Same Thing

Now, as you can probably tell, I will be posting a good amount. I underestimated the amount of internet access I'd get; not a lot of water, but fantastic internet. I won't be posting every day, but most likely every other day or so, just trying to get you kids aquainted with what's going on here at the moment.

So today was kind of the same thing as yesterday. Morning harvest of apples and apricots, except this time with a little twist. We used hoes and clippers to get rid of all the weeds and thorny crap around the trees - get them more water and sunlight. It was actually pretty fun but the back of my neck is just wrecked from the sun. Then after lunch, we did the same thing to little baby olive trees as we did to the almond trees yesterday, just built holes around them to keep the water in. After getting some water from the cistern (by "some," I mean ten 20 litre containers), we watered all the olive tree babies. Then we rounded up the horses, fed them and the goats, watered the sage/grapes/baby trees in bags, and that was it.

It was windy today so the heat wasn't bad at all. I have a few bed bug bites, mosquito bites, probably a spider bite somewhere, some sunburn on my neck and back, I haven't showered since I left the States, my blisters keep breaking and re-healing, but I'm still having a great time. Turns out you don't really have to shower to smell good, just some good deodorant and some water. Tonight I'm just hanging out and reading, the other volunteers are heading to Jerusalem tonight. Tomorrow's my last day of work before my weekend though so I'm thinking of heading to Jerusalem one of my days off, maybe with the Frenchman. I hear Jerusalem is kind of a big deal.