Well Alchemy is over, and we had an amazing time! The Moo Mobile Mutant Vehicle was a success. With your $80 in donations, we were able to get two 1 liter bottles of Popov Vodka, a liter of Kuhula, a gallon of cream, and a half gallon of vanilla almond milk. We were also gifted pink medical gloves, and if you were there, you probably had an udder! We mixed our white Russians then poured them into the glove, tied them off, then drove around the cow handing out our cocktail concoctions. People loved it. Most people thought it was really weird at first, but once they tried it, they were excited to keep drinking it. Throughout the whole burn, I only found a single pink glove moop’ed on the ground. Outside of our creamy udders, we wound up getting involved in The Alchemy Pub Crawl and the Pickle Run! We were given a jar of pickles and we were also gifted a bunch of whiskey shots. So folks would stop by, or flag us down while we were out riding around, and do a shot and get a stamp. The schwag for completing the Pickle Run was a pretty cool neon pickle you could attach to a necklace. As always, we had an amazing time. Enough so that we completely forgot to take pictures... I'm not entirely sure what will happen to Barn Yard Business. But who knows, maybe we'll do something for Euphoria too?
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Things have been kind of busy between getting everything together, setting up the Mutant Vehicle, working normal jerbs, any just every day life. We may have bitten off more than we can chew. But it wouldn't be much of a burn if not right? With only a few weeks left we are really evaluating our finances and what we CAN and CANNOT afford. We're on the ropes about the Monkey Hut but it seems like something we might be able to resell after we build it. We'd also really like to bring a small trailer and throw some hay seats up there and have a sort of hay ride. Just thinking about wiring up the trailer sounds like a nightmare. The LED lights were a pain in the butt but I finally got them on. Check it out! So far, we have raised $70 via our fundraiser which is enough for just a few bottles to make some cheap White Russians! We also got the pink gloves in, so we will 110% have booze to hand out from fake pink utters. Other than that not much more has happened. We are still trying to design the rest of the cow for the car and the barn and the hay ride... But at least we figured out how to booze ya!
We've received our first donations! A whopping $35 in total! :P That's enough for a few bottles, so it's official, we'll be handing out drinks from the Moo Mobile!! Speaking of, here's an update on how the Moo Mobile is coming along; it's a pain in the butt! But really, I started working on putting in the LED under lights to go along with the DMV's requirements of mutant vehicles and art cars (front, sides, and rear must be illuminated). I had a terribly difficult time trying to find a hole in the firewall to route the LED's outside. Only to discover the wire to go to the front of the vehicle is too short. So I cut it to splice it, thinking it was just simply a lead wire & ground wire at about like 14-16 gauge. Nope... Check this out... So not having any connectors this small, and unable to solder it hanging out of the car, and also not having thin enough wire to extend to the desired length, I had to disassemble everything... So hopefully soon, the Moo Mobile's under lights will live! I picked up some supplies to wire it properly. So keep an eye out for that! We've been discussing ideas on what to do with any funds donated. I want to be absolutely clear here. All funds donated to this fundraiser will be used only for things we will hand out and that the community at the burn will consume. We realized that in our video we never actually specified what we're doing or using the money for, so there it is. Our ideas include getting some pink gloves and putting mixed drinks in them, then taking a needle and poking a hole in them so you have to suck it out of an udder :P Sound utterly delicious? Or appalling? Comment below and let us know! And if you missed it before, here's the fundraising video we made. We did this over a camp meet and greet since some of our members don't know each other. But now we do! Enjoy :) We recorded all the videos, had some good ideas, acquired all the stuff for the Mutant Vehicle and our structures at our camp... Now we just need money to give our fellow burners things! We're a pretty clever bunch; audio and visual folks, seamstresses, mechanics... we're all pretty handy, crafty, and useful. You'd be surprised at the things we can make happen with just a little bit of extra cash ;)
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