Chase:
Hello! Today is June 14th – Dana and my three year anniversary. It
has been a great day, but rainier then the dickens! For the last week we have
been doing a lot a different jobs around the farm. We bent 60 pipes to build the
hoops that we covered with reemay, potted plants in the greenhouse and helped
get the tractor out of the manure as best we could. We also had to do our first
load of laundry this week and we watched them dry in the warm Canadian breeze. But,
my favorite part of the week must have been playing the alphabet game with Dana
while we weeded a single row of garlic for an hour – and I am not lying! It is
good to know I can still have fun just playing in the dirt and talking to my best
friend.
Dana:
Our second week has already come to end. It is so great to be working in a role
that is different each and every day. Chase and I couldn’t be happier! We have
been eating delicious, homegrown food, we have been working on rewarding
projects, and we have been able to spend every moment with each other. Chase
mentioned above that we “potted plants in the greenhouse,” but he failed to
mention that I had actually potted 65 plants in the sweltering greenhouse while
he worked on a construction project in the refreshing shadows. Quite the
accomplishment! Hopefully all of the little eggie-plants and pepper poos will
come up strong. I only worry because there were a few incidents when I was
forced to play God, alter evolution, sentence someone to the death penalty –
not sure how to put it, but I sure had power. This madness occurred due to two
little seeds being planted in the same starter dish. This resulted in two
plants fighting for the same space. I wasn’t about to continue this madness in
the larger pots, so I had to decide – who was going to live and whose roots
were going to be up-rooted? My decision didn’t reach any higher level of
thinking than, “which plant looks the strongest?” Such a basic and Darwinist
way of deciding life and death. We shall never know which plant truly was the
strongest, but I hope the ones that lived, live a happy, moist, and sunshine
filled life.
Chase:
As you can see, I think Dana spent a little too much time in that greenhouse.
Although, I did find it interesting how bad she felt sometimes when she would
take out the little seedling over the big one. That cry-baby face that I have
grown to love would come out and she would let out a little, fake cry and, “pluck,”
out he went. On the other hand, she was
sometimes very ruthless – with a witch’s cackle, she would grab three stray
strands of grass and tear them out of the dirt like a hungry goat.
Dana:
Wow, what a funny guy Chase is today. I am watching him eat a pound of
granola (thanks, Dad) as he laughs out loud about the jokes he just made above, which are sad but true. I am such a lucky girl and he is such a hungry guy. Happy three years!
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