September 19, Fall, year 20
There's been no sign of the idiot. Probably a good thing, I'm still mad at him! There will be words next time he shows his silver head around here!
And maybe a dunk in the pond…
Anyways, celebrated the Harvest Festival today. I sorta wish it was like the ones in Mineral Town or Flowerbud village, but I can understand why it's not. I mean, we don't have a giant balloon for the Spring Planting festival anyways! Though that would be awesome…
I had a hard time picking out what to bring. Vesta's farm does almost everything, even with the recent string of bad luck (which reminds me, she gave me a stronger strain of Cabbage to plant in the spring, which will be all kinds of awesome. I love cabbage!), so there wouldn't be any point to me bringing an asinine amount of my own veggies.
And I'm raising my bird-kids for the eggs, not the meat (Rock you're not funny), so that sort of thing was out.
About five minutes before the festival started, I remembered Mom and Dad's mushroom barn. Hehe. I'm such a blonde, I've neglected it completely. Thankfully Uncle T has been taking care of that for me, and the Matsutake and Shiitake mushrooms were huge!
…which reminds me, I need to give Win some of the toadstools. She'll love em. Eh, I'll do it tomorrow, after I've finished with the book. (I've got like… ten pages left that I'm gonna breeze through after I'm done writing. Easy-peasy)
I'm always awed every year when I go to the Harvest festival. I mean, the giant cooking pot towers over everyone on the beach! It's even bigger than Kai's Snack-Shack! (and that reminds me that I need to call Pony and see who's going to be the King this year.)
And it's always a little unnerving to approach the ladder to toss in the ingredients. I mean the fire is right there for Harvest King's sake! One of these years I'm going to mention that we should move it out of the way, otherwise we're going to end up needing a new ladder here really soon.
Not kidding, ours has some scary looking scorch marks. I almost asked Marlin to make my contribution for me! But I sucked it up and did it myself.
Though if we're using the same ladder next year…
I really like our Harvest festival, just because it means that I don't have to make supper for a few nights. The pot is so huge and there's only so many of us in the village, that everyone always ends up with leftovers. Getting them is the fun part… I've still got burn scars from last year's disaster.
The soup spilled. In any other place this wouldn't bee so bad, but seriously, a stewpot nearly the size of a house tipping over is really freaking bad! I wasn't the only one burned, I just seemed to be the slowest one to recover. (Marlin's burn scars are gone, and you only see the barest of hints on anyone else… admittedly, they're covered by socks and shoes most of the time, so I could be wrong.) It could also have something to do with the fact that I was on the ladder at the time…
Tipping was an accident, I slipped, and had to grab something, and the only thing that came to hand—I was at the top, yay me—was the rim of the pot. And it just came down…
I still have no idea how I managed to not die from that. I think Mom and Dad went to the Harvest Goddess and begged for her aid. Caused I'll be truthful, the last thing I remember before the pot went down was a lot of heat, and an expanse of white.
Yeah… Not one of my better moments. I was a mummy for about a month, and ended up missing some of my favorite events. I still have aches and pains, but they're not too bad anymore. They don't wake me up in the middle of the night at least, which is better than nothing.
Hmm… It's Jack's birthday in November… I wonder what I should bring him? It's been a while since the Seed Sowing festival, maybe I should call him and Eve and see how things are progressing. I still don't know what day the wedding is either… I should call Pony and ask.
I'm surprised Muffy hasn't been talking about it. I know she gets the news straight from Karen, and half her Wednesdays are spent actually in Flowerbud, helping Eve. But then, I guess it would be exhausting… And maybe a little disheartening.
I think she's been dropping some hints at Griffin. Poor old guy's a bit bewildered and doesn't know what to think. I should go help him out a bit… Maybe make a day out of it, since I haven't been able to in a while. The talk with Lauren did me good, but I wouldn't mind family gossip. Besides, I want to hear about the wedding too.
Man, I can't believe they're getting married in winter though. It's gonna be freezing! And if I know Eve, she's trying to find the sleekest wedding dress around.
…Hey! I can ask Lauren! She'll know the best and warmest outfit for a wedding! I'll have to call her tomorrow! I hope she won't mind…
Gah, yawning. Time to finish up and go read!