Yesterday four people (a Belgium couple and two girls from the Netherlands) packed up and decided to leave in the morning. And, I’d say, they couldn’t have timed it better with how things have gone today. None of us knew what we were in for by staying.
Except last night, Adrian told us quietly over a cup of tea that “tomorrow might be a little hot for you guys. I reckon you start early… like real early, like 5:30 or 6. I heard it should get up to 41 degrees.” That, I believe, is 103 degrees Fahrenheit. Hot. Too hot to be weeding for 8 hours with no shade.
So, we were ready to start early. My alarm went off at 5:15am, and we were ready to start work by 5:45. But, there was only one problem. The sun hadn’t come up yet and they’d be no way to tell the difference between a beet root and a weed without a flashlight. It wasn’t until 6:30 that we were finally able to start work, and for us it meant a waste of a good hour’s sleep we could’ve enjoyed (and probably needed).
Already pissed off for the day, we weeded anyway for hours… and hours… until it was break time for “tea” (lunch) at noon, and then we continued afterwards for another few hours until 2:30 in the blazing sun.
Today was hard. So much for celebrating their national holiday, “Australia Day,” which is celebrated here much like our Fourth of July. I think we all wish to be near some city or town right now so that we could be apart of it or, at least, to be around people not on a farm. Maybe we’re going somewhere tomorrow…? It’s supposed to be our day off, for having had worked the last 5 days in a row. Let’s hope.
But, tonight we’ve arranged to have an Internet session at a neighbor’s house just down the road who’s agreed to trade Internet usage for blueberries. We’re looking forward to that.
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