Martin left last night, so now I have responsibility for the chickens and donkey. As a start, we decided to redo the steps the donkeys use to go down to the area where they spend their days. The older donkey was having trouble with the rugged terrain. Nela, Celine, and I had to redo four steps. It was definitely hard labor. We had to tear out the old ones, including very large rocks. Now we are in Italy so we did not have the tools that you would assume we would be using. In order to get dirt to fill in the steps, I had to dig it out of another area. The gravel was buried under large dried olive branches. It was definitely hard work and I was exhausted after we completed the task.
Part of the process was clearing the cactus. I even had thorns in my buttocks and they really hurt. Plants grow to be extremely large in Italy with the great weather.
After completing the steps, we sat down to a well deserved lunch. As I mentioned, lunches are a main event on the farm. We had hummus that Liz made from scratch as our appetizer. We had artichoke pasta as our prima course and we had a broccoli frittata for our second course. I had made a cake for Malcolm’s birthday that we finally cooked today (the oven broke last night). Needless to say, I needed a nap after lunch.
The afternoon, which starts at 3pm, was feeding the chickens, bringing the donkeys up to their home and feeding them olive branches and making sure they had water and finally feeding Misty. Misty is the mom of the pups. The pups started eating her food. These puppies are amazing. The are definitely getting fat.
I was glad to spend some time doing yoga to stretch my aching body and wear off some of the lunch. Malcolm has already starting bean and artichoke soup for dinner. I will be very spoiled when I leave here with the great food. I am writing down as many recipes as I can.
Ciao for now
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