We had a dinner on Friday for the residents who are graduating, at a nice establishment. The residents had family and friends come as well, and we wound up with 7 children under 7 attending (WHY?) The children were allowed to run around and interrupt the speeches and the ceremony. Only one mother did NOT allow her almost 4 year old to run around like the others, good for her.I’m sorry to hear that the children are taking away a peaceful retreat. Not all kids in gardens act like heathens. When my son was small, I used to belong to a u-pick CSA (farm I paid a fee to in order to harvest my own veggies (unlimited) once a week throughout the summer. My young son loved coming with me, and we would peacefully seek out the produce on our list, while admiring the wildflowers. The berry bushes were always last, as we would snack while we picked. It was a lovely place, and so few families chose the u-pick option over the delivered box, that often we had the whole field to ourselves excepting the dairy cows rotationally grazed through the adjacent grass fields. Very hard to find peace when people are screaming….
Get a sitter, please.
Three hours today. Dry with sunny spells. The person with the screaming children was at the allotments. Two hours of screaming kids running around waving sticks and gardening forks. We got out of the allotment run but the chickens didn't want to venture much further than my chair and spent most of the time there.
