Water on the Line
It rained all night and into the early morning. It was a very pleasant sound as it hit the roof of the cabin and rolled down to the gutters. One great perk to rain is the presence of water in our cabin tank. We can now brush our teeth right there in the room instead of in the kitchen. What a modern convenience! A bumpkin's ode to the rain by me and Josh:
The Bumpkin
I hear the water tappin'
Fallin' on the roof.
Oh me oh my I'm clappin'
Now I can brush my toof.
The water starts a drainin'
Into a jug, ol' big and blue
A there it'll be remainin'
Awaitin' for me and you.
When we turn that yonder handle
Of the sink in our room
We'll brush our teeth and ramble
With our teeth all shiny and new.
Fallin' on the roof.
Oh me oh my I'm clappin'
Now I can brush my toof.
The water starts a drainin'
Into a jug, ol' big and blue
A there it'll be remainin'
Awaitin' for me and you.
When we turn that yonder handle
Of the sink in our room
We'll brush our teeth and ramble
With our teeth all shiny and new.
Pruning Machines
The rain stopped at about 8 am, around the time we went to meet Ron. We started out pruning the blueberry bushes. Turns out these weren't the apprentice bushes we had been told about. No, those are the microscopic little twig mounds a few yards down the hill. Perhaps a breakfast or two? We then seeded like mad people for Ron's greenhouse- watermelons, peanuts, collards, lettuce, sunflowers, cotton (for the hell of it), flowers, fennel, dill, peppers, wheat grass, and more I can't remember. I'm very excited for the watermelons and the peanuts. If all else fails in my life, I can at least make a delicious future in the peanut butter business. Ron's pace is much faster than Polly's, or a normal human's in general. It's good to change things up so switching between the two of them is nice. After lunch we pruned the apple trees for 3 1/2 hours and cleared some of the fallen branches from the nut orchard. Turns out the farm is even bigger than I realized. Their land extends to the south a ways and is all forest. It's really beautiful and thick. We will have to explore soon..when my legs recover from soreness. For now, enjoying the cheese and yogurt!