Last weekend was spent doing spinning demonstrations at a Threshing Bee put on by friends. I got to ride on the Keck pictured above.
It was a beautiful weekend of sitting in the sunshine, visiting with friends old and new, spinning, and people watching. I'll admit, I may have been a slacker in the spinning part, this is all I finished. There was just so much to see. Plus the usual spinning stoppages when explaining to people what I was doing. That is the purpose of demonstrating, after all!
We got our first frost Friday night. I had covered all the veggies, so they survived. I slipped on the frosty grass and did the splits and landed on my hip, but managed to save the six dozen eggs (the girls have been busy) I was carrying to bring to the Bee.
Mom spent the weekend in the Alzheimer's Unit at a nursing home, which is the only way I get any respite (about one weekend a month). The nurses said she kept them in stitches all weekend. My sister picked her up and brought her to my house, and she was still in a goofy mood, singing and dancing and making us laugh when she got home. I am so lucky that she is usually in a happy mood!
I clearly recall a time when I was pretty young when there was a threshing bee at a nearby neighbor's farm. It was a huge steam (I think) powered machine. And the grain had been gathered in sheaves and people brought wagons of it to the machine.
ReplyDeleteI was too small to really understand much about it but I do recall being so awestruck by the huge machine.
That must have been one of the last held around here because from then on I remember the custom combiners coming through.
We're still a ways off from our first frost but it is coming.
Glad your mom did well for your respite.
your blog is delightful. so are you.
ReplyDeletei hope you and your mom are doing well.
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