Theme of the year

Last year the farm theme was "Making it look easy."  It came from a nephew who spent about 6 weeks with us, working the strawberry season.  While here, he broke up with his girlfriend and in a discussion about relationships he said "But you guys make it look so easy!"  We loved and appreciated the comment and decided it should be the farm theme for the year.

A previous theme was "Easy Money" which I remembered coming from the same nephew after a Saturday market.  Market Saturdays go something like this: up at 4:00 a.m. drink one quick cup of coffe while walking across the farm to load the market vehicle, load vehicle, drive to market, set up market stall, sell produce until 1:00 p.m., return to farm, unload vehicle, take short nap before getting up and making sure produce and vehicle are ready for Sunday market (we get to sleep in until 5:00 a.m. for Sunday markets).  In other words, it's something like an 18-hour day.  Meals are catch-as-catch-can.  Now, Farmer Bill says he's the one who first used the phrase, and while I'm sure that's true, the way Nathaniel said it that afternoon was priceless... and that's how it became the theme of the year.

The only other theme that I remember is "Nothing To It."  This theme came from that phrase being repeated by Farmer Bill in response to my questions of "How are you going to..."  Of course, it ain't true that there's 'nothing to it.'  Farmer Bill works incredible hours over the course of the summer -- and I put in a few myself.

So far there isn't a theme for 2011.  We'll have to wait and see if one appears.