Everything around here is on hold for the "Great Flea Fling" which is the Historical Society's money raising effort for restoring the old Hembree farm house. Mini Monk came this morning after her shift at the firehouse and helped put up tents. We managed eight but they are like wrestling dead elephants and hence very tiring. Tomorrow is the big day and they have gathered a lot of 'fleas' from members and friends and an awful lot of books. All the grant money they had hoped for has dried up due to the economy so they are scraping the bottom of the barrel for the funds necessary to do the restoration. It took almost everything to have the old house moved and a new foundation built. You can't just hire any old carpenter to do the work as you have to have someone knowledgeable about restoration and they aren't cheap. One of the biggest costs is going to be rebuilding the two fireplaces and chimneys. All the stone from the originals was saved but it will be a very expensive proposition.
I did get in the garden yesterday and dug all the sweet potatoes. Pretty good harvest considering the small amount planted but even the 40'x4' row was hard work. As a kid I used to consider digging potatoes a lot of fun but I wasn't driving the fork in those days. All us kids did was pick up the potatoes when they were unearthed and it was kind of like an Easter egg hunt and you got to get as dirty as you wanted.
Just waiting around for the call that the last two tents have been delivered and I will go back and do those two. the farm is just about two miles down the road so I decided to come home and goof off instead of hang around and wait.
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