Up early because there is much to do. We grab a few moments with the
Local Paper (Register-Guard) and the national paper of note: The New
York Times. Then it's breakfest and a run over to the golf course to help
set up for the second gathering of the minds. This is an event to
help determine the course of the Oregon Country Fair for the future.
I help in the kitchen with our guru John, Rebecca, two outstanding teens,
and our photographic master Ken. We bake italian bread, amazing brownies,
three soups that subsequently rate wow! approval, and salads that not only
are super nutritious,but also little works of color and style. 12:30 rolls
around and we wheel out the salads and begin to ladel the soup to a
hungry crowd. I am on the Vegetarian soup. Not too many takers but
by the end of the luncheon, it's almost gone and the chicken soup is
history. Back in the kitchen, its clean-up time and I am leaving for the
Mushroon Show. I drive "The Legend" back to the house and get my bike
ready. Off and over the hill to the show-a distance of about 7.5 miles. The
weather is cool but no rain so i can choose to wear my shorts and sweatshirt/
t-shirt. By 3 i'm pulling into the parking lot at Mt Pisgah and looking for the
bike lock-up. I check out the Fair's entry in the Scarecrow Contest, take a
gander at the thousands of mushrooms of hundreds of varieties, buy a few
chantrelles, talk to some friends, enter but do not win a drawing for a
beautiful planter by my friend Charlie, and talk to some vendors of oyster
mushroom kits. By 4, I am ready to depart for the long ride back. Returning
around 4:45, I clean up the kitchen, get the house shaped up a bit for the
return of my wife norma, and collapse onto the couch to watch the local/nat
news. It is the end of the first day of standard time and I am finished.
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