Farm 0619

June 19

Finally up to today! I woke up, met Josh and Tyler at 7AM in the fields, and we picked up 11.5 pounds of snow peas. Adan was left picking up snap peas in the field alone, and we proceeded to weed out the rest of Cipriano. We were working on the pinto beans when Adan comes up to us, and says “We need to talk. I don’t know if I didn’t make myself clear yesterday, but I thought we were going to pick the rest of the snap peas today”. A polite but tense conversation ensued between Adan and Josh. Tyler and I were pretty relaxed, but we could see there was tension. We decided to continue weeding that day, and work on harvesting the next morning.

So we weeded the field until 11AM. Afterwards Josh and Tyler came along to my cabin, and we fixed the gate by removing a bunch of screws, and putting some more back in. After that I came back to my cabin, ate my cooked garbanzos (THEY ARE SO DELICIOUS WHEN FRESHLY COOKED!!!!!), and I spent the rest of my lunch time writing up this journal entry. Oh look, it’s now 3:59PM. I gotta dress up and go back to work. Bye!

And in the afternoon, we cut/uprooted a bunch of plants with white flowers from the front of Maricela’s house. We then loaded them up into a truck that Josh brought, and dropped them off into a branch pile. Then we moved on to the area where Mario, Ramon, and I had once picked up cherry branches with a tractor, and we loaded as many debris sticks as we could into the tractor. Then back to the branch pile, we unloaded it all, and then after animal chores, we were pretty much done for the day.

Josh invited me over to his cabin to grill veggie burgers, and I accepted. I offered to go buy stuff at La Espanola, so Josh made a little list, gave it to me, and gave me $50. Simply Limeade, Simply Orange, Sriracha, and 1 avocado. Once in the store I replaced the Simply Orange by Grower’s Choice, Sriracha for nothing, and added 1 banana for Josh and 1 shampoo bottle for me. The car doesn’t seem meant to deal with rocky, farm-like terrain very much, but it did OK on the way forth and back.

Once back, I went to J&T’s and hung out. We prepared our own veggie burgers with flour tortillas, hummus, avocados, grilled onions, grilled veggie paddies, salt, pepper, and mustard (not me). They turned out quite well. They also offered me an ad-hoc Margarita: OJ+Tequila. I took it, and then we talked about a diversity of topics. How Josh got into farming, the Federal Reserve Board, economic conspiracy theories, man+machine melding, Star Wars, J.J. Abrams & art, Joss Whedon & art, Bruce Willis, Harry Potter, weed and regulations in different states, and others such. Eventually conversation grew thin, and we said good night. And now, a few minutes later, I’m back at my cabin, finishing up today’s journal entry. Whoop.