Welcome back to this week’s Karen’s Corner! Join me here each week to catch up with what I’ve been up to both in and out of work and what I’ve been loving and connect with me on Instagram www.instagram.com/karen.anderson.fossoway
Karen xx
WHAT I’VE BEEN UP TO THIS WEEK
I’ve woken early this Sunday morning and the house is quiet except for the warming clunk of the heating system and the all too familiar scratching of a mouse in the wall.
Yes, that’s right, I have the heating on, in August. It may well be turned off again tomorrow as our schizophrenic weather continues to confuse but this morning’s scene of me typing this cozied up under a duvet sipping my first cup of tea of the day looks positively autumnal.
Secretly, I’m welcoming this opportunity to ‘play’ at autumn (which happens to be my favourite season of the year) but frankly, we’re not quite ready to embody harvest and to figuratively, as well as physically, reap what we have sowed.
In the farming world, the summer months are spent nurturing growth and we have one last wee push in us to get some things over the line…
You’ll be categorically fed up of me writing about The Potting Shed, and what I’m sure many of you consider my imaginary farm shop and cafe BUT now that the kids are back at school and that Callan’s birthday celebrations are behind us for another year, we’re now gearing up for it’s opening on the 9th September. The site itself is pretty much operational and ready-to-go but is in need of more weeding, a general tidy up and beautifying so this week will be spent doing that as well as placing orders with suppliers and preparing produce.
We’re still very much in grass-cutting season too but with all our cutting equipment now here and working, we’re finally feeling like we’re back on top of that. Later this morning I’m going to cut the paddock in front of the Potting Shed which will soon become a play space for our visitors. You should see my Pinterest board for this space, it’s very exciting!
I had my friend Craig come up last week to try out his drone ahead of doing some filming soon and I was blown away with how much this wee toy can do and how impressive the shots look - I can’t wait to get the real footage and to share it.
We also have a little pop-up shop at our local community event The Fossoway Gathering very soon so I’m planning what that will look like and what I’m taking with me to sell and promote. I need to get far more practiced at these kind of events with a ‘kit’ easily pulled together and assembled. As well as the more pressing, immediate tasks, I’m looking ahead to 2025 and the events at which we might want to have a presence at. I’ve spent a lot of time at country shows over the years, either competing or representing brands I was partnered with but it’ll be new and exciting to create our own Fossoway Stables travelling store in order to get in front of new audiences.
So, there’s definitely still a sliver of summer left and time to get things completed (are things ever complete though?!) before real autumn arrives.
Until next week
K xx
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