Pioneer Day Scarecrows

By Carol Cichorski, on September 29th, 2012

We are having a wonderful fun-filled autumn. So much so that I’m a bit behind on getting these Pioneer Day pictures posted. As you may have read in my last posting, I had quite the to-do list this last week. I love crossing things off my to-do list; however, maybe I should just put a great big smiley face next to Pioneer Day instead of crossing it off my list. I don’t think I ever want Pioneer Day off my list, though I am glad it’s now almost a full year till it rolls around again.

Pioneer Day is the event where the Elk Grove Garden Club has a Scarecrow Factory. We helped families make 120 scarecrows this year. We could have made more, but we ran out of clothes. Lauren even went home to raid her father’s closet. We also took apart sample scarecrows that we’d made just so we could have more supplies. That included some scarecrows that came from my own house. Yes, my front lawn is scarecrow-less. I do expect to resolve that issue this weekend when the family is all together. I literally had to buy scarecrow supplies myself this week so we can do that.

Next year’s supplies have already started coming in. I’ve hit a few garage sales, and Sarah brought over two boxes of silk flowers. Lucille is cutting the stems to make the flowers right-sized for adorning lapels and hats. Maybe I was premature to think I even could mark Pioneer Day off my to-do list. Around here, there is always another Scarecrow Factory on the horizon.

I’m not the only one who looks forward to it. We definitely get repeat customers. You saw Danaan’s picture, didn’t you? It’s a picture of Danaan last year and this year at Pioneer Day. We had others who came back and also found their picture from a past year in the collections we had hanging from the trees. I love that.

Sandy and Sarah Ortiz are repeat scarecrow builders who thoroughly enjoyed the experience. What creativity! They were on-site for a few hours making memories, I mean scarecrows. Ok, both.