My Day Off

I woke up this morning and headed out. I did the normal watering in the green house and the nursery. All of my lettuce and mustard (and whatever else I planted) has begun to sprout! I had some more time and figured I should just make some mud. I mean, it would give me something to do and keep others away from me, mean perhaps but dude you should know what to do on your own already!

I made some beautiful mud and decided to use it to thicken my sign and not for bricks. My sign was cracked in half, which made flipping it extremely easy. I then loaded the mud on. I made it more than double the thickness and figure I can always add more later. As I was doing this the roommates slowly began to wake and wonder. It is like they have no idea what to do, so they just walk aimlessly. It amused me a while while I worked.

About two hours after my start of work, Jackie and Jeremiah headed over to tell me that Suzanna informed them that Amir was very tired due to working for his father yesterday and getting back from the airport very late. They said she either said we had a couple of hours off or the whole day off, they were not sure. I took it as we would work later on. I left my work outfit on and headed to the hammock. I sat out for a while and then decided to change into a shirt that would help to get rid of my slowly darkening workers tan.

Amir's girlfriend, Suzanna came out and we chatted for a bit. She seems extremely nice and worked in schools for kids with disabilities. She seems like a great teacher's aid and then it came out that she quit her job and sold her house (or cancelled the lease) and has moved here. She has tried to move to Israel before but she had not succeeded. Now though, she likes the country, she likes Amir, and she likes the farm, so perhaps it will pan out this time.

Jackie packed up and left and Jonathan arrived. He began working and walking around, investigating the farm and what had changed in the couple of days that he was not here. He was going to make some bricks but decided that we should go looking for bricks (real bricks) to put down as the base of the mud hut. I said sure and hopped into his truck.

He knew a place in Tel Aviv to get bricks, but that was too far. We decided to drive around and found a dirt road, which led us to a pile of rubble. It looked like someone took a plow and took up pavement and bricks and stones from the ground and put it in a pile. It was a mild jackpot and we began to get what we had come for. I was a bit worried I would be arrested as people were driving by giving us glaring looks. Jonathan asked what I would do if someone came out with a gun and said "stop touchin' my rocks and nobody will get hurt." He then said he would reply "it looks like someone is going to get hurt with that gun you have..." Half of the pile was covered in the fake asphalt that is more tar then anything and after we began pulling it apart to get to the bricks underneath we both thought...maybe this asphalt is on top of it to keep it from falling... I felt that was the reason but Jonathan said he decided it was not. We grabbed some more and then headed onward.

When I say onward, I just mean further down the dirt road. We continued and found two HUGE I mean HUGGGGE piles of crap. When I say crap, I really mean dirt, sand, rubble and BRICKS. It was like the mother load. We began to put the bricks in, leaving out funky shaped ones since there were so many normal good shaped ones. It was next to a horse farm which had made a HUGE ditch and began filling it with horse shit. Now, this may not sound too interesting to you, but it is very good and important and this is needed to finish the mud hut off. It will be used as part of the muddy outside hardening phase, if that makes any sense. I made Jonathan stop loading the truck as it was getting very heavy, the back tires looked like they were getting flat, and I was worried about him not having enough fuel to get us and the bricks home.

We got back and began to unload the bricks. Jonathan went to show Jeremiah where a screwdriver was and here comes Amir...of course I am by myself and have to explain this to him. I was hoping that he would be pleased and not upset and ask what the heck he was going to do with all of the bricks. Luckily, he liked it, and began to unload, and then gave Jonathan a hand shake, arm grab, hug thing when he came back. We used the bricks as the bottom of the mud hut and are just going to wait now for some cement bags to make cement and pour on top of the bricks. Here is hoping all goes well....oh yea, today was my day off :) I like to work though. Tomorrow I believe I will be helping to sell the pommello out of the back of Jonathan's truck again. I am going to try to avoid having to pull down my shirt "for the good of the farm."