back on the farm

to start off with:  it's been windy, and dry (with the occasional t-storm) and I've been down in the sadeh a lot, so I've been getting some pretty gnarly boogers. I like to use the time I'm internetting to kinda clean out in there, especially off my nose stud. but I forget that this isn't, like, my personal office. this is a room with lots of windows that anyone could just walk by and see me. "oh look, there's the girl that makes those delicious pickled products. picking her nose." just kidding! I haven't made any pickled products yet.


so anyway, I've returned to the sticks from boston. I had quite an excellent time roaming the city on foot with clay, and I mean we did some serious roaming. I probably walked at least 10 miles over those three days, not that I minded, soaking up the culture and all. we did some really excellent drinking and I watched his rugby game (where they beat some old boston dudes 50-0) and bought settlers of catan and bananagrams and drank beer on his roof and I met some cool new people and it all culminated with sailing on the charles river with some mit phd frat boys, which is just somewhere I never thought I'd be in my life and was really hilarious and amazing. it had been really hot and muggy that day and I'd (well, clay'd) been hauling my duffle bag all over cambridge and getting on the water with that cool breeze was really quite splendid.

then lauren did an excellent job of navigating us back to the farm, despite me not being the best road-trip companion (I had to be picked up, I couldn't drive because I was drunk, and I was late because apparently when you're sailing you have to wait for the wind to carry you back to the dock!), and after her brother fed us toddler-size hamburgers.

oh yeah and there also was this crazy water emergency where we had to boil all the tap water and clay told me after I had already drank a whole glass of it so hopefully I don't have some weird parasite or anything. don't worry, I feel great! oh AND I forgot the most important news of all, which is that I ate an entire ice cream cone for the first time in probably 10 years and suffered no ill effects. so that was exciting, but no need to tempt fate or anything.


so! now I'm back on the farm and getting back into farm headspace. we've been putting hundreds and hundreds of onion, shallot, and leek starts into the ground at the sadeh, which was enlivened today by a controlled burn of stuff that had been cleared out of the woods

I helped set that on fire, which was fun, and despite some initial concern about possible woods-burning-down (mostly on my part), it all went as planned

and that's how you get rid of a big pile of brush and some wood.

emi and I also found a bunch more morels

in our secret spot, some of them quite large

and I think that's all to report for now. it was really warm the other night but now it looks like it's back to two blanket and sock weather for sleeping.

whew. blogging is exhausting.