After breakfast I applied a second coating of varnish on our new bathroom table that the carpenter had brought yesterday. It was a bit tricky as I also coated the underside of the table which he had left uncoated.
Then I thought that the road alongside the Eco-farm needed some slashing as the bushes rose almost to the middle of the street. Things grow very fast here during the rain season. I picked the slashing tool from the shed and sharpened it and off I went. It felt a bit like playing tennis. Serve, volley, forehand, forehand, backhand. After about two hours it was game, set and match for me. I I was totally soaked and had some bladders on my hand as the handle was not formed ergonomically at all. After that I needed to wash myself, change my clothes and cool down a bit.
In the evening I needed to secure the fence around the ducks house as the 20 ducklings that were born a few days ago escaped the fence a couple of times for the mesh is simply so big that they can easily walk through. Claudia had already laid out pieces of old tarpaulin around the fence to prevent them from escaping but there were just too many gaps and thus we found them every couple of hours on the wrong side of the fence. Lucky them, if Moritz, our dog, would have found them on the path he would have killed them all… Anyway, I wanted to secure the tarpaulin so I filled the wheelbarrow with some stones and distributed them around the fence. Later I went into the fence to place the tarpaulin and the stones to the right position. At some places I additionally I pushed sticks through the tarpaulin and the fence to fixate it properly. I know it’s not perfect, we should put a proper, close-meshed fence but we currently just don’t have the money for that. Anyways, this workaround might be sufficient for a while and the ducklings will grow fast which will resolve the problem for a while. I was again soaked after that and thus went to the bathroom where I washed myself at the new bathroom table which was now ready to be used.
After supper Claudia had me plant a tree in the middle of the Eco-farm. So I had to pick the hoe again to dig a hole. The ground was hard as concrete as this spot had been used as a way for decades but I managed. Then Charles put the tree in the hole, covered and watered it. That was it for that day.
Ladies and gentleman, Mr. Slash!
blood, sweat and tears…
our newborn ducklings lately escaped several times a day
so we had to secure the fence with old pieces of tarpaulin and stones…
at some spots I had to push sticks through the tarpaulin to really make it secure
the new bathroom table after a second coating of varnish
the last task for that day: planting a tree on solid ground…
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