Friday, May 1, 2009

1 of May, Labour Day

The whole of Italy was celebrating labor day today. We were celebrating also. By labouring of course. Tina and me finnished cleaning the donkey stable of the hey mixed with dung but lots of plastic as well in form of strings that hold the hey ballots. I'll try and remove the strings from now on when I feed the animals or they get tangled in the hey and make it diffcult to get it out with the pitchfork. We took a brake one hour before lunch and just wondered around, slept, read and mingled. Yes, mingled since there were so many people coming by, mostly friends of Noemi, volunteers in the earthquake camps.

At lunch time we were maybe close to 30 people in the gazeebo (good thing Noemi's friend's brought food of their own!). After lunch me and Pepe went to catch the donkeys that escaped... once more. He got in a bit of an argument with the neighbours that were complaning that the donkeys are leaving dungs and the hey they make from the grass where the donkeys releif themselves won't be good anymore. Pepe believes that is just bullshit and is annoyed. But not as much as other times. Noemi's boyfriend is here to play guitar and calm the spirits. After chasing the donkeys around and avoiding the neighbours, making another electric fence enclosure for the donekeys and horses we started work on the spiral garden. I brought a chicken to feed on the worms we dug out but because Charlie was drooling over it I had to take it back. Her name is Vermisina. Good luck in trying to find a chicken that fits the name (one that eats worms "vermi").

After all the work I was looking forward for dinner. I had my fill of bruschete and Erica had her fun taking pictures of us.
Pepe, Radu, Luisa and a tiny little bit of Tina.
The tulip is giving a peck to Tina, the hard working volunteer.

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