Yesterday and Today

Yesterday I spent the majority of my day pulling weeds out of Barbara's patio. I know - exciting work for a horticulturist, no? Well, I know friends working for botanical gardens where that's pretty much all they do. I guess I can't feel so bad about it.

We moved the big herd of cows in the morning and then Emily and I continued to work on the patio and she mowed the lawn.

Today I was with Nikki to work with cows. She taught me a lot of the grasses and common weeds and we moved a bunch of the dry cows to new homes. After lunch we bushwacked through the dry cows' new home to try to find them some water. We were, however, unsuccessful so we had to begin the long and complicated journey of getting them some water. Long story short, it ended with me soaked sitting on top of her pick-up. The cows got water in the end.

I also am beginning to pick out my project topic. Marco said that each intern has to do a project or long paper by the end of the summer. I think that I'm going to do something on the weeds and grasses on our farm and what they indicate about the soil and/or environment that their in. It'll be a kind of weed identification and analysis paper or powerpoint. I think it'll be interesting, and it will allow me to walk the fields which is something that I like doing.

(a wild hemp that grows in random ditches)

Failure at Blogging

So I realize that it has been almost a week since I have updated this blog.

The middle of last week rolled past with blazing heat and muggy days. I spent an excruciatingly hot day cleaning up the grape patch. I didn't see it then, but boy do they look a lot better now. I learned how to ride the zero turn mower and it was a lot of fun. I really like working in the vineyard and with the orchards.

Later on in the week I spent a lot of time working with machines, and some time moving cows. None of it was particularly exciting - but hey, that's life.

This weekend I brought Emily to the beach with me. We had a really good time, and it was relaxing but the drive would not be worth it just for a two day weekend.

It poured today at work. We ended up getting out at 3:30 because the weather was so crummy. I almost felt guilty for leaving early because I felt like I could have still found work to do. Scott told me not to feel guilty, because we won't later in the summer when we're working extra hours just to get everything finished.

I spent a good majority of the day working on the New Holland diskbine. I windexed the whole thing and then we grease gunned both discbines after that. We tightened some of the nuts under the turtles and then Scott taught me how to drive it and then we realized it was broken. Whoops. It was a long day and everyone was dead tired. The smoke alarm went off at like 3am and everyone seemed to have issues sleeping. Oh well. Whatever happens happens.

It'll be bed early tonight to compensate!