repeat week

pictured: me...i've truly let myself go here (with no shower, no mirrors, and no one around, it's inevitable really) // the tiniest carrot ever

running a farm is a bit repetitive. you plant, you weed, you water, you harvest and then you start all over. sometimes nature throws you a curve ball and then you have to rethink your cycle. but when you're only at a place for two weeks you can expect to do things over and over.

and that's what this week has been like.

monday we harvested the left over strawberries that will be turned into jam (see entry from last monday - it was exactly the same). and we pruned the tomato plants and helped them grow up their string in the plastic tunnel (a little different because there are red tomatoes now - yum!)

tuesday we picked at plants. for some reason, people plant carrots with some push-seed-wheel device and in most cases, it over-seeds the plants. meaning instead of one carrot plant every inch or so, you have 5 in one inch. meaning someone has to go back and pick away at the 4 extra plants to make room for that one carrot. that someone was alex and i. and it wasn't just a foot of carrots. it was 6 very long rows of thousands of tiny carrot plants. better than weeds - but kinda the same. and i like it, but my back and neck don't like it. and it kinda drives you crazy...cause your brain just drifts and you focus and focus and pull...whew. at least we got to pull up carrots - even if they were only a few centimenters long and translucent instead of orange. they still tasted like carrots.

and today, wednesday, we planted some more plants. flowers instead of herbs. my fingers are once again chewed up and dirty.

tomorrow, thursday...i don't yet know. i fear tomorrow nature will throw us a wild card and a truck will dump off tons of sheep shit. which will need to be shoveled to another area by some naive city dwellers. i really hope that possibility (mentioned on monday) falls through. i don't want to sit, stand on, or shovel shit.

friday is harvest day. there will be some more strawberry picking and many more hours of flower picking.

saturday is another free day. we think we might ride our bikes to poland! just so we can say we've been to poland.

sunday we leave for berlin to watch the world cup. too bad germany just lost to spain. now it won't be as fun. thanks for nothing germany.