hi I'm Ronda hey I'm Angie we are Adventures in NoMadness we've
finished with the Fall Festival but we're still here working I wonder why
and I wonder what are our thoughts about our first camping work camping experience
so today is the last day of the official harvest festival one of the best jobs we had here was
taking care of the farm animals all these animals are loaned in by a friend of Mark's and all these
kittens have homes but yeah we've got to take care of these kittens now for like five weeks
oh that's hard not to get attached to kittens I'm gonna cry anyway they all have homes no way
we're gonna have a cat two little dogs and our little tiny RV we had a home or something larger
but no room for a cat box oh but I have the two little girls right here they're so super sweet
I am cleaning out the cow stall for the final time down to the ground because the cows have
gone home the goats have gone home it's Miss Piggy so we're mucking them out down to the ground into
these big bins and I have to tell you though I feel like someone's watching me it's kind of
creepy to be working in a barn and feeling like somebody's watching so two reasons why we have to
put everything away and we can't leave anything out one there's a separate business here with
the wedding venue so you don't want a bunch of pumpkin patch stuff all over a wedding venue this
is actually a really beautiful spot for a wedding venue so that's one reason and a lot of the other
stuff picnic tables and everything will barrows all have to be put away someplace safe because
we're a quarter mile from the Snohomish River over there and it floods you know sometimes it
floods very badly there's a couple of signs over here on the property that shows the
level 1995 and 1996 with a literally the water level was above my head so now I'm five two so
it was quite high we had broke both those years back-to-back not awesome but we've since we've
lived here in this area since 2010 we've seen a couple of pretty bad floods and so this is
a big floodplain and they definitely get water here so everything has to be put away after be
doing putting all of these signs on top of these bins so they can be put away for the until next
year anyway we're putting snow balled away or snow white but she didn't have hair on almost
became snow balled in the seven two four seven pumpkins yeah she was caged the cage has been
opened and all the little Dwarfs all the little dwarves have got now fellas stop we have minions
don't know what was in it
we are stacking picnic tables and if you can see all the way to the back some of these are
shorter than others and we're using the cart to get these in so small the large and we've
got nine footers left so how do we find it's a lot of picnic tables a lot of work there
used to be animals in there now it's a zoo full of wheelbarrows
let me always doing all the work while I'm filming you when you work which makes it look like I'm
never doing anything scraping shop vac wipe down four-step good job we have 21 tearing the
clothes off this thing Oh laundry day yeah for the scarecrow scarecrow needs his laundry done
so that's the big tractor I got to drive this is a really fun job we wanted to share our impressions
of this or camping gig you want to start first yeah so first off if you I've watched some of
our other videos you know that I'm retired as of last year and that's from an office job of
39 years and what I didn't want to do as far as work camping is something where I had to be
sitting behind a desk and so the idea of work camping wasn't super appealing to me until I
realized that I could actually have a job that was outside and I was actually getting exercise and on
top of it in this particular case there was lots of variety and opportunities to learn new stuff so
I absolutely love this except for one thing and that was picking up garbage which wasn't that
big a deal but you know it's you can't always love everything that you're doing garbage sucks I mean
that's just there's no way around it so a couple of things one the job needed to make enough money
so that it was worthwhile doing and in this case we're working about around 40 hours a week for a
six week period of time and we feel like we've made enough money to pay for something special
which is extra travel abroad like our Scotland trip the other thing is for me like I said it's
got to be an outside job and then the third thing is not to be overly repetitive which it wasn't but
finally the absolute number one requirement is you have to like the people that you're working
for and we love the people that we're working or and even if we don't work here again we plan on
being and maintaining our friendship with them so my impressions I absolutely loved it so when
I quit my job and Ronda retired we kind of did that me quitting my job with the understanding
that we would do these short were camping gigs just to kind of supplement our other income that
we have and so this worked out really really great this was a really fun experience I loved
it because again we were outside it was right up our alley as far as being outside having a
lot of diversity in our jobs every day learned a lot of really neat things got to drive this big
huge tractor behind us that's pretty cool right we were working with people every day which can
be for too and diverts like gas can be very exhausting but you know there was times during
the week where there wasn't a lot of people here we got to do a lot of different things so very
physical work I would say if anybody wants to do this particular job in the future that you
can expect to work your butts off be really tired in the day but you're gonna work with
really fantastic people and I absolutely loved working for Marc and Sandy and all the rest of
the workers here because everybody is so much fun I mean how can you not have fun during a
fall harvest festival that's just really geared towards kids and pumpkin patches and corn mazes
and it was just a really really fun experience right up our alley so basically everything we
would have hoped to have been able to do during a work camping experience and as far as our very
first real camping gig I would say major big - thumbs up A+ etc etc yeah I could probably go on
and on about it was and we'd love to work hard so and they they loved us and want us to come
back next year there's lots of jobs out there we found this the job work camper comm there's
lots of other jobs on Flex jobs there are some great resources out there Robyn at creativity RV
in her book also lists a bunch of kind of work camping things and people get that things that
people can do when they are on the road so I work next row camping experience may not be until the
same time next year at the same place so we're not looking to work a lot during the year just
a couple things here and there to supplement like I said our income in our other travel that we want
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