Getting ready to go home to Greenfield!

I have not written in a while, I have been working crazy hours right now,   I am trying to wrap my mind around getting ready for Greenfield village in just a few short weeks.   The usual problems have come up,  The big white van we use needs a major repair, I am broke as usual, will Dave be able to get anytime off?
  Despite all of this the excitement is building, it really is the Christmas time of our reenacting, everything else pales in comparison.  It is the BIG ONE!  
   As far as my health goes, I am holding up, My brothers birthday was last week, they had Pizza, I had salad, they had Bumpy cake and Ice cream, I had popcorn.  So I am starting to think about the food I will be cooking at Greenfield,  I usually have tons of bread and butter, pickled bologna,  sausage, and other food items I no longer eat.   I will not use this reenactment to wreck all of the hard work I have done.  What I can have is Chicken, fish, brown rice, beans, and grits perhaps for a treat I could have corn bread.  I hope my fellow reenactors, esp the people I cook for will understand.  Of course my fire and pots and pans are available if somebody just can't live with out her noodles!  Margy this is for you! LOL!  
   I do portray a POOR Laundress, so my diet would probably reflect that better anyway.  Of course I understand that reenacting is hard work, and it can be hot and taxing on your energy reserves, but there are things I can do to counter that,  If anything I expect to have more energy, I can bring protein sources like nuts, and I am bound to go begging for a boiled egg or two from the very charitable Mrs G.
   I have a suggestion to my fellow reenactors, bring some dry firewood with you, maybe a couple of those packs of dry-wood, my husbands gas station usually has these set out.  Greenfield is notorious for its really bad wood,  I think if you can get that first fire going, it will help the rest of the weekend.  A couple of years ago I spent hours just trying to get breakfast going, all of my tricks did not work!  I was not the only one.   Of course last years swamp is a bad memory in the annuals of fire starting,  I was lucky due to circumstances beyond my control I ended up on higher ground for my fire, pure luck on my part.
   As usual it can be very stressful getting ready, praying for working transportation, getting help lined up, Waiting for weather reports, but for the most part, I will say that once we are all set and done it is so worth while, it is a long event, we see our friends, some for the first time in a long while,  we get to test our skills to an audience that is paying good money to see us, we have the satisfaction in knowing that we are good at what we do,  we are ready to be seen and talk to thousands of people,  We get treated to perhaps the most lovely Civil war ball of all, in the most beautiful setting.  

   As we like to say for many of us Greenfield is going home.  More to come.......Thanks for looking in, Mrs Cook... Laundress