Relish Festival and the longest weekend

This week has been pretty mental. We attended our FIRST festival - the Relish Food and Wine festival in Maryborough (about 40 minutes south of Childers).

The end of last week was a bit of a scramble to bottle up some more liqueurs to take along to the festival with us. Josh had me washing and sanitising bottles and printing labels while he was bottling, capping and labelling.

Poor little Betsy (my 2003 Hyundai Getz, who trained it over from Perth) was packed to the rafters with gear - heaps of booze, a gazebo, a table, more booze and three people. I didn't think she'd make it, but she hung in there.

We arrived in Maryborough nice and early, and got all set up. Our latest recruit (Nathan!) came up from Brisbane to give us a hand. It was awesome having a third body there, it meant that we could take turns having a quick look around or grabbing a bite to eat.

At first I thought we had a bit of a crappy location at the festival, as we were away from the other wineries. In hindsight, it was a definite blessing! It seems that all the traditional wineries kind of blurred into one, and then festival goers could toddle down the hill and stumble upon us, who offer something a little different. We ended up selling more booze than we were expecting...AND 35 jams!

The rest of the long weekend turned out to be pretty busy too. We had lots of people in for lunch on Sunday, although it never seemed too rushed or frantic, just nicely busy. Then on Monday we had a few more through for lunch (everywhere else in town was closed!) and a few people who bought bottles.

It would be lovely if every weekend was that busy!!!

Aside from that, we've just been busy cleaning up around the place. We've had a few trees removed around the place. They were looking a little sick and sorry for themselves, so we've cleared away some space to plant new things (if we ever have enough $$ to do so!) and Josh has been working like a trojan to clear away some more of the junk around the place that we've inherited.

We had a huge burn pile go up in flames (and managed to smoke out the town for 48 hours! Oops!) and I think we might have turned a very slight corner in getting this place back on track. The winery side of things is starting to look after itself, so we really want to start focussing on our fruit orchard and building that up.

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The slackers at Ohana Winery

Bye trees!

Bye junk!