1st day at Twin Oaks Farm

I got out here about 7:30 on Monday night and after getting most of my stuff out of the truck and set up in the bedroom we had dinner, meat loaf from your mothers goat meat, brown rice and salad of fresh veggies that Renee buys at the Lake Ella farmers market ... there might be some trading going on there and then sat around and talked about organic foods and how factory farm raised crops and/or livestock are raised/grown with the aid of modern chemistry and steroids etc and then after they leave the farm what happens on the way to the supermarket, how they are processed and various treatments on the assembly line and into a box/bag and then off to the shelf of the supermarket.
 Went to bed around 10:00 and read for a while, turned in around 11:30.

Renee supplied an alarm clock that receives a radio signal from Fort Collins, Colorado to keep very accurate time, how thoughtful of her, LOL but I just couldn't figure out how to set it up etc. So I set the alarm on my cell phone for 6:30. This morning I woke up to the morning light coming through the bedroom window at 6:10, showered and had breakfast of three duck eggs over easy, toast and some of the best coffee I've ever had. We talked for a while, mostly a continuation of last nights
converstion and then went out to feed the chickens and ducks, moved the coups around with the riding lawn mower. This all took say 2 hours on the outside and then it started to rain so we finished up and put stuff away and went inside for a cup of tea and a short break, some apple pie and more discussion. Then around 2:00 we rounded up some hand tools and proceeded to dis-assemble some of her first prototype chicken coups that were constructed out of pvc pipe, she wants to recover the pipe to make a frame for more compost piles. With the addition of a circular saw the demo work proceeded at quite the accelerated pace, got all the dis-assembly done at around 3:50, put all the tools away and then a short break with some tea. The last activity of the day was to feed the chickens and duck their evening portions and then get them all into their coups for the night. Dinner was white rice, veggies (carrots, turnips?) and black beans with water. Clean up the kitchen and sit down
to watch a movie ..... Friday on the Farm.

More later