PASCAL FOUND ONE!
I SPY WITH MY LITTLE EYES SOMETHING BLUE
ARE THESE GROWING WHERE YOU WORK?
HIPPY HIPPY SHAKE
Hi ho, hi ho, it's off to pick we go! We started harvesting the extensive blueberry patch this morning, working on the first three rows. Not nearly all of the baby blues are ripe yet, but the birds are starting to nibble and we must beat them to the bushes. Instead of waiting to harvest all the bushes in one day, Lorna thought it'd be good to work our way through the patch in shifts; one day we'll harvest three rows and the following day harvest the next three rows and so forth. We love to harvest fruit, because while we are sure to bring plenty back inside, it's not only assumed, but encouraged that some of the bounty will end up in our bellies. Harvesting fruit is probably our number one favorite WWOOF activity second only, maybe, to eating said fruit. After finishing the three rows and with berries safely in our bowls, we kind of had the blues, but lucky for us, we headed for the nearby raspberry bushes. We've been harvesting raspberries every other day since our arrival and they get sweeter each time. Hopefully we'll have time for at least one more harvest from each bush before we leave on Friday.
We began to work on a couple long term projects today, which we may or may not see through completion. One was to put a fence on the perimeter of a four acre pasture across the street from the main house where two horses will soon graze. Currently the horses live up the road but they've eaten all their grass down and it's time for some fresh greens. The other project was started by the WWOOFers who just left; they began clearing an area on the east side of the house where a "reflexology path" will one day live. Today we took over where they left off and began to haul sand up from the banks of the creek. Ten five gallon buckets full of sand got us started, and we sifted and raked it into the designated area. After we put more sand in, we will lay smooth stones in a pattern Lorna has designed.
With Lorna and Carl back, we are reinspired and reenergized for the work we'll do here the rest of the week. It was nice to have a relaxing weekend to ourselves without much work, but we're eager to learn what they will teach us over the next few days. To celebrate their 19th wedding anniversary today, Lorna brought home take out asian food for dinner. Dessert is ice cream topped with plenty of freshly picked organic berries. When we celebrate our wedding anniversary over the years, we won't be eating local berries because they won't be ripe in mid-October, but we'll figure something out.
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