Another busy day at the farm. First task after getting up in the morning is feeding the ducks who seem to eat more and more each day. The older ones seem to be very rude with the ducklings; I had watched them snapping the young guys and literally trying to strangle them. Maybe that’s how one died recently.
Anyway, after that I had to hold some kind of appraisal meeting in the early morning with one of the employees, actually I even pronounced caution.
Later on I continued doing some paper work for Licht für Vergessene Kinder as I need to finish a proposal with some attachments and job descriptions. So I disappeared in the office after the meeting, plugged my notebook in (as we now have power) and started typing. In between times I checked on the animals, eventually providing some water, and on the employees.
Time flies quickly when doing computer work, so I’ve found myself working through up to the middle of the afternoon when Dennis called me for he, in the meantime, had prepared a lot of food for a late lunch in the afternoon. That was a perfect reason to interrupt work. So I enjoyed the large and palatable food.
Soon after the employees came back from lunch break (they go for lunch at around 1 p.m. and return at 5 p.m. to continue work up to 7 p.m. some heavy rain fell for the next couple of hours. Dennis took a chance and started cleaning the veranda while Charles and Alfred disappeared in the Greenhouse looking for shelter. As we lacked water anyway I used the filled up some jerry cans with the water that came from the roof channel. A while ago I managed to remove some kind of funnel from a spray pump that didn’t work. Luckily there was a thread on this funnel that exactly matches the one of the jerry cans. So I managed to fill up 5 cans like that and thus gained 100 litres of rain water that we could use in the bathroom. As the rain was pretty heavy at times it took only 5 minutes to fill up one of the cans, the others took a bit longer as it was also pretty windy and thus the jet missed the funnel on top of the can at times.
let the feast begin…
Dennis cleaning the kitchen during a rain storm…
one can’t afford to waste things, not even rain, so I collected it and thus filled 5 jerry cans
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