Day 8 — Homestead Conference — Day 2

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Weather forecast

Sat, Jun 27

Overnight

Hayden, ID

66° 52°

💧 6%

Forecast via Open-Meteo

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Sunrise, Sunset & Golden Hour

Sunrise

4:50 AM PDT

Sunset

8:50 PM PDT

Be set up by (sunrise)

4:20 AM

Be set up by (sunset)

8:30 PM

Sunrise spot — Same as Day 7 — Higgens Point or Tubbs Hill for sunrise over Coeur d'Alene Lake.

Pack tonight (tomorrow needs a hard 9:30 AM departure) — skip the pre-dawn, sleep in.

Sunset spot — Last relaxed evening before big drive days resume. Coeur d'Alene City Beach — same lake sunset.

Catch the sunset from the resort or the lake before packing for tomorrow.

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Heads Up

Four-way 9:00 AM conflict and a three-way 1:30 PM conflict — decide tonight who goes where.

Tomorrow (Day 9) still needs a 9:30 AM departure — that's set by the 4:30 PM badge deadline at Paradise, not an early-riser choice. Pack the car tonight.

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Trip Journal — Day 8

👨 Jason

📝 Day summary

Memory of the day

We made it to the early sessions today. Michelle and I split up to learn along our interests. I attended a session on establishing orchards and the fig production in the morning, and we jointly attended a Q&A panel for the last session from several youtubers we follow. The kids got to pet some goats, sheep, cows, and horses, do some vendor shopping, and got some fresh lemonade. The boys got to play in the sawdust with some other kids during my fruit session, which was probably the favorite thing they did before we took them to a playground at the end of the day. The playground, btw, was very nostalgic. It was almost a carbon copy of the Longacre park in Fairview Heights, IL, that my kids played at in their early years. Might have teared up a bit as Eli and my grandkids played like my older kids played back in the day.

Craziest thing I learned today: most of the bagged apples you buy at the store were picked up to a year ago.

Grateful for

veteran homesteaders, Christian community

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