Sept. 18, 2009

Smoky Hill Bison's trebuchet

We’re down to the final days before we open our maze season. Last Saturday we had staff in to start moving activities into place, and mowing, weeding and cleaning. 
 
Signs were painted and put up, little red wagons repaired and put in line for customers to use to haul pumpkins in from the patch, the corn box filled with shelled corn… just numerous fun things for people to do besides the maze and pumpkin patch.
 
We cooked buffalo burgers and had a picnic on the porch so everyone got to know each other, and Verne and I went over important information pertaining to the six weeks of fun we provide our guests.
 
It’s always fun to see certain things come out of storage, like the big trebuchet that Verne built to sling pumpkins across the pasture. (We have pumpkin vines all over the pasture because it.) And the K-State and KU targets that twirl around when the corn cannon ammunition (ears of corn) hits one of them.
 
We have more things to do this weekend to get ready, and then we’re open to the public on the 26th.