Interesting/Wacky Things That Have Happened

In my first week on the farm, there have definitely been some interesting moments. Here are a few of them:

I started my first day by milking a goat for the first time in my life. The goat (Flora) gets bored while you're milking her, so you have to distract her with food. However, that doesn't always work, and sometimes her foot ends up in the milk pale.

The farm recently built a cob oven, which is an outdoor oven made out of cob (a mixture of clay, sand, and straw). These ovens are often used to bake bread or pizza. Mark is really into the oven and likes to bake bread pretty often. The cool thing about the oven is that you spend two to three hours getting it really hot with a fire inside. Then, as it cools, you bake different things in the oven. For instance, on Wednesday, Mark fired up the oven. He started by baking some flat bread, then loaves of bread, then a pizza, then a quiche (which I made), then cookies and muffins. So, when you fire up the oven, you can plan out a whole order of things that you're going to bake.

The interns and Jeff and Janet all drink beer in the evenings and we always fill up the recycling really quickly, so we decided to buy a keg and keep in the walk-in cooler. Each person will pitch in $1 per pint.

The farm has a field in the bottom-lands which are across a creek. We were planting squash out there yesterday, and as we were walking over there, I fell in the creek. While it felt good to be wet on a hot day, my iPod didn't like it so much. I'm super bummed about my iPod especially because I used it as an external hard drive and it had all my photo projects on it. But, at this point, what can you do?

Also, I forgot to mention Pippin in my last post. She is the farm dog and she loves to make the rounds to visit everyone on the farm. She's really sweet, but also keeps the farm safe from deer and hawks and the like.