Saturday, April 24, 2010

6 bells means naked dinner

Yesterday morning a few of us went to milk goats. I had never milked a goat before. Gill showed me how. It took me a little while to get the hang of it but i did soon enough. The goats seem to want to get milked. In their pen there is a little table that they jump on 1 at a time to get milked. There is a bucket of feed there to get them to stay, they really don't seem to mind it much. Gill was milking and accidentally squirted me. After they were all milked we opened the gate and let them roam. The goats roam around all day and at night come back to their pen on their own. The 5 goats give about 2 or 3 gallons a milk each milking and they are milked twice a day.
For each meal, the person who is cooking rings the bell 3 separate times. the first time they ring they ring it once which means it shouldn't be to much longer till we eat, the second bell they hit twice and means the food is almost ready and the 3rd time they hit it 3 times meaning it's ready. One of the other passers through here was cooking and rang the bell 3 times and someone said it wasn't loud enough, so he hit it 3 more times and then everyone started taking off their close because 6 bells means naked time. I didn't feel awkward that almost everyone was naked but I did feel strange taking off my clothes, so I didn't and neither did Shelly. I like that all the people who live her feel very comfortable with their nakedness and it is completely non sexual.
That same night I was also cooking and I decided to make latkies. I shredded some potato, onions and Shelly chopped garlic, then I added some egg and fried it all up. I didn't realize how long they would take to cook so dinner was later then I thought it would be. They came out good. I remember my grandma making them whenever the family would get together.

Today I worked on a different project then usual. across the street there is a oak orchard in the beginning stages called Oaktopia. I went over their with a few people and mulched around the small oaks and made sure the drip line irrigation was lined up right. The idea is to one day sell sell the oak trees and make some money off that. also, the oak trees they are growing our somewhat drought resistant and will be in high demand. While i was doing that Michelle was planting things back on the farm here.
i just heard 3 bells

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