5 Days, 5 Shows
5 Days, 5 Shows, over 20 hours on the road. We hit the road hard this week for the Pride of All the South, ending the week with Baton Rouge and New Orleans. Both shows were great, in Baton Rouge we started the night off by watching Nick Patty and Episcopal High beat their rivals Parkview Baptist 14-0! Drew and Robin were great hosts, and were joined by a host of Rockmont vets and new faces.
In New Orleans, we were hosted by Becky, Kamran, and Spencer Zaheri, and it was great to see them again after the show last year. We had a good number of new guys there that had a lot of questions and interest about camp. It was also my first show this year that I took the lead in, even it was great to have Dan there to fill in the blanks and provide clarity for the parents.
During all these shows and driving, we did manage to have some fun in New Orleans! We went on a run through the city each morning, doing a self-tour of the French Quarter. The history of the city is incredible, and it was humbling to stand in St. Peter’s Cathedral, looking at the oldest frescos west of Rome.
>We closed the week by having dinner in Auburn with several members of the Rockmont family, and I’ll see if I wake up early enough to go on a run around the Auburn campus before we depart for home.
By the way, the Blogger photo upload only lets me add 2 photos to each post, so I’ll be linking the photos from the week in Facebook and Picasa. If you want, join the Facebook group at facebook.com/rockmont.
Thanks again guys, I’ll talk to you again soon!
Matt
Michael Lusco, Jonathan Cooper, Nick Franzese, Jonathan Kopelman, Charles Keen, Troy D’Alesandro and Quill Yates proved to be excellent salesmen at the Riceville Road Farmers Market this summer. Each Saturday a few Homesteading campers had the chance to sell some of Rockmont Farm bounty (and increase the sales of the chocolate vender with their profits!) It has been a productive summer at the Rockmont Homestead. During the summer much of the produce harvested from the garden was cooked and eaten by campers at homesteading skill – turnips, swiss chard, kale, popcorn, tomatilla salsa, squash and much more was eaten with enthusiasm (usually). We were also able to send loads of produce to the dining hall kitchen to be used by the Rockmont vegetarian cook.
The sorghum is now 8-12 feet high. It should be a good crop for making molasses later in the fall. Thanks to the hard work of many homesteading campers weeding, hoeing and hilling, we should also have plenty of popcorn and field corn (Mmmm – corncakes) for next summer.
All of the chickens that were hatched and then shipped to us via US mail are now laying very well. The Rockmont community is enjoying 6-8 eggs a day as well as plenty of tomatoes, okra, sweet corn, tomatillas, swiss chard, green beans and more.