dec 14 2022

moving on to   the weekly hay delivery.... thankfully a nephew showed up to help unload yesterdays "load" of hay-- i am told the owner of meridith farm helped unload it too...   that whole operation at meridith is amazing-- and efficient !! all except that marvelous husband of el.izabeth  who is "A" cheerful.  and "B" very helpful  ( remember he offered. to go back in the  grocery stoire for me !!)  ... he broke a leg-- not in one.. but at least

3 places... including his heel?????  so i had to loan him my walker so he can put his knee  and cast on it and keep going ( his armpits are already sore.....) eliz immediately wondered if we could put a bale of hay on the walker with  this broken leg...

the nephew that showed up... from wash/dc is the  one who struggled to put delores together in a wonderful; mail call with he and  his  twin brother running around with a woman's arms and legs...-- he has also done  tipi overtime.. very helpful...no longer a teen.

grants--- it sounds so simple-- write an explination of why you are doing whatever and someone sends you money.. how wonderful..

 Except if not quite that easy----what they don't tell you  in  the fine print, Is that there are 5000 other people competing for each dollar that they have to spend.. I feel sorry for the people who have to read all these applications for money because there are so many deserving charities...  I have to give special whatever for the guy on the TV contest who started urban farming with some available land of five acres he managed to produce all the vegetables for about 2000 people I may have forgotten some of the details but it was an extremely impressive charity

i remember ----here we go---when I was delivering magazines in Chelsea MA I got talking to a homeowner there who had a tiny little garden and how many tomatoes he was getting out of that garden and how he wished his ability was much better etc so I told him to meet me next week same time same place that I'd have a surprise for him... so I went out in my back 40 and filled the trash can with honest to goodness  aged horse manure.   And the guy was absolutely thrilled.. and called it a farmer's gold... which is true and boy have we got a lot of it right now...

 

my chore of the day is to scrape outside the stalls and try and get it into many many trailer loads and take it over  to brick ends farm . which is another shlting story  ----it is in ----I believe---- Hamilton MA which is a very wealthy community for money and land ---I am told it's the highest concentration of horse trailers per square mile than any place in the United States -----Someone passed a law about composting horse manure and everybody in Hamilton began to have a problem with what he would do with it..  so a guy opened his farm for a horse manure processing farm..--- when you can’t lick ‘em , join  ‘em.----.... and to start with it was a bit of a  joke----- I just went over there two days ago with the soggy black trailer full and drove past his little sign that said ----(-manure dump to the right  no cans .. no string...... no trash) so I went there and I backed up to a pile of horse manure that has to have been 30 feet tall and 100 foot Diameter ----- I'm allowed to go in there with this trailer full because my  pile of manure is approved .. I am allowed to dump there and I am also allowed to go back and spend $125 to buy back the processed  stuff I just gave him..

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