today was our first full day on the farm! it consisted of a
lot of andy working and truckee and i standing and watching. we were learning
by example…plus he said he didn’t mind, he just enjoyed the company because he
has been on the farm for about a month now and said it got pretty lonely. andy
came down to chile in february of this year, and lived up in the north teaching
english until early july when he came down here to los nevados. he is just waiting it out until
september when he has a job even further down south being a yoga teacher and
bike tour guide.
but anyways the day started off with a run. or more like an
attempted run. after about ten minutes we all realized running uphill at such a
high elevation when its less than ten degrees out isn’t the same as running
back at home. so it turned into a nice morning walk. then came breakfast of
champions in the cabin: cornflakes! i have to say i can’t remember the last
time i had cornflakes and they actually tasted pretty good. we have a little outdoor kitchen
attached to the cabin where we keep mostly just our breakfast food but its so
cold outside it also works as a kind of second fridge for the house.
to go with our cereal andy made us tea from some dried mint leaves and a
handy little electric tea kettle.
then we headed down to the greenhouses and started working! first came
compost. and there was A LOT of compost. basically for a few hours we sifted
through dirt to get the good stuff, and threw the rest back in the bin to keep
on compostin’.
there was lots of good stuff in there. it smelled awesome.
apparently it took us far longer to get through all of it
because truckee and i didn’t want to squish the worms on the metal grid the
dirt went through. no worm murderers here!
we took a quick lunch break out in the cabin kitchen and made
eggs and toast with avocado, honey, and homemade peanut butter. simple but
de-lish. it was fun cooking on the little camping stove too.
andy just became a vegetarian in the beginning of the year but
he doesn’t know how to cook anything so we started his lessons with scrambled
eggs.
after lunch we went back to work, this time making a trellis
sort of thing for flowers to climb up in the greenhouse. all of tracy’s outdoor
greenhouses and the wood shed are build of this wood called colihue that kind
of looks like bamboo
we also harvested cabbage and kale, hoping to use some if it for dinner.
the workday was over around 5 and we showered and got ready to cook! but
first lance called us up onto the deck to see this beautiful sunset. he said
los nevados was giving us a proper welcome
it was also a pretty clear day today, unlike yesterday so we could see the
view of the two volcanos. this is llaima:
the big one that is closer is called villarrica but i didn’t
get a photo today. hopefully we will get to hike up villarrica while we are
here, andy did it and said it was amazing.
for dinner we made a sort of fancy tomato soup with carrots
and some of the cabbage we picked earlier, and we topped it with avocado!
we also made gluten-free apple crisp for dessert (tracy can’t
have gluten), but that didn’t last long enough for a picture.
truckee and andy were appalled that i have never seen lord of
the rings so after dinner we got comfy in the cabin to watch it on the laptop
but i fell asleep about 30 minutes in. i got in trouble, and it earned me the
nickname “dozer” because i guess i’m one of “those people” who falls asleep
during movies. oops. it isn’t my fault, it was a long day!
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