Saturday was the Perry Harvest Fair, which is an annual fair in which there are many vendors: farmers, crafters, display booths and delicious food (like hot doughnuts!). There are fun homegrown activities like an apple pie contest, scarecrow making, music and dance demonstrations; the best part is seeing everyone you know! Which is SO fun in my opinion! Our friend Regina, who runs The Farms to Schools program in Washington County, was cider pressing and knowing this I loaded up the back of our car with apples to bring down, despite the impending "scattered showers." So I dressed Miss Ce and I in jeans or overalls, long-undy-shirts and wool sweaters (both knitted by my grandmother Miss Janet) we pulled on our rainboots and brought cozy hats and headed down to the fair while Puppa secured the last posts to the porch roof. We were ready for rain, and rain it did!
Our friend Emily Guirl was helping out too as well as 12 year-old Oona and Hailey and we pressed the heck out of those apples. I seemed to be the main cranker of the press and the girls all threw apples in for me, Miss Ce mostly busied herself by rearranging apples, some into containers, but mostly into her mouth! I think for the whole 3 hours we were there she must have been eating apples or splashing in puddles most of the time. When the cider started being pressed and flowing the 12 year-old girls gave Cecilia some cider and she chugged it down, and so they kept giving her more as she was pretty funny drinking that cider. As we went through the cycles for crushing apples and pressing them the girl quickly fell into the rhythms, looking for the moment when the cider would start flowing. It felt nice to me as a mother, because with so many good friends there who knew Cecilia so well I was really feeling that "It takes a village" kind-of feeling. It felt like for that day, for that crowd Cecilia was the perfect age and everyone enjoyed how much Cecilia enjoyed the fair and the rain!
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