the weekend in pictures (again)

Too tired to write properly so it's a picture says a thousand words again:

We harvested the onions (brown and red) and garlic. Then we dried them in the back of the truck because a) it has a black mat in there and it's parked in full sun so it's a good place to dry stuff, b) it's easy to cover with a tarp in case of rain (and it did rain so well thought out us) and c) that's where they were when we got them home and we couldn't be bushed moving them!

We started harvesting our wheat. It's a big job- cut, bunch, tie, dry. Then we have to remove the wheat grains from the stems, then separate the wheat from the chaff (how often do you get to say that and mean it literally??) and then have it ground into flour. Phew... And what's Meg doing? She and Amy unravelled about 50m of the giant 800m roll of jute we were using and had a ball running around each other and getting tangled up. (The games are getting sillier and sillier. Note to self- need to get a new TV!!)

Rare bloggie sighting of K. He's trying to reel in the jute next to the drying wheat.

1/3 down, 2/3 to go....

Weirdly I've always wanted to do this. Make a garlic braid. And today I did. Although I think I'm probably lucky I married a Japanese guy and not an Italian one as it's pretty rough!

Little troopers. M and A were amazing today. We were out in the field by 10:00 and we didn't come in for dinner until after 7:00pm. We stopped for lunch and drove to two different farming shops but other than that they entertained themselves in the field all day. And at 7:00 when I called them for dinner they were squished into the same side of the swingset singing together. Ohhhh man you girls rock!

Dinner- beans and onions in tomatoes, pickled cabbage and cucumber, tuna/ corn/ mayonnaise, lettuce, soy pickled cucumber and miso pickled cucumber all served with rice. Lots of summertime staples for tea around here tonight!

Also did but didn't picture: hacked a path through the jungle beside the house, picked and jammed another kilo of raspberries, picked and jammed a kilo of apricots, got the trenches built and bought the materials to extend the chook cage and split and stacked some wood. Probably not that much of a mystery that we're both exhausted, hey?