Getting run over, dead turkeys and PAID WORK

Your weekly update:

Monday

- Sorting nut. The nut, twigs and rocks that the harvester picks up go into a hopper which feeds through a few bits of machinery. Once it reaches us on the conveyor most of the sticks, really light objects and other stuff have been removed and then it travels along a conveyor belt and we pick out cracked nut or nut still in its green/brown husk.

- Went up top to burn some of the shit nut and the small pile we set fire to burns for weeks because it just smoulders slowly through.

Me trying to casually stroll through the smoke from the smouldering nut

Tuesday

- Sorting nut again!

- Watched LOTR Fellowship

Wednesday

- Cleaning around dairy and shed

- Fixing sweeper

- Watched LOTR Two Towers

Thursday

- Began harvesting again as the ground way dry enough so main job was stick picking.

Either side of the tractor are 'wind rows' - all the leaves, nut and twigs that fall off the trees after they're shaken are swept and blown into these two rows and we go down each row with the tractor and trailer and pick out the bigger sticks so they don't clog up the harvester.

- I got run over! Ewen ran the trailer over my foot but it had no sticks on and was less painful than I imagined. 

- Watched LOTR Return of the King.

Friday

- Woke up to find out the dogs had killed the one female Turkey of the three. Luke wasn't happy and Rob has locked Molly up in a cage for 3 days so far. He said she's lucky because if it was one of his old dogs he would've shot it. 

- Stick picked as usual, the tractor is my bitch now I can properly drive it and reverse with a trailer attached which is easy once you get the hang of it.

Saturday

- Was on the backpacker blower most of the day blowing nut out from under the irrigation but did a bit of stick picking in the afternoon too

- Watched The Lincoln Lawyer

Sunday

- Stick picking all day which was knackering BUT found out some really good news - we're going to get PAID!!💰💰💰

- Essentially Ewen and I were looking to find paid work and Anina is leaving regardless so that would leave Matt and Jonny only. Wwoofing rules say we work for 5 hours max for our food and grub so they've offered to pay us $20 an hour for extra hours so $60 extra a day if we do 8 hour days.