Day 8: A Break in the Weather....

There was a slight window between showers when we woke up.  Molly made progress clearing a few vegetable gardens. I finally finished weeding around the tropical apricots.

the tree is somewhere in the middle, surrounded by kikuyu (which I can now spell)

After breakfast, Molly interviewed Alec about his economic system.  I overhead bits and pieces while I wrote, but that is her business...

I got a Facebook message from a friend who now lives in Wellington. I’ll call once my phone works again—it seems not to be able to send or receive from this location. Molly has a co-op contact in Wellington as well.  Maybe it is worth a bus trip from our next wwooff? More will be revealed.

Morning Dog Walk was late, but uneventful.  I finally dressed for the weather—wearing my unitard mid-thigh swimwear under my rain jacket, with crocs.  Meanwhile, some of clothes are finally dry.

jeans, socks, shoes drying

Molly made a good lunch:

The afternoon tasks included clearing a huge hexagonal garden bed for Molly. She also found some time to document stuff for her internship, and chill out a bit.

the beds before

in progress

after

Molly hauled the weeds to the compost pile

then took a break...

Evening walk was damp

 

inside work

protected from the rabbits organically

My tasks for the afternoon included repairing the umbrellas:

...and weeding out the tomatoes:

 

above: BEFORE

below: AFTER

Molly, beautiful Molly, in repose, caught unaware:

Dinner: Molly cooked soba and veggies.  I cooked the Nadis-Schwartz soy sauce and honey chicken for Alec.  With chard, onions and carrots.

In the evening, Molly and I worked on the Split Decisions puzzle that Dick had emailed and Alec printed out for us.  Is “gallish” a word? The internet doesn't think so. It goes well with “Garnish” and “googol”.  But there were several “proper nouns”—Google, Oslo, Corvette and Mach…maybe Games magazine owes me a t-shirt...