The cement truck came and we spent the next several hours dripping sweat, shoveling concrete to low spots, and using a large piece of wood to go back and forth smoothening out the excess. I've never done this before but it is some hard work but glad to be a part of it. We finished that up around lunch time and we were done working for the day so Evan and I planned the rest of the bike trip route through Oregon and chatted with a couple guys who are making a book of poems with a letter press. Pretty crazy stuff!
That evening my friend, Jared, came out for a visit from Newburg which was so awesome to see him. Jared, Joey, and I used to hangout a lot when I lived in Portland. He drove Evan and I into Nehalehm to meet up with the rest of the wwoofers at a pizza place for dinner.
We sat around and chatted for the rest of the evening back at the barn then bid farewell to Jared.
Today it was just dumping rain so Brigham, Evan, and I sat inside and drank some tea seeing if it would let up since we had some projects to do outside and it never did let up so we did some other projects.
We cleaned out an old hoop house and weeded it then dugout a couple clay pits and made a 3 ft deep by 15ft long and 3 ft wide row for next years growing. We did some random moving of a huge bay window, cleaned some tools, and went through recycling stuff before heading down to the lower farm and cutting wood for close to 3 hrs.
Oh at one point in the day I was telling Evan a story about my childhood where we would buy trading cards and in the middle of my story Evan says, "yeah I need to take a shower too." And we just busted out laughing. He wasn't even paying attention. We had some good laughs today especially when we coined the phrase, 'above the lolz'. Feel free to use it.
We are just kicking back this evening reading and waiting for community dinner. Blake should be getting in tomorrow then on Saturday we are hitting the road to bike in some nicer weather before more rain comes.
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