Farm 0620

June 20

The tequila drink I was offered by J&T last night relaxed my body more than I realized, and I ended up falling asleep on the lower bunk bed, when I only intended to rest for a while. At 4:58AM, I realized I’d fallen asleep, and simply started my morning routine to get ready for the day.

During the morning, we harvested snap peas and shell peas. We gathered 51 pounds of snap and 6 of shell, then proceeded to weed all the chile rows with stirrup hoes. It was still 11:20 by that time, and we decided we’d start an early lunch and reconvene at 4PM. Ashley stopped by while we were near their house, and gave me a package - Mario’s iPod had arrived, used and cracked on the bottom. I went back to my cabin and proceeded to set it for up for him. It wouldn’t turn on at first, so I tried to charge it with the iCharger someone left in the cabin. And the plug wouldn’t fit in. Oh no, the port was bent inwards! The screen break seemed to have been caused by some precise crushing. The electronic part of the port seemed to be OK... I only needed to open it up so I could fit the charger inside.

A pair of pliers could help, I thought, so I went to Josh’s to ask for one. He very coolly lent me one, but when I told him what the problem was, he suggested that I tried to hammer and pin it instead. I thought it was a good idea, so I tried that. A hammer and some metallic wedge were already at my cabin, so I just went back and hammered it. A few seconds later, the charger fit inside! Josh had known just what to do! I made a mental note of thanking him afterwards.

So then I set up the new iPod for Mario, downloaded some Jehovah’s Witnesses talks in English and Spanish for him to listen to, synced it up with my laptop, then called him to tell him that it had arrived for him. He seemed pretty excited - he interrupted the work he was doing at the time, and told me that he’d be at my cabin in 30 minutes. 30 minutes later, indeed, we were setting up his new Apple ID, downloading apps, looking at the JW website, and making sure he had everything he wanted on his new little device. By the time he left it was 3:30PM, and I only had time to go back to my cabin, clean up my dishes, and dress up again before meeting J&T in the truck area.

They were loading up a board on the truck that we’d used to carry branches yesterday. And yup, that’s what we did all afternoon - load up strewn branches in the area where the horses are to be taken to. There were a lot of them - two pretty full truckloads of branches (which were easier to unload thanks to the wooden board on the truck that was used as a platform) later, the field was still not completely clean, but the whole area certainly looks much clearer. Then we did animal chores, which for me basically consisted in collecting eggs. 14 eggs later, we put the eggs in Adan’s fridge, and we each went back home. I fried a bag of snow peas and cooked rice+lentils+all-remaining-chard as my dinner. Josh stopped by a while ago to tell me he and Tyler would be going to a comic festival in Albuquerque and Saturday, and invited me to come. I was happy to oblige. He also said that he’d probably go down to Santa Fe tomorrow evening, which fit perfectly, as Mario’s wife also wants a little laptop to work with, and I found one on Craigslist for only $50. If things work out well, after work tomorrow (which will start a 6AM as a trial) we’ll drive down to Santa Fe, I’ll notify J&T about the laptop purchase I might be making, hopefully they’ll make a little time for me to get it done. Then we might come back to the farm, sleep, and on Saturday morning at 8AM, drive to Albuquerque and be there all day at the Comic Festival. It’s $15 each if we pay online. Then we’ll probably drive back to the farm, or stay and watch the new Superman movie at a theater there somewhere. J&T seem pretty excited about the movie, though we might also go sometime on Sunday, perhaps early to get the matineé price.