More progress [f:f]
Apr. 4th, 2007 14:33![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
torquillI seem to have cleared Tier 1; Dr. Kono praised my exceptional lung function and sent me on to their internist. (I'm told he likes puzzles.) I may know more after the appointment tomorrow, which is conveniently scheduled in the last half-hour of Plant Path lab. I usually get out early anyway.
We spent the morning planting out. Not, as I had expected, on our knees... the market garden is about four acres, so a row is long enough to make planting by hand difficult. Instead, we got to mount up on the back of a tractor and feed the hoppers for a mechanical transplanter. (I want one of these!) Other than a little adjustment for depth and spacing at the beginning, it went smoothly, and we got two rows of basil, two of sweet wax peppers, and a row each of kale and broccoli done. The peppers were cranky and didn't want to come out of their cells, so that took longer, and I got to run the little cart to feed them while everyone else was fighting with the transplants.
I really need to put together a set of things for Wednesdays: hair ties, sunscreen, and a hat would be really nice. The weather was hazy, so I didn't feel the lack too much, but even if I get a deep tan as usual I'll need sunscreen by June.
I ended up working with a couple of ladies I know from the co-ops (one of them's Dory, and I can't recall the other one's name). Fun people. Raoul, the teacher, is disconcerting, even apart from the fact that I keep wanting to call him "Brin": he has a tendency to come up and treat us all to an enormously sunny smile, to the point that I start wondering whether he's heard a joke I haven't. He's also very soft-spoken, which hasn't been a problem quite yet, but I'm sure I'll be lip-reading out in the field from time to time.
I'm enjoying the market garden so far... I may volunteer or try to get a job there in the fall.
Otherwise things have been calm; I have Organic Crop lecture in about 20 minutes. In the following weeks I think I'll spend most of the time between noon and 3 at the Bike Church, since it's very close to both the Market Garden and Bowley where lecture is. Hanging at the Church is something I've been meaning to do more of.
We spent the morning planting out. Not, as I had expected, on our knees... the market garden is about four acres, so a row is long enough to make planting by hand difficult. Instead, we got to mount up on the back of a tractor and feed the hoppers for a mechanical transplanter. (I want one of these!) Other than a little adjustment for depth and spacing at the beginning, it went smoothly, and we got two rows of basil, two of sweet wax peppers, and a row each of kale and broccoli done. The peppers were cranky and didn't want to come out of their cells, so that took longer, and I got to run the little cart to feed them while everyone else was fighting with the transplants.
I really need to put together a set of things for Wednesdays: hair ties, sunscreen, and a hat would be really nice. The weather was hazy, so I didn't feel the lack too much, but even if I get a deep tan as usual I'll need sunscreen by June.
I ended up working with a couple of ladies I know from the co-ops (one of them's Dory, and I can't recall the other one's name). Fun people. Raoul, the teacher, is disconcerting, even apart from the fact that I keep wanting to call him "Brin": he has a tendency to come up and treat us all to an enormously sunny smile, to the point that I start wondering whether he's heard a joke I haven't. He's also very soft-spoken, which hasn't been a problem quite yet, but I'm sure I'll be lip-reading out in the field from time to time.
I'm enjoying the market garden so far... I may volunteer or try to get a job there in the fall.
Otherwise things have been calm; I have Organic Crop lecture in about 20 minutes. In the following weeks I think I'll spend most of the time between noon and 3 at the Bike Church, since it's very close to both the Market Garden and Bowley where lecture is. Hanging at the Church is something I've been meaning to do more of.
