Journal entries are just that – the digital copy of my hand-written entries in my journal. If you aren’t interested in the daily details of our adventure, feel free to skip on to the next “regular” post.

Over the next few days we inventory our supplies, receive accessories to sell (pattern books, carving kits, and candles) decorate some (banners, flags, lights on the RV) and wait. 30 straw bales are dropped off, the fence is installed, a porta-john and dumpster are delivered, and lights are installed on the tent.

We take the opportunity to get out and explore the surrounding areas. Lots of little “patches” of stores – old towns that are now all one urban sprawl. There is a Latter Day Saints (Mormon) church every half-mile or so around us. We find a million grocery stores (including Sprouts and Trader Joe’s), a few coffee shops (not as many as we expected – which should save us some money) the food truck court, and the usual suspects – mall, Target, WalMart, etc.

I start calling the church next door about hooking up for water. The spigot is easy enough to find but we can’t seem to catch anyone there. We run out of water in our fresh tank, so I take our water jug on the motorcycle and buy water from a Glacier water vending machine.

  
On Wednesday our pumpkins arrive, along with a crew to help unload them. After a few hours our straw is arranged and we have piles of pumpkins scattered throughout the tent. Everyone heads on to the next patch while Ashley and I finish arranging and decorating. We set up two photo areas, a “graveyard” and generally have a blast. In our completely unbiased opinion, everything looks amazing!

  
One pumpkin is sold that evening. How exciting!