Garden Trail Weekend

I only opened on Saturday, and got about 22 groups coming through.

Day started around 5:30am when one of the cats began yowling like her heart was breaking. She was fine, she just wanted attention! I ended up getting up around 6am to finish off some 'fruity rolls' (like cinnamon rolls, but with fruit instead) for my helpers.

I had someone to do 'garden admin' (check tickets, take names and numbers) for every hour of the Garden Trail so that was super-helpful in terms of enabling me to take people around the garden.

Probably the big points of my garden were the fruit trees in full fruit (some of the fruit was ready for picking and I picked fruit and handed it out to the various groups who came through) and the chicken tunnels and garden beds out the back.



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Sunday, eggsbenedict and I went out and about to a bunch of gardens out west, some with a very different vibe, and unfortunately none of them heavily visited.

Probably the most interesting one (and the one that was the biggest disappointment in terms of not getting any visitors) was a community centre and garden in the middle of a university that had a lot of space and a lot of potential and a lot of unrealised vision.



Unfortunately, the role that managed this community centre and garden had only been filled in the last few months, and both centre and garden had been more or less left to moulder for some years previous.

The lady now filling the manager role was scraping around to get community grants and suchlike. She was also the 'host' for the garden, and took us around the spaces. Looking at it, she had some great ideas, but it's a lot of work and way too many ideas to do all at once, more or less alone.

*sigh*

It's way too far for me to get involved and...I'm trying not to get involved in such things - not right now, not next year.

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I've decided I'm absolutely not going to run for anything on the management committee next year. I will help out with comms if there's a team leader for comms, but otherwise...nope.

It's my best chance, tbh. I won't be at the AGM, so nobody can talk me into anything; people can't look to me and think that I'll be happy to take on more responsibility.

And I just mailed the current president to say as much, so it's done.

There's a meeting on Saturday afternoon, I'm still not sure I'm going - I have something in the morning which I have to finalise tonight, and something in the evening, and it's just...a lot right now.

I should. That time will be free. I just don't know if I can. I think I might be on the edge of 'collapse state'.