Miss Marmalade handled it! :)
Then down to the park for country dance lesson (gosh am I out of shape!) (um. also it was, as mentioned very hot and humid!).
Then JUST as we started our finale set piece ... Professor Bigler's Travelling Patent Medicine Show ... Like 2 minutes in we had everyone stand and sing the Star Spangled Banner (hello small town wonderfulness) and we had no sooner started singing then the heavens opened up and it POURED DOWN RAIN. All the while the sky overhead was blue and full of sweet white fluffy clouds mocking us! So we scrapped the sack race finale, axed most of the rest of the performance, and just gave out sack race prizes and packed up and went back to Cee Cee's and collapsed!
Amusingly, the big hit of the day seemed to be the butter making. Not so much at the kids butter making station-- though they enjoyed it -- but we found ourselves making at least three batches of butter in jam jars for dinner :)) It's really cool and easy. Fill a jam jar about half or a third full of heavy cream. shake. Anywhere between 2 and 10 minutes depending on the amount of cream and how hard you shake the jar. it will go first to whipped cream, and then if you keep shaking the butter will form, and the buttermilk will separate out. Then all you need to do is drain off the buttermilk, and then salt to taste. Unless you really work it and drain it you do pretty much need to use it up as it will sour pretty quickly. But soft dreamy yummy butter ... it's SO GOOD!
So these things are exhausting, and fun, but the best thing is hanging with my pals afterwords. I end up with a sore throat from talking because I just don't get to TALK to people most of the time. So YAY! And onwards to our fake radio shows at the end of the month!
Next year for this event ... we're thinking STEAMPUNK! :)
Our weekend theatrical adventures went okay. it was the first time out for this 1800s theme, so there are surely improvements that we can make. And it was a hideously humid day which I'm sure didn't help.
My station with the stamp and ink pad crafty thing (we were making fake horn books, but it took WAY to long to explain a horn book to the parents much less the kids, so I just called it a Saturday School Lesson.
I was suitably terrified, and not helped by the fact that the girls working at the coffee shop where I had my stop didn't know I was coming. ugh. So NERVES for a little over 2 hours, and I saw about a dozen kids. And naturally the annoying ones arrived about five minutes before I had to pack up and head down to the town park. But Miss Marmalade handled it! :)
Then down to the park for country dance lesson (gosh am I out of shape!) (um. also it was, as mentioned very hot and humid!).
Then JUST as we started our finale set piece ... Professor Bigler's Travelling Patent Medicine Show ... Like 2 minutes in we had everyone stand and sing the Star Spangled Banner (hello small town wonderfulness) and we had no sooner started singing then the heavens opened up and it POURED DOWN RAIN. All the while the sky overhead was blue and full of sweet white fluffy clouds mocking us! So we scrapped the sack race finale, axed most of the rest of the performance, and just gave out sack race prizes and packed up and went back to Cee Cee's and collapsed!
Amusingly, the big hit of the day seemed to be the butter making. Not so much at the kids butter making station-- though they enjoyed it -- but we found ourselves making at least three batches of butter in jam jars for dinner :)) It's really cool and easy. Fill a jam jar about half or a third full of heavy cream. shake. Anywhere between 2 and 10 minutes depending on the amount of cream and how hard you shake the jar. it will go first to whipped cream, and then if you keep shaking the butter will form, and the buttermilk will separate out. Then all you need to do is drain off the buttermilk, and then salt to taste. Unless you really work it and drain it you do pretty much need to use it up as it will sour pretty quickly. But soft dreamy yummy butter ... it's SO GOOD!
So these things are exhausting, and fun, but the best thing is hanging with my pals afterwords. I end up with a sore throat from talking because I just don't get to TALK to people most of the time. So YAY! And onwards to our fake radio shows at the end of the month!
Next year for this event ... we're thinking STEAMPUNK! :)
