Time for the Annual Barn Raisin'

Every time we need to put up the MAGA Marquee I am always reminded of the Barn Raising shown in movies like Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, and Witness, and much lampooned in Pinky and the Brain (Season 3, ep 34). But the one thing which it does show is a community coming together to put up a structure. In this case we come together to put up the marquee.

It's always a bit of a struggle. It's like playing with giant meccano. But if you look carefully at the pieces it all soon fits together. Even if I did make a couple of mistakes and had to re-do some bits. But it all started to go up.

And eventually the marquee was set for another season as being the centre point of our social space.

Meanwhile over on the plot, we had a friend visit for tea.

The girls gossiped, and I pottered about digging out weeds and hoeing as well as sieving soil getting the carrot bags ready. Might have to go back tomorrow to get any serious work done.