A different story
Apr. 16th, 2020 11:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
greenstormSo there I am in the duck lean-to with the skirt of my short dress held up like a basket to carry eggs in and of course no underpants on. I step out, my skirt full of eggs, and see some folks outside the gate at the end of the driveway maybe a hundred feet away.
I quickly duck into the house, divest myself of eggs, and come out with my skirt in its proper location. It's the folks who said they were bringing expired stuff by from the grocery store today, who I forgot to leave buckets out for!
So I carried some garbage buckets down and we had our normal interaction, which is 7-8' apart over the fence, while my dogs eyed everything warily. We chatted in the warm sun about twenty minutes, they unloaded everything into the garbage buckets (apples, cheese, milk, and hot dog buns mostly), they suggested a neighbour who might be able to fix my root cellar/collapsing shed, we talked about farm gates and tractors and tree planting and surgeries delayed during the pandemic and a little town just the Alaska side of the border they said I should visit which was full of glaciers and beaches. It was friendly and I'm looking forward to giving the piglets a bunch of milk with their grain and getting soap molds/plant pots out of the 1 liter milk containers.
Not sure if they saw me with my skirt up full of eggs, if they did they were super polite about it.
I sent Josh a picture of a bucket rack for planting, and he sent me back pricing of buckets at the local store with how many were in stock.
I may talk about food waste and packaging on my next farmwalk on youtube. I like getting the grocery store bounty but any one load of food is as much waste as I'd normally produce in a couple months.
So it ended up being ok. I need to go back out into that delightful sunshine to measure how much fencing wire I need and actually feed the animals.
I quickly duck into the house, divest myself of eggs, and come out with my skirt in its proper location. It's the folks who said they were bringing expired stuff by from the grocery store today, who I forgot to leave buckets out for!
So I carried some garbage buckets down and we had our normal interaction, which is 7-8' apart over the fence, while my dogs eyed everything warily. We chatted in the warm sun about twenty minutes, they unloaded everything into the garbage buckets (apples, cheese, milk, and hot dog buns mostly), they suggested a neighbour who might be able to fix my root cellar/collapsing shed, we talked about farm gates and tractors and tree planting and surgeries delayed during the pandemic and a little town just the Alaska side of the border they said I should visit which was full of glaciers and beaches. It was friendly and I'm looking forward to giving the piglets a bunch of milk with their grain and getting soap molds/plant pots out of the 1 liter milk containers.
Not sure if they saw me with my skirt up full of eggs, if they did they were super polite about it.
I sent Josh a picture of a bucket rack for planting, and he sent me back pricing of buckets at the local store with how many were in stock.
I may talk about food waste and packaging on my next farmwalk on youtube. I like getting the grocery store bounty but any one load of food is as much waste as I'd normally produce in a couple months.
So it ended up being ok. I need to go back out into that delightful sunshine to measure how much fencing wire I need and actually feed the animals.
