Every year Lisle holds a Depot Days weekend festival to celebrate harvest and times gone by.  DH, PITA and I went yesterday.  I should note that we first did a bit of DT shopping and had a very nice Asian noodle lunch (probably not strictly in keeping with the theme).

Here’s PITA in green hair and yellow skort – the Gymboree skort I bought over 8 years ago! The front has an embroidered bee on it and a honey bee came came over to land on it!).

Here PITA and I are talking to a farmer about milk and pseudo-milk products shown on the table. I swear this jacket makes me look like a linebacker!  There was also a hand-cranked butter maker and bowl of butter lumps in buttermilk on the hay bale (like making butter isn’t the easiest thing in the world…with a KitchenAid!).  PITA realized that if she had to milk cows – we’d be eating dry cereal.


Modern technology – the saw cuts logs by itself!  Get one of these iron contraptions from the blacksmith and no more slaving over a hot stove!
Every home had an extensive vegetable & herb garden, since it had to provide for the family throughout the entire year (no running out to White Hen). You can tell these photos were taken by my husband, since not only are they in focus, he zeroed in on one thing I had never noticed in the herb section – hops!  you drank beer until you sedated right out…