The Day Before The Day

First of all, Katie suggested that we always give flowers for a missed blog, soooooo... here you go, with apologies!

flowers from the Native Prairie area at Wenwood

This is my Weekly Quest post, a little late, since I'm a tad crazed due to an incredibly busy Harvest Home Festival (yay!,) visiting relatives and friends, birthday dinners, and one wild life. What I want to share with you this week is how much goes in to getting ready for a big event at a winery. It is a lot of work, planning ads, deciding what advertising venues to use, should we put a banner on the billboard? Oops, its too late to put a banner on the billboard.... Update Facebook. Is the tasting room arranged to provide "flow"? Oh my, better dust where we moved that table to create flow..... Do we have enough glasses? Plates? Chili bowls? Update Facebook. Is everyone scheduled to work at the proper times? Get the outside tables arranged. Coordinate with Earth's Classroom to get the benefit tent set up. Update Facebook. Send out e-mails. Send out more e-mails...... respond for the 142nd time when the Pumpkin Pie wine will be released. Update facebook. Make the chili. Update facebook. So on. And so on. And so on....

Finally the day before arrives, and we still have to decorate the entire place and make it autumn beautiful. This is, of course, one of the most fun jobs and we were totally Pinterest-ing out. Friend and employee Lee and I worked for a good 8 hours planting mums, placing the pumpkins my dad grew just so, creating fall tableaus, using an entire bolt of burlap (thank you, Pinteret!) We had a great, if long, day - here are some photos:

 

Fall Color!

 

Lee - blingy-est farm girl EVER!

 

fall farm tableau

 

 

Work even included saving a pretty garden spider, and if you know Lee, you know that was a challenge for her!!!

More colors

Dad's pumpkin crop!!

He's so proud...

A totally Pinterest-worthy idea

 

And finally, the day came. I was up at 4:30, going over all the details in my mind, got out of bed at 5, printed the signs we needed, went to the bank to get LOTS of change, helped the artists set up, and sold our first two cases of Pumpkin Pie wine 20 minutes before we officially opened. It was the biggest festival we've ever had, and so much fun. And so, all the hard work was worth it. It usually is. You can check out the photos on our facebook page.

This Wine Chic is STILL recovering, so I'm actually getting ready to call it a night. At, like, 9 o'clock. Yep, I'm a wild and crazy Wine Chic. Nighty-nite!!!!

Happy Trills,

Laura