Compost and Peas

For those that don't know, being a WWOOFer basically involves some type of set up where you volunteer to work for people, and they give you a place to sleep and feed you. The usual minimum length time is 2 weeks. For us, specifically, we work 5-6 hours a day, 5 days a week, sleep in a caravan, are on our own for breakfast and dinner (using their kitchen and food, often leftovers from the guest meals), eat lunch prepared for us and eaten together with all WWOOFers, Hugo, Rita, and their college-aged son. Drinks are free...beers, wine, coffee, tea, juices, etc. The limit is 2 beers per day (which means 4 for Andrew since Kristin doesn't like beer). There is a raspberry beer here that is sweet enough to enjoy, but not for everyday.

So a normal day goes something like this:

7:30 - 8:00 - wake up
8:00 - 9:00 - breakfast
9:00 - find out from Hugo and Rita what our job will be for the day
11:30 - everyone has coffee, tea, and cookies under the tree
12:00- back to work
1:30 - lunch, all together outside (or in the greenhouse of raining)
2:30 - back to work til finished
14:00 - 14:30 - relax
8:00 - clear and clean guests dinner (alternating days with Darrell
and Paulo)
8:30 - dinner

Today Kristin helped Rita in the house because some guests were leaving and new ones coming. Then after tea she picked some peas and prepared them for Rita to cook for dinner. Andrew spent most of the day using compost to prepare the old potato plot from yesterday for planting. We were on dinner clean-up duty tonight. Rita brought us the house wines to drink during cleanup.