This week i was on animal chores, which I love. Nothing like the thrill of getting to poke around the nest box looking for the first egg of the season (haven't found one yet), the challenge of getting in and out of the pig pen without getting manure, pig food, compost or water all over, or (my favorite), watching Chloe Pavlovianly (?) lick her lips as soon as she sees you coming with her morning or evening bucket of grain. Since we moved Chloe up close to the barn so we can let her in, she waits patiently at the gate until you bring her the grain. She also likes to rub the top of her head on my back when i'm trying to shut the gate. The pigs and the chickens both like to nibble and peck and my pants and shoes while I'm in with them.
I'm writing this fr0m the rec room, right above the pigs. I can hear them snoring. Don and Bridget got the Planet Earth DVD from the library last week, so we spent a couple evenings in here watching it, which has been amazing to see baobab trees and lemurs and dolphins and this tyiny pygmy seashorses.
This week we also saw this BEAUTIFUL double rainbow - you could see it from end to end and one of the ends was right next to our cabin. I'm hoping to enter some of these pictures into the Massachusetts Agricultural calendar - wish me luck! Piece of evidence #452 that I work on the most beautiful farm in Massachusetts...
This was also the last week we use the pit greenhouse. We planted all the tomatoes from it out in the fields this week. This means using....the post hole digger. That's one heck of an upper body workout. Luckily, Don led a fabulous group of Williams students in digging 10 rows of the holes.
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