Today while I showered an idea popped into my head... a very wholesome, very giving idea. I don't want to give away what the idea actually is on this public forum, simply because it's supposed to be a surprise for some people. But I now have a project for when I get back. A very big project. I'm thinking it may suck a lot of my life up.
Oddly, I'm a little afraid that I'll be too busy doing this whole living life thing to really focus on my college applications. Dammit colleges! Why can't you just know me, love me, and give me enough financial support to learn in your facilities! :p
I'll balance it i guess. I have to, so I will.
Last year I didn't apply because I was scared and not ready. This year I'm having trouble applying because I'm so damn busy with my actual passions, that applying to schools seems... horribly unimportant. Even though I'm 97% sure I want to begin school next fall.
meh meh meh.
So anyway, this week has been pretty uneventful.
and BAM! That did it...
Let me explain:
Thursday morning, Tess and I were continuing work on the garlic field, planting, haying, shaping the beds, and I was off in thought about what I was going to write for my blog this week. And I tried to recall my week... A horrible falling out with Parker, an awe-inspiring drive back to the farm Tues. morning, picking tomatoes, baking bread, CSA pick and process day where we made carmel popcorn balls for halloween, and then working on the garlic field... overall a pretty uneventful week.
And that's what did it. As soon as I thought that one measly sentence: "it's been a pretty uneventful week," the fates decided that that was simply unacceptable. And it started to sleet. And then snow. Remember, this whole sleetsnow thing is taking place on OCTOBER 27!
No one expected it. We had no warning and Tess and I even had our evenings mostly planned. We were going to have an early dinner, I was going to take a shower, and then go to bed and get lot's of sleep.
Of course, that didn't happen. Because of the snow we decided it may be a good idea to check the weather forecast and as we suspected, there was a hard freeze warning for that night.
It's a good thing I remembered 3 weeks earlier, when we had a hard frost scare, Jen said that we'd have to pull all the tomato plants. We tried calling Kai but couldn't get ahold of him immediately, and there wasn't time to waste, so we got to it, picking all the tomatoes in HT1. The snow started at 4 and by 5 the ground was already mostly covered. And by 6 the sun was down! Jen arrived home just as we finished picking in HT1, and we all immediately started pulling and picking all the tomatoes and peppers in the green house. We shined the truck lights on the greenhouse to give us some light, but even with that we mostly worked in the dark.
It was... cold. Freezing, actually. And miserable because of that. OR it should've been. My old Bowling Green self would've hated every minute of it, but this me realized the true importance of it, of the task, and was able to enjoy it because she was working towards a very important goal. Life or death, really. If those plants weren't harvested, we were going to lose everything they produced, and that wasn't fair to us and that wasn't fair to the plants.
So we worked tirelessly in the bitter wet cold until 8:30-driven by that fact.
The house was kind of destroyed in the process of saving everything from the frost. We left the door open in an effort to save time and the cats got in. They ate all the butter in the butter dish and left kitty prints on the kitchen table. Mud was tracked all through the house and the library and dining room were overtaken with pepper plants, herbs, and tomatoes.
But we did it. And then we had hot apple cider to celebrate while we watched Edward Scissorhands. Damn him…why did he decide to start with the ice sculptures so early!?
The next day we heard that there was going to be 6-12 in of snow on Sat. and our priorities immediately turned to finishing the garlic fields!! We spent all day planting, but we did get it done. Now all that's left to do down there is cover the entire field with hay. I'm glad we're almost through with that field-it's been a long and laboring task.
On Saturday morning we woke up to green grass. The fates decided to give us a little more time to prepare. So we harvested the potatoes and tot soy, made an agerbond cover for Joey in the hopes that it would keep the snow from crushing the seedlings and did a similar type cover for the suatee mix bed. And as we were wrapping up, the snow really began to fall. We were ready just in time.
I'll stop there for now. read on for our fun snow activities! And Halloween at Channery Hill
garlic field! under snow...
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