It started with a meet & greet, where I got to meet Debra Frasier, the mind, heart, soul and supporter of the entire thing. She also happens to be an awesome children's author and wrote (among others) "On The Day You Were Born" and " The State Fair Alphabet". The latter is the book that inspired the booth.
There were checklists and cleaning supplies so I started in! As I started washing all the plastic coated letters for the "word noodles", our neighbors (the wax hands) started setting up and disturbed a hornets's nest inside the underground electrical panel. I reached for my EPI pen, to discover I had left it at home.....so I told them to call the fair facilities people and I would wait in my car!
A few guys with spray cans the size of your head arrived and bombed the nest. The hornets died down (literally) and I went back to work. After an hour or so they returned to remove the hive. I, again, watched from a distance! It was the size of a medicine ball!
Many hands made light work, scrubbing noodles, sorting necklace making supplies, glue sticks, crayons and markers, cleaning book shelves and filling them with awesome books, setting up tables, hanging letters in every tree and adhering yellow polka dots to every red surface we could find!
We shared a pot luck lunch and vowed to return for our scheduled shifts!
The booth has received quite a bit of publicity as this is the last year Debra Frasier will be pouring her heart and soul and countless hours into it. She will be turning it over to the State Fair and Laura Morlock as onsite program manager and the little log house will be a permanent fixture on the grounds!
It turns out the Morlock family and the Kelsey (and Lee) families are all connected by only one degree of separation! Shocking I know.
I am excited to start a new adventure giving back to the place where I have been given so much!
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