Wednesday and Thursday of last week I spent at Camp Mennoscah volunteering in the kitchen. Kate and I went together, which was fun, and the rest of the crew was great to work with too. As someone interested in food -- making, learning, and of course eating -- I like to document what we helped make. I believe I did this last year as well. During those two days we made (among other things) bierocks, spaghetti, verenike casserole, scotcheroos (minus the 'scotch part of them...), zweiback, various baked potato bar toppings, and cinnamon rolls. Fun, fun! It was fun to be there with directors whom I have counseled for numerous times and also to see Olivia. Due to overcrowding in the staff house, we got to stay in the sweet director house; Kate and I even had our own rooms and bathrooms! Lap o' luxury, I tell you.
Friday was my birthday. Brian and I slept in and then went to a community park for my bank's customer appreciation lunch. Lunch was good, but the sno cones were disappointingly flavorless. Friday afternoon I spent making bierocks for the first time from start to finish all by myself. My main inspiration was to make something that would work well for a field meal that I could take to my in-laws' for Saturday supper. The project was a lot of fun, and they really turned out well! Note: Dough made with lard = mmm.
On Saturday after running some errands and other activities, I went out to the farm to ride along during harvest. However, I got to do more than ride along, which was quite exciting! I've always kind of wanted to be a farm girl, and maybe at some point in my life I will actually be one. I got to take the tractor and grain cart to the combine twice. Then I got to cut some wheat for the first time! When it was our turn on the truck, I also got to bring back the empty truck from the elevator -- driving it was also a first! At the end of the evening -- and also the very end of harvest -- my father-in-law left a couple of patches in the field for me to cut. Awesome! I did that, dumped it into the truck, and then was instructed to finish the job and take it to the elevator. Exciting! I did, and was definitely the elevator's slowest customer of the day (while I'm sure it was somewhat annoying to them, there was no one else there at that point, so it's not like I was impeding business or other farmers). It was so nerve-wracking, and I did kill the truck once when trying to inch up further to get the bed over the grate, but I successfully hauled it in! Pretty fun. And also neat to be the one to finish everything (kind of...) up, even though I didn't really feel like I deserved that honor. I obviously could not just take off and go on any part of the process myself, but it is fun to start learning, and at least I am now maybe capable of doing more than move the pick-up!
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