City Pups to country dogs

Happy and Eli have sure gotten used to spending the day at work with us, running around with Belle, jumping in the creek to cool off, and wandering around to follow all of the smells. The best thing is that they come home completely pooped, and lay nearly comatose by us for the rest of the night. This is especially good since Jake and I feel about the same after a long day working...despite intentions to do productive things like clean or learn to play the guitar, we sit or lay in a near dream-like state, trying to make it until at least 9 o'clock before we pass out for the night.

We knew that working on a farm would be difficult, and that it would take a lot out of us...but -wow- this is intense! Jake has more energy than I do, it seems like I can go pretty strong for a couple of weeks but then require a full day of nothing but laying around and napping all day. Despite the hard work (or, maybe because of it) we love it...playing in the dirt and mud, watching things grow, making things work and constructing things that we'd never done before...it's kind of like being a kid again. We've gotten into a bit of a routine here; sitting in front of our computers in the morning with our coffee or tea, then bike to the farm with the dogs running beside us,  we water the greenhouse and tunnels and take care of the birds (the turkeys, guineas, and chickens have started coming out of their coop and exploring but not while the dogs are there), then we plant or weed or do what needs doing for the day...somewhere in there we eat some lunch... and when we're done we head back to the trailer to make some dinner. Oh, and then I must lather my hands with Hand salve to prevent them from feeling like old lady farmer hands...

Mona's CSA partner, Carol, has a WWOOFer working with her for two weeks, we were able to meet and hang out with her the other night. Then on Tuesday for my birthday Jake and I went into Sheridan for lunch and to go grocery shopping. We were going to stay to see a movie but there wasn't anything we really wanted to see and we would have had to wait a couple of hours for a movie to start, so we just drove back to the farm and watched a DVD and had some ice cream.

The first CSA delivery should be happening in a couple of weeks so we are anxiously awaiting our little veggies to keep growing. The past few weeks have been pretty cloudy and rainy so we're hoping that the warmer temperatures and increased sunshine in the forecast will help them grow. Until then we'll keep planting, keep weeding, and keep on truckin'...  :)